Rita Kaur Dhamoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4280607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Kaur Dhamoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita Kaur |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhamoon |
| SIGNATURE | DHAMOON R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A cautionary note on reclaiming ‘diasporicity’: Colonial perversions of (Sikh) diaspora subjectivities
I offer two cautionary notes to reorient the grammar of ‘diaspora' away from its sociological descriptive function of classifying groups that are oppressed, and towards a focus on emergent subjectivity. The first caution is against ‘auto-perversity’, whereby members of the Sikh diaspora discipline other members of the diaspora in the service of coloniality. The second type of colonial perversion occurs when members of the Sikh diaspora are deploy…
Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories
Relational Othering: Critiquing dominance, critiquing the margins
In this paper, I propose a critical approach that attunes attention to networks that connect forms and degrees of Othering, refusals of Otherness, and formations of dominance. I call these networks processes of “relational Othering.” Drawing from anti-racist praxis, critical race feminism, Indigenous studies, and postcolonial theory, I propose three lines of inquiry to critically track relational Othering. I then apply the tool of relational Othe…
Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning
Re-presenting Genocide: The Canadian Museum of Human Rights and Settler Colonial Power
In settler societies like Canada, United States, and Australia, the bourgeoning discourse that frames colonial violence against Indigenous people as genocide has been controversial, specifically because there is much debate about the meaning and applicability of genocide. Through an analysis of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, this paper analyzes what is revealed about settler colonialism in the nexus of difficult knowledge, curatorial decis…
Intersectionality and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Feminisms
Although it has been noted that the ways feminists historicize, explain, and define feminism are challenged and subject to interpretation, this article focuses on the idea that feminist debates show openness and plurality to further clarification, inquiry, and reflection. It studies the various ways of understanding feminism as well as its core features and methods of inquiry used by feminists. The article also discusses the modern debates among …
Exclusion and Regulated Inclusion: The case of the Sikh kirpan in Canada
This article examines the ways in which the Sikh kirpan has been imagined and re-imagined by the Canadian state, as a signifier of exclusion from the public sphere, and regulated inclusion within the public sphere. The focus on Sikh cultural and religious practices provides a way to examine recent cases of an ethno-racial group that has long-tested and challenged the boundaries of multicultural accommodation in Canada. Through a critical race len…
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011, 344 p
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Why the Theory and Practice of Intersectionality Matter to Health Research and Policy
Considerations on Mainstreaming Intersectionality
This article identifies five key considerations for adopting and mainstreaming intersectionality: the language and concepts that are used; the complexities of difference and how to navigate this complexity; the choice of focusing on identities, categories, processes, and/or systems; the model that is used to explain and describe mutually constituted differences; and the principles that determine which interactions are analyzed. The author argues …
Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in recent contemporary western political theory. This book offers a nuanced critique of these debates by questioning liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture and, just as important, its unintended consequences. Identity/Difference Politics switches the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of …
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Considerations on Mainstreaming Intersectionality
This article identifies five key considerations for adopting and mainstreaming intersectionality: the language and concepts that are used; the complexities of difference and how to navigate this complexity; the choice of focusing on identities, categories, processes, and/or systems; the model that is used to explain and describe mutually constituted differences; and the principles that determine which interactions are analyzed. The author argues …
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
Exclusion and Regulated Inclusion: The case of the Sikh kirpan in Canada
This article examines the ways in which the Sikh kirpan has been imagined and re-imagined by the Canadian state, as a signifier of exclusion from the public sphere, and regulated inclusion within the public sphere. The focus on Sikh cultural and religious practices provides a way to examine recent cases of an ethno-racial group that has long-tested and challenged the boundaries of multicultural accommodation in Canada. Through a critical race len…
Relational Othering: Critiquing dominance, critiquing the margins
In this paper, I propose a critical approach that attunes attention to networks that connect forms and degrees of Othering, refusals of Otherness, and formations of dominance. I call these networks processes of “relational Othering.” Drawing from anti-racist praxis, critical race feminism, Indigenous studies, and postcolonial theory, I propose three lines of inquiry to critically track relational Othering. I then apply the tool of relational Othe…
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Intersectionality and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Shifting From ‘Culture’ to ‘the Cultural: Critical Theorizing of Identity/Difference Politics
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History , Katherine Fierlbeck, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 178. Katherine Fierlbeck's project to provide “a brief exegesis of some of the more important political and philosophical debates in Canada's history” (6) is a difficult one, as she herself notes, because the criteria for determining which thinkers and ideas to include are contested. Fierlbeck selects a rich range of well known …
Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada
In this article we develop a theoretical framework attuned to the relationship between discourses of security, race/racialization, and foreignness. Applying this framework to three historic instances of Canadian national insecurity (Japanese-Canadian internment, the Front de libération du Québec crisis, and the Kanehsatake/Oka crisis), we argue that “foreignness” is produced and regulated in historically specific ways with consequences for how “t…
Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in recent contemporary western political theory. This book offers a nuanced critique of these debates by questioning liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture and, just as important, its unintended consequences. Identity/Difference Politics switches the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of …
Why the Theory and Practice of Intersectionality Matter to Health Research and Policy
Considerations on Mainstreaming Intersectionality
This article identifies five key considerations for adopting and mainstreaming intersectionality: the language and concepts that are used; the complexities of difference and how to navigate this complexity; the choice of focusing on identities, categories, processes, and/or systems; the model that is used to explain and describe mutually constituted differences; and the principles that determine which interactions are analyzed. The author argues …
Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011, 344 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Feminisms
Although it has been noted that the ways feminists historicize, explain, and define feminism are challenged and subject to interpretation, this article focuses on the idea that feminist debates show openness and plurality to further clarification, inquiry, and reflection. It studies the various ways of understanding feminism as well as its core features and methods of inquiry used by feminists. The article also discusses the modern debates among …
Exclusion and Regulated Inclusion: The case of the Sikh kirpan in Canada
This article examines the ways in which the Sikh kirpan has been imagined and re-imagined by the Canadian state, as a signifier of exclusion from the public sphere, and regulated inclusion within the public sphere. The focus on Sikh cultural and religious practices provides a way to examine recent cases of an ethno-racial group that has long-tested and challenged the boundaries of multicultural accommodation in Canada. Through a critical race len…
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
Intersectionality and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Re-presenting Genocide: The Canadian Museum of Human Rights and Settler Colonial Power
In settler societies like Canada, United States, and Australia, the bourgeoning discourse that frames colonial violence against Indigenous people as genocide has been controversial, specifically because there is much debate about the meaning and applicability of genocide. Through an analysis of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, this paper analyzes what is revealed about settler colonialism in the nexus of difficult knowledge, curatorial decis…
Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning
Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories
Relational Othering: Critiquing dominance, critiquing the margins
In this paper, I propose a critical approach that attunes attention to networks that connect forms and degrees of Othering, refusals of Otherness, and formations of dominance. I call these networks processes of “relational Othering.” Drawing from anti-racist praxis, critical race feminism, Indigenous studies, and postcolonial theory, I propose three lines of inquiry to critically track relational Othering. I then apply the tool of relational Othe…
A cautionary note on reclaiming ‘diasporicity’: Colonial perversions of (Sikh) diaspora subjectivities
I offer two cautionary notes to reorient the grammar of ‘diaspora' away from its sociological descriptive function of classifying groups that are oppressed, and towards a focus on emergent subjectivity. The first caution is against ‘auto-perversity’, whereby members of the Sikh diaspora discipline other members of the diaspora in the service of coloniality. The second type of colonial perversion occurs when members of the Sikh diaspora are deploy…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)