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I found myself struggling for inspiration (not to mention enough hours in the day working and going to school full time) for this essay. I had wanted to do something looking at the intersectionality of gender and disability or something related to aboriginal peoples (it's a Canadian Political Science course, so it had to be in a Canadian context), but nothing caught my attention as the subject for this essay... until the little flare-up in Oka last Thursday. Once that happened, I knew I had all I needed to discuss one of the topics that seems to be near and dear to me. But, before I get to the essay, here was the criteria:
At the individual and collective level in Canada, sources of political identity often come into conflict or intersect with one another. For example, ethnic or cultural identity may come into conflict with Canadian or Quebec nationalism, and for many Aboriginal women, gender identity may come into conflict with Aboriginal identity. Or, gender may intersect with ethnicity such that women of a certain visible minority group may be subject to particular stereotypes and discrimination distinct than that faced by women from other ethnic groups or men within their ethnic group.
For this assignment, your task is to:
You must use a variety of academic sources, such as books written by political science professors and articles in refereed journals (e.g. Canadian Journal of Political Science). You may also use newspaper articles and Web sites of known and reliable organizations for recent, factual information as supplements to scholarly sources. Wikipedia is often a good way to get started and to do a rough check of facts, but is not considered an appropriate source for an academic essay.
So without further digression... ( The essay is behind the cut )
And... in case you're never heard of the Oka Crisis, it was essentially an armed insurrection in Canada in 1990...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_crisis
At the individual and collective level in Canada, sources of political identity often come into conflict or intersect with one another. For example, ethnic or cultural identity may come into conflict with Canadian or Quebec nationalism, and for many Aboriginal women, gender identity may come into conflict with Aboriginal identity. Or, gender may intersect with ethnicity such that women of a certain visible minority group may be subject to particular stereotypes and discrimination distinct than that faced by women from other ethnic groups or men within their ethnic group.
For this assignment, your task is to:
- Select a newspaper story in a major Canadian newspaper from the past year that reveals competition or intersection between political identities relevant to the topics covered in this course. The article should be about a particular conflict or perceived social problem;
- Drawing on relevant scholarly research, provide a short historical context (i.e. no more than 2 pages) for the issue(s) covered in the newspaper article;
- State your position on how the political cleavages or intersections identified in the article should be addressed by the federal or provincial government that is most relevant to the specific issue identified in the newspaper article.
You must use a variety of academic sources, such as books written by political science professors and articles in refereed journals (e.g. Canadian Journal of Political Science). You may also use newspaper articles and Web sites of known and reliable organizations for recent, factual information as supplements to scholarly sources. Wikipedia is often a good way to get started and to do a rough check of facts, but is not considered an appropriate source for an academic essay.
So without further digression... ( The essay is behind the cut )
And... in case you're never heard of the Oka Crisis, it was essentially an armed insurrection in Canada in 1990...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_crisis
