Irreconcilable : indigeneity and the violence of colonial erasure in contemporary Canada / Joseph Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Joseph, 1985- Author.

Series:

Critical indigeneities http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/be09be1b-9f40-629d-5f56-2e79ef699c15

Critical indigeneities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Crimes against--Canada.

Reconciliation--Moral and ethical aspects--Canada.

Reconciliation.

Haida Indians--Government relations.

Haida Indians.

Haida Indians--Land tenure.

Settler colonialism--Canada.

Settler colonialism.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples--Crimes against.

Canada.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, government commissions, rebranding campaigns for settler-owned businesses, workshops for state and local officials, school curriculum changes, and a recently christened national holiday. However, as Joseph Weiss argues, these state-driven initiatives reinforce Indigenous subordination to the settler state. This incisive study of the varied responses from both Indigenous Nations and individuals to reconciliation illuminates how it is implicated in ongoing colonial erasure. Critically engaging with a variety of fields, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, history, political theory, semiotics, and museum studies, Weiss captures the multiple scales at which these contested dynamics unfold and explores their underlying technologies of erasure. Irreconcilable unpacks how reconciliation offers amends for anti-Indigenous violence while disavowing responsibility for that violence, and argues that settler promises of reconciliation cannot be reconciled to the fact of Indigenous sovereignty. Nevertheless, Weiss illustrates how Indigenous Peoples refuse erasure at every turn, instead building alternate futures and lived worlds that are not always already colonially overdetermined"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The era of reconciliation

Harsh realities and legal fictions: Aboriginal title and colonial disavowal in British Columbia, past and present

"Not built to last:" the presences and absences of military occupation on Haida Gwaii

"So-called reconciliation:" empty signifiers and settler political community

Our drums are (not) silenced: refusing the ruse of liberal fairness in the commission of inquiry

"Objects with invalid title": myths, fantasies, and other liberal fictions of legitimate museum acquisition

"Giving back the name with respect:" repatriation and refusal between Canada and the Haida Nation

Irreconcilable images, irreconcilable futures

Rising tide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781469693736

9781469693729

1469693720

1469693739

OCLC:

1538488775

Publisher Number:

90104338784