Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System / edited by Vicki Chartrand and Josephine Savarese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chartrand, Vicki, editor.

Savarese, Josephine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Indigenous peoples.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Canada.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Canada.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Indigenous peoples--Crimes against--Canada.

Settler colonialism--Canada.

Settler colonialism.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athabasca, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2023]

Summary:

Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George

Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context

1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain

2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children

3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism

4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies

5. Original Savages

Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations

6. "You're Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick": Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress

7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the "Accidental" Murder of Colten Boushie

8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada

9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse

10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls

Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice

11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue

12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division

13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights

14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing

15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters

16. Incompatible or Congruent?: Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together?

Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice

17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau's Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive.

18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin' Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze

19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood

20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing

21. Critique's Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice

Conclusion

Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781771993692

1771993693

9781771993685

1771993685

OCLC:

1414455568