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The Colonialism of Human Rights
Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples? This trenchant book brings human rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of Western colonialism and slavery. Colin Samson examines the paradox that the nations that credit themselves with formulating universal human rights were colonial powers, settler colonists and sponsors of enslavement. Samson points out that many liberal theorists supported colonialism and slavery, and how this illiberalism plays out today in selective, often racist processes of recognition and enforcement of human rights. To reveal the continuities between colonial histories and contemporary events, Sams...
Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism
Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. In defending their collective rights to self-determination, culture, lands and resources, their resistance and creativity offer a pause for critical reflection on the importance of maintaining indigenous distinctiveness against the homogenizing forces of states and corporations. This timely book highlights significant colonial patterns of domination and ...
A World You Do Not Know
A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by North America's settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations. Using the Innu of Labrador-Quebec as one powerful contemporary example, Colin Samson shows how the processes of displacement and assimilation today resemble those of the 19th century as the state and corporations scramble for Innu lands. While nation building, capitalism and industrialisation are shown to have undermined indigenous peoples' wellbeing, the values that guide societies like the Innu are very much alive. The book ends by showcasing how ideas and land-based activities of indigenous groups in Canada and the ...
A Way of Life That Does Not Exist
A detailed look at Innu relations with the Canadian state, developers, explorers, missionaries, educators, health-care professionals, and the justice system.
Canada's Tibet
Reveals how racist Canadian government policies have crippled the Innu of eastern Canada -- a once self-sufficient & independent people. The UN's Human Rights Committee described the situation of indigenous people as Ôthe most pressing issue facing Canadians', & condemned Canada for its practice of Ôextinguishing' aboriginal people's rights. Chapters: the colonization of the Innu -- Britain starts, Canada accelerates; who are the Innu?; history; life in the community; the invasion of Innu land: hydroelectric projects, military training, mining, & roads & communications; Innu resistance; why Canada claims its own Innu land; what the Innu want; & solutions.
Figured Worlds
"World Visions can conceive of everything except alternative world visions." If this pronouncement by Umberto Eco is right, how can any ethnic group conceive of living with another group on the same territory - in Canada or elsewhere - if their world visions are incompatible? Can we sidestep incompatible world visions or should we try to understand them? Figured Worlds explores the possibilities of equilibrium between commitments to mutual understanding and the framing of strategies of negotiation. This collection begins its rich analytical investigation by describing how people - Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori, Japanese, and Africans - first learn the figured worlds of their own c...
Reconstitution of Social Work
Ch. 1. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (1) : the myths of positivism and the strong thesis of value involvement / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 2. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (2) : social work skills and moral practice / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 3. A hermeneutic study of the mentally ill "self" / Mary C. K. Fong -- ch. 4. The meaning of cancer from a hermeneutic perspective / Wai-ying Chan -- ch. 5. Critical theory and community development / Yuk-ying Ho and Kun-sun Chan -- ch. 6. The moral basis of social work management / Kun-sun Chan.
The Dark Frigate
"The Dark Frigate" by Charles Boardman Hawes is a captivating historical novel set against the backdrop of piracy and adventure on the high seas. Hawes' narrative introduces readers to the intriguing world of 17th-century seafaring, where the line between heroism and villainy becomes blurred. The novel is rich in detail, character development, and suspense as it follows the journey of a young sailor. "The Dark Frigate" is a swashbuckling tale that immerses readers in a thrilling and perilous maritime adventure.
Nature and Culture
There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature. This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice. While conserving nature alongside human cultures presents unique challenges, this book forcefully shows that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity.
The Indian History of an American Institution
A history of the complex relationship between a school and a people
