Reconciling Canada : : Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress / / Pauline Wakeham, Jennifer Henderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Henderson, Jennifer,; Wakeham, Pauline ,
• MitwirkendeR: Carastathis, Anna,; Cho, Lily,; Dean, Amber,; Emberley, Julia,; Findlay, Len,; Henderson, Jennifer,; James, Matt,; Ledohowski, Lindy,; Mackey, Eva,; Miki, Roy,; Million, Dian,; Simon, Roger I.,; Turner, Dale,; Wakeham, Pauline,; Youngblood Henderson, James Sa’ke’j,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state.In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. The contributors offer ground-breaking perspectives on Canada’s ‘culture of redress,’ broaching questions of law and constitutional change, political coalitions, commemoration, testimony, and literatures of injury and its aftermath. Also assembled together for the first time is a collection of primary documents – including government reports, parliamentary debates, and redress movement statements – prefaced with contextual information. Reconciling Canada provides a vital and immensely relevant illumination of the dynamics of reconciliation, apology, and redress in contemporary Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation -- 1 Neoliberal Heritage Redress -- 2 The Apologizers’ Apology -- 3 The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress -- II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law -- 4 Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax -- 5 On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics -- 6 Incomprehensible Canada -- III. Testimony and Truth Telling -- 7 Towards a Hopeful Practice of Worrying: The Problematics of Listening and the Educative Responsibilities of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 8 Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices, and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools -- 9 Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights -- IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory -- 10 Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women -- 11 “The Compulsion to Tell Falls on the Next Generation”: Ukrainian Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past -- V. Performing Redress -- 12 Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards -- 13 The Nonperformativity of Reconciliation: The Case of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec -- VI. Redress and Transnationalism: Thinking Apology beyond the Nation -- 14 Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading “Asian Canadian” in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto’s One Hundred Million Hearts -- 15 Rendition and Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, Exceptionality -- APPENDICES -- A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools -- B. Acadian Deportations -- C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices -- D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions -- E. Indian Passengers on the Komagata Maru -- F. First World War Internments -- G. Second World War Internments -- H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St Louis -- I. Doukhobor Residential Schools -- Credits -- Contributors -- Index