CCT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Surname, A Tribe Called Red

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT200H5
• Professor: Nicole Cohen

Document Summary

Victims or perpetrators: research on indigenous people and "urban" people (poc, low income, and migrant/immigrant people) represents them as victims or perpetrators of violence and suffering. Invites oppressed people to speak but to "only speak from that space in the margin that is a sign of deprivation, a wound, an unfulfilled longing. In a damage-centered framework, pain and loss are documented in order to obtain particular political or material gains: borrowed from litigation discourse, ex. Desire-based research as an antidote: concerned with understanding complexity, contradiction and self-determination, defies the lure to serve as "advertisements for power" by documenting not only the painful elements of social realities but also the wisdom and hope. Intent on depathologizing the experiences of dispossessed and disenfranchised communities to see people more broken and conquered (colonialism: ex. A tribe called red: breaking indigenous stereotypes shown in the media through music and videos.