Reconciling Canada
Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress
2nd Edition
Published on 4. May 2013
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-1-4426-4311-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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.'- David Gaertner (Canadian Literature Spring 2014) "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. "
- Diane Brydon, Distinguished Professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba (University Affairs, December 3, 2014.) '"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.'
- Forrest D. Pass (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015)
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-4311-6 (9781442643116)
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Persons
Jennifer Henderson is a professor in the Department of English and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University.
Pauline Wakeham is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.
Pauline Wakeham is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.
Content
Introduction
Jennifer Henderson (Carleton University) and Pauline Wakeham (University of Western Ontario)
I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation
Matt James (University of Victoria), "Neoliberal Heritage Redress"
Eva Mackey (Carleton University), "The Apologizer's Apology"
Jennifer Henderson, "The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress"
II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law
Lily Cho (University of Western Ontario), "Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax"
Dale Turner (Dartmouth College), "On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics"
James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson (University of Saskatchewan), "Incomprehensible Canada"
III. Testimony and Truth-Telling
Roger Simon, "Worrying Together: The Problematics of Listening and the Educative Responsibilities of Canada's TRC"
Julia Emberley (University of Western Ontario), "Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools"
Dian Million (University of Washington), "Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights"
IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory
Amber Dean (McMaster University), "Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women"
Lindy Ledohowski (Carleton University), "The compulsion to tell falls on the next generation': Ukrainian-Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past"
V. Performing Redress
Len Findlay (University of Saskatchewan), "Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards"
Anna Carastathis, "The Non-Performativity of Reconciliation: The Case of 'Reasonable Accommodation' in Quebec"
VI. Redress and Transnationalism: Thinking Apology Beyond the Nation
Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University), "Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading 'Asian Canadian' in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto's One Hundred Million Hearts"
Pauline Wakeham, "From Rendition to Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, and Exceptionality"
Appendices
A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools
Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, 1879
Testimony of Duncan Campbell Scott, 1920
Duncan Campbell Scott, Notes on Indian Education, 1920
An Act to Amend the Indian Act, 1920
Confession of the Presbyterian Church, 1994
Notes for an Address by the Honourable Jane Stewart, 1998
Open Letter from Chief Phil Fontaine, 2008
House of Commons Apology, 2008
B. Acadian Deportations
Petition to Governor of Nova Scotia from Acadian inhabitants, 1755
Acadian Deportation Order, 1755
Royal Proclamation designating "Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval," 2003
C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices
Nova Scotia Resolution, 1834
A Redevelopment Study of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1957
Resolution 39, 1995
"Lessons from Africville," 2001
Report on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance: Addendum Mission to Canada, 2004
Bill 213: An Act to Address the Historic Injustice Committed Against the People of Africville, 2005
Africville Apology and Agreement to Commemorate the Historic Community, 2010
D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions
The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 and 1923
Draft Letter from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, 1896
Mack et al. v. The Attorney General of Canada, 2000
Open Letter from the Chinese Canadian National Council,2005
House of Commons Apology, 2006
E. Indian passengers on the Komagata Maru
An Act Respecting Immigration, 1910
The Court of Appeal: Re Munshi Singh, 1914
British Columbia Legislative Assembly Apology, 2008
House of Commons Motion M-469, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Apology, 2008
F. WWI Internments
The War Measures Act, 1914
Order in Council of October 28, 1914
Report on Internment Operations, 1914-1920
Internment of Persons of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act, 2005
G. WWII Internments
Italian Canadian Internment
Defence of Canada Regulations, 1939
Order in Council of June 10, 1940
A National Shame: the Internment of Italian Canadians, brief presented by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 1990
Address by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to the National Congress of Italian Canadians and the Canadian ItalianBusiness Professional Association, 1990
Letter from Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, 1994
Agreement-in-Principle between the Government of Canada and the Italian Canadian Community, 2005
Japanese Canadian Internment and Relocation
National Emergency Transitional Powers Act, 1945
"We Must Fight Deportation," The New Canadian, 1945
Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians, Memorandum for The Members of the House of Commons and Senate of Canada on The Orders-In-Council P.C. 7355, 7356, 7357, 1946
National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, Submission to Prime Minister Re: Bird Commission, 1950
National Association of Japanese Canadians, Democracy Betrayed: The Case for Redress, 1984
House of Commons Apology, 1988
Terms of Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians, 1988
Emergencies Act, 1988
H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St. Louis
Canadian government policy brief on Jewish refugees,1938
Petition to allow the S.S. St. Louis to land in Canada, June 7, 1939
Letter between O.D. Skelton and George M. Wrong,June 19, 1939
I. Doukhobor Residential Schools
Righting the Wrong, report of the Ombudsman of British Columbia, 1999
Statement of Regret to Doukhobor Children, 2004
Jennifer Henderson (Carleton University) and Pauline Wakeham (University of Western Ontario)
I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation
Matt James (University of Victoria), "Neoliberal Heritage Redress"
Eva Mackey (Carleton University), "The Apologizer's Apology"
Jennifer Henderson, "The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress"
II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law
Lily Cho (University of Western Ontario), "Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax"
Dale Turner (Dartmouth College), "On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics"
James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson (University of Saskatchewan), "Incomprehensible Canada"
III. Testimony and Truth-Telling
Roger Simon, "Worrying Together: The Problematics of Listening and the Educative Responsibilities of Canada's TRC"
Julia Emberley (University of Western Ontario), "Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools"
Dian Million (University of Washington), "Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights"
IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory
Amber Dean (McMaster University), "Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women"
Lindy Ledohowski (Carleton University), "The compulsion to tell falls on the next generation': Ukrainian-Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past"
V. Performing Redress
Len Findlay (University of Saskatchewan), "Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards"
Anna Carastathis, "The Non-Performativity of Reconciliation: The Case of 'Reasonable Accommodation' in Quebec"
VI. Redress and Transnationalism: Thinking Apology Beyond the Nation
Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University), "Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading 'Asian Canadian' in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto's One Hundred Million Hearts"
Pauline Wakeham, "From Rendition to Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, and Exceptionality"
Appendices
A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools
Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds, 1879
Testimony of Duncan Campbell Scott, 1920
Duncan Campbell Scott, Notes on Indian Education, 1920
An Act to Amend the Indian Act, 1920
Confession of the Presbyterian Church, 1994
Notes for an Address by the Honourable Jane Stewart, 1998
Open Letter from Chief Phil Fontaine, 2008
House of Commons Apology, 2008
B. Acadian Deportations
Petition to Governor of Nova Scotia from Acadian inhabitants, 1755
Acadian Deportation Order, 1755
Royal Proclamation designating "Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval," 2003
C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices
Nova Scotia Resolution, 1834
A Redevelopment Study of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1957
Resolution 39, 1995
"Lessons from Africville," 2001
Report on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance: Addendum Mission to Canada, 2004
Bill 213: An Act to Address the Historic Injustice Committed Against the People of Africville, 2005
Africville Apology and Agreement to Commemorate the Historic Community, 2010
D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions
The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 and 1923
Draft Letter from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, 1896
Mack et al. v. The Attorney General of Canada, 2000
Open Letter from the Chinese Canadian National Council,2005
House of Commons Apology, 2006
E. Indian passengers on the Komagata Maru
An Act Respecting Immigration, 1910
The Court of Appeal: Re Munshi Singh, 1914
British Columbia Legislative Assembly Apology, 2008
House of Commons Motion M-469, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Apology, 2008
F. WWI Internments
The War Measures Act, 1914
Order in Council of October 28, 1914
Report on Internment Operations, 1914-1920
Internment of Persons of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act, 2005
G. WWII Internments
Italian Canadian Internment
Defence of Canada Regulations, 1939
Order in Council of June 10, 1940
A National Shame: the Internment of Italian Canadians, brief presented by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 1990
Address by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to the National Congress of Italian Canadians and the Canadian ItalianBusiness Professional Association, 1990
Letter from Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, 1994
Agreement-in-Principle between the Government of Canada and the Italian Canadian Community, 2005
Japanese Canadian Internment and Relocation
National Emergency Transitional Powers Act, 1945
"We Must Fight Deportation," The New Canadian, 1945
Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians, Memorandum for The Members of the House of Commons and Senate of Canada on The Orders-In-Council P.C. 7355, 7356, 7357, 1946
National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, Submission to Prime Minister Re: Bird Commission, 1950
National Association of Japanese Canadians, Democracy Betrayed: The Case for Redress, 1984
House of Commons Apology, 1988
Terms of Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians, 1988
Emergencies Act, 1988
H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St. Louis
Canadian government policy brief on Jewish refugees,1938
Petition to allow the S.S. St. Louis to land in Canada, June 7, 1939
Letter between O.D. Skelton and George M. Wrong,June 19, 1939
I. Doukhobor Residential Schools
Righting the Wrong, report of the Ombudsman of British Columbia, 1999
Statement of Regret to Doukhobor Children, 2004