Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System.

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.

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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)
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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.