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Truth & indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian residential schools / Ronald Niezen.
The original version of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns to raise important questions about the TRC process. He asked what the TRC has meant for reconciliation, transitional justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory. The new edition includes an epilogue that discusses the initial reception of the book while the Commission was still unfolding, and the Final Report and Calls to Action coming out of the report, bringing the book up to date and making it a valuable text for teaching about transitional justice, colonialism and redress, public anthropology and human rights. Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising in the need to tell the "truth" as he sees it, Niezen offers an important contribution to understanding truth and reconciliation processes in general, and the Canadian experience in particular.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487594381 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: North York, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index. |
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| Subject: | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth commissions > Social aspects > Canada. Ethnological jurisprudence > Canada. Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools. |
| Topic Heading: | Indigenous collection. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | E 96.5 .N54 2017 (Text) | 31111000146231 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2014 June
Niezen (public policy, McGill Univ., Canada) offers the first critical assessment of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools (IRS). Much of the book, like the commission itself, takes on the daunting task of documenting the truth of survivors, families, communities, and anyone personally affected by the IRS experience. Niezen uniquely makes the dialogue multidimensional and nuanced by including a strain of narratives of Oblate priests, nuns, and lay employees who worked in the schools. Both the commission and Niezen are centrally concerned with justice, but this book exudes a reflective, analytical perspective that the commission as witness is not able to undertake, even as it continues to unfold until mid-2015. Sections of the book, such as "The Ethnography of the Unknowable," "Personhood," "Human Rights and Wrongs," "Saying the Unsayable," and "Contrition and Defiance," point to how Niezen frames and respects the contentious, often-painful nature of looking into an aspect of Canada's history that the general populace still willfully ignores. As such, this book is a strong attempt to offer insight into the creation of new narratives of suffering within contested narratives of power. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Two-year Technical Program Students; Professionals/Practitioners. G. Bruyere Laurentian University Copyright 2014 American Library Association.
