Caroline A Hodes
Caroline Hodes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge. She obtained her PhD in the department of Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University under the supervision of Pat McDermott, Susan Ehrlich, and Bruce Ryder. Her PhD was also partially supported by Osgoode Hall Law School's Institute for Feminist Legal Studies and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Ontario Graduate Scholarships Programme (OGS), and the Helena Orton Memorial Scholarship (Osgoode Hall). Her external examiners were Sonia Lawrence, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Beverley Baines, Queen's University Law School.
She has published work on settler colonialism, the material culture of law, constitutional law, masculinities, and intersectionality in the Canadian courts. She has also presented papers at a number of national and international conferences. Her current projects include "Unsettling Law's Archive" currently under contract with University of Toronto Press and partially funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Explore program and the Community Research Excellence Award Program (CREDO), and "Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change," currently in press with Athabasca University Press.
She is a co-founder of SNAC+, support network for students and academics of colour + allies, and has collaborated with Drs. Glenda Bonifacio (principal investigator) and Saurya Das (co-applicant) on the R.E.D., Rights, Equity and Diversity Project, funded by the Alberta Human Rights Commission. She is also currently a member of the editorial board of Feminist Asylum, an interdisciplinary, bi-lingual journal created in collaboration with the University of Pittsburg that provides a platform for creative and transformative knowledge production. The journal welcomes aesthetic works, including photography and literary works, side by side with interviews, translated works and scholarly and academic manuscripts that explore the possibilities for scholarly knowledge production beyond the limits of established academic institutions and practice.
Caroline teaches courses in Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights and Political Economies, The Charter, Gender and Social Change, and Feminist Critical Race and de- and anti-colonial theories. She has taught graduate seminars in Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis and Indigenous Law and Public Policy, and she supervises students at both the MA and PhD level. Her students have gone on to pursue and are currently pursuing careers in Indigenous/crown relations, public service, academics, law, municipal, provincial, federal and international politics, EDI, and anti-violence organizing.
A strong advocate for academic activism, Caroline's research, pedagogy and practice is aimed at bridging distances and filling gaps in how we think about knowledge production, the relationships between theory and practice (praxis), violence, the material culture of law and institutions, pedagogy, identity, and community/university relations in settler colonial societies.
Supervisors: Patricia McDermott, Bruce Ryder, and Susan Ehrlich
She has published work on settler colonialism, the material culture of law, constitutional law, masculinities, and intersectionality in the Canadian courts. She has also presented papers at a number of national and international conferences. Her current projects include "Unsettling Law's Archive" currently under contract with University of Toronto Press and partially funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Explore program and the Community Research Excellence Award Program (CREDO), and "Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change," currently in press with Athabasca University Press.
She is a co-founder of SNAC+, support network for students and academics of colour + allies, and has collaborated with Drs. Glenda Bonifacio (principal investigator) and Saurya Das (co-applicant) on the R.E.D., Rights, Equity and Diversity Project, funded by the Alberta Human Rights Commission. She is also currently a member of the editorial board of Feminist Asylum, an interdisciplinary, bi-lingual journal created in collaboration with the University of Pittsburg that provides a platform for creative and transformative knowledge production. The journal welcomes aesthetic works, including photography and literary works, side by side with interviews, translated works and scholarly and academic manuscripts that explore the possibilities for scholarly knowledge production beyond the limits of established academic institutions and practice.
Caroline teaches courses in Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights and Political Economies, The Charter, Gender and Social Change, and Feminist Critical Race and de- and anti-colonial theories. She has taught graduate seminars in Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis and Indigenous Law and Public Policy, and she supervises students at both the MA and PhD level. Her students have gone on to pursue and are currently pursuing careers in Indigenous/crown relations, public service, academics, law, municipal, provincial, federal and international politics, EDI, and anti-violence organizing.
A strong advocate for academic activism, Caroline's research, pedagogy and practice is aimed at bridging distances and filling gaps in how we think about knowledge production, the relationships between theory and practice (praxis), violence, the material culture of law and institutions, pedagogy, identity, and community/university relations in settler colonial societies.
Supervisors: Patricia McDermott, Bruce Ryder, and Susan Ehrlich
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Abstract References:
Anglican Church of Canada. “Building the Federal Day School at Inuvik, Mackenzie Delta. Inuvik means ‘The Place of the People’ an Inuit Word [ca.1959]” P7530 Diocese of the Arctic Fonds, #100, General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, https://www.anglican.ca/archives/ (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Hodes, Anne-Marie. 1993. RCAP Testimony, vol. 159, Treaty 6, University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, Library and Archives, https://data2.archives.ca/rcap/pdf/rcap-375.pdf (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Wagg, Diana. 1989. “Dam site Monitored for Mercury Level,” Windspeaker, Volume 7, Issue 11, 1989, p. 5 https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/dam-sitemonitored-mercury-level (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Wagg, Diana. 1989. “Drug Abuse Probed,” Windspeaker, July 28, 1989, p. 3 http://data2.archives.ca/e/e449/e011201764.pdf (Accessed April 27, 2023)
colonial archives as sites of political, ontological and
epistemological struggle. The rich, interdisciplinary debates
characteristic of the archival turn, however, have been
insufficiently attentive to the role of court registries, their
relationship to state archives and the movement of their records.
This article emerged from research conducted in court registries
and state archives in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada
focusing on judicial articulations of reconciliation that appear in
Indigenous rights and title cases and the role that witness
testimony, documentary evidence, orders, motions and
applications have played in shaping them. In contrast to the fixed
places of domicile that Derrida and Mbembe have theorized,
following Mawani, Mildon, Stoler, Hunt and Frogner among
others, I position law’s archive as both an itinerant site of
encounter and exchange and a system of enunciation. When not
subject to losses, deliberate or otherwise, its records move
between and across spatiotemporal contexts. They challenge the
legitimacy of the settler state at the same time as they both
reproduce and mask law’s originary violence and the masculinist
triumphalism of its archival grain revealing the importance of
truth before reconciliation. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2019.1677135
and adjudicating equality rights. The legal process transforms experiences of
discrimination from an articulation of trauma and need into a high stakes
language game. Characterizing the cases analyzed in this article as moves in a
language game is not meant to trivialize or undermine the severity of the
consequences for the claimants nor is it intended to de-emphasize the difficulties
inherent in balancing competing interests. It is meant as an analytical tool to
investigate the possibilities for meaning making, using the dignity interest as a
means to expand the interpretation of the equality rights contained in the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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"A meaningful contribution to the theory and practice of anti-racism and decolonization in Canada. Bridging academia, activism, and public policy, these clear and engaging contributions offer a historical record of actions and activities in Southern Alberta and raise the profile of the difficult, but creative, anti-racist work being done.”
Tamari Kitossa, author of Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism and Erotic Racism
"A significant contribution to Canadian anti-racism work and scholarship. This volume deepens our understanding of racist logics in Southern Alberta in a profound and important way by giving a sense of the inspiring but difficult histories and the lived experience of many different racialized groups who have sought to create belonging and resistance. The contributors also highlight Indigenous generational trauma in a Western context.”
Shanti Fernando, author of Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Abstract References:
Anglican Church of Canada. “Building the Federal Day School at Inuvik, Mackenzie Delta. Inuvik means ‘The Place of the People’ an Inuit Word [ca.1959]” P7530 Diocese of the Arctic Fonds, #100, General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, https://www.anglican.ca/archives/ (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Hodes, Anne-Marie. 1993. RCAP Testimony, vol. 159, Treaty 6, University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, Library and Archives, https://data2.archives.ca/rcap/pdf/rcap-375.pdf (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Wagg, Diana. 1989. “Dam site Monitored for Mercury Level,” Windspeaker, Volume 7, Issue 11, 1989, p. 5 https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/dam-sitemonitored-mercury-level (Accessed April 27, 2023).
Wagg, Diana. 1989. “Drug Abuse Probed,” Windspeaker, July 28, 1989, p. 3 http://data2.archives.ca/e/e449/e011201764.pdf (Accessed April 27, 2023)
colonial archives as sites of political, ontological and
epistemological struggle. The rich, interdisciplinary debates
characteristic of the archival turn, however, have been
insufficiently attentive to the role of court registries, their
relationship to state archives and the movement of their records.
This article emerged from research conducted in court registries
and state archives in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada
focusing on judicial articulations of reconciliation that appear in
Indigenous rights and title cases and the role that witness
testimony, documentary evidence, orders, motions and
applications have played in shaping them. In contrast to the fixed
places of domicile that Derrida and Mbembe have theorized,
following Mawani, Mildon, Stoler, Hunt and Frogner among
others, I position law’s archive as both an itinerant site of
encounter and exchange and a system of enunciation. When not
subject to losses, deliberate or otherwise, its records move
between and across spatiotemporal contexts. They challenge the
legitimacy of the settler state at the same time as they both
reproduce and mask law’s originary violence and the masculinist
triumphalism of its archival grain revealing the importance of
truth before reconciliation. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2019.1677135
and adjudicating equality rights. The legal process transforms experiences of
discrimination from an articulation of trauma and need into a high stakes
language game. Characterizing the cases analyzed in this article as moves in a
language game is not meant to trivialize or undermine the severity of the
consequences for the claimants nor is it intended to de-emphasize the difficulties
inherent in balancing competing interests. It is meant as an analytical tool to
investigate the possibilities for meaning making, using the dignity interest as a
means to expand the interpretation of the equality rights contained in the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"A meaningful contribution to the theory and practice of anti-racism and decolonization in Canada. Bridging academia, activism, and public policy, these clear and engaging contributions offer a historical record of actions and activities in Southern Alberta and raise the profile of the difficult, but creative, anti-racist work being done.”
Tamari Kitossa, author of Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism and Erotic Racism
"A significant contribution to Canadian anti-racism work and scholarship. This volume deepens our understanding of racist logics in Southern Alberta in a profound and important way by giving a sense of the inspiring but difficult histories and the lived experience of many different racialized groups who have sought to create belonging and resistance. The contributors also highlight Indigenous generational trauma in a Western context.”
Shanti Fernando, author of Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization