“You Can’t Fight for Freedom if You Don’t Have Enough Bacon Inside of You:” A Feminist Analysis of the Gendered Spatialization of the 2022 Ottawa Protest
Year: 2024
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The 2022 Freedom Convoy protest was a distinct event in Canadian history, as protestors from across Canada lined downtown Ottawa with vehicles. Logistical questions arose regarding how protestors, living in their vehicles, were obtaining fuel. My study focuses on how protestors were being fueled; the logistics and work concerning food provision, services, and supports to individuals who lived and protested in downtown Ottawa. The research draws from interviews, media, and documentary analysis to consider how ‘domestic work’ was conceived or dismissed as political. Empirically, it uncovers the domestic work required to sustain a lengthy protest in cold temperatures. Theoretically, the study deployed insights from feminist theory to understand how representations of 'political' and 'apolitical' activities were gendered and spatialized in the protest. The study concluded that domestic work was intrinsic to the politics of the protest, yet the play on notions of ‘family’ in downtown Ottawa devalued the domestic work.
Author: Charlotte Abigail Lennon
Institution: Carleton University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4396530052