L Midzain-Gobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 70153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Midzain-Gobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Midzain-Gobin |
| SIGNATURE | MIDZAIN-GOBIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3420-2108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contesting colonial beachheads: Settler colonial (in)security professionals and Indigenous peoples’ energy infrastructure
In April 2020, the British Columbia Utilities Commission released the Final Report of its Indigenous Utilities Regulation Inquiry. The Inquiry was tasked with determining the regulatory environment for Indigenous utility providers across the Canadian province. We analyse the Inquiry as a colonial encounter between Indigenous nations and the settler state, arguing that technical bodies like the Commission represent a sort of security professional …
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Legibility, misrecognition and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey: Understanding Knowledge Production as a Settler-Colonial Project
Knowledge production has been integral to colonial projects and the making of the contemporary state. This paper brings these two processes together in the contemporary settler-colonial context of Canada, arguing that knowledge production remains a central technology in the contemporary (re)production of settler sovereignty. The paper uses the Aboriginal Peoples Survey as a case study, reading it through the lenses of legibility and a politics of…
Embedded Bordering: Territorial Authority, Indigenous Utilities, and Settler Colonialism in British Columbia
Borders and bordering practices can be understood as both an act of sovereign authority and establishing the contemporary international system. The drawing of borders also simultaneously legitimizes the state’s sovereign authority, creating a political community ‘inside’ borders through which modern politics takes place. These processes are especially pertinent for settler states such as Canada, whose sovereign authority over its recognized terri…
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Comfort and insecurity in the reproduction of settler coloniality
Understood as a practice, citizenship can bring benefits across affective and material registers; however, its possibility also rests on logics of exclusion. This is especially the case in Anglosphere settler colonial contexts in which citizenship is both a function of settler state authority while simultaneously reproducing that very authority. Using Canada as an illustration, the paper reads citizenship through the concepts of implicated subjec…
Debunking the Myth of Canada as a Non-Colonial Power
This article proposes that the understanding of Canada as a non-colonial power articulated by federal leaders representing Canada to the world is based on a myth. Foundational to contemporary understandings of the state, this myth is founded on a reproduction of a specific form of historical amnesia. When taken at face value, this myth-making both enables and promotes a false image of Canada, one which erases the persistent reinforcement of a dom…
Comfort and insecurity in the reproduction of settler coloniality
Understood as a practice, citizenship can bring benefits across affective and material registers; however, its possibility also rests on logics of exclusion. This is especially the case in Anglosphere settler colonial contexts in which citizenship is both a function of settler state authority while simultaneously reproducing that very authority. Using Canada as an illustration, the paper reads citizenship through the concepts of implicated subjec…
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Legibility, misrecognition and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey: Understanding Knowledge Production as a Settler-Colonial Project
Knowledge production has been integral to colonial projects and the making of the contemporary state. This paper brings these two processes together in the contemporary settler-colonial context of Canada, arguing that knowledge production remains a central technology in the contemporary (re)production of settler sovereignty. The paper uses the Aboriginal Peoples Survey as a case study, reading it through the lenses of legibility and a politics of…
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Debunking the Myth of Canada as a Non-Colonial Power
This article proposes that the understanding of Canada as a non-colonial power articulated by federal leaders representing Canada to the world is based on a myth. Foundational to contemporary understandings of the state, this myth is founded on a reproduction of a specific form of historical amnesia. When taken at face value, this myth-making both enables and promotes a false image of Canada, one which erases the persistent reinforcement of a dom…
Embedded Bordering: Territorial Authority, Indigenous Utilities, and Settler Colonialism in British Columbia
Borders and bordering practices can be understood as both an act of sovereign authority and establishing the contemporary international system. The drawing of borders also simultaneously legitimizes the state’s sovereign authority, creating a political community ‘inside’ borders through which modern politics takes place. These processes are especially pertinent for settler states such as Canada, whose sovereign authority over its recognized terri…
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Comfort and insecurity in the reproduction of settler coloniality
Understood as a practice, citizenship can bring benefits across affective and material registers; however, its possibility also rests on logics of exclusion. This is especially the case in Anglosphere settler colonial contexts in which citizenship is both a function of settler state authority while simultaneously reproducing that very authority. Using Canada as an illustration, the paper reads citizenship through the concepts of implicated subjec…
Legibility, misrecognition and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey: Understanding Knowledge Production as a Settler-Colonial Project
Knowledge production has been integral to colonial projects and the making of the contemporary state. This paper brings these two processes together in the contemporary settler-colonial context of Canada, arguing that knowledge production remains a central technology in the contemporary (re)production of settler sovereignty. The paper uses the Aboriginal Peoples Survey as a case study, reading it through the lenses of legibility and a politics of…
Contesting colonial beachheads: Settler colonial (in)security professionals and Indigenous peoples’ energy infrastructure
In April 2020, the British Columbia Utilities Commission released the Final Report of its Indigenous Utilities Regulation Inquiry. The Inquiry was tasked with determining the regulatory environment for Indigenous utility providers across the Canadian province. We analyse the Inquiry as a colonial encounter between Indigenous nations and the settler state, arguing that technical bodies like the Commission represent a sort of security professional …
Indigenous Diffuse Support and Descriptive Representation in the Canadian House of Commons
Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples' own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the descriptive representation of Indige…
Indigenous (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sovereignty (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)