{"id":65481,"date":"2020-04-24T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65481"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:10","slug":"bourgeois-lets-call-the-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-what-it-is-white-male-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/04\/bourgeois-lets-call-the-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-what-it-is-white-male-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"BOURGEOIS: Let\u2019s call the Nova Scotia mass shooting what it is: White male terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, wrote a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/lets-call-the-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-what-it-is-white-male-terrorism-136938?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020+CID_5530a7b0047ef75f5b6f53c4e5335635&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Lets%20call%20the%20Nova%20Scotia%20mass%20shooting%20what%20it%20is%20White%20male%20terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> where she examined white masculinity and the normalization of male violence in the wake of the recent murder rampage in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgeois writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile the mainstream media has been quick to situate the deadly recent events that unfolded in Nova Scotia within the context of\u00a0Canadian mass murders, no one seems to be drawing attention to the most prominent link connecting Canadian mass killings: all of the accused perpetrators have been men, and most of them have been white.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>White men were responsible for or currently face charges for the mass murders at the\u00a0\u00c9cole Polytechnique\u00a0in 1989,\u00a0Mayerthorpein 2005,\u00a0Moncton\u00a0in 2014,\u00a0Calgary\u00a0in 2014,\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec City\u00a0in 2017,\u00a0Toronto\u00a0in 2018 (a van attack) and\u00a0Fredericton\u00a0in 2019. Those in\u00a0Vernon, B.C.,\u00a0in 1996,\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0in 2014, and\u00a0Toronto\u00a0in 2018 (the shooting in the city\u2019s Greektown neighbourhood) were perpetrated by racialized men.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Given this explicitly gendered pattern of perpetration, why don\u2019t we talk about these mass murders as male terrorism?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/lets-call-the-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-what-it-is-white-male-terrorism-136938?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020+CID_5530a7b0047ef75f5b6f53c4e5335635&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Lets%20call%20the%20Nova%20Scotia%20mass%20shooting%20what%20it%20is%20White%20male%20terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation where she examines white masculinity and the normalization of male violence in the wake of a recent murder rampage in Nova Scotia. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[6055,522,6056,5512,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65483,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481\/revisions\/65483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}