GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Act, Vancouver City Hall, Medicalization
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Pamela george was the victim, and 2 upper class white athlete boys were perpetrators. Article: prostitute pamela george was killed by two white boys: talks about histories of aboriginal peoples in regina. In some places, it is expected to happen. We need to be aware of spaciality of that violence and its relationship to the law. Notion of unmapping: need to unmap to learn stories then can be seen as geogrpahies. How pamela george became a prostitute, how she got there, how the boys got there. Respectability vs. degeneracy in the making of self. Degenerates" as the enemy of the nation of the society at large: pamela george was an aboriginal prostitute. The bourgeois life of the home and its dwellers constituted respectability". Women constituted the making of respectable" versus degenerate". The boys thought it was okay to kill an aboriginal hooker (because they didn"t see her as human, but rather sub-human or animal)
