Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress

Jennifer Henderson; Pauline Wakeham

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Reconciling Canada

Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress

Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442695467

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Henderson Jennifer :

Jennifer Henderson is an associate professor in the Departments of English and Sociology/Anthropology and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University.Wakeham Pauline :

Pauline Wakeham is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews

Forrest D. Pass:

‘”A historicization of redress” is a stated objective of the collection, and the editors have marshalled expertise from across the disciplines to achieve this end.’

Diane Brydon, Distinguished Professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba:

“This serious engagement with the challenges posed by the culture of redress in Canada is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand our history and for imagining alternative futures.… A milestone in Canadian interdisciplinary scholarship, this book repays the effort it demands. If Northrop Frye was correct in diagnosing the central Canadian question as “where is here?” then this book shows “here” to be a complex place in which healing and hope are yet to be achieved but can be imagined differently. “

David Gaertner:

‘Reconciling Canada is the first text to comprehensively unpack Canada’s unique position in history, marking it as an important contribution to both Canadian and reconciliation studies.’

Daniel Coleman, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University:

“A crucial resource for classrooms, researchers, and anyone wanting to understand the dynamics of Canada’s culture of redress, Reconciling Canada offers important resources for setting Canada’s projects of apology and reconciliation in context. The editors have collected in one volume timely insights from some of Canada’s leading scholars on the possibilities and problems in Canada’s many and manifold projects of reconciliation. The volume also reproduces historical documents on key apologies to remind readers of the long and diverse history of apology in Canada.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation
1 Neoliberal Heritage Redress Matt James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 The Apologizers’ Apology Eva Mackey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress Jennifer Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law
4 Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Lily Cho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5 On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics Dale Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6 Incomprehensible Canada James Sa’ke’j Youngblood Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
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 Roger I. Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices, and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools Julia Emberley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9 Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights Dian Million Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory
10 Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women Amber Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
11 “The Compulsion to Tell Falls on the Next Generation”: Ukrainian Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past Lindy Ledohowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
V. Performing Redress
12 Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Len Findlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
13 The Nonperformativity of Reconciliation: The Case of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec Anna Carastathis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
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 Roy Miki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
15 Rendition and Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, Exceptionality Pauline Wakeham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
APPENDICES
A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
B. Acadian Deportations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
E. Indian Passengers on the Komagata Maru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
F. First World War Internments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
G. Second World War Internments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St Louis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
I. Doukhobor Residential Schools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 496

eBook

Published: June 17, 2013
ISBN: 9781442695467