Into the archive

Vancouver's Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4475922
AutoresJuliane Collard (0000-0003-0316-0483, University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen33
Número5
Páginas779-795
Fecha de publicación2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775815596170
OpenAlexW2217730312
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

In response to public concern over the prolonged serial killings of Vancouver's Missing Women, in 2010, British Columbia's provincial government called a public inquiry into the police investigation of Robert William Pickton, the convicted murderer of six women from Vancouver's downtown eastside. Intended in part as an opportunity for victims, families, and community members to contribute to a process of collective memory making and archivization, the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry ultimately reproduced dominant patterns of silence and exclusion. This article explores the particular mechanisms through which exclusions were enacted; their imbrication with the legal archive that underwrote the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry and the process of archivization in which it was engaged; and the implications for future inquiries into systemic race and gender violence in Canada

Commission · Criminology · Downtown · Government (linguistics · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Public Administration