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Refugee Storytelling: Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head and Corporeal Experience
No full textFrom Renunciation to Mysticism: Nature Writing’s Residual Religiosity in Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain
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Villains or Victims? Analyzing the Canada Revenue Agency’s Role in Countering Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Offences in Canadian Charities
No full textThis paper addresses the role of Canadian charities in the global fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. It highlights how Canadian charities with altruistic motives can suffer as victims both from abuse by bad actors and from the unintended consequences of disproportionate regulation. This paper suggests that Canada’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regime should evolve to treat charities as co-collaborators in the global fight against terrorist financing instead of villainous vehicles for terrorist entities
Asian North Americans, George Floyd and the politics of anti-Asian and anti-Black racism in COVID-19 times
No full textThis paper examines the intersections of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of systemic racism by focusing on how Asians in COVID-19 times have been multiply constructed as the vectors of infection, national security threats, victims of anti-Asian racism, and harbingers of anti-Black racism. I do so by drawing on public and media representations of and Asian responses to the two Asian people directly implicated in the death of George Floyd: Tou Thao and Kellie Chauvin. George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin when Chauvin pressed his knees on George Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes while Floyd was faced down on the ground. Floyd’s killing sparked months of protests in the United States and globally. It is estimated that approximately 20 million people in the United States participated in protests regarding Floyd’s death within the first month alone (Buchanan, Bui and Patel July 3, 2020)
From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: How the Impetus of the Haitian Revolution Changed Throughout the Revolutionary Process
No full textIn recent decades scholars have established the Haitian Revolution as a momentous historical event alongside the other canonical Atlantic revolutions. The Haitian Revolution was distinctive, however, because it was the only slave revolt in the Americas to overcome European colonial governance and found an autonomous state. This extraordinary event erupted out of the extreme societal conditions in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Supported by France, the plantocracy dominated the colony through mass enslavement and political exclusion of the colony’s free population of colour. These two structural conflicts determined the revolutionary process. Initially, the political and economic conflict between intransigent white Dominguans and aspirational free Dominguans of colour resulted in a civil war and as this conflict destabilized the fragile structure of colonial oppression the enslaved population seized control of the revolutionary process
What Haunts Pedagogical Documentation? Speculating With Data-Ghost(s)
No full textWith the imaginary of (a) data-ghost(s), I use ideas from hauntology to speculate about what haunts pedagogical documentation. By re-turning to an example of documentation of young children encountering a hatchery where eggs incubated into chicks, I notice the absences of what was not documented as hauntings. With performative and playful writing, I speculate with artworks and dialogue as a way of speaking of, to, and with ghosts. By thinking with the relationships between past/present/future, I ponder what inheritances, response-abilities, and possibilities emerge. Through slowing down with data-ghost(s), I speculate with what haunts and hauntings’ call for something-to-be-done to imagine what becomes possible for practices in the present and future for classroom practice and teacher education
Anarchism and Peace History
No full textBuilding from the poster by Chris Lebeau (1878–1945) which graces the cover of this issue, Dominique Miething provides an introduction to the relationship between anarchism and peace history referencing four of Lebeau‘s artworks. He also sheds new light on the anarchist origins of one of the peace movement’s most pervasive symbols, the broken rifle
Divided Landscapes
No full textThe U.S.–Mexico border is not only a line of control over human mobility but a wound inflicted on the living world, fragmenting habitats and silencing ecosystems. Divided Landscapes brings together the visual and written work of photojournalist Guillermo Arias Camarena and historian Viviana Mejía Cañedo to examine the environmental and symbolic violence of the border. Arias’s photographs (selected from his collection, El muro y el paisaje destruido / The Wall and the Destroyed Landscape) reveal the stark imposition of border infrastructure on fragile ecologies. Mejía’s essay (first published here) situates these landscapes within longer histories of geopolitical asymmetry, displacement, and resistance. The portfolio invites readers to see the border as a contested site, certainly of violence, but also of memory, resistance, and the possibility of reimagining division as dialogue.