The Violence Within
Canadian Modern Statehood and the Pan-territorial Residential School System Ideal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6235919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Bridget Murray, Karen Murray (0000-0001-7975-5518, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 747-772 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423916001189 |
| OpenAlex | W2610947456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's “principle of montage,” this article excavates the political salience of what is referred to herein as the residential school system's “pan-territorial ideal.” The pan-territorial ideal materialized in 1930 with the opening of the Shubenacadie Residential School in the Maritimes, the system's final frontier. It was envisioned, forged and secured, in part, with the overt understanding that so called Indian education could be used as a vector of violence to control Indigenous peoples and their lands. This history clashes with dominant narratives that interpret residential school system violence as the product of mismanagement and neglect. From the early days of Confederation to its almost full legal autonomy from Britain in the early twentieth century and beyond, the Dominion's pursuit of the pan-territorial vision involved the selective harnessing of the residential school system as a field of state-sanctioned force to quell Indigenous resistance. In this, residential school violence cannot be reduced to a deviation from the norm. In crucial respects, it was an inherent feature of the system and Canadian modern statehood itself
Autonomy · Frontier · Geography · Ideal (ethics · Indigenous · Political science · Residential school · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Canadian Identity and History · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |