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MEDIA INDIGENA 318
🕑 Added 2023-03-21 14:06:12 +0000 UTCThirst for Justice / MI 318
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Water Insecurity and Suicide. Can a reserve’s chronically unsafe drinking water be associated with a greater risk of suicide for its residents? That’s the lethal link hypothesized in newly-released research entitled “Is Suicide a Water Justice Issue? Investigating Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories and Suicide in First Nations in Canada.” Co-authored by scholars Jeffrey Ansloos and Annelies Cooper, their investigative framework connects the colonial dots between relentless indignities inflicted upon Indigenous communities with the criminally disproportionate rates of premature Indigenous death.
An Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ansloos joins host/producer Rick Harp and MI regular Candis Callison (Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) to discuss the wider implications of this study.
NOTE: As this topic can prove distressing, a reminder that you can speak with someone any time of day or night at the Hope for Wellness Helpline, available 24/7 at 1-855-242-3310. There’s also an online chat option at hopeforwellness.ca.
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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:
• "Burying the story won't stop suicide" (André Picard: 17 Sept. 2009) Globe and Mail
• "Guidance for journalists covering mental health stories in Indigenous communities added to Mindset / En-Tête" [press release] Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma
• Why medically-assisted dying is very much an Indigenous issue (ep 244) MEDIA INDIGENA
• Water as a Fundamental Right (ep 121) MEDIA INDIGENA
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LISTEN NOW:
https://mediaindigena.libsyn.com/water-insecurity-and-first-nations-suicide-ep-318
Comments
Rick Harp
MP, it is good to know the discussion landed with you the way it did Candis and I. Jeffrey brought so much wisdom and insight to the table
I'm still digesting the conversation and have a feeling I will continue to do so. Miigwitch
This was such a wonderful episode. Made me think of so many related issues, such as the way settler society "silos" issues, such that services for health functions independently of all the determinants that create health, how said healthcare constricts practitioners to work at the individual level because of how it's structured, etc. The emphasis on dignity struck me as well - self determination seems like it would overlap so much with living with dignity.
