Bhandar, Brenna (2004) Anxious reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatializing history. Society and Space, 22 (6). pp. 831-845. ISSN 0263-7758.
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Abstract
In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims are folded back into the existing political, economic, and juridical structures of the nation-state. I conclude with an examination of how spatializing history in a nonlinear, nonteleological way could open up possibilities for political change and transformation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Law School |
| Depositing User: | F. Hogben |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2007 19:28 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2010 14:05 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/2124 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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