Canada and Colonial Genocide

List of contents

1. Canada and colonial genocide 2. Fearing social and cultural death: genocide and elimination in settler colonial Canada—an Indigenous perspective 3. Canada’s history wars: indigenous genocide and public memory in the United States, Australia and Canada 4. Settler colonialism in Canada and the Métis 5. Not told by victims: genocide-as-story in Aboriginal prison writings in Canada, 1980–96 6. The economics of reconciliation: tracing investment in Indigenous–settler relations

About the author

Andrew Woolford is professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba and president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is author of This Benevolent Experiment Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States and Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia.
Jeff Benvenuto is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, completing a dissertation on cultural genocide and Indigenous rights discourse.

Summary

This volume addresses the ongoing debate in Canada regarding the question of genocide, settler colonialism, and Indigenous peoples. In addition to covering specific historical contexts of genocide, the volume also concerns the contemporary politics of memory and reconciliation.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew (University of Manitoba Woolford, Andrew Benvenuto Woolford
• Assisted by: Jeff Benvenuto (Editor), Andrew Woolford (Editor), Woolford Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138224766
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22476-6
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, History, Sociology, Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Humanities, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Social and cultural anthropology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Human Geography, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Demonstrations & protest movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Armed Conflict, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies