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Anxious reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatializing history

Bhandar, Brenna (2004) Anxious reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatializing history. Society and Space, 22 (6). pp. 831-845. ISSN 0263-7758. (doi:10.1068/d412) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:2124)

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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
DOI/Identification number: 10.1068/d412
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: F. Hogben
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2007 19:28 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/2124 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bhandar, Brenna.

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