Gender, race and justification: the value of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in contemporary settler colonial contexts
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2018
Authors
Hodes, Caroline
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Abstract
This paper outlines an approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that can be used to
examine multiple forms of textual data as part of decolonial practice in any national context that
is struggling to acknowledge both its colonial past and its ongoing colonial present. The author
provides an explanation of what CDA is followed by a discussion of the methods used in a larger
multi-level analysis focused on the impact of the defense witness testimony in a Canadian
Pacific salmon fisheries case. The larger project has recently been published in the Windsor
Yearbook of Access to Justice. This paper will show how elements of this approach have been
used to identify and analyze the strategies of argumentation and justification that are
foundational to gendered colonial discourses on race discrimination and property in R. v. Kapp.
Contrary to the artificial dichotomy between theory and practice, CDA is not distinct from social
and political action. It can instead play a role in identifying the obstacles to, and creating the
conditions for, meaningful dialogue and sustainable collaboration.
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Open access journal
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Critical discourse analysis (CDA) , Settler colonialism , Canadian colonial discourse
Citation
Hodes, C. (2018). Gender, race and justification: the value of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in contemporary settler colonial contexts. Journal of International Women's Studies, 19(3), Article 7. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol19/iss3/7