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Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

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Description for Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody paperback. Razack's powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today's most pressing issues of social justice. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFJ; JFSL9; JHBZ; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 488.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only inevitable casualties of Indigenous life.

But what about a sixty-seven-year-old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large, visible, purple boot print on his chest? Or a barely conscious, alcoholic older man, dropped off by police in a dark alley on a cold Vancouver night? ... Read more

In Dying from Improvement, Sherene H. Razack argues that, amidst systematic state violence against Indigenous people, inquiries and inquests serve to obscure the violence of ongoing settler colonialism under the guise of benevolent concern. They tell settler society that it is caring, compassionate, and engaged in improving the lives of Indigenous people – even as the incarceration rate of Indigenous men and women increases and the number of those who die in custody rises.

Razack’s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today’s most pressing issues of social justice: the treatment of Indigenous people, the unparalleled authority of the police and the justice system, and their systematic inhumanity towards those whose lives they perceive as insignificant.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442628915
SKU
V9781442628915
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Ref
99-1

About Sherene Razack
Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Reviews for Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
“Dying From Improvement is vivid and disturbing. Professor Razack draws readers with an electric narrative and police reporter’s eye for detail.”
Holy Doan
Blacklock's Reporter , June 27, 2015
‘This is a passionate, thought-provoking, and disconcerting book… A milestone in the study of deaths of Aboriginal people in Canada.’
Liqun Cao
The Canadian Journal of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody


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