Jerzy Elżanowski (Ottawa) / Mercator Fellow 2018: Against a Totalizing Discourse in Heritage: Questioning Erasure in Canada and Poland
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| contents | <p><br>Alongside the 2015 decision of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to name the In-dian residential school system a “cultural genocide” came a flurry of national commemorative initia-tives largely focused on wars and genocides that happened elsewhere.</p> <p><span></span></p> <p>The disjuncture between a call by the Commission, the Indigenous resistance movement, and activist academics for deep self-examination, and the concurrent public and national celebration of Canada as a “land of refuge,” sit uneasily together in the commemorative landscape of Ottawa. This bifurcation leaves little space for a critical assessment of essentializing practices that can be observed both in the work/resistance of those eager and those unwilling to effect structural change. Based on an interrogation of the discursive fields surrounding Ottawa’s Polish-led Monument to the Victims of Communism, this talk considers the possible utility (and outlines the limits) of multidirectional and processual/relational models of heritage-making in an ongoing colonial context.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Jerzy Elżanowski (Ottawa) / Mercator Fellow 2018: Against a Totalizing Discourse in Heritage: Questioning Erasure in Canada and Poland Elżanowski, Jerzy Cultural heritage cultural genocide heritage-making Canada Indigenous movement <p><br>Alongside the 2015 decision of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to name the In-dian residential school system a “cultural genocide” came a flurry of national commemorative initia-tives largely focused on wars and genocides that happened elsewhere.</p> <p><span></span></p> <p>The disjuncture between a call by the Commission, the Indigenous resistance movement, and activist academics for deep self-examination, and the concurrent public and national celebration of Canada as a “land of refuge,” sit uneasily together in the commemorative landscape of Ottawa. This bifurcation leaves little space for a critical assessment of essentializing practices that can be observed both in the work/resistance of those eager and those unwilling to effect structural change. Based on an interrogation of the discursive fields surrounding Ottawa’s Polish-led Monument to the Victims of Communism, this talk considers the possible utility (and outlines the limits) of multidirectional and processual/relational models of heritage-making in an ongoing colonial context.</p> |
| title | Jerzy Elżanowski (Ottawa) / Mercator Fellow 2018: Against a Totalizing Discourse in Heritage: Questioning Erasure in Canada and Poland |
| topic | Cultural heritage cultural genocide heritage-making Canada Indigenous movement |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15496203 |