Life Against States of Emergency

Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat

AvSarah Marie Wiebe

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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For six weeks in 2012–13, Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence undertook a high-profile ceremonial fast to advocate for improved Canadian-Indigenous relations. Framed by the media as a hunger strike, her fast was both a call to action and a gesture of corporeal sovereignty.Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question she asked the Canadian public to consider: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today? Arguing that treaties are critical and vital matters of environmental justice, Sarah Marie Wiebe offers a nuanced discussion of the political environment that caused treaty relations in Attawapiskat to break down amid a history of repeated state-of-emergency declarations.This incisive work draws on community-engaged research, lived experiences, critical discourse analysis, ecofeminist and Indigenous studies scholarship, art, activism, and storytelling to advance a transformative, future-oriented approach to treaty relationships. By centring community voices, Life against States of Emergency cultivates a more deliberative, democratic dialogue.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
Medarbetare:LindsayKeegitah Borrows
ISBN:9780774867887
Utmärkelser:Winner of Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association 2024 (Canada)

Utforska kategorier

Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sarah Marie Wiebe is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, where she teaches in the Community Development program. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, a co-founder of the Feminist Environmental Research Network (FERN), and the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley, which won the Charles Taylor Book Award in 2017. Her writing has been published in journals including Citizenship Studies, Engaged Scholar, New Political Science, Politics and Policy, and Studies in Social Justice.

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Life Against States of Emergency is … refreshingly personable … enlivened by Wiebe's dialogic approach to research and writing … Wiebe makes a deep contribution to critical policy conversations on Indigenous resurgence and futurities in Canada, Indigenous/settler relations, and Treaty-making and remaking.- Rebecca Hall (Critical Policy Studies) Wiebe – a settler scholar and writer-activist – is an immensely gifted storyteller … Life Against States of Emergency has arrived at a crucial point for the field of environmental politics, reminding us to recenter relationships as foundational to meaningful engagement with the politics of planetary justice. In doing so, we can better imagine and create alternative ways of being in the world.- Hannah Ascough, Queen's University (Environmental Politics)

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: Nanabush and the Emergence of Butterflies / Lindsay Keegitah BorrowsPrefaceIntroduction: "You Are Treaty, Too"1 Artistic Movements for Alternative Decolonial Futures 2 Creative Engagement through Mixed Media Storytelling 3 Chief Spence's Story4 Community Voices: Reimagining Attawapiskat 5 Discursive Responses to Attawapiskat, Chief Spence, and the Hunger Strike 6 Treaties Are Alive7 Fleshing Out New Directions for Environmental JusticeAfterword: Emergency Feelings – Reflections on the Body Politics of Sudden and Slow Emergencies Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index