Re-Storying the Past: Transforming the White Settler Colonial Stories that Formed Us
In this study, I explore the ways Settler nurse educators understand their identity within the context of Canada’s colonial narrative. I provide a generative space for critical reflectivity on my own social location through creative, embodied explorations of my Settler-colonial story and experiences...
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ftunivcalgary:oai:prism.ucalgary.ca:1880/114802 2023-08-27T04:10:35+02:00 Re-Storying the Past: Transforming the White Settler Colonial Stories that Formed Us Bensler, Heather Friesen, Sharon Markides, Jennifer McDermott, Mairi 2022-06 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114802 https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39872 unknown Werklund School of Education University of Calgary Bensler, H. (2022). Re-storying the past: transforming the white settler colonial stories that formed us (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39872 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114802 University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. White settler identity Settler colonial logics Transformative practices Truth and reconciliation Kinship relationality Treaty responsibility Indigenous Métissage Education Nursing doctoral thesis 2022 ftunivcalgary https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39872 2023-08-06T06:28:01Z In this study, I explore the ways Settler nurse educators understand their identity within the context of Canada’s colonial narrative. I provide a generative space for critical reflectivity on my own social location through creative, embodied explorations of my Settler-colonial story and experiences, Indigenous historical accounts, and dialogical engagement with Canada’s socio-historical configuration as a Settler nation-state. I consider the ways Whiteness , (DiAngelo, 2018a), Settler identity (Tuck & Yang, 2012; Wolfe, 2006), and Settler colonial logics act as barriers to transforming Settler understanding of Canada’s Settler colonial history and Indigenous sovereignty (Donald, 2009). Using Indigenous Métissage as a research sensibility, I engage in narrative and embodied practices to better understand and transform my relationship to self, land, and Canada’s colonial history. Through braided stories of place, practices, and historical perspectives, I examine the impact that Camp Chief Hector had on my White settler formation and its exclusionary and exploitative relationship with the Stoney Nakoda Nation. I consider a path towards reconciliation; one created by attending to respect and reverence, reciprocity, kinship relationality, and treaty responsibility. By thinking through my lived experiences as an entry point to engage Settler identity, I tell a more truthful account of Canadian history and of the current state of how Settler colonial logics influence the relationship between Settlers and Indigenous people. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Nakoda PRISM - University of Calgary Digital Repository Tuck ENVELOPE(-84.833,-84.833,-78.483,-78.483) Hector ENVELOPE(-63.376,-63.376,-64.579,-64.579) |
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In this study, I explore the ways Settler nurse educators understand their identity within the context of Canada’s colonial narrative. I provide a generative space for critical reflectivity on my own social location through creative, embodied explorations of my Settler-colonial story and experiences, Indigenous historical accounts, and dialogical engagement with Canada’s socio-historical configuration as a Settler nation-state. I consider the ways Whiteness , (DiAngelo, 2018a), Settler identity (Tuck & Yang, 2012; Wolfe, 2006), and Settler colonial logics act as barriers to transforming Settler understanding of Canada’s Settler colonial history and Indigenous sovereignty (Donald, 2009). Using Indigenous Métissage as a research sensibility, I engage in narrative and embodied practices to better understand and transform my relationship to self, land, and Canada’s colonial history. Through braided stories of place, practices, and historical perspectives, I examine the impact that Camp Chief Hector had on my White settler formation and its exclusionary and exploitative relationship with the Stoney Nakoda Nation. I consider a path towards reconciliation; one created by attending to respect and reverence, reciprocity, kinship relationality, and treaty responsibility. By thinking through my lived experiences as an entry point to engage Settler identity, I tell a more truthful account of Canadian history and of the current state of how Settler colonial logics influence the relationship between Settlers and Indigenous people. |
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