ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Achille Mbembe, Settler Colonialism, Finding Dawn

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First nations, metis, and inuit (fnmi) populations are overrepresented in canadian death rates. In 2014, indigenous people were murdered at a rate approximately ~6x higher than non-indigenous people (statscan, 2014: fnmi people are also more likely to commit or contemplate suicide (cih, 2000; Necropolitics = forms of subjugation of life to the power of death (achille mbembe: capacity to define who is disposable and who is not (p. 27, under necropower, lines between resistance and suicide are blurred (p. 40) Settler colonialism operates through a logic of elimination that involves both assimilation and removal (morgensen, 2011) Even recognition comes with a shift to the terms of the settler state. How does the film link the contemporary violence experience by indigenous women to. Effects on identity (individual, group, settler perception) Razack, dean, and others assert that colonialism is not consigned to the past: settler spaces and indigenous frontiers , construction of indigenous otherness, disposability, justification of death by claims to cultural difference".

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