Week 3 Lecture Guide: Politics, Policies, and Labour

**Week 3 -- Lecture Guide** **Politics, Policies, and Labour** **Reading: Bernhardt and Pin (2018)** *What is this reading about?* *How do you define identity politics (IP)? What does the term mean to you?* [Three take-aways from Bernhardt & Pin (2018)] 1. Definition of IP Examples Canadian...

**Week 3 -- Lecture Guide** **Politics, Policies, and Labour** **Reading: Bernhardt and Pin (2018)** *What is this reading about?* *How do you define identity politics (IP)? What does the term mean to you?* [Three take-aways from Bernhardt & Pin (2018)] 1. Definition of IP Examples Canadians living with disability (Source: statscan.gc.ca)  Homelessness -- Cathy Crowe (street nurse, activist, Visiting Distinguished Practitioner in Politics & Public Administration, Source: cathycrowe.ca) Indigenous peoples -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Source: cbc.ca) 2. When is IP used in the literature? 3. Who are the subjects of IP? What are the subjectivities of IP? Jensen (1991, p. 50) "...it is useful to remember that politics---whether or not it is being experienced in a moment of turbulence---is always identity politics." [Concluding Thoughts] - 'loaded term'? Bernhardt and Pin (2018, p. 788) Moreover, so-called identity politics have been positioned as threatening to traditional conceptions of Canadian identity, a position that only is tenable if one accepts the possibility that at some point there was a Canadian nationalism free from racialized and/ or gendered content; a position indefensibly oblivious to the context of a settler-colonial, capitalist, patriarchal state. **Cyca (April 30, 2024)** *What is this article about?* - Indigenization. Who is responsible for it? - *Cultural load (3 parts)* 1. 2. 3. \*\* **Discussion of Term Analysis assignment**