Sortir de la violence : La Commission de vérité et de réconciliation du Canada sur les pensionnats indiens

Capitaine, Brieg

doi:10.1017/cls.2017.22

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“…Given this hostile setting, the commission's public events were successful enterprises of civic outreach. The narrations of Survivors forged a basic media awareness of residential school harms (Nagy and Gillespie, 2015; Henderson, 2015) and helped at least some settler publics to grasp assimilation as an ongoing injustice (Capitaine, 2017; Capitaine and Vanthuyne, 2017). Yet observers also criticized a key weakness.…”

Section: Two Trc Faces: the Public Events And Final Reportmentioning

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The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report

James

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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This article addresses the historical justice dilemma: although critical memory is indispensable for accountability, efforts to use it are often hampered by the unjust relations and systems that caused the wrongs to which historical justice is compelled to respond in the first place. Contemporary authors tackle this problem by focusing on collective responsibility for structural injustice. This article takes a different tack. Studying closely the 2009–2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) report, it argues that the structural turn may come at the expense of a focus on agency and may thus provide unwitting anonymity for wrongdoers while crimping our thinking about leadership and responsibility. Although this article strongly criticizes the TRC report, it tries to work constructively with it, developing an analysis that compensates for the report's unwitting invisibilization of perpetrators. Distilling portraits and analyses of wrongdoer agency that are latent in the TRC's postwar history volume, this article shows how we can develop the report as a resource of what I call retributive social accountability.

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Section: Two Trc Faces: the Public Events And Final Reportmentioning

confidence: 99%