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{"title":"Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, ed, Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Contemporary World (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2018)","authors":"J. Savarese","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.31.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.31.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49499286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digging for Rights: How Can International Human Rights Law Better Protect Indigenous Women from Extractive Industries?","authors":"Sarah Morales","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.31.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.31.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:L'expansion des industries extractives dans les territoires des peuples autochtones a été et continue d'être un processus éprouvant pour les gouvernements, l'industrie et les peuples autochtones du monde entier. Bien que les avantages économiques liés au développement des ressources soient substantiels, on donne trop souvent priorité à ces considérations au lieu de voir les effets profonds et durables des répercussions pour les collectivités, sur le plan social et culturel, en particulier pour les nations autochtones. La recherche a démontré que ces répercussions sont aggravées quand les personnes se trouvent à la croisée de plusieurs collectivités, comme c'est le cas pour les femmes autochtones. Dans le présent article, on se demandera si les lois internationales concernant les droits de la personne peuvent ou non protéger efficacement les femmes et les filles autochtones contre les effets négatifs du développement de l'industrie extractive. En réfléchissant au droit à l'autodétermination, tel qu'il est présenté dans la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, l'auteure soutient qu'à notre époque d'extraction croissante, la meilleure façon pour faire en sorte que les lois internationales protègent les droits des femmes autochtones est de prévoir un mécanisme qui rendra opérationnelles les lois et les coutumes autochtones. Pour cela, il faut faire de la place aux femmes autochtones dans les processus de consultation afin qu'elles y partagent leur savoir et qu'elles puissent en influencer réellement le cours. La promotion des droits procéduraux des femmes autochtones est la meilleure façon d'assurer la protection de leurs droits substantiels corolaires.Abstract:The expansion of extractive industries into the territories of Indigenous peoples has been, and continues to be, a challenging process for governments, industry, and Indigenous peoples all over the world. While the economic benefits of resource development are important, too often these considerations are emphasized at the expense of appreciating the deep and lasting social and cultural effects of these impacts on communities, in particular, Indigenous communities. Research has illustrated that these impacts are compounded when one considers those individuals at the intersection of these communities, such as Indigenous women. This article will examine whether or not international human rights law can effectively protect Indigenous women and girls from the negative effects of extractive industry development. By focusing on the right to self-determination, as captured by the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples, it argues that the most effective way international law can work to protect Indigenous women in this period of increased extractive development is by providing a mechanism through which Indigenous laws and practices can be operationalized. This means creating space during consultative processes for Indigenous women to shar","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3138/CJWL.31.1.04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44749474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anti-Colonial Pedagogies: \"[X] Justice\" Movements in the United States","authors":"A. Harris","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.30.3.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.30.3.010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the last few decades, the United States has seen the proliferation of social movements that incorporate the word \"justice.\" [X] justice movements share several commitments. First, they both make use of, and are critical of, legal rights. Second, [X] justice movements embrace the concept of interacting subordinations. Third, they begin with land, water, food, health, and reproduction, engaging with dynamics usually ruled outside the scope of democratic politics. I argue that these combined commitments disrupt two central projects of white settler societies: (1) the production of the (proper) national citizen as white and male and (2) the understanding that the \"economic\" sphere is not, and should not be, subject to democratic norms. In disrupting these foundations of white settler societies, I argue that [X] justice movements are striving to change what it means to be \"human.\"Abstract:Au cours des dernières décennies, on a vu proliférer aux États-Unis des mouvements sociaux qui intègrent le mot «justice» à leurs revendications et qui partagent plusieurs engagements. Premièrement, ils utilisent les droits légaux, tout en les critiquant. Deuxièmement, les mouvements de justice [X] embrassent le concept des subordinations croisées. Troisièmement, ils abordent le territoire, l'eau, la nourriture, la santé et la reproduction en y appliquant des dynamiques généralement considérées comme étrangères à la politique démocratique. Je soutiens que la combinaison de ces engagements perturbe deux projets centraux des sociétés colonialistes blanches: (1) la production de citoyens blancs et mâles (légitimes) et (2) la conception de la sphère «économique» comme n'étant pas et ne devant pas être assujettie aux normes démocratiques. En perturbant ces fondements des sociétés de colonialistes blanches, je soutiens que les mouvements de justice [X] s'efforcent de changer la définition même de l'«humain».","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69912315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Race, Space, and Prostitution: The Making of Settler Colonial Canada","authors":"Robyn Bourgeois","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.30.3.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.30.3.002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the fundamental role that prostitution has played in securing settler colonial domination over Indigenous peoples and lands in the historical and ongoing making of the Canadian nation-state. Using the theoretical and methodological framework developed by critical anti-racist feminist scholar Sherene Razack, this article offers a spatial analysis tracing how prostitution has been deployed, repeatedly and in distinctly racialized and gendered ways, to secure settler colonial domination in Canada. This analysis focuses on four key examples: (1) early settlement in British Columbia; (2) the Indian Act; (3) the Pass System; and, more recently, (4) Vancouver's Missing Women. It also focuses on how these settler colonial deployments of prostitution contributed (and, in some ways, continue to contribute) not only to violence against Indigenous women and girls but also to the justification, legitimation, and erasure of this violence and, thus, its normalization within settler colonial society.Abstract:Le présent article examine le rôle fondamental qu'a joué la prostitution dans la domination colonialiste exercée sur les peuples autochtones et sur leurs terres au cours de l'histoire du Canada et de son développement comme État-nation. À partir du cadre théorique et méthodologique mis en place par la théoricienne Sherene Razack, féministe critique antiraciste, l'auteure fait une analyse territoriale des façons dont la prostitution a été déployée à répétition, et par diverses méthodes clairement racialisées et sexospécifiques, pour assurer une domination colonialiste au Canada. Cette analyse donne plusieurs exemples clés tirés du passé colonial du Canada, y compris les débuts de l'ère coloniale en Colombie-Britannique, les interdictions du potlatch dans la Loi sur les Indiens, la criminalisation de la prostitution et le système de laissez-passer, sans oublier l'exemple plus contemporain des femmes disparues à Vancouver. L'article montre aussi comment l'encadrement colonialiste de la prostitution a contribué (et, d'une certaine façon, continue de contribuer) non seulement à la violence faite aux femmes et aux filles autochtones, mais aussi à la justification, à la légitimation et à l'effacement de cette violence pour la rendre banale au sein de la société colonialiste.","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43540387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Leslie Thielen-Wilson, Carmela Murdocca, Gada Mahrouse","doi":"10.3138/cjwl.30.3.01b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.30.3.01b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43241835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Still Making Canada White: Racial Governmentality and the \"Good Immigrant\" in Canadian Parliamentary Immigration Debates","authors":"Laura J. Kwak","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.30.3.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.30.3.005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Reflecting on restrictive reforms to Canadian immigration laws in the 1990s, Sherene Razack has noted the emerging significance of racialized elites' role in the policing of bodies of colour. Central to her analysis has been the national story of Canada as a peaceful and civilized \"country of immigrants\" that values cultural diversity and whose generosity is periodically besieged by masses of foreign criminals. This article, which was written two decades after Razack's study, analyzes the racialized discourse of Canadian parliamentary debates on immigration and, in particular, the role that Conservative Asian members of parliament have played in debates throughout the consideration of Bill C-11, An Act to Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which became the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and Bill C-31, Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, which became law in 2012. The article examines how Conservative Asian political elites have been drawn into hegemonic national stories in parliamentary debate on immigration by rehearsing \"good immigrant\" stories that distinguish \"legitimate\" from \"illegitimate\" immigrants.Abstract:En observant les réformes des années 90 qui ont restreint les lois canadiennes sur l'immigration, Sherene Razack a noté l'importance grandissante du rôle des élites racialisées dans le contrôle des personnes de couleur. Son analyse cible l'histoire nationale du Canada en tant que « pays d'immigrants » paisible et civilisé qui valorise la diversité culturelle et dont la générosité est périodiquement mise à mal par des attaques de criminels étrangers. Le présent article, écrit deux décennies après l'étude de Razack, analyse les propos racialisés tenus lors des débats parlementaires sur l'immigration au Canada et en particulier, le rôle des députés asiatiques et conservateurs dans l'étude du projet de loi C-11, Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, devenue Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, et du projet de loi C-31, Loi visant à protéger le système d'immigration du Canada, devenue loi en 2012. L'article révèle que les propos tenus par l'élite politique conservatrice et asiatique lors des débats parlementaires sur l'immigration sont inspirés de récits d'hégémonie nationale fondés sur des histoires de « bons immigrants », distinguant les « légitimes » des « illégitimes ».","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48998267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Arrested Childhood in Spaces of Indifference: The Criminalized Children of Occupied East Jerusalem","authors":"Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Shahrazad Odeh","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.30.3.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.30.3.003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses the role of the Israeli politico-legal system in framing and constructing the racialization of children and childhood. Drawing on accounts of colonial violence inflicted upon incarcerated children's bodies and lives, and based on Sherene Razack's critical analyses on the \"pervasiveness of indifference,\" we demonstrate how the criminal justice system is fundamental to the Israeli state's targeting of Palestinian children and childhood. Through analyses of political statements by politicians, media coverage, legal transcripts, and individual affidavits of children who have been arrested, we offer an alternative reading of child arrests in Occupied East Jerusalem. We argue that child arrest is a political mechanism through which the processes of colonial dispossession can be seen. We conclude by claiming that the \"improved\" amendments of the Israeli law dismiss the basic rights of the Palestinian child, thus emphasizing the core role of the Israeli legal system in the state's racist project.Abstract:Le présent article décrit comment le système politicojuridique israélien encadre et crée la racialisation des enfants et de l'enfance. À partir de récits de violence coloniale infligée à des enfants incarcérés, à leurs corps et à leurs vies, et en invoquant les travaux critiques de Sherene Razack sur « l'omniprésence de l'indifférence », nous montrons comment le système de justice pénale est au cœur de la prise pour cible par l'État israélien d'enfants Palestiniens et de leur enfance. Par des analyses de déclarations politiques et de couvertures médiatiques, de transcriptions de procès et d'affidavits individuels d'enfants qui ont été arrêtés, nous offrons une autre façon d'interpréter les arrestations d'enfants dans Jérusalem-Est occupée. Nous soutenons que l'arrestation d'enfants est un mécanisme politique qui permet d'observer les processus de dépossession liés au colonialisme. Nous concluons en affirmant que les modifications « améliorées » des lois israéliennes ignorent les droits fondamentaux de l'enfant palestinien, renforçant ainsi le rôle essentiel de l'appareil judiciaire israélien dans le projet raciste de cet État.","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46814775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Leslie Thielen-Wilson, Carmela Murdocca, Gada Mahrouse","doi":"10.3138/cjwl.30.3.01a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.30.3.01a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47035023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conquest Reformed: A Review of Jaskiran Dhillon's Prairie Rising","authors":"Charles A. Sepulveda","doi":"10.3138/cjwl.30.3.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.30.3.011","url":null,"abstract":"In Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention, Jaskiran Dhillon thoroughly critiques Canada’s liberal project of inclusion and participation of First Nations peoples into the settler state. 1 Dhillon’s book stands out with its incisive critical analysis and thoughtful ethnographic inquiry. Prairie Rising is an important addition to Native studies literature with its ethnographic methodology and the powerful action of telling the stories of Indigenous youth affected by the settler state. She accomplishes her critique of Canada’s participatory politics with a detailed analysis of the state’s attempt to address the “Indigenous youth problem” through education and interventions within child welfare, incarceration, gang involvement, substance abuse, mental health, and sexual violence. The “Indian Problem,” as Dhillon argues, continues to be a source of concern amongst settler states. Canada, with its alleged “kinder, gentler” form of colonialism, is no exception. 2 Reacting to First Nations’ continued demands for sovereignty over the same lands the state dominates, settlers have dynamically reformed the logics of conquest into a liberal strategy of incorporation. Dhillon explains that continuing and maintaining a colonial mode of existence through a reformed system is nonetheless premised on Native erasure. 3 Specifically, the project of incorporation further deprives Native nations the ability to regenerate sovereign ways of being on their own lands. 4 These discourses are a part of a longer genealogy of liberal amelioration of which residential schools were a part. The current mode of liberal domestication within the governance of Canada, argues Dhillon, proudly displays First Nations","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69911932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (review)","authors":"Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa","doi":"10.3138/CJWL.30.3.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJWL.30.3.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44818,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Women and the Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69911948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}