Indigenous Healing as Paradox

Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses o...

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1. autor: Maxwell, Krista
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Wydane: University of Alberta Press 2025
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description Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses on late twentieth-century Indigenous social histories in Treaty 3 territory and cities in northern and southern Ontario to show practices of re-membering—drawing on traditional ways of being and knowing for social repair and collective rejuvenation—against the backdrop of the social dismemberment of Indigenous Peoples. Expansion of re-membering is often enabled by tactical engagements with the settler state which have fuelled an Indigenized biopolitics from below. Maxwell offers an analysis of the possibilities, tensions, and risks inherent to these biopolitical tactics. Informed by Indigenous feminist scholarship that emphasizes relationality, care, and the everyday, as well as the intimate workings of settler colonialism, this book aims to enrich critical conversations about reconciliation and resurgence politics and challenge their perceived dichotomy.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1579422025-03-31T16:34:32Z Indigenous Healing as Paradox Maxwell, Krista social actors welfare state survival well-being activism illness addiction healthcare survivance family gender women social services violence mental health Anishinaabeg abuse medical anthropology JHMC - Social and cultural anthropology JBFN - Health, illness and addiction: social aspects JBSL11 - Indigenous peoples Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses on late twentieth-century Indigenous social histories in Treaty 3 territory and cities in northern and southern Ontario to show practices of re-membering—drawing on traditional ways of being and knowing for social repair and collective rejuvenation—against the backdrop of the social dismemberment of Indigenous Peoples. Expansion of re-membering is often enabled by tactical engagements with the settler state which have fuelled an Indigenized biopolitics from below. Maxwell offers an analysis of the possibilities, tensions, and risks inherent to these biopolitical tactics. Informed by Indigenous feminist scholarship that emphasizes relationality, care, and the everyday, as well as the intimate workings of settler colonialism, this book aims to enrich critical conversations about reconciliation and resurgence politics and challenge their perceived dichotomy. Published 2025-03-31T16:34:30Z 2025-03-31T16:34:30Z 2025-02-13 book 9781772125740, 9781772127898 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157942 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772125740/indigenous-healing-as-paradox/ https://www.booksonix.com/uapress/Open%20Access/9781772127904_WEB.pdf University of Alberta Press University of Alberta Press ffb1e375-9adb-4bf2-b901-997055c17614 9781772125740, 9781772127898 University of Alberta Press Edmonton, AB, Canada open access
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gender
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violence
mental health
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JBFN - Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
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Indigenous Healing as Paradox
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welfare state
survival
well-being
activism
illness
addiction
healthcare
survivance
family
gender
women
social services
violence
mental health
Anishinaabeg
abuse
medical anthropology
JHMC - Social and cultural anthropology
JBFN - Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
JBSL11 - Indigenous peoples
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welfare state
survival
well-being
activism
illness
addiction
healthcare
survivance
family
gender
women
social services
violence
mental health
Anishinaabeg
abuse
medical anthropology
JHMC - Social and cultural anthropology
JBFN - Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
JBSL11 - Indigenous peoples
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