ANTH 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sociobiology, Structural Violence, Intersectionality
18 Feb 2017
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Sociobiology: a set of clams organized around the assumption that biology is destiny for humans, that genetic predispositions determine (or ought to determine) our behavior toward others and our institutional forms. (lancaster 11) Lecture 5 v-day and violence against women. What are the dominant representational frames of missing and murdered aboriginal women (in news discourse as well as in other mediums as produced by scholars, artists, in state reports, etc. You may also reflect more largely on the difficult question of how we can locate ourselves as allies in this struggle. Hypervisibility as bad , blameworthy women, whose bodies in space of degeneracy justifies the violence perpetrated against them. Invisibility as victims of colonial, gendered, racialized violence. Visibility only when missing/murdered women are reframed as respectable . Visibility of the memorial march as an act of resistance. Practicing strategic solidarity in complex conditions: the case of missing.
