DECOLONIZING INTERVENTIONS

Consider the ways in which constructions of disability and postcolonial locations are complicated. Where are the silences between disability studies and postcolonial studies? What are the connections we need to make as think through the politics and practices of interventions?                                                                                                                                                                  

All of the readings, and the group’s website, outline human rights violations against Aboriginal people. How does colonialism and the historical subordination of Canadian and Australian peoples implicate their access to services, citizenship, and rights in their respective societies?                                                                                                                                                                   

In the collective section of the group’s website you will find a link to the Gitzsan events page. Pick an event and explain why you think it is beneficial to the aboriginal community.                     

In the article by Evans et al., three research approaches are mentioned: Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research and White studies. Based on the Eggertson example and on FAST, give an example of other models of interventions that might be useful. As you do so, consider what barriers to these interventions we might come across.                         

Evans et al. hypothetically ask a question that was can strive to address: “…how do researchers engage in [participatory action research] with aboriginal people, in a society imbued with, and often structured by racism, not reproduced racialized identities and colonial representations of the other?” As you answer, consider that this question can also be translated over to take into account “inclusive” interventions in abelist societies.