Papers by Rebecca Hall
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a d... more In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a dispossessive strategy, a racialized and gendered means of controlling access to resources and attempting to contain Indigenous human, nonhuman, and land-based relations. This regulation is informed by Western patriarchal ideals and mechanisms. We examine settler accounts of “Indian” identity and their effects through a gendered reading of Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada, a legal case centering on the provision of social assistance. Our critique is grounded in a relational approach to Indigenous self-recognition, an approach that transcends the false dichotomy between individual (women’s) rights and group (cultural) rights, critiqued by Joyce Green. This case exemplifies individualized approaches to identity that obscure the relational practices seeking to retain, reproduce, and revitalize Indigenous modes of life, an ongoing terrain of de/colonizing struggle.
Social Politics, 2022
In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a d... more In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a dispossessive strategy, a racialized and gendered means of controlling access to resources and attempting to contain Indigenous human, nonhuman, and land-based relations. This regulation is informed by Western patriarchal ideals and mechanisms. We examine settler accounts of "Indian" identity and their effects through a gendered reading of Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada, a legal case centering on the provision of social assistance. Our critique is grounded in a relational approach to Indigenous self-recognition, an approach that transcends the false dichotomy between individual (women's) rights and group (cultural) rights, critiqued by Joyce Green. This case exemplifies individualized approaches to identity that obscure the relational practices seeking to retain, reproduce, and revitalize Indigenous modes of life, an ongoing terrain of de/colonizing struggle.
Studies in Social Justice, 2016
This article brings feminist theories of social reproduction in conversation with decolonizing fe... more This article brings feminist theories of social reproduction in conversation with decolonizing feminisms. It takes up Indigenous women's social reproductive labour as enactments of creative expansion. In approaching social reproduction as a site of struggle, it identifies three processes of expansion and resistance at this site: the expansion of care and intimacy into subsistence production; the expansion of the "family" beyond the nuclear through community and kin networks; and the expansion of relations of care to include the land.
In 2012, the Harper administration announced that it would be exploring voluntary legislation to ... more In 2012, the Harper administration announced that it would be exploring voluntary legislation to introduce private property into First Nations reserves. Drawing on Marx’s theories of primitive accumulation and ground-rent, this paper argues that privatizing communally held land is an ontological and structural dispossession, serving the dual functions of intensifying existing capital accumulation through the organizing role of private property, and creating a new space of accumulation as
land itself becomes “fictitious capital.”
Books by Rebecca Hall
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
Peer-reviewed Articles (co-authored) by Rebecca Hall
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2018
This article traces methodological discussions of a multidisciplinary team of researchers located... more This article traces methodological discussions of a multidisciplinary team of researchers located in universities and community settings in Ontario. The group designed and conducted a research project on the enforcement of labor standards in Ontario, Canada. Discussions of methodological possibilities often began with “nots”—that is, consensus on methodological approaches that the team collectively rejected. Out of these discussions emerged suggestions and approaches through which we navigated dilemmas in research design. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the following: (a) epistemological tensions around mixed methods and the politics of mixing, (b) the attempt to capture the relationships between research and its impact, and, (c) the need to develop interviews which both establish respondents as knowers, and simultaneously focus on that which is unsaid/normalized.
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Papers by Rebecca Hall
land itself becomes “fictitious capital.”
Books by Rebecca Hall
Peer-reviewed Articles (co-authored) by Rebecca Hall
land itself becomes “fictitious capital.”