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Indigenous Healing as Paradox - Krista Maxwell

Indigenous Healing as Paradox

Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

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Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2024
University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
978-1-77212-574-0 (ISBN)
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A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.
Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses on late twentieth-century Indigenous social histories in Treaty 3 territory and cities in northern and southern Ontario to show practices of re-membering—drawing on traditional ways of being and knowing for social repair and collective rejuvenation—against the backdrop of the social dismemberment of Indigenous Peoples. Expansion of re-membering is often enabled by tactical engagements with the settler state which have fuelled an Indigenized biopolitics from below. Maxwell offers an analysis of the possibilities, tensions, and risks inherent to these biopolitical tactics. Informed by Indigenous feminist scholarship that emphasizes relationality, care, and the everyday, as well as the intimate workings of settler colonialism, this book aims to enrich critical conversations about reconciliation and resurgence politics and challenge their perceived dichotomy.

Krista Maxwell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. A settler scholar, her research focuses on Indigenous social and political organizing around healing, care, and child welfare from the mid-twentieth century to the present. These interests are motivated by an analysis of the biopolitics of liberal settler colonialism as both a mode of assimilative governance and social dismemberment, and affording space for tactical Indigenous agency.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Artist Statement

Introduction: Indigenous Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Liberal Settler Colony

Chapter One: Giizhiiganang and Anishinaabe Re-Membering, 1965–1980

Chapter Two: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in Urban Ontario, 1973–1980s

Chapter Three: “Family Violence Is Weakening Our Nations”: Indigenous Women, Political Dismemberment, and Family Healing, 1972–1990

Chapter Four: Biopolitical Tactics under Neoliberal Settler Colonialism: Healing as Public Discourse, 1990–2015

Conclusion: Towards an Indigenized Politics of Life

Appendix: Methods and Sources

Notes

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.12.2024
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 270 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-77212-574-1 / 1772125741
ISBN-13 978-1-77212-574-0 / 9781772125740
Zustand Neuware
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