POL378H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Judy Grahn, Settler Colonialism, Biopolitics
Document Summary
Distinction between native and settler informs power in settler societies. Modern queer subjects, cultures, politics have developed among natives and non-natives in linked ways. Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event. Indigenous queer identities excluded even in light of white settler queer identities being included. Heteronormativity is a power relation that conditions all subjects and social life. Settler colonialism produces non-native queer modernities - queer is not native. Non-native queers continuing trend of disappearing native identity by refusing to recognize validity of queer native identity. Relational locations: ethnography & history of queer politics. White middle-class queers linked liberation to acceptance within their own radicalized class and state. Logic of elimination -eliminate natives and replace with settlers. Attempts to recreate natives as members of settler state. Settles must preserve native authenticity in order to transcend it. Modern sexuality in context of biopolitics of settler colonialism.
