Invested Indifference
Author | : Kara Granzow |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780774837460 |
ISBN-13 | : 0774837462 |
Rating | : 4/5 (462 Downloads) |
Download or read book Invested Indifference written by Kara Granzow and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.