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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii Joseph Weiss

Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii By Joseph Weiss

Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii by Joseph Weiss


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Countering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which members of the Haida Nation are shaping myriad possible futures to address the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.

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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii Summary

Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism by Joseph Weiss

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense out of time in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures - for themselves and for their non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.

Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii Reviews

[Shaping the Future] is a thought-provoking read, offering many important table-turning insights relevant to reconciliation and understanding any society's resiliency through times of economic, political, and environmental uncertainties. -- Gillian Crowther * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *

Weiss's respect and relationships with the residents of Gaw and his commitment to ethical, reciprocal, and meaningful research comes through in this intriguing book.

-- Molly Clarkson, Haida Gwaii resident * The Ormsby Review *

About Joseph Weiss

Joseph Weiss is an assistant professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University. This book is the result of five years of fieldwork in Old Massett and Masset with the people of the Haida First Nation. Dr. Weiss also maintains abiding interests in Truth and Reconciliation in Canada and research ethics in the social sciences. He has collaborated with the University of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History on the Open Fields Project, examining museum-Indigenous relationships.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Pasts and Futures

1 An Introduction to Haida Future-Making in Old Massett

2 The Everyday Temporalities of Life on Haida Gwaii

Part 2: Home

3 Coming Home to Haida Gwaii: Haida Departures and Returns in the Future Perfect

4 Of Hippies and Haida: Fantasy, Future-Making, and the Allure of Haida Gwaii

Part 3: Care

5 Leading from the Bottom of the Pole: Care and Governance in the Haida World

6 Precarious Authority: Endangerment and the Political Promise to Protect Haida Gwaii

Conclusion: Unsettling Futures

Notes; References; Index

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CIN0774837594G
9780774837590
0774837594
Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism by Joseph Weiss
Used - Good
Paperback
University of British Columbia Press
20190301
244
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