Globalization as Racialized, Sexualized Violence: The Case of Indigenous Women

The increasingly globalizing economy and liberalizing trade has involved a vast amount of exploitation of natural resources by multinational corporations on Indigenous peoples' territories. There is also a correlation between the increasing globalization and rising levels of violence. The author presents an inter- sectional analysis that grasps interconnections between different forms of marginalization and moves past the "male-dominated conceptions of race and white-dominated conceptions of gender". She presents her argument of globalization as fostering sexual and racialized violence against Indigenous women through two examples from North America: first, the high rates of physical and sexual violence against Indigenous women in Canada, and second, the militarization of Indigenous women in the US. However, she concludes with the thought that Indigenous women are not victims - they are citizens of their nations fighting to have their rights recognized.