Thou shalt forget indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of cultural oblivion in Canada
What is 'cultural oblivion' and 'psychological colonialism', and how are they affecting the capacity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada to actively resist systematic and territorial oppression by the state? Following a decade-long research project, this new book by Pierrot Ross-Trem...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of London Press
[2020]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009871129606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Essipiunnuat, the Salmon War and cultural oblivion
- The study of cultural oblivion
- The Essipiunnuat: contexts and circumstances
- The Salmon War
- Conclusion
- 2. The sources of war: colonialism and the emergence of collective agency
- A hand strangling us: external determinants
- Hope in our hands: faces of group agency
- Conclusion
- 3. Capturing who we were: heroic postures in tragic circumstances
- Self-portraits: narrating one's performance
- Inter-individual depictions: narrating others' gestures
- Images of the group: gazing at ourselves
- Conclusion
- 4. Stories on the transformative experience of war: from self-empowerment to a metaphysics of domination
- Ways of relating: relational system remodelling
- Self-concept alterations: mutations and metamorphosis
- Fruits of uprising: the sweet and the sour
- Internal reordination: the path to monocracy
- Conclusion
- 5. The Essipiunnuat's actuality in light of the past
- The weaving of forgetfulness
- Reminiscences and the fragility of oblivion
- Contemporaneities: the mirror of memory
- Figures of continuation: from planned annihilation to self-designs
- Conclusion
- Postface | Heirs of oblivion: leaders' interiority as a public issue
- Bibliography.
