Elements of a Counter Exhibition: Excavating and Countering a Canadian History and Legacy of Eugenics
Into the Light, a recently mounted co-curated museum exhibition, exposed and countered histories and legacies of 20th century “race betterment” pedagogies taught in Ontario’s post-secondary institutions that targeted some groups of people, including Anishinaabe, Black, and other racialized populatio...
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ftunivguelph:oai:atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca:10214/25931 2024-01-14T09:59:21+01:00 Elements of a Counter Exhibition: Excavating and Countering a Canadian History and Legacy of Eugenics Kelly, Evadne Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Boye, Seika Rice, Carla Owen, Dawn Stonefish, Sky Stonefish, Mona 2021-02-19 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10214/25931 https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22081 en eng Wiley Kelly, E., Manning, D., Boye, S., Rice, C., Owen, D., Stonefish, S., & Stonefish, M. (2021). Elements of a counter-exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics. Journal for the History of Behavioral Sciences. 57(1), 12–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22081 https://hdl.handle.net/10214/25931 https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22081 All items in the Atrium are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. accessibility decolonization eugenics counter-exhibition activist art Article 2021 ftunivguelph https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22081 2023-12-17T00:02:28Z Into the Light, a recently mounted co-curated museum exhibition, exposed and countered histories and legacies of 20th century “race betterment” pedagogies taught in Ontario’s post-secondary institutions that targeted some groups of people, including Anishinaabe, Black, and other racialized populations, and disabled and poor people, with dehumanizing ideas and practices. This article advances understandings of the transformative potential of centralizing marginalized stories in accessible and creative ways to disrupt, counter, and draw critical attention to the brutal impacts of oppressive knowledge. The “counter-exhibition” prioritized stories of groups unevenly targeted by such oppression to contest and defy singular narratives circulating in institutional knowledge systems of what it means to be human. The authors draw on feminist decolonial and disability scholarship to analyze the exhibition’s curation for the ways it collectively and creatively 1) brought the past to the present through materializing history and memory in ways that challenged archival silences; and 2) engaged community collaboration using accessible, multi-sensory, multi-media storytelling to “speak the hard truths of colonialism” (Lonetree, 2012, p.6) while constructing a new methodology for curating disability and access (Cachia, 2013). The authors show how the exhibition used several elements, including counter-stories, to end legacies of colonial eugenic violence and to proliferate accounts that build solidarity across differences implicated in and impacted by uneven power (Gaztambide-Fernández, 2012). Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario was co-curated by Elder Mona Stonefish, Peter Park, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Evadne Kelly, Seika Boye, and Sky Stonefish. The accessible curated exhibition was generously supported by Dr. Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair and Director of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph (UG) through her Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, ... Article in Journal/Newspaper anishina* University of Guelph: DSpace digital archive Canada Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 1 12 33 |
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Into the Light, a recently mounted co-curated museum exhibition, exposed and countered histories and legacies of 20th century “race betterment” pedagogies taught in Ontario’s post-secondary institutions that targeted some groups of people, including Anishinaabe, Black, and other racialized populations, and disabled and poor people, with dehumanizing ideas and practices. This article advances understandings of the transformative potential of centralizing marginalized stories in accessible and creative ways to disrupt, counter, and draw critical attention to the brutal impacts of oppressive knowledge. The “counter-exhibition” prioritized stories of groups unevenly targeted by such oppression to contest and defy singular narratives circulating in institutional knowledge systems of what it means to be human. The authors draw on feminist decolonial and disability scholarship to analyze the exhibition’s curation for the ways it collectively and creatively 1) brought the past to the present through materializing history and memory in ways that challenged archival silences; and 2) engaged community collaboration using accessible, multi-sensory, multi-media storytelling to “speak the hard truths of colonialism” (Lonetree, 2012, p.6) while constructing a new methodology for curating disability and access (Cachia, 2013). The authors show how the exhibition used several elements, including counter-stories, to end legacies of colonial eugenic violence and to proliferate accounts that build solidarity across differences implicated in and impacted by uneven power (Gaztambide-Fernández, 2012). Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario was co-curated by Elder Mona Stonefish, Peter Park, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Evadne Kelly, Seika Boye, and Sky Stonefish. The accessible curated exhibition was generously supported by Dr. Carla Rice, Canada Research Chair and Director of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph (UG) through her Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, ... |
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