Friend or faux? Trudeau, Indigenous issues and Canada’s brand

Exner-Pirot, Heather

doi:10.1080/11926422.2018.1461667

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“…Chief Phil Fontane of the Sagkeeng First Nation called the vote a “stain on Canada's reputation” and viewed it as a betrayal of the country's legacy as a protector of human rights (Lackenbauer and Cooper 2007:113). In 2016, Canada endorsed the declaration because of Indigenous pressure and mounting criticism from the international community, with Minister for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Carolyn Bennett saying, “We intend nothing less than to adopt and implement the declaration in accordance with the Canadian Constitution” (Exner-Pirot 2018:176).…”

Section: Sociopolitical and Archaeological Context Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries

McLellan,

Woolsey

2024

Am. Antiq.

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This article explores Indigenous perspectives on archaeology in Canada and the United States and the role of archaeologists in engaging with Indigenous communities. As part of our study, we interviewed Indigenous community members about their experiences in archaeology and their thoughts on the discipline. We analyzed each interview thematically to identify patterns of meaning across the dataset and to develop common themes in the interview transcripts. Based on the results of our analysis, we identified six themes in the data: (1) Euro-colonialism damaged and interrupted Indigenous history, and archaeology offers Indigenous community members an opportunity to reconnect with their past; (2) archaeological practices restrict access of Indigenous community members to archaeological information and archaeological materials; (3) cultural resource management (CRM) is outpacing the capacity of Indigenous communities to engage meaningfully with archaeologists; (4) the codification of archaeology through standards, guidelines, and technical report writing limits the goals of the discipline; (5) archaeological methods are inconsistent and based on individual, or company-wide, funding and decision-making; and (6) archaeological software offers a new opportunity for Indigenous communities and archaeologists to collaborate on projects.

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Section: Sociopolitical and Archaeological Context Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries

McLellan,

Woolsey

2024

Am. Antiq.

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“…Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), other EDI phrases and EDI frameworks [10,12] are increasingly employed in various workplaces including universities to improve the 'social' in the areas of research, education, and general workplace environments for marginalized groups such as women, Indigenous Peoples, visible/racialized minorities, disabled people, and LGBTQ2S+ [12]. Individual EDI terms are engaged with in the academic literature in conjunction with the international documents we investigated for example: "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" in conjunction with equity [29][30][31][32], equality [33][34][35][36][37], inclusion [38,39] and diversity [40]; "Convention on the Rights of the Child" with equity [41,42] equality [43] inclusion [44] and diversity [45]; "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women" with equity [46] equality [47] diversity [48] and inclusion [49]; "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" with equity [50] equality [51] inclusion [52] and diversity [53,54]; "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" with equity [55] equality [56] diversity [57] and inclusion [58]; "UN Framework Convention on Climate Change" with equity [59] equality [60] inclusion [61] and diversity [62]; "transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development" with equity…”

Section: Equity Diversity and Inclusion (Edi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individual EDI terms are engaged with in the academic literature (not limited to abstracts) in conjunction with "the documents" we investigated for example ("Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" equity [29][30][31][32], equality [33][34][35][36][37], inclusion [38,39] and diversity [40], "Convention on the Rights of the Child", equity [41,42] equality [43] inclusion [44] diversity [45], "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women", equity [46] equality [47] diversity [48] inclusion [49], "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples", equity [50] equality [51] inclusion [52] diversity [53,54], "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", equity [55] equality [56] diversity [57] inclusion [58], "UN Framework Convention on Climate Change", equity [59] equality [60] inclusion [61] diversity [62], "transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development", equity [63] equality [64] inclusion [65] diversity [66], "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" equity [67,68] equality…”

Section: Edi (Research Question 3)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Auditing the ‘Social’ Using Conventions, Declarations, and Goal Setting Documents: A Scoping Review

Gill

Wolbring

2022

Societies

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The state of the ‘social’ that individuals, social groups and societies experience are a focus of international conventions, declarations and goal setting documents. Many indicators of the ‘social’ and measures of well-being that contain sets of indicators of the ‘social’ exist to ascertain the state of the ‘social’ of individuals, social groups, and societies. Marginalized groups are well known to have problems with the ‘social’ they experience. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and similar phrases are used in policy discussions to deal with ‘social problems’ within research, education, and general workplace environments encountered by women, Indigenous peoples, visible/racialized minorities, disabled people, and LGBTQ2S+. The prevention of the worthening of the ‘social’ is one focus of science and technology governance and ethics discussions. Many health professions are also concerned about the ‘social’ such as the well-being of their clients and their roles as stated by many of their associations include being advocates and change agents. The objective of the study was to ascertain how the ‘social’ is engaged with in conjunction with the following international documents (“Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, “Convention on the Rights of the Child”, “Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”, “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”, “UN Framework Convention on Climate Change”, “transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development” and “UN flagship report on disability and development Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities”; from now on called “the documents”). A scoping review using the academic databases SCOPUS, Web of Science, databases accessible under Compendex, and the databases accessible under EBSCO-HOST, coupled with a manifest hit-count coding approach was uses to answer five research questions: (1) Which terms, phrases, and measures of the ‘social’ are present in the literature searched (2) Which of the social issues flagged in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are present in the academic abstracts mentioning the other eight documents? (3) Which EDI frameworks, phrases and social groups covered under EDI are present in the literature covered. (4) Which technologies, science and technology governance terms and ethics fields are present in the literature covered? (5) Which health professions are mentioned in the literature covered? The results reveal vast gaps and opportunities to engage with the ‘social’ in relation to “the documents” covered for all five questions.

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“…In fact, he has long paid lip service to the idea of a transformed nation-to-nation relationship, while his government has been heavily criticized for its record on indigenous relations, including the approval of a controversial pipeline through First Nations territory (Lightfoot 2018). The cynical view, then, would be to see the Tsilhqot’in apology as just another piece of “faux” rhetoric designed to maintain Canada’s image as a tolerant, progressive nation outwardly while continuing on the same colonizing path (Exner-Pirot 2018). This ignores the fact, however, that it is the continued calls for nation-to-nation apologies by indigenous activists that force the Trudeau government into this kind of rhetoric in order to retain the semblance of harmony; as Exner-Pirot (2018, 166) remarks, “Indigenous leaders have long leveraged Canada’s desire to be considered a good and positive force in international relations.” While such rhetoric does not make up for the Trudeau government’s dismal record on indigenous relations, it can be leveraged politically by activists to point out hypocrisy and make further claims against the state.…”

Section: Governing Resistance and Resisting Governance In Neoliberal ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The cynical view, then, would be to see the Tsilhqot’in apology as just another piece of “faux” rhetoric designed to maintain Canada’s image as a tolerant, progressive nation outwardly while continuing on the same colonizing path (Exner-Pirot 2018). This ignores the fact, however, that it is the continued calls for nation-to-nation apologies by indigenous activists that force the Trudeau government into this kind of rhetoric in order to retain the semblance of harmony; as Exner-Pirot (2018, 166) remarks, “Indigenous leaders have long leveraged Canada’s desire to be considered a good and positive force in international relations.” While such rhetoric does not make up for the Trudeau government’s dismal record on indigenous relations, it can be leveraged politically by activists to point out hypocrisy and make further claims against the state. 10 We should therefore not underestimate the potential of apology politics to be transformative; we should not underestimate apology activists’ ability to force the state to perform mea culpa on their terms.…”

Section: Governing Resistance and Resisting Governance In Neoliberal ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies

Friedrich

2022

Political Theory

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What are we to make of the fact that world leaders, such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau, have, within the last few decades, offered official apologies for a whole host of past injustices? Scholars have largely dealt with this phenomenon as a moral question, seeing in these expressions of contrition a radical disruption of contemporary neoliberal individualism, a promise of a more humane world. Focusing on Canadian apology politics, this essay instead proposes a nonideal approach to state apologies, sidestepping questions of what they ought to do and focusing instead on their actual functioning as political acts. Through a sociologically informed speech act theory and Foucault’s work on power, apology is conceptualized as a speech act with an essentially relational nature. The state, through apologizing, reaffirms the norms governing its relationship to its subjects at a moment when a past transgression threatens to destabilize this relation. From a Foucauldian point of view, the state’s power inheres in the very stability of the state–citizen relation, and we should therefore see apologies as defensive moves to protect state hegemony. In the context of Western liberal democracies, such as Canada, apologies embody, rather than challenge, the logic of neoliberal governmentality by suggesting that everything, including resentment against the state, can be managed within the current status quo. Nevertheless, total cynicism about apology politics is not warranted. In many indigenous apology campaigners’ demands for contrition we see another side of apologies: their potential to bring about change by enacting counterhegemonic relations to the state.

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Friend or faux? Trudeau, Indigenous issues and Canada’s brand

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries

Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries

Auditing the ‘Social’ Using Conventions, Declarations, and Goal Setting Documents: A Scoping Review

Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies

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