Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning. (June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dorries, Heather; Harjo, Laura
• Other Names: Simpson Sheryl-Ann guest-editor.; Steil Justin guest-editor.; Mehta Aditi guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of planning education and research. Volume 40:Number 2(2020:Summer)
• Page Start: 210
• Page End: 219
• Publication Date: 2020-06
• Subjects: gender -- violence -- incarceration -- colonialism -- Indigenous -- feminism; Género -- violencia -- encarcelamiento -- colonialismo -- indígena -- feminismo; 性别 -- 暴力 -- 监禁 -- 殖民主义 -- 原住民 -- 女性主义; Regional planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; City planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19894382
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-456X

Abstract

Settler colonial violence targets Indigenous women in specific ways. While urban planning has attended to issues of women's safety, the physical dimensions of safety tend to be emphasized over the social and political causes of women's vulnerability to violence. In this paper, we trace the relationship between settler colonialism and violence against Indigenous women. Drawing on examples from community activism and organizing, we consider how Indigenous feminism might be applied to planning and point toward approaches to planning that do not replicate settler colonial violence.