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This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and
reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national
boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the
reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France,
'German East Africa,' Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the
United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the
pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the
present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and
ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which
women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.
This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and
reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national
boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the
reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France,
'German East Africa,' Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the
United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the
pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the
present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and
ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which
women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.
The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the
North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human
rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis
Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this
crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous
foodways. Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West
Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is not a
naturally occurring phenomenon or the result of free-market forces.
Rather, inflated food prices are the direct result of government
policies and corporate monopolies. Using food as a lens to track
the institutional presence of the Canadian state in the North,
Burnett and Hay chart the social, economic, and political changes
that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s. They
explore the roles of state food policy and the HBC and NWC in
setting up, perpetuating, and profiting from food insecurity while
undermining Indigenous food sovereignties and self-determination.
Plundering the Northprovides fresh insight into Canada’s settler
colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food
insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities. An
important re-evaluation of northern food policies, this timely
contribution to scholarship on settler colonialism in Canada
enables better understandings of the ways the state and
corporations endanger the health and well-being of northern
Indigenous communities.
Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked
access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable healthcare,
they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to
study them. The Science of Settler Colonialism examines the
relationship between science and settler colonialism through the
lens of "Aboriginal diabetes" and the thrifty gene hypothesis,
which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to
type-II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer
genes. Hay's study begins with Charles Darwin's travels and his
observations on the Indigenous peoples he encountered to set the
context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism, which
are rooted in Victorian science and empire. It continues in the
mid-twentieth century with a look at nutritional experimentation
during the long career of Percy Moore, the medical director of
Indian Affairs (1946-1965). Hay then turns to James Neel's
invention of the thrifty gene hypothesis in 1962 and Robert
Hegele's reinvention and application of the hypothesis to Sandy
Lake First Nation in northern Ontario in the 1990s. Finally, Hay
demonstrates the way in which settler colonial science was
responded to and resisted by Indigenous leadership in Sandy Lake
First Nation, who used monies from the thrifty gene study to fund
wellness programs in their community. The Science of Settler
Colonialism exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with
Indigenous subjects, the flawed scientific theories stemming from
faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance, as well
as the severe inequities in Canadian healthcare that persist even
today.
Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked
access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable healthcare,
they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to
study them. The Science of Settler Colonialism examines the
relationship between science and settler colonialism through the
lens of "Aboriginal diabetes" and the thrifty gene hypothesis,
which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to
type-II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer
genes. Hay's study begins with Charles Darwin's travels and his
observations on the Indigenous peoples he encountered to set the
context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism, which
are rooted in Victorian science and empire. It continues in the
mid-twentieth century with a look at nutritional experimentation
during the long career of Percy Moore, the medical director of
Indian Affairs (1946-1965). Hay then turns to James Neel's
invention of the thrifty gene hypothesis in 1962 and Robert
Hegele's reinvention and application of the hypothesis to Sandy
Lake First Nation in northern Ontario in the 1990s. Finally, Hay
demonstrates the way in which settler colonial science was
responded to and resisted by Indigenous leadership in Sandy Lake
First Nation, who used monies from the thrifty gene study to fund
wellness programs in their community. The Science of Settler
Colonialism exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with
Indigenous subjects, the flawed scientific theories stemming from
faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance, as well
as the severe inequities in Canadian healthcare that persist even
today.
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights
advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess
the state of abortion in the country. In this volume, some of
Canada’s foremost researchers challenge current thinking about
abortion by revealing the discrepancy between what Canadians
believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision and what
people are experiencing on the ground. Showcasing new theoretical
frameworks and approaches from law, history, medicine, women’s
studies, and political science, these timely essays reveal the
diversity of abortion experiences across the country, past and
present, and make a case for shifting the debate from abortion
rights to reproductive justice.
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