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#Free #Decolonial #OpenAccess #Research Paper.

Building the #SettlerColonial Order: #Police (In)Actions in Response to #Violence Against #IndigenousWomen in #Canada

Abstract:

In this article we focus on missing and murdered #Indigenous women, girls, and #2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of #testimonies across Canada, this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other Canadian cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The #analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler #colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432231171171

#CDNpoli #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #SystematicRacism #KKKanada #ColonialViolence #RacistRCMP #ACAB #Injustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #CanadianCops #MMIGW2S

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

The #DoubleStandard of #Christian #Testimonies

#KristiBurke #atheism #atheist #deconversion #deconstruction #fear #hell #god #christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5z1Pf8HyRI

#In this episode I discuss how our once Christian testimonies become weaponized against us when we leave the #church, and how to gain a fresh perspective on life after leaving, even when everyone in the church wants to disregard your story.

Not on novels, but on Holocaust survivor testimonials:

Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Amir Pinchevski & Omri Abend (2023). "Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies", Journal of Computational Literary Studies 2 (1), 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3580.

Keywords: #segmentation, #spoken narratives, #testimonies, #narrative analysis, #topic analysis, mutual information, #NLP #CLS #JCLS