2020 and All's Well: On Positionality, Transtemporality, and Scandalous Bodies

In the words of Danielle Peers, Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures, [i]f this pandemic has clarified anything, it is that eugenics is not in the past: ableist triaging of medical supports; coerced DNRs; herd immunity strategies; and the immense precarity of those we have insti...

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Published in:Canadian literature 2020-01 (243), p.166-170
Main Author: Zarranz, Libe García
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African literature
Anthologies
Authorship
Biographies
Boarding schools
Canadian literature
Colonialism
Creativity
Culture
Diaspora
Ethics
Ethnicity
Hegemony
Ideology
Kamboureli, Smaro
Literary studies
Logic
Mbembe, Achille (1957- )
Misogyny
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Pandemics
Pedagogy
Publishing
Publishing industry
Race
Racism
Shraya, Vivek
Speeches
Terrorism
Transgender persons
Writers
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Summary:In the words of Danielle Peers, Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures, [i]f this pandemic has clarified anything, it is that eugenics is not in the past: ableist triaging of medical supports; coerced DNRs; herd immunity strategies; and the immense precarity of those we have institutionalised (e.g., long-term 'care', prisons, detention centers). Given how systemic ableism is intimately intertwined with ongoing colonialism and increasing racism, as Peers aptly contends, the livability of racialized peoples is always at stake.1 It is therefore not surprising that Indigenous, Black, and diasporic writers of colour in Canada are making extensive use of print and digital platforms to publish their work, often positioning intersectional approaches to race and ethnicity at the centre of creative inquiry. [...]pedagogical and ethical concerns must be understood as asynchronous, discontinuous (Freeman xii), transtemporal assemblages where questions of positionality need to be scrutinized. Strategies of "verbal terrorism" (Kamboureli 85) continue to saturate the media and institutions such as the university, where freedom of speech is, once again, appropriated by dominant voices as a banner to justify the spread of hate.
ISSN:0008-4360