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Reconciling Canada
Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress
Jennifer Henderson (Author), Pauline Wakeham (Author)
9781442643116
Hardback, published 4 May 2013
496 pages
25.4 x 17.9 x 3.6 cm, 1.02 kg
‘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.’ “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. “ ‘”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.’
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.
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 B. Acadian Deportations C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions E. Indian passengers on the Komagata Maru F. WWI Internments G. WWII Internments H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St. Louis I. Doukhobor Residential Schools