FEM 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Terra Nullius, Sixties Scoop

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3104
• Professor: Tuulia Law

Document Summary

Lecture #4: aboriginal people"s struggles with the law. Humanity of the land"s inhabitants is not recognized. Canada as a foreign regime that treated first nations people as wards of the state/groups of people without autonomy (infantilized) Foucault argues that the goal of disciplinary body is to harness the power of the body, specifically through the soul. Describes the docile body as one that can be used, transformed, and improved. Thus, the residential schools were about changing the souls of aboriginal children and creating docile bodies. As survivors define it: erasing and remaking. Disciplinary is found within the institution of the penitentiary. Schools are also mechanisms of disciplinary power (eg. residential schools) Exams are used to hierarchical organize abilities and students. Supervision is an essential part of discipline. Applies to the residential schools (supervision, physical discipline, sexual abuse, etc) all contribute to creating docile bodies through fear and manipulation.