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Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33888912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12660 |
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author | Aldred, Terri‐Leigh Alderfer‐Mumma, Charis de Leeuw, Sarah Farrales, May Greenwood, Margo Hoogeveen, Dawn O’Toole, Ryan Parkes, Margot W. Sloan Morgan, Vanessa |
author_facet | Aldred, Terri‐Leigh Alderfer‐Mumma, Charis de Leeuw, Sarah Farrales, May Greenwood, Margo Hoogeveen, Dawn O’Toole, Ryan Parkes, Margot W. Sloan Morgan, Vanessa |
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description | Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burdens of poor health; Indigenous peoples face systemic violence and racism in colonial landscapes; rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous geographies are sites of industrial incursions; and many rural and remote geographies remain challenging for diverse Indigenous peoples. What, however, are the consequences of imagining and constructing people and places as “sick”? Constructions of “sick” geographies fulfill and extend settler (often European white) colonial narratives about othered geographies. Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous geographies are discursively “mined” for narratives of sickness. This mining upholds a sense of health and wellness in southern, urban, Euro‐white‐settler imaginations. Drawing from multi‐year, relationship‐based, cross‐disciplinary qualitative community‐informed experiences, and anchored in feminist, anti‐colonial, and anti‐racist methodologies that guided creative and humanities‐informed stories, this paper concludes with different stories. It unsettles settler‐colonial powers reliant on constructing narratives about sickness in others and consequently reframes conversations about Indigenous well‐being and the environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-80490892021-04-20 Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia Aldred, Terri‐Leigh Alderfer‐Mumma, Charis de Leeuw, Sarah Farrales, May Greenwood, Margo Hoogeveen, Dawn O’Toole, Ryan Parkes, Margot W. Sloan Morgan, Vanessa Can Geogr Special Section: Geographies of Indigenous health and wellness Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burdens of poor health; Indigenous peoples face systemic violence and racism in colonial landscapes; rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous geographies are sites of industrial incursions; and many rural and remote geographies remain challenging for diverse Indigenous peoples. What, however, are the consequences of imagining and constructing people and places as “sick”? Constructions of “sick” geographies fulfill and extend settler (often European white) colonial narratives about othered geographies. Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous geographies are discursively “mined” for narratives of sickness. This mining upholds a sense of health and wellness in southern, urban, Euro‐white‐settler imaginations. Drawing from multi‐year, relationship‐based, cross‐disciplinary qualitative community‐informed experiences, and anchored in feminist, anti‐colonial, and anti‐racist methodologies that guided creative and humanities‐informed stories, this paper concludes with different stories. It unsettles settler‐colonial powers reliant on constructing narratives about sickness in others and consequently reframes conversations about Indigenous well‐being and the environment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-12-11 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8049089/ /pubmed/33888912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12660 Text en © 2020 The Authors. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Canadian Association of Geographers / l'Association canadienne des géographes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Section: Geographies of Indigenous health and wellness Aldred, Terri‐Leigh Alderfer‐Mumma, Charis de Leeuw, Sarah Farrales, May Greenwood, Margo Hoogeveen, Dawn O’Toole, Ryan Parkes, Margot W. Sloan Morgan, Vanessa Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title | Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title_full | Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title_fullStr | Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title_full_unstemmed | Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title_short | Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia |
title_sort | mining sick: creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and indigenous communities in british columbia |
topic | Special Section: Geographies of Indigenous health and wellness |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33888912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12660 |
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