{"product_id":"invested-indifference-how-violence-persists-in-settler-colonial-society-paperback-softback-9780774837446","title":"Invested Indifference; How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society (Paperback \/ softback) 9780774837446","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInvested Indifference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKara Granzow (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774837446\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eGranzow has produced a must-read book on Canada's murdered and disappeared indigenous women… This book is highly recommended, as it will surely lead to excellent discussions and insights into issues of continued colonization.\u003c\/p\u003e - L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as \"indifferent\" to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvested Indifference\u003c\/em\u003e offers a divergent perspective by examining practices during three different periods in the place we now call Edmonton, juxtaposing early settler texts, documents concerning the former Charles Camsell Indian Hospital, and contemporary online police materials. Kara Granzow reaches a startling conclusion: that what we see as societal indifference doesn't come from an \u003cem\u003eabsence\u003c\/em\u003e of feeling but from a deep-rooted and affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGranzow demonstrates that through mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space, violence against Indigenous peoples has become symbolically and politically ensconced in the social construction of Canadian nationhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 A History of the Present: Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 \"It in no way makes you safer\": Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 \"All they could do to help\": Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 \"All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated\": Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 \"Just bury them and be done with it\": Managing Affect and Producing the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes; References; Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531071189272,"sku":"9780774837446","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/invested-indifference-how-violence-persists-in-settler-colonial-society-paperback-softback-9780774837446","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}