Reviews:
"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspo... more Reviews:
"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations.. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here." Pamela McCallum, Chimo
"In Countering Displacements, eight brilliant essays focus on histories of displacement across the world, shedding light on the reality of people's everyday lives when fighting for the right to move or to stay.. This is a book like no other: where refugees' ongoing confrontation with authority, land exploitation, Indigenous self-determination and questions of citizenship are re-created in relation to one another, forming ways to creatively and collectively redefine statehood, nationality and legality." Ro Velasquez Guzman, Shameless, Spring 2013
"In addition to its unique assemblage of refugee and Indigenous voices, the most exciting aspect of this book is its envisioning of resistance through creativity. Authors include forms of resistance and affirmation ranging from creative works to policy-making to outright protest.... These eight divergent essays together comprise a collection that is genuinely evocative and courageous. In concluding, I will leave you with an inspirational statement, alluded to in my title, from Hajdukowski-Ahmed's writing. She says, 'creativity is an alchemy that can transform pain into art, testimony, and hope.' One after another, the chapters in Countering Displacements work to describe this alchemy, and to attest to the strength of those who practice it within their political and cultural struggles." Aubrey Hanson, The Goose 2013 Double Issue [Full review at http://bit.ly/HVycI3]
"This collection provides a thoughtful response to a rising global issue. Throughout the collection there is an underlying presence of human rights rhetoric and although not explicitly stated, it is worth noting that the trend toward moving human rights out of juridical and legal frameworks to humanities based research is helpful in developing creative solutions to problems of displacement." Alexander Hartwiger, Transnational Literature, November 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/1dbxOn6]
"...thoughtful and strongly humanitarian collection, highly recommended especially for college library anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies collections."
Studies in Canadian Literature Etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Jun 1, 2012
ow the Indian guides are dead asleep," writes Duncan Campbell Scott in "The Height of Land," a po... more ow the Indian guides are dead asleep," writes Duncan Campbell Scott in "The Height of Land," a poem that features the poet's encounter with a powerful, unnameable presence in the northern landscape: Something comes by flashes Deeper than peace,-a spell Golden and inappellable. (95)
, provided a wonderful stimulus to my thinking, not just about the book, but about the ongoing pr... more , provided a wonderful stimulus to my thinking, not just about the book, but about the ongoing project of critically dismantling the assumptions of White supremacy in Canada. 1 What follows is an amalgamation of the comments I offered at the panel session itself and further thoughts sparked by the comments and questions offered by the three colleagues who performed the role of "critics"-George Elliott Clarke, Margery Fee, and Robert Young-as well as by audience members that day. I have written the paragraphs that follow in such a way that those who were not at the session will have some sense of the context of our discussion, and those who were there will, I hope, see how the day's discussion has furthered my own thinking since then. George, Margery, and Robert, too, may have readjusted their comments since we met in Vancouver, but I will have to rely here upon what they said at the session. Although they raised a variety of points well worth pursuing, let me focus, after a brief overview of the book's general project, on three broad topics touched upon in different ways by George, Margery, and Robert. These were elaborated in the ensuing round-the-room discussion, and I think they are crucial for further consideration. The first rises from Robert's attention to the genealogical lines of terms central to the analysis in White Civility-particularly the ethno-national designations of Britishness and Englishness, and the relations between the concepts of civility and civilization. The second rises out of George's and Margery's concern that the book's history of White writers' production and reproduction of White civility can repeat the marginalization and silencing of non-White writers' criticisms of and alternatives to it. 2 The third rises out of all three critics' querying of the book's call for "wry civility." "Why civility?" asks George. If we want a different ethic, furthers Margery, quoting Thomas King, why not "Têll a different story"?
The deer were going directly into a human community, upon their own volition. Why? It is a questi... more The deer were going directly into a human community, upon their own volition. Why? It is a question I cannot answer, but it is a manner of accommodation. It reminded me of my Indian people of the past. They too went into the white man's community, putting on his coat and tie, and attempting to accommodate to this strange society. The result was mixed. Some survived, most didn't. Did the deer survive? Probably. I don't know. [They] were wearing their own coats....
Reviews:
"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspo... more Reviews:
"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations.. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here." Pamela McCallum, Chimo
"In Countering Displacements, eight brilliant essays focus on histories of displacement across the world, shedding light on the reality of people's everyday lives when fighting for the right to move or to stay.. This is a book like no other: where refugees' ongoing confrontation with authority, land exploitation, Indigenous self-determination and questions of citizenship are re-created in relation to one another, forming ways to creatively and collectively redefine statehood, nationality and legality." Ro Velasquez Guzman, Shameless, Spring 2013
"In addition to its unique assemblage of refugee and Indigenous voices, the most exciting aspect of this book is its envisioning of resistance through creativity. Authors include forms of resistance and affirmation ranging from creative works to policy-making to outright protest.... These eight divergent essays together comprise a collection that is genuinely evocative and courageous. In concluding, I will leave you with an inspirational statement, alluded to in my title, from Hajdukowski-Ahmed's writing. She says, 'creativity is an alchemy that can transform pain into art, testimony, and hope.' One after another, the chapters in Countering Displacements work to describe this alchemy, and to attest to the strength of those who practice it within their political and cultural struggles." Aubrey Hanson, The Goose 2013 Double Issue [Full review at http://bit.ly/HVycI3]
"This collection provides a thoughtful response to a rising global issue. Throughout the collection there is an underlying presence of human rights rhetoric and although not explicitly stated, it is worth noting that the trend toward moving human rights out of juridical and legal frameworks to humanities based research is helpful in developing creative solutions to problems of displacement." Alexander Hartwiger, Transnational Literature, November 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/1dbxOn6]
"...thoughtful and strongly humanitarian collection, highly recommended especially for college library anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies collections."
Studies in Canadian Literature Etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Jun 1, 2012
ow the Indian guides are dead asleep," writes Duncan Campbell Scott in "The Height of Land," a po... more ow the Indian guides are dead asleep," writes Duncan Campbell Scott in "The Height of Land," a poem that features the poet's encounter with a powerful, unnameable presence in the northern landscape: Something comes by flashes Deeper than peace,-a spell Golden and inappellable. (95)
, provided a wonderful stimulus to my thinking, not just about the book, but about the ongoing pr... more , provided a wonderful stimulus to my thinking, not just about the book, but about the ongoing project of critically dismantling the assumptions of White supremacy in Canada. 1 What follows is an amalgamation of the comments I offered at the panel session itself and further thoughts sparked by the comments and questions offered by the three colleagues who performed the role of "critics"-George Elliott Clarke, Margery Fee, and Robert Young-as well as by audience members that day. I have written the paragraphs that follow in such a way that those who were not at the session will have some sense of the context of our discussion, and those who were there will, I hope, see how the day's discussion has furthered my own thinking since then. George, Margery, and Robert, too, may have readjusted their comments since we met in Vancouver, but I will have to rely here upon what they said at the session. Although they raised a variety of points well worth pursuing, let me focus, after a brief overview of the book's general project, on three broad topics touched upon in different ways by George, Margery, and Robert. These were elaborated in the ensuing round-the-room discussion, and I think they are crucial for further consideration. The first rises from Robert's attention to the genealogical lines of terms central to the analysis in White Civility-particularly the ethno-national designations of Britishness and Englishness, and the relations between the concepts of civility and civilization. The second rises out of George's and Margery's concern that the book's history of White writers' production and reproduction of White civility can repeat the marginalization and silencing of non-White writers' criticisms of and alternatives to it. 2 The third rises out of all three critics' querying of the book's call for "wry civility." "Why civility?" asks George. If we want a different ethic, furthers Margery, quoting Thomas King, why not "Têll a different story"?
The deer were going directly into a human community, upon their own volition. Why? It is a questi... more The deer were going directly into a human community, upon their own volition. Why? It is a question I cannot answer, but it is a manner of accommodation. It reminded me of my Indian people of the past. They too went into the white man's community, putting on his coat and tie, and attempting to accommodate to this strange society. The result was mixed. Some survived, most didn't. Did the deer survive? Probably. I don't know. [They] were wearing their own coats....
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"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations.. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here." Pamela McCallum, Chimo
"In Countering Displacements, eight brilliant essays focus on histories of displacement across the world, shedding light on the reality of people's everyday lives when fighting for the right to move or to stay.. This is a book like no other: where refugees' ongoing confrontation with authority, land exploitation, Indigenous self-determination and questions of citizenship are re-created in relation to one another, forming ways to creatively and collectively redefine statehood, nationality and legality." Ro Velasquez Guzman, Shameless, Spring 2013
"In addition to its unique assemblage of refugee and Indigenous voices, the most exciting aspect of this book is its envisioning of resistance through creativity. Authors include forms of resistance and affirmation ranging from creative works to policy-making to outright protest.... These eight divergent essays together comprise a collection that is genuinely evocative and courageous. In concluding, I will leave you with an inspirational statement, alluded to in my title, from Hajdukowski-Ahmed's writing. She says, 'creativity is an alchemy that can transform pain into art, testimony, and hope.' One after another, the chapters in Countering Displacements work to describe this alchemy, and to attest to the strength of those who practice it within their political and cultural struggles." Aubrey Hanson, The Goose 2013 Double Issue [Full review at http://bit.ly/HVycI3]
"This collection provides a thoughtful response to a rising global issue. Throughout the collection there is an underlying presence of human rights rhetoric and although not explicitly stated, it is worth noting that the trend toward moving human rights out of juridical and legal frameworks to humanities based research is helpful in developing creative solutions to problems of displacement." Alexander Hartwiger, Transnational Literature, November 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/1dbxOn6]
"...thoughtful and strongly humanitarian collection, highly recommended especially for college library anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies collections."
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"Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations.. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here." Pamela McCallum, Chimo
"In Countering Displacements, eight brilliant essays focus on histories of displacement across the world, shedding light on the reality of people's everyday lives when fighting for the right to move or to stay.. This is a book like no other: where refugees' ongoing confrontation with authority, land exploitation, Indigenous self-determination and questions of citizenship are re-created in relation to one another, forming ways to creatively and collectively redefine statehood, nationality and legality." Ro Velasquez Guzman, Shameless, Spring 2013
"In addition to its unique assemblage of refugee and Indigenous voices, the most exciting aspect of this book is its envisioning of resistance through creativity. Authors include forms of resistance and affirmation ranging from creative works to policy-making to outright protest.... These eight divergent essays together comprise a collection that is genuinely evocative and courageous. In concluding, I will leave you with an inspirational statement, alluded to in my title, from Hajdukowski-Ahmed's writing. She says, 'creativity is an alchemy that can transform pain into art, testimony, and hope.' One after another, the chapters in Countering Displacements work to describe this alchemy, and to attest to the strength of those who practice it within their political and cultural struggles." Aubrey Hanson, The Goose 2013 Double Issue [Full review at http://bit.ly/HVycI3]
"This collection provides a thoughtful response to a rising global issue. Throughout the collection there is an underlying presence of human rights rhetoric and although not explicitly stated, it is worth noting that the trend toward moving human rights out of juridical and legal frameworks to humanities based research is helpful in developing creative solutions to problems of displacement." Alexander Hartwiger, Transnational Literature, November 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/1dbxOn6]
"...thoughtful and strongly humanitarian collection, highly recommended especially for college library anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies collections."
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