On Teaching Human Rights History in a Settler Colonial Context

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American Review of Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/02722011.2023.2172885

L. Madokoro

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ABSTRACT Based on several years of experience in teaching human rights history to undergraduate students in Canada, this article reflects on the challenges involved in imparting knowledge on this subject in a settler colonial context. It builds on examples gleaned from working with undergraduate students, from scholarship on the history of settler colonialism, as well as from Indigenous worldviews and epistemologies, to consider the ways in which the teaching of human rights history needs to evolve alongside and in dialogue with contemporary discussions about rights and justice. The article contends that given contemporary discussions around rights, which reveal the fragility of the liberal human rights framework, this is urgent and necessary work. It concludes by offerings ways of approaching student experiences, insider/outsider dynamics, and contemporary debates when teaching human rights history. The overall purpose of the article is to resituate the teaching of human rights history in a critical, self-reflective manner. In this way, the damaging implications of certain progress-oriented historical narratives centering on the idea and evolution of human rights can also be considered in pedagogical practices on the subject.

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论殖民者殖民地背景下的人权史教学

摘要基于加拿大几年来向本科生教授人权史的经验，本文反思了在定居者殖民背景下传授人权史知识所面临的挑战。它以与本科生合作、定居者殖民主义历史学术以及土著世界观和认识论中收集到的例子为基础，考虑人权史教学需要如何与当代关于权利和正义的讨论一起发展，并与之对话。文章认为，鉴于当代围绕权利的讨论揭示了自由人权框架的脆弱性，这是一项紧迫而必要的工作。最后，它提供了在教授人权史时处理学生经历、内部/外部动态和当代辩论的方法。本文的总体目的是以批判性的、自我反思的方式重新教授人权史。这样，在这一主题的教学实践中，也可以考虑到以人权思想和演变为中心的某些以进步为导向的历史叙事的破坏性影响。

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期刊介绍： American Nineteenth Century History is a peer-reviewed, transatlantic journal devoted to the history of the United States during the long nineteenth century. It welcomes contributions on themes and topics relating to America in this period: slavery, race and ethnicity, the Civil War and Reconstruction, military history, American nationalism, urban history, immigration and ethnicity, western history, the history of women, gender studies, African Americans and Native Americans, cultural studies and comparative pieces. In addition to articles based on original research, historiographical pieces, reassessments of historical controversies, and reappraisals of prominent events or individuals are welcome. Special issues devoted to a particular theme or topic will also be considered.