Invested indifference : how violence persists in settler colonial society /

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as "indifferent" to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference offers a dive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Granzow, Kara, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Vancouver : UBC Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Indigenous women > Violence against > Alberta > Edmonton. Indigenous women > Alberta > Edmonton > Social conditions. Violence > Alberta > Edmonton.

Table of Contents:

A History of the Present: Methodology
"It in no way makes you safer": Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City
"All they could to help": Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City
"All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated": Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life
"Just bury them and be done with it": Managing Affect and Producing the Past.