“Let’s help our own”
This article explores narratives of humanitarian compassion as rendered intelligible through the relational intersecting concerns about Syrian refugees and the suicide crisis in the Indigenous community of Attawapiskat, Ontario. Fuelled by a combination of anti-refugee rhetoric, racism and ongoing c...
| Published in: | Oñati Socio-Legal Series |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English Spanish Basque French Portuguese |
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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
2024
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1067 https://doaj.org/article/2ad9e9b8100b4aa4b3bee5138a736e35 |
| Summary: | This article explores narratives of humanitarian compassion as rendered intelligible through the relational intersecting concerns about Syrian refugees and the suicide crisis in the Indigenous community of Attawapiskat, Ontario. Fuelled by a combination of anti-refugee rhetoric, racism and ongoing colonialism experienced by Indigenous people and communities, public and media discourse reveals how humanitarian governance is constitutive of the genealogy of settler colonialism. I suggest that examining the political genealogy of humanitarian governance in white settler colonialism assists in revealing the centrality of racial colonial violence in producing public and media discourse that is contingent upon the relational currencies of anti-refugee rhetoric, racism and humanitarian compassion. As expressions of a grammar of racial difference in liberal settler colonialism, these discourses ultimately reveal how racial colonial violence is constituted through the genealogy of humanitarianism. |
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