Colonialism

The Research Cluster for the Study of Racism and Inequality (CSRI) at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University...
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Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present
While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding...
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Rehearsals for Living
By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories...
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Indigenous Governance in Africa: A Decolonial Dialogue
In the chapter, the authors look at how Indigenous governance systems in Africa provide a nuanced approach to the various...
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Nicole Charles is an assistant professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on women, gender and sexuality studies, including Caribbean feminisms and Black feminist health science studies. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach in her research, Charles questions issues of care, gendered and racialized risk, technoscience and coloniality in the Black Atlantic.
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In 2015, Nicole Charles headed to Barbados to unpack the reasons behind parents’ hesitancy toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine....
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Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Charles reframes the Afro-Barbadian resistance to the HPV vaccine in 2014, and examines the history of colonial and biopolitical violence,...