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11%OFFHenderson, Jennifer; Wakeham, Pauline - Reconciling Canada - 9781442611689 - V9781442611689
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Reconciling Canada

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Description for Reconciling Canada Paperback. 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 with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 29. Weight in Grams: 880.

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442611689
SKU
V9781442611689
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About Henderson, Jennifer; Wakeham, Pauline
Jennifer Henderson is an associate professor in the Departments of English and Sociology/Anthropology and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Pauline Wakeham is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews for Reconciling Canada
‘Reconciling Canada is the first text to comprehensively unpack Canada’s unique position in history, marking it as an important contribution to both Canadian and reconciliation studies.’
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

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