Thoughts on Time-Based Readings of Canadian Literature and Culture

Huebener, Paul

doi:10.1353/esc.2010.0009

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“…Following this logic, even the notion of an "event" or "moment" is problematic when it is isolated from movements, forces and changes in other parts of the settler-colonial mesh, as well as the simultaneity of experiences of resistance, hope, violence and destruction. Static notions of time are hard to parse apart within Indigenous cosmologies which view time and temporality as multi-dimensional, processual and, in some instances, cyclical rather than linear (Adams 2009;Donaldson 1996;Huebener 2010;Latulippe 2015;Mika 2015;Nguyen 1992;Pelletier 2015;Pinxten 1995). Opening space for such alternative understandings of time requires greater dynamism from the conceptual models we use to confront wrongdoing.…”

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Criminology's Time: Settler Colonialism and the Temporality of Harm at the Assiniboia Residential School in Winnipeg, Canada, 1958–1973

Woolford

Hounslow

2018

State Crime Journal

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This article examines the delimiting role time plays in criminological research, especially with respect to historical studies related to genocide in a settler-colonial context. In short, we argue that criminological temporalities often exclude forms of collective destruction defined by a more complicated duration or scope. We do this through investigation of Canada's residential school system, with specific attention to a single Indian Residential School (IRS) within this system, the Assiniboia Residential School (ARS) in Winnipeg. Assiniboia was different than other residential schools in Canada because, despite playing a role in Indigenous assimilation, students experienced more freedom and less abuse than was characteristic of other schools. We argue that grappling with an institution such as Assiniboia, as part of an experience of state crime, requires that the notion of crime as a temporal event, or as the outcome of a linear criminogenic process, be challenged and opened to concepts of time that are pulsating, uneven and persistent within a broader settler-colonial mesh.

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