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Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder Pamela George

Razack, Sherene H.·2000·Canadian journal of law and society
DOI 10.1017/s0829320100006384
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Résumé: En 1995, Pamela George a été brutalement assassinée par deux jeunes athlètes universitaires de dix-huit ans. Les deux hommes condamnés pour meurtre se virent infliger des peines légères pour leur crime. Dans cet article, j'examine le meurtre de Pamela George comme un acte de violence raciale sexuée faisant partie de la poursuite de la colonisation des Autochtones. Je suggère qu'en tant que femme autochtone travaillant dans un espace de prostitution, Pamela George représentait un corps qui pouvait être violé impunément. Les hommes blancs respectables qui s'aventurent temporairement dans une zone de dégénérescence pour s'engager dans une rencontre avec une prostituée ne sont pas tenus responsables de la violence qui se produit régulièrement dans les espaces et sur le corps de l'Autre. La relation entre les corps, l'espace et la justice, où les zones habitées par l'Autre racialisé ainsi que celles de prostitution (souvent l'une étant l'autre) sont considérées comme des espaces où la justice universelle n'opère pas, suggère que cette violence reste invisible devant la loi. Ses caractéristiques, son rôle dans la constitution de l'homme blanc et des sociétés de colonisateurs blancs, indiquent pourquoi la violence persiste et pourquoi elle est niée par le droit de façon constante. Les processus de création d'identité décrits sont essentiels à la colonisation et, dans ce cas, à celle des Autochtones du Canada.

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Authors
Razack, S. H.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Razack, Sherene H.
ORCID
Razack, Sherene H.
Venue
Canadian journal of law and society
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2000-08
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
91-130
ISSN
  • 0829-3201 (ISSN-L)
  • 1911-0227
DOI
10.1017/s0829320100006384
OpenAlex
W2319268494
Semantic Scholar
8bf29c6543439df2b46e767e7d6b6f7ea985c702
Cited by
218
References
26
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FWCI
6.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5099 d)
Locations
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
Keywords
racial violence, sexual violence, indigenous women, prostitution, colonialism, indigenous colonization, criminal justice, white identity, law and violence

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