Latin America as a White Settler Society

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD GOTT
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Settler Society

scholarly journals Youth, Dirt, and the Spatialization of Subjectivity: An Intersectional Approach to White Rural Imaginaries

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Poor White ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Settler Society ◽  
Pure White

Abstract. Canada’s rural idyll is embedded within the colonial legacy of a white settler society; however, little research has examined how class and gender uphold this articulation of rurality and whiteness. This article draws on ethnographic research with white, working-class rural youth to develop an intersectional analysis of rural imaginaries. The analysis shows how youth construct their own rural identities through racialized representations of urban and global “others.” I argue that these racist place-narratives must be understood in the context of competing discourses of rurality in Canada: the romanticized pure white rural of colonial history, and the pathologized poor white rural of a cosmopolitan future. Even as youth locate their gendered performances within the rural idyll, they are marked as “dirts” by their classed, rural status. By inscribing racist discourses onto others, youth resist the classist imagery projected onto their community and thereby re- claim a pure white rural idyll.

Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Tracey Lindberg ◽  
Sherene H. Razack
Keyword(s):  
White Settler ◽  
The Law ◽  
Settler Society

Settler Feminism, Race Making, and Early Social Work in Canada

Affilia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Settler Society

Canada was one of the civilizing outposts that formed part of the British plan of imperial hegemony. This liberal democratic white settler society is the context where the new female-dominated social work profession developed. Using various historical archives of the mission statements and practice of early Canadian social work, I critically examine how first-wave feminisms, hegemonic imperial discourses, and settler colonial structures of governance worked as formative factors in the birth of Canadian social work and illustrate this with the life of an early Toronto social worker, Joan Arnoldi (D.O.B. 1882).

Reframing Suicide

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-602
Author(s):  
Beenash Jafri
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The State ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Settler Society

Abstract What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself (2017) and queer Cree/Métis filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones's feature film Fire Song (2015). Both films challenge the spectacularity of suicide, effectively situating suicide on a continuum of “slow death.” However, the films also stage distinct relationships between suicide, community, and the state that emerge from diasporic and Native positionalities within a white settler society. Whereas Shraya's diasporic struggle with suicide is alleviated by forging community within settler spaces, Fire Song counters pathologizing depictions of reserve communities by emphasizing resurgent Indigenous practices and their refusal of settler logics.

Enacting a Latinx Decolonial Politic of Belonging: Latinx Community Workers’ Experiences Negotiating Identity and Citizenship in Toronto, Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-286
Author(s):  
Madelaine Cahuas ◽  
Alexandra Arraiz Matute
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Community Based Learning

This paper explores how women and non-binary Latinx Community Workers (LCWs) in Toronto, Canada, negotiate their identities, citizenship practices and politics in relation to settler colonialism and decolonization. We demonstrate how LCWs enact a Latinx decolonial politic of belonging, an alternative way of practicing citizenship that strives to simultaneously challenge both Canadian and Latin American settler colonialism. This can be seen when LCWs refuse to be recognized on white settler terms as “proud Canadians,” and create community-based learning initiatives that incite conversations among everyday Latinx community members around Canada’s settler colonial history and present, Indigenous worldviews, as well as race and settler colonialism in Latin America. We consider how LCWs’ enactments of a Latinx decolonial politic of belonging serve as small, incomplete, but crucial steps towards decolonization. 

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