A Woolford
Biographic Data
| ID | 19826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Woolford |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Woolford |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0057-359X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Against the churn
Drawing on twenty interviews conducted in 2022 with restorative justice practitioners and transformative justice advocates in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we examine how restorative justice navigates the churn of institutionalization. In Manitoba, this churn is strengthened through the creation of the Restorative Justice Centre as a government clearinghouse for referrals and funding. Simultaneously, anti-institutional philosophies of defunding, abolition,…
Water People
This paper focuses on connections between Indigenous Peoples and water to better understand the cultural destruction wrought by residential schools. We begin with an overview of how genocide studies address connections between childhood socialization and the natural world, and how human links to nature are impacted by genocide. This point is further illustrated through a discussion of the centrality of water within Anishinaabe culture, whereby re…
“To Make It Belong to Who I Was, to Who I Became”
In Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan’s film about the Armenian genocide, Mount Ararat is more than a symbol; as the titular character, it assumes a dynamic role. Indeed, Mount Ararat has historically played a co-constitutive part in the production of Armenian identity. The Armenian genocide threatened to sever symbiogenesis, the process of becoming together, between the mountain and its people. This symbiogenesis is captured in Ararat, which…
“I definitely felt like I was there”
We examine how 20 university students interacted with a virtual Residential School that was designed in partnership with a group of Indigenous Survivors of Canada’s Residential Schools system. We begin by offering a brief history of Canada’s Residential Schools system as well as the origins and ambitions of the Embodying Empathy project. We also reflect on the idea of empathy as it has been taken up both in the design and testing phases of the pr…
We Planted Rice and Killed People
In recent years, genocide scholars have given greater attention to the dangers posed by climate change for increasing the prevalence or intensity of genocide. Challenges related to forced migration, resource scarcity, famine, and other threats of the Anthropocene are identified as sources of present and future risk, especially for those committed to genocide prevention. We approach the connection between the natural and social aspects of genocide…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Critical Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Studies
The frustrations of a genocide scholar are many. Chief among them is what Keith Tester refers to as the "rage" of the "incapacitated" 1 -the paradox of having too much knowledge of human suffering but finding our selves unable to do little more than shout, "something must be done!" Institutions have become the primary moral agents for responding to terrible events like genocide, Tester notes, adding "It is not just the world which has been wholly…
Criminology's Time
This article examines the delimiting role time plays in criminological research, especially with respect to historical studies related to genocide in a settler-colonial context. In short, we argue that criminological temporalities often exclude forms of collective destruction defined by a more complicated duration or scope. We do this through investigation of Canada's residential school system, with specific attention to a single Indian Residenti…
Genocidal carcerality and Indian residential schools in Canada
This paper contributes to the criminology of genocide through examination of settler colonial destruction within the broader context of what we term ‘genocidal carcerality’. We employ this term to examine the ways in which space is implicated in the physical, biological, and cultural destruction of group life. In this paper, our purpose is not to create a typology of genocidal carcerality, but rather to demonstrate the multiplicity of spatial str…
Unsettling Genocide Studies at the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, July 16-19, 2014, Winnipeg-Canada
What is the purpose of a genocide conference and in what ways might such a conference "unsettle" us and contribute to a broader decolonizing project, in genocide studies and beyond? This summary of the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada examines some of the disruptions and connections that arose and contributed to the vitality of our meetings
Canada and colonial genocide
This introductory article offers an overview of debates about genocide and settler colonialism in Canada. The argument is presented that Canada, although a marginal case to genocide studies, provides important insights and challenging questions, particularly with respect to the need to decolonize the field of genocide studies
This Benevolent Experiment
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formu…
Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh
Obstacles and momentum on the path to post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations
In contemporary human rights politics, much international effort is invested in securing reparative settlements in the aftermath of genocide and mass atrocities. This article details a broad comparative research project in which we seek to map the respective paths of 47 post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations claims. Based on the findings of this study, using a mixed-methods approach, we highlight some potential obstacles within claims proces…
Nodal repair and networks of destruction
This article asserts that a deeper understanding of colonial genocide is a necessary basis for recent attempts to redress the harms caused by Canadian residential schools through the processes prescribed by the Indian Residential School Settlement Act. To advance such an understanding, I conceptualize residential schools as a crucial node in a genocidal ‘network of destruction’. Moreover, I explore examples drawn from oral statements about and me…
The Responsibilities of the Poor
Social service providers are increasingly encouraged by their funders to help fashion the poor into neoliberal citizens, and this study investigates how this situation may affect the ways in which service users present themselves to service providers when seeking assistance. We suggest that our interview participants, drawn from vulnerable and marginalized populations of Winnipeg, Manitoba, are attuned to the characteristics of neoliberal citizen…
Policing (by) the urban brand
In this paper, we examine the ways in which the urban brand is policed in an attempt to ensure that the Exchange District business improvement zone in Winnipeg, Manitoba maintains a stable and safe image. In doing so, we pay particular attention to the use of security and beautification services as well as environmental design in the production of perceptions of safety. In addition, we suggest that the brand itself is a source of policing, since …
Community Positions, Neoliberal Dispositions
In this article, we demonstrate the critical value of Loïc Wacquant's reworking of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the bureaucratic field for the study of nonprofit social services. In particular, we suggest that this approach offers a richer understanding of the neoliberalization of nonprofit social service agencies. To illustrate this point, we draw upon interviews with nonprofit social service providers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, examining the field …
Dwight Newman Community and Collective Rights
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Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP
This article examines the discourses of crime and safety mobilized by Gary Doer's provincial NDP government in Manitoba between 1999 and 2009. Through a Foucaultian discourse analysis of statements made by Manitoba NDP members in the Legislative Assembly—in particular, the language and preconceptions drawn on by government members when speaking about matters of crime and safety—the authors assess the role of Third Way and neo-liberal rationalitie…
Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manitoba’s nonprofit field
This article draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to describe the nonprofit field. We highlight the ways in which the neoliberal restructuring of the nonprofit field has introduced new market conditions and valuational standards that have compelled social service providers within this field to adapt to or resist its structural transformation. Our study is focused on social service providing nonprofit agencies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where the limi…
The führer gives the Jews a town
In 1941, the Czech garrison town of Terezín (or, in German, Theresienstadt) was selected by the Nazis to serve as a ghetto and transport camp. 2 But Theresienstadt is perhaps most well known as the stage upon which the Nazis enacted a massive charade. Imagined as a ‘model ghetto’ since the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, Theresienstadt was eventually ‘beautified’ in preparation for a June 1944 visit by representatives of the International Com…
Ontological Destruction
The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ''cultural genocide '' or ''ethnocide.''In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction.Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally c…
Making Genocide Unthinkable
Collecting on Moral Debts
In the early 1980s, Sebba (1980) explored the victimological and criminological dimensions of German Holocaust reparations, utilizing a broad definition of victimization similar to Mendelsohn's (1976) earlier framing of this notion, which included victims of genocide and mass violence. Since this time, scant attention has been paid to the victimology of state crime, and even less to the victimological implications of genocide and mass violence. T…
The Responsibilities of the Poor
Social service providers are increasingly encouraged by their funders to help fashion the poor into neoliberal citizens, and this study investigates how this situation may affect the ways in which service users present themselves to service providers when seeking assistance. We suggest that our interview participants, drawn from vulnerable and marginalized populations of Winnipeg, Manitoba, are attuned to the characteristics of neoliberal citizen…
Community Positions, Neoliberal Dispositions
In this article, we demonstrate the critical value of Loïc Wacquant's reworking of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the bureaucratic field for the study of nonprofit social services. In particular, we suggest that this approach offers a richer understanding of the neoliberalization of nonprofit social service agencies. To illustrate this point, we draw upon interviews with nonprofit social service providers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, examining the field …
Genocidal carcerality and Indian residential schools in Canada
This paper contributes to the criminology of genocide through examination of settler colonial destruction within the broader context of what we term ‘genocidal carcerality’. We employ this term to examine the ways in which space is implicated in the physical, biological, and cultural destruction of group life. In this paper, our purpose is not to create a typology of genocidal carcerality, but rather to demonstrate the multiplicity of spatial str…
Canada and colonial genocide
This introductory article offers an overview of debates about genocide and settler colonialism in Canada. The argument is presented that Canada, although a marginal case to genocide studies, provides important insights and challenging questions, particularly with respect to the need to decolonize the field of genocide studies
Policing (by) the urban brand
In this paper, we examine the ways in which the urban brand is policed in an attempt to ensure that the Exchange District business improvement zone in Winnipeg, Manitoba maintains a stable and safe image. In doing so, we pay particular attention to the use of security and beautification services as well as environmental design in the production of perceptions of safety. In addition, we suggest that the brand itself is a source of policing, since …
Collecting on Moral Debts
In the early 1980s, Sebba (1980) explored the victimological and criminological dimensions of German Holocaust reparations, utilizing a broad definition of victimization similar to Mendelsohn's (1976) earlier framing of this notion, which included victims of genocide and mass violence. Since this time, scant attention has been paid to the victimology of state crime, and even less to the victimological implications of genocide and mass violence. T…
This Benevolent Experiment
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formu…
The limits of justice
Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manitoba’s nonprofit field
This article draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to describe the nonprofit field. We highlight the ways in which the neoliberal restructuring of the nonprofit field has introduced new market conditions and valuational standards that have compelled social service providers within this field to adapt to or resist its structural transformation. Our study is focused on social service providing nonprofit agencies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where the limi…
Ontological Destruction
The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ''cultural genocide '' or ''ethnocide.''In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction.Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally c…
Making Genocide Unthinkable
Negotiating Affirmative Repair
Andrew Woolford, Negotiating Affirmative Repair: Symbolic Violence in the British Columbia Treaty Process, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 111-144
Unsettling Genocide Studies at the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, July 16-19, 2014, Winnipeg-Canada
What is the purpose of a genocide conference and in what ways might such a conference "unsettle" us and contribute to a broader decolonizing project, in genocide studies and beyond? This summary of the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada examines some of the disruptions and connections that arose and contributed to the vitality of our meetings
Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP
This article examines the discourses of crime and safety mobilized by Gary Doer's provincial NDP government in Manitoba between 1999 and 2009. Through a Foucaultian discourse analysis of statements made by Manitoba NDP members in the Legislative Assembly—in particular, the language and preconceptions drawn on by government members when speaking about matters of crime and safety—the authors assess the role of Third Way and neo-liberal rationalitie…
We Planted Rice and Killed People
In recent years, genocide scholars have given greater attention to the dangers posed by climate change for increasing the prevalence or intensity of genocide. Challenges related to forced migration, resource scarcity, famine, and other threats of the Anthropocene are identified as sources of present and future risk, especially for those committed to genocide prevention. We approach the connection between the natural and social aspects of genocide…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Obstacles and momentum on the path to post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations
In contemporary human rights politics, much international effort is invested in securing reparative settlements in the aftermath of genocide and mass atrocities. This article details a broad comparative research project in which we seek to map the respective paths of 47 post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations claims. Based on the findings of this study, using a mixed-methods approach, we highlight some potential obstacles within claims proces…
The führer gives the Jews a town
In 1941, the Czech garrison town of Terezín (or, in German, Theresienstadt) was selected by the Nazis to serve as a ghetto and transport camp. 2 But Theresienstadt is perhaps most well known as the stage upon which the Nazis enacted a massive charade. Imagined as a ‘model ghetto’ since the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, Theresienstadt was eventually ‘beautified’ in preparation for a June 1944 visit by representatives of the International Com…
The limits of justice
Negotiating Affirmative Repair
Andrew Woolford, Negotiating Affirmative Repair: Symbolic Violence in the British Columbia Treaty Process, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 111-144
Between Justice and Certainty
Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Between the Procedure and Substance of Justice 3 The Imposition of Colonial Visions of Justice 4 First Nations Justice Frames 5 The British Columbia Treaty Process 6 Visions of Justice 7 Visions of Certainty 8 Conclusion Notes References
Selling Mediation
Individuals both within and outside the legal profession have been drawn by the ‘promise’ of mediation. In it they see a means for facilitating communicative exchanges between actors in conflict, which they view as a dramatic improvement on the adversarial practices of the formal legal system. However, despite the appeal of mediation to potential practitioners, there is not yet sufficient consumer demand to sustain the number of people who posses…
Making Genocide Unthinkable
Collecting on Moral Debts
In the early 1980s, Sebba (1980) explored the victimological and criminological dimensions of German Holocaust reparations, utilizing a broad definition of victimization similar to Mendelsohn's (1976) earlier framing of this notion, which included victims of genocide and mass violence. Since this time, scant attention has been paid to the victimology of state crime, and even less to the victimological implications of genocide and mass violence. T…
Ontological Destruction
The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ''cultural genocide '' or ''ethnocide.''In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction.Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally c…
The führer gives the Jews a town
In 1941, the Czech garrison town of Terezín (or, in German, Theresienstadt) was selected by the Nazis to serve as a ghetto and transport camp. 2 But Theresienstadt is perhaps most well known as the stage upon which the Nazis enacted a massive charade. Imagined as a ‘model ghetto’ since the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, Theresienstadt was eventually ‘beautified’ in preparation for a June 1944 visit by representatives of the International Com…
Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP
This article examines the discourses of crime and safety mobilized by Gary Doer's provincial NDP government in Manitoba between 1999 and 2009. Through a Foucaultian discourse analysis of statements made by Manitoba NDP members in the Legislative Assembly—in particular, the language and preconceptions drawn on by government members when speaking about matters of crime and safety—the authors assess the role of Third Way and neo-liberal rationalitie…
Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manitoba’s nonprofit field
This article draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to describe the nonprofit field. We highlight the ways in which the neoliberal restructuring of the nonprofit field has introduced new market conditions and valuational standards that have compelled social service providers within this field to adapt to or resist its structural transformation. Our study is focused on social service providing nonprofit agencies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where the limi…
Dwight Newman Community and Collective Rights
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nodal repair and networks of destruction
This article asserts that a deeper understanding of colonial genocide is a necessary basis for recent attempts to redress the harms caused by Canadian residential schools through the processes prescribed by the Indian Residential School Settlement Act. To advance such an understanding, I conceptualize residential schools as a crucial node in a genocidal ‘network of destruction’. Moreover, I explore examples drawn from oral statements about and me…
The Responsibilities of the Poor
Social service providers are increasingly encouraged by their funders to help fashion the poor into neoliberal citizens, and this study investigates how this situation may affect the ways in which service users present themselves to service providers when seeking assistance. We suggest that our interview participants, drawn from vulnerable and marginalized populations of Winnipeg, Manitoba, are attuned to the characteristics of neoliberal citizen…
Policing (by) the urban brand
In this paper, we examine the ways in which the urban brand is policed in an attempt to ensure that the Exchange District business improvement zone in Winnipeg, Manitoba maintains a stable and safe image. In doing so, we pay particular attention to the use of security and beautification services as well as environmental design in the production of perceptions of safety. In addition, we suggest that the brand itself is a source of policing, since …
Community Positions, Neoliberal Dispositions
In this article, we demonstrate the critical value of Loïc Wacquant's reworking of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the bureaucratic field for the study of nonprofit social services. In particular, we suggest that this approach offers a richer understanding of the neoliberalization of nonprofit social service agencies. To illustrate this point, we draw upon interviews with nonprofit social service providers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, examining the field …
Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh
Obstacles and momentum on the path to post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations
In contemporary human rights politics, much international effort is invested in securing reparative settlements in the aftermath of genocide and mass atrocities. This article details a broad comparative research project in which we seek to map the respective paths of 47 post-genocide and mass atrocity reparations claims. Based on the findings of this study, using a mixed-methods approach, we highlight some potential obstacles within claims proces…
Unsettling Genocide Studies at the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, July 16-19, 2014, Winnipeg-Canada
What is the purpose of a genocide conference and in what ways might such a conference "unsettle" us and contribute to a broader decolonizing project, in genocide studies and beyond? This summary of the Eleventh Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada examines some of the disruptions and connections that arose and contributed to the vitality of our meetings
Canada and colonial genocide
This introductory article offers an overview of debates about genocide and settler colonialism in Canada. The argument is presented that Canada, although a marginal case to genocide studies, provides important insights and challenging questions, particularly with respect to the need to decolonize the field of genocide studies
This Benevolent Experiment
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formu…
Genocidal carcerality and Indian residential schools in Canada
This paper contributes to the criminology of genocide through examination of settler colonial destruction within the broader context of what we term ‘genocidal carcerality’. We employ this term to examine the ways in which space is implicated in the physical, biological, and cultural destruction of group life. In this paper, our purpose is not to create a typology of genocidal carcerality, but rather to demonstrate the multiplicity of spatial str…
Criminology's Time
This article examines the delimiting role time plays in criminological research, especially with respect to historical studies related to genocide in a settler-colonial context. In short, we argue that criminological temporalities often exclude forms of collective destruction defined by a more complicated duration or scope. We do this through investigation of Canada's residential school system, with specific attention to a single Indian Residenti…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Critical Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Studies
The frustrations of a genocide scholar are many. Chief among them is what Keith Tester refers to as the "rage" of the "incapacitated" 1 -the paradox of having too much knowledge of human suffering but finding our selves unable to do little more than shout, "something must be done!" Institutions have become the primary moral agents for responding to terrible events like genocide, Tester notes, adding "It is not just the world which has been wholly…
We Planted Rice and Killed People
In recent years, genocide scholars have given greater attention to the dangers posed by climate change for increasing the prevalence or intensity of genocide. Challenges related to forced migration, resource scarcity, famine, and other threats of the Anthropocene are identified as sources of present and future risk, especially for those committed to genocide prevention. We approach the connection between the natural and social aspects of genocide…
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