Browsing Department of Gender Studies Graduate Theses by Subject "Indigenous Studies"

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The Canadian Carceral State: Violent Colonial Logics of Indigenous Dispossession

Thibault, Katie (2016-04-11)

This thesis examines the over-representation of indigenous women in Canadian federal prisons. I situate the prison as a site of modernity to draw attention to the ways that the prison is underpinned by the logics of white ...
Drag, Demons, and Dirt: Centering Indigenous Thought in Critiques of Prairie Queer Settler Colonialism

Willes, Brett Cassady

My thesis takes as its central question ongoing colonialism in white queer settler affective and discursive relationships to the prairies and to “home.” I engage with the works of queer and feminist Indigenous theorists, ...