Invested Indifference - How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society

Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter ¿ or not ¿ depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1 A History of the Present: Methodology
2 ¿It in no way makes you safer¿: Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City
3 ¿All they could do to help¿: Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City
4 ¿All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated¿: Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life
5 ¿Just bury them and be done with it¿: Managing Affect and Producing the Past
Conclusion
Notes; References; Index

About the author

Kara Granzow is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Summary

Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter – or not – depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.

Product details

• Authors: Kara Granzow
• Publisher: University Of British Columbia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2021
• EAN: 9780774837446
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-3744-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research