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Structures of indifference : an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city

Title
Structures of indifference : an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry.
Author
McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974-
Publication
  • Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
Perry, Adele
Description
186 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 19 cm
Summary
"Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Introduction: thirty-four hours -- The city -- The hospital -- Brian Sinclair.
Call Number
JFC 19-237
ISBN
  • 9780887558351
  • 0887558356
  • 9780887555732 (canceled/invalid)
  • 088755573X (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780887555718 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0887555713 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1035507291
Author
McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974- author.
Title
Structures of indifference : an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry.
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic formats.
Language
Text in English.
Added Author
Perry, Adele, author.
Other Form:
McCallum, Mary Jane, 1974-, author. Structures of indifference.: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2018. (CaOONL)20189020423
Research Call Number
JFC 19-237
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