Indigenous women’s reproductive (in)justice(s) and self-determination : Envisioning futures through a collaborative research project (McKenzie, 2020)

Author

McKenzie, H.A.

Year

2020

Title

Indigenous women’s reproductive (in)justice(s) and self-determination : Envisioning futures through a collaborative research project

University

University of British Columbia

Discipline (uncoded)

Interdisciplinary Studies

Macrostructure

Traditional-Simple

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Practice, Linguistic & Textual form

Description and other notes

Author appends a policy brief that was co-written with others, based on the dissertator’s study. This brief was submitted to representatives at the Saskatoon Health Region as well as to the Saskatchewan and Canadian Governments. “While I found avenues to creatively disrupt academic research practices and politics, I was constrained by the colonial standards and ideologies that continue to structure academic research” (p. 195).

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Separate. Atypical or unconventional component positioned as separate from the written component or institutional copy of the dissertation

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Influenced. The atypical or unconventional component (i.e., the policy brief) is construed as an independent, albeit critical part of the written component. The conventional components establish the context, need, and research for the unconventional component (policy brief).

Notes/Reasoning

McKenzie (2020) describes how then-recent media coverage of the forced sterilization of Indigneous women, paired with collaborators’ experiences and discussions, motivated McKenzie to initiate the process of co-authoring and publishing a policy brief that would “address the racist, sexist, and colonial conditions that underlie coercive practices” as well as “the hospital policies that enabled them to be enacted” (pp. 149-150). The Policy brief is appended to the dissertation and mentioned four times throughout (twice in the research methods, once in the discussion, and once in the conclusion).

Discipline 2 (coded)

Interdisciplinary Studies

Discipline Grouping (coded)

SS

Source

UBC