Unsettling Claims of Belonging
Deconstructing Canada through Four Generations of Stories on Turtle Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21829110 |
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| Authors | Jennifer Matsunaga (University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 8-17 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1916-3460 • E-ISSN: 1916-3460 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18733/cpi29573 |
| OpenAlex | W3157044938 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Starting from the premise that we have to know where we have been to know where we are going, this piece looks heavily to the past and considers the effects of differently experienced belonging in Canada across generations. This autobiographical reflection questions how we might read migrant-settler narratives of belonging alongside Indigenous struggles for sovereignty in such a way that desires for belonging do not displace or erase such struggles but rather support them. Reflecting on my experiences of belonging and shame as a Japanese Canadian of mixed Japanese and British ancestry, the article seeks to deconstruct and disrupt settler-migrant stories by examining citizenship and belonging from these different perspectives
Art · Citizenship · Epistemology · Genealogy · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Premise · Shame · Sociology · Sovereignty · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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