Rosemary Nagy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Nagy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagy |
| SIGNATURE | NAGY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nipissing University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Transformative justice in a settler colonial transition: Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
The transformative justice agenda within the field of transitional justice has yet to take up settler colonialism and Indigenous peoples. This paper develops the idea of an indigenised, decolonial transformative justice that encompasses relational change at the grassroots level through acts of Indigenous resurgence, settler decolonisation and allyship, as well as structural transformations at the state and global levels through the UN Declaration…
Human Trafficking in Northeastern Ontario: Collaborative Responses
Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is undoubtedly occurring in Northeastern Ontario. However, there is a lack of information, resources, coordination, and collaboration on the issue in comparison to Southern Ontario. Furthermore, urban-based programming from “down south” does not necessarily fit the unique circumstances of Northeastern Ontario: specifically, the isolation and underservicing of rural and remote communities, t…
Settler Witnessing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Can Reconciliation Be Compelled? Transnational Advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada Relationship
Through an examination of transnational advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada relationship, this article advances a compliance model of reconciliation to suggest that reconciliation might be compelled through pressure upon states to comply with their human rights obligations. Drawing upon constructivism, conflict resolution theory, and social psychology, the article proposes that compliance and reconciliation converge as a result of behavioral adjus…
Truth, Trauma, Agency
The Empire of Trauma opens by noting that the idea of trauma is ubiquitous today both in terms of its mental health usage, that is, traces left in the psyche, and in terms of its popular meaning as an ‘an open wound in the collective memory’ (p. 2). Moreover, write Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, ‘the discourse often shifts from one meaning to another within the same passage, without particularly marking the distinction’ (p. 2). This shifting…
What's in an Idea: Truth Commission Policy Transfer in Ghana and Canada
This article employs a social constructivist framework to explain truth commission policy transfer across borders. Using the cases of Ghana and Canada, the article draws on qualitative interview research to trace how and why the truth commission model was adopted by these two countries in response to past human rights abuse. In contrast to suggestions that the transnational proliferation of truth commissions is the result of behavioral socializat…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and Design1
How and why did Canada end up with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) rather than a judicially based public inquiry in response to Indian Residential Schools? Using a constructivist-interpretivist approach with interview research with twenty-three key actors, this article traces the path toward the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. It examines in particular the shift from calls for public inquiry to truth and reconciliatio…
Truth, Reconciliation and Settler Denial: Specifying the Canada–South Africa Analogy
The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools allows us to rethink the scope and bounds of transitional justice. Once we expand our notions of injustice and transition, the Canadian case is not so far apart from paradigmatic cases, which too often overlook structural violence. The article argues for settler decolonization as a path of reconciliation and in so doing directly engages structural violence and in…
Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization
“Home” to more than 150,000 children from the 1870s until 1996, the residential school system was aimed at “killing the Indian in the child” and assimilating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into white settler society. It was, in short, a genocidal policy, operated jointly by the federal government of Canada and the Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian Churches. Children as young as four years old were torn from their families and…
What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
Traditional Justice and Legal Pluralism in Transitional Context: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections
This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow interpretation of violence within a somewhat artificial …
Postapartheid Justice: Can Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Building Be Reconciled
South African plaintiffs are suing numerous multinational corporations under the American Alien Tort Claims Act for aiding and abetting apartheid's crimes against humanity. This article argues that Re South African Apartheid Litigation should be understood as a cosmopolitan re-membering of the nation. This interpretation runs counter to theoretical and political presumptions of an inherent antagonism between cosmopolitanism and nationhood. The ap…
The Ambiguities of Reconciliation and Responsibility in South Africa
This paper traces the ways in which the language of reconciliation promotes and detracts from responsibility. What it means to be responsible and to take responsibility is explored through a reading of J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace. Coetzee provokes a nuanced examination of the nature of reconciliation and responsibility in post-apartheid South Africa, particularly how deep a moral transformation is needed and of whom it should be expected. The…
After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory, and Reconciliation
(2004). After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory, and Reconciliation. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 638-653
Reconciliation in Post-Commission South Africa: Thick and Thin Accounts of Solidarity
The meaning of reconciliation in South Africa remains ambiguous and contested. A distinction is drawn between moral and political approaches to reconciliation that invoke thick and thin accounts of solidarity. The discourses of forgiveness and healing are "too thick" because they demand public coherence at the cost of private difference. The promotion of deliberative democracy protects difference, but is "too thin" to enable a substantial basis f…
Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections
This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow interpretation of violence within a somewhat artificial …
The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools allows us to rethink the scope and bounds of transitional justice. Once we expand our notions of injustice and transition, the Canadian case is not so far apart from paradigmatic cases, which too often overlook structural violence. The article argues for settler decolonization as a path of reconciliation and in so doing directly engages structural violence and in…
Transformative justice in a settler colonial transition: Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
The transformative justice agenda within the field of transitional justice has yet to take up settler colonialism and Indigenous peoples. This paper develops the idea of an indigenised, decolonial transformative justice that encompasses relational change at the grassroots level through acts of Indigenous resurgence, settler decolonisation and allyship, as well as structural transformations at the state and global levels through the UN Declaration…
Truth, Reconciliation and Settler Denial: Specifying the Canada–South Africa Analogy
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and Design1
How and why did Canada end up with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) rather than a judicially based public inquiry in response to Indian Residential Schools? Using a constructivist-interpretivist approach with interview research with twenty-three key actors, this article traces the path toward the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. It examines in particular the shift from calls for public inquiry to truth and reconciliatio…
The Ambiguities of Reconciliation and Responsibility in South Africa
This paper traces the ways in which the language of reconciliation promotes and detracts from responsibility. What it means to be responsible and to take responsibility is explored through a reading of J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace. Coetzee provokes a nuanced examination of the nature of reconciliation and responsibility in post-apartheid South Africa, particularly how deep a moral transformation is needed and of whom it should be expected. The…
Reconciliation in Post-Commission South Africa: Thick and Thin Accounts of Solidarity
The meaning of reconciliation in South Africa remains ambiguous and contested. A distinction is drawn between moral and political approaches to reconciliation that invoke thick and thin accounts of solidarity. The discourses of forgiveness and healing are "too thick" because they demand public coherence at the cost of private difference. The promotion of deliberative democracy protects difference, but is "too thin" to enable a substantial basis f…
Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization
“Home” to more than 150,000 children from the 1870s until 1996, the residential school system was aimed at “killing the Indian in the child” and assimilating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into white settler society. It was, in short, a genocidal policy, operated jointly by the federal government of Canada and the Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian Churches. Children as young as four years old were torn from their families and…
What's in an Idea: Truth Commission Policy Transfer in Ghana and Canada
This article employs a social constructivist framework to explain truth commission policy transfer across borders. Using the cases of Ghana and Canada, the article draws on qualitative interview research to trace how and why the truth commission model was adopted by these two countries in response to past human rights abuse. In contrast to suggestions that the transnational proliferation of truth commissions is the result of behavioral socializat…
Postapartheid Justice: Can Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Building Be Reconciled
South African plaintiffs are suing numerous multinational corporations under the American Alien Tort Claims Act for aiding and abetting apartheid's crimes against humanity. This article argues that Re South African Apartheid Litigation should be understood as a cosmopolitan re-membering of the nation. This interpretation runs counter to theoretical and political presumptions of an inherent antagonism between cosmopolitanism and nationhood. The ap…
Settler Witnessing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Can Reconciliation Be Compelled? Transnational Advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada Relationship
Through an examination of transnational advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada relationship, this article advances a compliance model of reconciliation to suggest that reconciliation might be compelled through pressure upon states to comply with their human rights obligations. Drawing upon constructivism, conflict resolution theory, and social psychology, the article proposes that compliance and reconciliation converge as a result of behavioral adjus…
Reconciliation in Post-Commission South Africa: Thick and Thin Accounts of Solidarity
The meaning of reconciliation in South Africa remains ambiguous and contested. A distinction is drawn between moral and political approaches to reconciliation that invoke thick and thin accounts of solidarity. The discourses of forgiveness and healing are "too thick" because they demand public coherence at the cost of private difference. The promotion of deliberative democracy protects difference, but is "too thin" to enable a substantial basis f…
The Ambiguities of Reconciliation and Responsibility in South Africa
This paper traces the ways in which the language of reconciliation promotes and detracts from responsibility. What it means to be responsible and to take responsibility is explored through a reading of J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace. Coetzee provokes a nuanced examination of the nature of reconciliation and responsibility in post-apartheid South Africa, particularly how deep a moral transformation is needed and of whom it should be expected. The…
After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory, and Reconciliation
(2004). After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory, and Reconciliation. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 638-653
Postapartheid Justice: Can Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Building Be Reconciled
South African plaintiffs are suing numerous multinational corporations under the American Alien Tort Claims Act for aiding and abetting apartheid's crimes against humanity. This article argues that Re South African Apartheid Litigation should be understood as a cosmopolitan re-membering of the nation. This interpretation runs counter to theoretical and political presumptions of an inherent antagonism between cosmopolitanism and nationhood. The ap…
Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections
This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow interpretation of violence within a somewhat artificial …
Traditional Justice and Legal Pluralism in Transitional Context: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
Truth, Reconciliation and Settler Denial: Specifying the Canada–South Africa Analogy
The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools allows us to rethink the scope and bounds of transitional justice. Once we expand our notions of injustice and transition, the Canadian case is not so far apart from paradigmatic cases, which too often overlook structural violence. The article argues for settler decolonization as a path of reconciliation and in so doing directly engages structural violence and in…
Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization
“Home” to more than 150,000 children from the 1870s until 1996, the residential school system was aimed at “killing the Indian in the child” and assimilating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into white settler society. It was, in short, a genocidal policy, operated jointly by the federal government of Canada and the Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian Churches. Children as young as four years old were torn from their families and…
What's in an Idea: Truth Commission Policy Transfer in Ghana and Canada
This article employs a social constructivist framework to explain truth commission policy transfer across borders. Using the cases of Ghana and Canada, the article draws on qualitative interview research to trace how and why the truth commission model was adopted by these two countries in response to past human rights abuse. In contrast to suggestions that the transnational proliferation of truth commissions is the result of behavioral socializat…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and Design1
How and why did Canada end up with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) rather than a judicially based public inquiry in response to Indian Residential Schools? Using a constructivist-interpretivist approach with interview research with twenty-three key actors, this article traces the path toward the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. It examines in particular the shift from calls for public inquiry to truth and reconciliatio…
Truth, Trauma, Agency
The Empire of Trauma opens by noting that the idea of trauma is ubiquitous today both in terms of its mental health usage, that is, traces left in the psyche, and in terms of its popular meaning as an ‘an open wound in the collective memory’ (p. 2). Moreover, write Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, ‘the discourse often shifts from one meaning to another within the same passage, without particularly marking the distinction’ (p. 2). This shifting…
Can Reconciliation Be Compelled? Transnational Advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada Relationship
Through an examination of transnational advocacy and the Indigenous–Canada relationship, this article advances a compliance model of reconciliation to suggest that reconciliation might be compelled through pressure upon states to comply with their human rights obligations. Drawing upon constructivism, conflict resolution theory, and social psychology, the article proposes that compliance and reconciliation converge as a result of behavioral adjus…
Human Trafficking in Northeastern Ontario: Collaborative Responses
Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is undoubtedly occurring in Northeastern Ontario. However, there is a lack of information, resources, coordination, and collaboration on the issue in comparison to Southern Ontario. Furthermore, urban-based programming from “down south” does not necessarily fit the unique circumstances of Northeastern Ontario: specifically, the isolation and underservicing of rural and remote communities, t…
Settler Witnessing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Transformative justice in a settler colonial transition: Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
The transformative justice agenda within the field of transitional justice has yet to take up settler colonialism and Indigenous peoples. This paper develops the idea of an indigenised, decolonial transformative justice that encompasses relational change at the grassroots level through acts of Indigenous resurgence, settler decolonisation and allyship, as well as structural transformations at the state and global levels through the UN Declaration…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economic Justice (8 works) · Transitional justice (8 works) · Commission (7 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Criminology (5 works)