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Perry, Adele; McCallum, Mary Jane Logan

 
9780887558351: Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
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ISBN 10: 0887558356 ISBN 13: 9780887558351
Editorial: University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Sinopsis

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism.

McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and afterhis death.

Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination.

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Adele Perry is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.

Mary Jane Logan McCallum is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Winnipeg.

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Editorial
University of Manitoba Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0887558356
ISBN 13 
9780887558351
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
144
Contacto del fabricante
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