Indigenous Infopolitics
Biopolitics as Resistance to White Paper Liberalism in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15030184 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Maclellan (0000-0001-5903-9944, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 914-936 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Event (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tae.2018.0055 |
| OpenAlex | W2900124653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article argues for a reading of biopolitics as a mechanism of political empowerment under conditions in which the state perpetuates exclusion by paradoxically affirming the political equality of marginalized individuals or groups. After differentiating Michel Foucault's conceptualization of biopolitics from its conventional interpretation in Giorgio Agamben, I show how the Canadian state counterintuitively perpetuates Indigenous exclusion through an inclusive liberalism that re-affirms Indigenous persons as full and equal citizens. I then conclude the article by showing how a statistics or information-based discourse of population—an Indigenous infopolitics —has concomitantly become an indispensible means of Indigenous resistance in Canada today
Biology · Biopower · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Indigenous · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · White (mutation · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Gender Studies · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Ecology · Genetics
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |