Power through Testimony

Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation

Brieg Capitaine, Karine Vanthuyne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3389-9 (ISBN)

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This groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe – through memory, story, and testimony – how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation.

Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the Canadian public. The commission closed and reported in 2015, and this timely volume reveals what happened on the ground.

Drawing on field research during the commission and in local communities, the contributors document how residential schools have been understood and represented by various groups and individuals over time; how survivors are undermining colonial narratives about residential schools; and how the churches and former school staff are receiving or resisting the “new” residential school story.

Ultimately, Power through Testimony questions the power of the TRC to unsettle dominant colonial narratives about residential schools and transform the relationship between Indigenous people and Canadian society.

Brieg Capitaine is a professor of sociology at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Karine Vanthuyne is an associate professor of anthropology at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Contributors: Janice Cindy Gaudet, Cheryl Gaver, Robyn Green, Jula Hughes, Lawrence Martin/Wapistan, Charles R. Menzies, Arie Molena, Ronald Niezen, Simone Poliandri, and Eric Taylor Woods

Foreword / Ronald Niezen

Introduction / Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne

Part 1: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Action

1 On the Making of a National Tragedy: The Transformation of the Meaning of the Indian Residential Schools / Eric Taylor Woods

2 Telling a Story and Performing the Truth: The Indian Residential School as Cultural Trauma / Brieg Capitaine

3 Loving to Reconcile: Love as a Political Emotion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Robyn Green

4 Learning through Conversation: An Inquiry into Shame / Janice Cindy Gaudet and Lawrence Martin/Wapistan

Part 2: Conflicting Memories and Paths of Action

5 Surviving as Mi’kmaq and First Nations People: The Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia / Simone Poliandri

6 “National Memory” and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling / Arie Molena

7 Remembering Residential Schools, Accounting for Decolonization through Development: Conflicting Viewpoints / Karine Vanthuyne

Part 3: (Un)reckoning with Historical Abuses

8 The New Victims: Perpetrators before the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Jula Hughes

9 Residential Schools in Canada: Why the Message Is Not Getting Across / Cheryl Gaver

Epilogue / Charles R. Menzies

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2017
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-3389-0 / 0774833890
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3389-9 / 9780774833899
Zustand	Neuware