dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Bryce | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-25T17:24:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-25T17:24:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-25T17:24:39Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/79713 | |
dc.description.abstract | Colonialism has long impacted the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and has had an unquestionable relationship with Indigenous suicide rates. In this thesis I hypothesized that contrary to popular conceptions, forms of colonialism still exist today in Canadian society, perhaps providing barriers to achieving maximally effective suicide prevention and support for Indigenous peoples. I used content analysis to examine existing depictions, common themes, and models of understanding of Indigenous suicide across private media and state-created Indigenous suicide prevention policies in Canada. Both private media and suicide prevention policy were found to be mainly focused on promoting a western, biomedical conception of wellness and mental health, thus forcing Indigenous peoples to conform to one homogeneous way of healing and understanding suicide. I argue that this lack of conceptual malleability is incongruent with the particularity that the phenomenon of suicide demands. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Suicide | en_US |
dc.subject | Indigenous Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | Content Analysis | en_US |
dc.title | Colonial Sentiments: Examining Canadian Depictions of Indigenous Suicide | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2020-08-17 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Tim Bryan | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Fiona Martin | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Jean-Sebastien Guy | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Robin Oakley | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |