Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

Amber Dean (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2015
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4454-0 (ISBN)

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Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver’s disappeared women to the attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women traces “what lives on” from the violent loss of so many women from the same neighbourhood.

Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women’s research, activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its countless injustices.

Amber Dean is an assistant professor in the Gender Studies and Feminist Research Program and the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Introduction: Inheriting What Lives On

1. The Present Pasts of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

2. Following Ghosts: Different Knowings, Knowing Differently

3. Looking at Images of Vancouver’s Disappeared Women: Troubling Desires to “Humanize”

4. Shadowing the “Missing Women” Story: “Squaw Men,” Whores, and other Queer(ed) Figures

5. Memory’s Difficult Returns: Memorializing Vancouver’s Disappeared Women

Conclusion: Reckoning (for the Present)

Zusatzinfo	14 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4426-4454-0 / 1442644540
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-4454-0 / 9781442644540
Zustand	Neuware