Carmela Murdocca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmela Murdocca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmela |
| FAMILY NAME | Murdocca |
| SIGNATURE | MURDOCCA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“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 colonialism experienced by Indigenous people and communities, public and media discourse reveals how humanitarian governance is constitutive of the gen…
Re-Imagining “Serving Time” in Indigenous Communities
L’article 81 de la Loi sur le système correctionnel et la mise en liberté sous condition permet aux collectivités autochtones de superviser le soin et la garde des délinquants autochtones. Bien que l’article 81 ne décrive pas comment les collectivités autochtones doivent s’y prendre, la prestation de garde et de soin prend communément la forme de centres de guérison, communément appelés pavillons de ressourcement. Cette loi a le potentiel de perm…
Ethics of Accountability
Canada’s Criminal Code contains unique sentencing provision known as the Gladue principle. This provision requires consideration of the social and contextual factors that bring an Indigenous person before a criminal court. With reference to Sherene Razack’s “ethics of accountability,” this article explores a set of recent sentencing and bail decisions of an Ontario judge who has been hailed as a compassionate moral crusader assisting Indigenous p…
Visual Legalities of Race and Reparations
Drawing attention to the legal and psychoanalytic genealogy of reparations, this article examines the relationship between reparations and racial difference through an analysis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary series 8th Fire: Aboriginal People, Canada and the Way Forward . The representational life of reparations in liberal settler colonialism is a repository for addressing the broader landscape of legality—sovereignty, sel…
To Right Historical Wrongs
Following World War II, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. In keeping with trends in other countries, Canada's government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigenous and racialized people in Canadian prisons now than at any othe…
A Matter of Time and a Matter of Place’
Through an examination of the deaths of two young men in a detention center fire in Kashechewan, Ontario, this article examines links between legal testimony, temporality, competing forms of evidence (oral histories, visual recordings and corporeal forms of memory) and the consolidation of particular racial and historical logics through these discursive and visual fields. I argue that an analysis of testimony in colonial inquiries reveals that th…
Persistence and Memorialisation
This article addresses the racial and temporal formations that render Indigenous suicide comprehensible in legal and representational regimes of reparative justice in settler colonialism. I trace governmental, non-governmental and community responses to suicide and explore biopolitical and necropolitical reparative governance concerning self-harm and suicide among Indigenous peoples in liberal settler states. I argue that the visual and written a…
There Is Something in That Water”
This article analyzes the issue of water contamination in Kashechewan, Ontario, Canada. Through an inquiry into the way in which water contamination in one Aboriginal community was handled by the local and federal governments, this article examines processes of ongoing colonialism in Canada. Drawing on an array of sources, this article explores three features pertinent to this water crisis: historical forms of legal violence, symbolic forms of re…
From Incarceration to Restoration
The Criminal Code of Canada contains a sentencing provision aimed at offering alternatives to incarceration for Aboriginal peoples. One of the intentions of this provision is to take national responsibility for the over-incarceration of Aboriginal peoples. Using official documents, the objective of this article is to address the possible meaning of national responsibility that is shaped by the emergence of this legal intervention. The objective i…
Not Born a Refugee Woman
The Racial Profile
Utilisant deux rapports sur la pratique du profilage racial à Toronto, l'auteur soutient qu'elle doit être comprise comme une catégorie de gouvernance, et ceci puisqu'il faut s'éloigner de la seule question, si le profilage racial fait partie des pratiques policières. En concevant le profilage racial comme catégorie de gouvernance, chercheurs et praticiens peuvent plutôt analyser comment des pratiques racialisantes déterminent les limites de la c…
There Is Something in That Water”
This article analyzes the issue of water contamination in Kashechewan, Ontario, Canada. Through an inquiry into the way in which water contamination in one Aboriginal community was handled by the local and federal governments, this article examines processes of ongoing colonialism in Canada. Drawing on an array of sources, this article explores three features pertinent to this water crisis: historical forms of legal violence, symbolic forms of re…
Re-Imagining “Serving Time” in Indigenous Communities
L’article 81 de la Loi sur le système correctionnel et la mise en liberté sous condition permet aux collectivités autochtones de superviser le soin et la garde des délinquants autochtones. Bien que l’article 81 ne décrive pas comment les collectivités autochtones doivent s’y prendre, la prestation de garde et de soin prend communément la forme de centres de guérison, communément appelés pavillons de ressourcement. Cette loi a le potentiel de perm…
Ethics of Accountability
Canada’s Criminal Code contains unique sentencing provision known as the Gladue principle. This provision requires consideration of the social and contextual factors that bring an Indigenous person before a criminal court. With reference to Sherene Razack’s “ethics of accountability,” this article explores a set of recent sentencing and bail decisions of an Ontario judge who has been hailed as a compassionate moral crusader assisting Indigenous p…
Visual Legalities of Race and Reparations
Drawing attention to the legal and psychoanalytic genealogy of reparations, this article examines the relationship between reparations and racial difference through an analysis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary series 8th Fire: Aboriginal People, Canada and the Way Forward . The representational life of reparations in liberal settler colonialism is a repository for addressing the broader landscape of legality—sovereignty, sel…
Persistence and Memorialisation
This article addresses the racial and temporal formations that render Indigenous suicide comprehensible in legal and representational regimes of reparative justice in settler colonialism. I trace governmental, non-governmental and community responses to suicide and explore biopolitical and necropolitical reparative governance concerning self-harm and suicide among Indigenous peoples in liberal settler states. I argue that the visual and written a…
The Racial Profile
Utilisant deux rapports sur la pratique du profilage racial à Toronto, l'auteur soutient qu'elle doit être comprise comme une catégorie de gouvernance, et ceci puisqu'il faut s'éloigner de la seule question, si le profilage racial fait partie des pratiques policières. En concevant le profilage racial comme catégorie de gouvernance, chercheurs et praticiens peuvent plutôt analyser comment des pratiques racialisantes déterminent les limites de la c…
The Racial Profile
Utilisant deux rapports sur la pratique du profilage racial à Toronto, l'auteur soutient qu'elle doit être comprise comme une catégorie de gouvernance, et ceci puisqu'il faut s'éloigner de la seule question, si le profilage racial fait partie des pratiques policières. En concevant le profilage racial comme catégorie de gouvernance, chercheurs et praticiens peuvent plutôt analyser comment des pratiques racialisantes déterminent les limites de la c…
Not Born a Refugee Woman
From Incarceration to Restoration
The Criminal Code of Canada contains a sentencing provision aimed at offering alternatives to incarceration for Aboriginal peoples. One of the intentions of this provision is to take national responsibility for the over-incarceration of Aboriginal peoples. Using official documents, the objective of this article is to address the possible meaning of national responsibility that is shaped by the emergence of this legal intervention. The objective i…
There Is Something in That Water”
This article analyzes the issue of water contamination in Kashechewan, Ontario, Canada. Through an inquiry into the way in which water contamination in one Aboriginal community was handled by the local and federal governments, this article examines processes of ongoing colonialism in Canada. Drawing on an array of sources, this article explores three features pertinent to this water crisis: historical forms of legal violence, symbolic forms of re…
To Right Historical Wrongs
Following World War II, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. In keeping with trends in other countries, Canada's government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigenous and racialized people in Canadian prisons now than at any othe…
A Matter of Time and a Matter of Place’
Through an examination of the deaths of two young men in a detention center fire in Kashechewan, Ontario, this article examines links between legal testimony, temporality, competing forms of evidence (oral histories, visual recordings and corporeal forms of memory) and the consolidation of particular racial and historical logics through these discursive and visual fields. I argue that an analysis of testimony in colonial inquiries reveals that th…
Persistence and Memorialisation
This article addresses the racial and temporal formations that render Indigenous suicide comprehensible in legal and representational regimes of reparative justice in settler colonialism. I trace governmental, non-governmental and community responses to suicide and explore biopolitical and necropolitical reparative governance concerning self-harm and suicide among Indigenous peoples in liberal settler states. I argue that the visual and written a…
Visual Legalities of Race and Reparations
Drawing attention to the legal and psychoanalytic genealogy of reparations, this article examines the relationship between reparations and racial difference through an analysis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary series 8th Fire: Aboriginal People, Canada and the Way Forward . The representational life of reparations in liberal settler colonialism is a repository for addressing the broader landscape of legality—sovereignty, sel…
Ethics of Accountability
Canada’s Criminal Code contains unique sentencing provision known as the Gladue principle. This provision requires consideration of the social and contextual factors that bring an Indigenous person before a criminal court. With reference to Sherene Razack’s “ethics of accountability,” this article explores a set of recent sentencing and bail decisions of an Ontario judge who has been hailed as a compassionate moral crusader assisting Indigenous p…
“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 colonialism experienced by Indigenous people and communities, public and media discourse reveals how humanitarian governance is constitutive of the gen…
Re-Imagining “Serving Time” in Indigenous Communities
L’article 81 de la Loi sur le système correctionnel et la mise en liberté sous condition permet aux collectivités autochtones de superviser le soin et la garde des délinquants autochtones. Bien que l’article 81 ne décrive pas comment les collectivités autochtones doivent s’y prendre, la prestation de garde et de soin prend communément la forme de centres de guérison, communément appelés pavillons de ressourcement. Cette loi a le potentiel de perm…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works)