Colonizing Surveillance: Canada Constructs an Indigenous Terror Threat

Authors

  • Craig Proulx St. Thomas University

Keywords:

indigenous peoples, surveillance, securitization, colonialism, protests, demonization

Abstract

This article addresses the range and prevalence of
continuing surveillance forms and practices imposed on indige
nous peoples wherein indigenous peoples are constructed as
potential insurgents, terrorists and criminals collectively or
individually threatening the security of the Canadian oligarchic
state. I discuss how "securitization spreads out to connect
diverse issues together" and how "the discursive framework
of securitization therefore links issues in a selective way that
reflects an underlying political rationality" (Gledhill 2008: 4
5, emphasis added). That underlying state rationality is colo
nialism.

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Published

2014-04-30

How to Cite

Proulx, C. (2014). Colonizing Surveillance: Canada Constructs an Indigenous Terror Threat. Anthropologica, 56(1), 83–100. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/633

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 1 (2014): Queer Anthropology

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Articles

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