Gender, race and justification: the value of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in contemporary settler colonial contexts
| dc.contributor.author | Hodes, Caroline | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-09T17:47:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-09T17:47:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | Open access journal | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | |
| dc.identifier.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 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/7268 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Gender and Women's Studies | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | |
| dc.publisher.url | https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol19/iss3/7 | |
| dc.subject | Critical discourse analysis (CDA) | |
| dc.subject | Settler colonialism | |
| dc.subject | Canadian colonial discourse | |
| dc.title | Gender, race and justification: the value of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in contemporary settler colonial contexts | |
| dc.type | Article |