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- Title
Under the Shadow of Empire: Indigenous Girls' Presencing as Decolonizing Force.
- Authors
de Finney, Sandrina
- Abstract
This article calls for a reconceptualization of Indigenous girlhoods as they are shaped under a western neocolonial state and in the midst of overlapping forms of colonial violence targeting Indigenous girls. By disrupting the persistent construction of Indigenous girl bodies as insignificant and dispensable, I explore alternative conceptualizations of trauma, place, and girlhood that might enact a more critical, politicized girlhood studies. I link this analysis to Leanne Simpson's (2011) notion of 'presence' as a form of decolonizing resurgence. Drawing from participatory research studies and community-change projects conducted with and by Indigenous girls between the ages of 12 and 19 years in western British Columbia, Canada, girls' everyday processes of resurgence and presencing are highlighted in the hope of expanding understandings of their cumulative effects as decolonizing forces.
- Subjects
ABUSE of indigenous children; GIRLS; SIMPSON, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-; TEENAGE girls; NEOCOLONIALISM; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Girlhood Studies, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1938-8209
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ghs.2014.070103