Research Catalog

Title

Reconciling Canada : critical perspectives on the culture of redress / edited by Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Henderson, Jennifer (Jennifer Anne)
• Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-

Description

x, 480 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

• "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."-- Publisher description.

Subject

• Reparations for historical injustices > Canada
• Reconciliation (Law) > Canada
• Canada > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham -- Neoliberal heritage redress / Matt James -- The apologizers' apology / Eva Mackey -- The camp, the school, and the child : discursive exchanges and (neo)liberal axioms in the culture of redress / Jennifer Henderson -- Redress revisited : citizenship and the Chinese Canadian head tax / Lily Cho -- On the idea of reconciliation in contemporary aboriginal politics / Dale Turner -- Incomprehensible Canada / James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson -- Towards a hopeful practice of worrying : the problematics of listening and the educative responsibilities of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Roger I. Simon -- Epistemic heterogeneity : Indigenous storytelling, testimonial practices, and the question of violence in Indian residential schools / Julia Emberley -- Trauma, power, and the therapeutic : speaking psychotherapeutic narratives in an era of Indigenous human rights / Dian Million -- Public mourning and the culture of redress : Mayerthorpe, Air India, and murdered or missing aboriginal women / Amber Dean -- "The compulsion to tell falls on the next generation" : Ukrainian Canadian literature in English and victims of the past / Lindy Ledohowksi -- Redress rehearsals : legal warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards / Len Findlay -- The nonperformativity of reconciliation : the case of "reasonable accommodation" in Quebec / Anna Carastathis -- Rewiring critical affects : reading "Asian Canadian" in the transnational sites of Kerri Sakamoto's One hundred million hearts / Roy Miki -- Rendition and redress : Maher Arar, apology, exceptionality / Pauline Wakeham.

ISBN

• 9781442643116 (bound)
• 1442643110 (bound)
• 9781442611689 (pbk.)
• 1442611685 (pbk.)

OCLC

816764364

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library