Interrogating ‘The White Possessive’ (Pt 2) 🎧 MEDIA INDIGENA 361
The Raw and the Cooked / MI 361
ON THIS EPISODE: Part two of ‘the White Possessive.’ And back in part one, we brought you the basics of this analytical framework as articulated by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an analysis at the heart of the event, “Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration.’” Featuring five presentations, the first was by none other than MI’s Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia), applying her lens as a media scholar.
Here in our second engagement with the ways whiteness works to possess every last thing, we see how that possessiveness seemingly knows no bounds—right down to the extraction of our bodies’ most minute material. Drawing on a presentation by Jennifer Brown (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Alaska Native Studies at the University of Alaska-Southeast) on how that’s played out in Alaska in some dubious public health research and reportage, host/producer Rick Harp is joined once again by Candis and fellow MI regular Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) to reflect further on Brown’s talk.
Links referenced/consulted this episode:
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic (by Jen Rose Smith) Duke University Press
‘I’m not poor’: Subject of New York Times article speaks out on use of northern stereotypes APTN News
NAJA calls for audit on New York Times story IJA
NAJA calls for second apology and audit of New York Times story IJA
Inuit, reporters call out New York Times for ‘trauma porn’ National Observer
Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers University of Manitoba Press
#304 From Nanook To The New York Times: Misrepresentations of the North CANADALAND
Angry Inuk documentary National Film Board (NFB)
ISUMA TV
Zacharias Kunuk IMDb.com
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