Framing Decolonization: Case Study of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Doxtator, River; Wallner, Jennifer; Zhou, Lydia
• 署名单位: University of Ottawa; University of Ottawa
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352; 1540-6210
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.70153
• 发表日期: 2026-05-31
• 关键词: decolonization; public policy; social constructions; public-policy; POLITICS; pedagogy; LAND

摘要

This article considers the relationship between formal policy discourse and dynamics of decolonization. Initiatives of decolonization implicate the political status of Indigenous peoples, wherein peoples can be understood as agents or dependents within the state. Adapting Schneider and Ingram's model of social constructions, informed by the political sociology of policy instruments, and drawing upon Two-Eyed Seeing, we theorize that agent-frames lend support to decolonization, whereas dependent-frames could undermine decolonization. To illuminate this approach, we assess the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Applying interpretations of frames institutionalized in the text from diverse First Nations, Inuit and M & eacute;tis communities and scholars across Canada, data indicates that most references to Indigenous Peoples reflect a dependent-frame while also exposing ambiguous depictions of Indigenous agency within the confines of the settler-state. Formal discourse institutionalized in policy plays a (inadvertent) role in the (re)production of (colonial) mindsets.