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Genocide in Canada: A Critical Approach

Genocide in Canada: A Critical Approach

Woolford, Andrew

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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 1773638211
ISBN13: 9781773638218
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Pages: 192
Language: English

Is it genocide? Too often the answer to this question requires killing fields, death camps, gas chambers, and massacres. Genocide in Canada directs us instead to the relationships through which groups of people persist as a people. Andrew Woolford's critical approach pinpoints the many forms of violence that can and are used to destroy peoples.

Woolford explores settler colonial genocide in Canada, overcoming the limitations of the traditional genocide concept and its legal formulation and demonstrating that settler colonialism threatens the existence of Indigenous Peoples. Framed as a sociology of collective life, this book focuses on assimilative education such as occurred through residential schools. It examines how the residential school system was implemented by the settler state to deal with the Indian problem, intending to destroy Indigenous Peoples' culture and relationships with family and territory, to eliminate them as peoples. Woolford traces the genocide debate in Canada, illuminating the blind spots and assumptions that disguise settler colonial patterns of group destruction. He exposes the deeply flawed genocide denialist claims about residential schools as many cling to a redemptive story of Indigenous-settler relations that absolves Canada of anything more than a dark chapter or mistakes.

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