@article{ref1,
title="The Structural Violence of Indigenous Suicide Prevention Policies in Canada",
journal="Anthropology in Action",
year="2021",
author="Anderson, B.",
volume="28",
number="3",
pages="22-34",
abstract="Indigenous peoples in Canada suffer from very high suicide rates of which there are various state-created programmes and efforts to combat. However, the variety of these programmes may be limited in their conceptions of Indigenous suicide. I predicted that by analysing existing suicide prevention policies and frameworks, I would find that they system-atically place Indigenous peoples in vulnerable positions through the enforcement of Western ideals of health and suicide, thus providing inadequate support towards preventing suicide. This would constitute structural violence. I used a content analysis to analyse and code themes in suicide prevention policies in Canada. I found that suicide prevention policies perpetuate structural violence as these policies overwhelmingly conceive suicide as an outcome of poor mental health, based on colonial knowledge, which is economically self-serving to the state. © The Author(s).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0967-201X",
doi="10.3167/aia.2021.280303",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2021.280303"
}