Remembering Vancouver's disappeared women : settler colonialism and the difficulty of inheritance / Amber Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Amber, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Violence against--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Indigenous women.

Women--Violence against--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Women.

Missing persons--British Columbia--Vancouver--Social conditions.

Missing persons.

Missing persons in art.

Social aspects.

Collective memory.

Memorials--Social aspects.

Memorials.

Social conditions.

Women--Violence against.

Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.).

Memorials--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Collective memory--British Columbia--Vancouver.

Missing persons in art--Social aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver.

British Columbia.

British Columbia--Vancouver.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Toronto University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver's disappeared women to the attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women traces "what lives on" from the violent loss of so many women from the same neighborhood. Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women's research, activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its countless injustices.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: inheriting what lives on

The present pasts of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Following ghosts: different knowings, knowing differently

Looking at images of Vancouver's disappeared women: troubling desires to "humanize"

Shadowing the "missing women" story: "squaw men," whores, and other queer(ed) figures

Memory's difficult returns: memorializing Vancouver's disappeared women

Conclusion: reckoning (for the present)

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.

ISBN:

9781442644540

1442644540

9781442612754

1442612754

OCLC:

907661934