Sherene Razack

Dying from Improvement

Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

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Produktbeschreibung

Razack’s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today’s most pressing issues of social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442637375
• ISBN-10: 1442637374
• Artikelnr.: 42698851

Autorenporträt

Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Boot Print on the Chest: Disappearing “Indians” in Life and
Law
1. The Body as Placeless: Memorializing Colonial Power
2. Dying from Improvement
3. The Body as Frontier
4. “People Die”: A Killing Indifference
5. The Medico-Legal Alliance: Anthany Dawson and the Diagnosis of Excited
Delirium
6. “It happened more than once”: Freezing Deaths in Saskatchewan
Conclusion. Tombstone Data
Appendix. Deaths in Custody: Saskatchewan 1995–2013