GGR246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: High Visibility, Political Economy, Downtown Eastside
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Post colonialism: concerned with the impact of colonialism and its contestation, colonizers as well as colonized are effected by colonialism, orientalism is a process by which europeans came to know themselves as civilized. By encountering the orient / racialized / colonized people. Post" is a kind of desire to move forward from colonialism: both colonized and colonizer are produced in relationship with each other. Highway in northern bc (highway of tears) because of the experiences that missing women had there. State inaction as colonialism: for many years police said they had not been killed, police and public officials have been aware of a pattern of racist, sexist violence against first. It was not until 1998 roughly 69 murders later that they began to pay attention. Legalized abandonment normalized as racialized and gendered: there was a incentive to get the women to call home" stating that police didn"t believe they were missing.
