Reconciling Canada
Henderson, Jennifer; Wakeham, Pauline
Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state.
In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations ... Read more
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Reviews for Reconciling Canada
David Gaertner
Canadian Literature Spring 2014
“This serious engagement with the challenges posed by the culture of redress in Canada is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand our history ... Read more