Reconciling Canada : : Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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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

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