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Therapeutic Nations
Self-determination is on the agenda of Indigenous peoples all over the world. This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations-based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination. Gender inequality and gender violence, Dian Million argues, are critically important elements in the process of self-determination.Million contends that nation-state relations are influenced by a theory of trauma ascendant with the rise of neoliberalism. Such use of trauma theory regarding human rights corresponds to a therapeutic narrative by Western governments negotiating with Indigenous nations as they seek self-determination.Focusing on Canada and drawing comparisons with the United States and Australia, Million brings a genealogical understanding of trauma against a historical filter. Illustrating how Indigenous people are positioned differently in Canada, Australia, and the United States in their articulation of trauma, the author particularly addresses the violence against women as a language within a greater politic. The book introduces an Indigenous feminist critique of this violence against the medicalized framework of addressing trauma and looks to the larger goals of decolonization. Noting the influence of humanitarian psychiatry, Million goes on to confront the implications of simply dismissing Indigenous healing and storytelling traditions.Therapeutic Nationsis the first book to demonstrate affect and trauma's wide-ranging historical origins in an Indigenous setting, offering insights into community healing programs. The author's theoretical sophistication and original research make the book relevant across a range of disciplines as it challenges key concepts of American Indian and Indigenous studies.
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Uncommon Schools
Postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples emerged in the late 1960s, just as other special purpose colleges based on gender or race began to close. What accounts for the emergence of these distinctive institutions? Though indigenous students are among the least populous, the poorest, and the most educationally disadvantaged in the world, they differ from most other racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic minorities by virtue of their exceptional claims to sovereignty under international and domestic law.
Uncommon Schools explores the emergence of postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples worldwide, with a focus on developments in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Providing the opportunity to examine larger social, political, and legal processes, it traces the incorporation of indigenous peoples into nation-states, the rise of a global indigenous rights movement, and the \"massification\" of postsecondary education while investigating the variety of ways these culturally relevant colleges differ from each other and from other postsecondary institutions.
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A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics
The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed.
A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions, It encourages the development of global awareness and sensitivity to and respect for the diversity of peoples and their values and will advance understanding as well as help to foster a greater balance and a fuller truth in consideration of the human condition and what makes for health and wholeness.
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Gender justice, development, and rights
Recent years have seen a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy.While this has brought many positive changes in women's rights and political representation, in much of the world these advances were not matched by increases in social justice.
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Peacemaking: An adaptive mediation model for young offenders
While significant advances have been made in conflict resolution, mediation still largely employs an outdated perspective toward communication. Through a critique of mediation procedures, fieldwork among young offenders, actual mediation cases conducted with adults, and a review of aboriginal youth justice initiatives, I argue that a new non-face-to-face mediation model should be considered alongside standard mediation. The purpose is to accommodate the abilities and fears of marginalized people. Using a cross-cultural review of Maori, Japanese, Ojibway, Nuer and Navajo successes with youth justice, I argue that the ideals behind those initiatives can also be achieved in mediation talks with those reluctant to enter the current face-to-face process. I also argue that mediators must become more sensitive to the concerns and needs of participants, particularly young offenders. I suggest the current face-to-face model be adapted to accommodate causes of resistance to mediation expressed to me by young offenders, and that disputants be given more choice in terms of process. The one-size-fits-all mediation process is not adequate for a diverse population.
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Interrogating justice: A cultural critique
In this thesis, I argue that the procedures of the Canadian justice system must become sensitive to the cultural difference of Aboriginal peoples in order to provide, or to co-operate in providing, justice for them. Through a cultural critique of procedural justice I destabilize the non-Aboriginal justice ideology of one justice system for all which purports to operate fairly and objectively across cultural difference. I argue that it is based upon a culturally specific understanding of a unitary and homogenous human nature centered on notions of possessive individualism, political liberalism and the paradigm of punishment. I demonstrate this through \"a mapping of the dominant discourse, a reading and exposing of its underlying assumptions from the cross-cultural standpoint of the imperially subjectified local\" (Tiffin 1995: 98). Through a cross cultural juxtaposition of Aboriginal circle sentencing with this universalizing dominant discourse and the practices resulting from it, I demonstrate that there are other ways of knowing about justice that can be utilized in the sentencing procedures of the non-Aboriginal justice system. This discussion illustrates how the restorative and healing focus of traditional Aboriginal ways of knowing and practicing justice must be respected and used in any attempt to reform the formal justice system. Through this thesis I hope to provide non-Aboriginal peoples with alternatives to a 'one size fits all' justice system.
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