Hitchhiking and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Billboards on the Highway of Tears
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Morton
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 41, no. 3, Special Issue: Canadian Mobilities/ Contentious Mobilities, 2016, pp. 299-329
Description
Argues that because hitchhiking is characterized as "bad mobility" it supports the idea that Indigenous women are willing, available and blame-worthy victims. Further argues that morality has become entangled with mobility in terms of responses that attempt to stop the activity.