Invested indifference : how violence persists in settler colonial society

Granzow, Kara 1974- (author.).

Summary: 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 makes a startling counter-argument: that what we see as societal unresponsiveness doesn't come from an absence of feeling but from an affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Kara Granzow demonstrates that mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space have been used to entrench violence against Indigenous people in the social construction of Canadian nationhood.

Record details

ISBN: 0774837438 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780774837439 (Hardcover)
Physical Description: xvii, 265 pages ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.