Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System.

• Author: Chartrand, Vicki.
• TeilnehmendeR: Savarese, Josephine.
• Place / Publishing House: Athabasca : : Athabasca University Press,, 2024.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 pages)

Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George -- Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context -- 1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain -- 2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children -- 3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism -- 4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies -- 5. Original Savages -- Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations -- 6. "You're Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick": Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress -- 7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the "Accidental" Murder of Colten Boushie -- 8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada -- 9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse -- 10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls -- Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice -- 11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue -- 12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division -- 13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights -- 14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing -- 15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters -- 16. Incompatible or Congruent?: Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? -- Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice -- 17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau's Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive.

18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin' Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze -- 19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood -- 20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing -- 21. Critique's Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice -- Conclusion -- Contributors.