Dying From Improvement - Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

Razack’s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today’s most pressing issues of social justice.

List of contents

Introduction. Boot Print on the Chest: Disappearing “Indians” in Life and Law

1. The Body as Placeless: Memorializing Colonial Power

2. Dying from Improvement

3. The Body as Frontier

4. “People Die”: A Killing Indifference

5. The Medico-Legal Alliance: Anthany Dawson and the Diagnosis of Excited Delirium

6. “It happened more than once”: Freezing Deaths in Saskatchewan

Conclusion. Tombstone Data

Appendix. Deaths in Custody: Saskatchewan 1995–2013

About the author

By Sherene H. Razack

Summary

Razack’s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today’s most pressing issues of social justice.

Product details

• Authors: Sherene Razack
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781442628915
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-2891-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories