'Think before you drink': Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada.

ABSTRACT: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has emerged as a significant public health issue, in Canada and elsewhere. Health experts increasingly acknowledge that the disproportionate impact of FASD on indigenous people is driven by social and historical contexts, especially in settler colonial states like Canada. However, they generally frame FASD as preventable through abstinence and the effects of FASD as manageable through provision of appropriate medical and legal protection to affected offspring. Drawing from Marxist, anticolonial and anti-imperial theories and applying a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, we identify the (re) production of colonial and capitalist dominance in the expert literature. We show that dominant narratives depoliticize FASD by conceptualizing settler colonia

SUBMITTER: Yousefi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344567 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature