RegioniPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1353/aca.2020.0005
M. Mccrossan
{"title":"Reconsiderations of Reconciliation and Recognition","authors":"M. Mccrossan","doi":"10.1353/aca.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS HAVE LONG RECOGNIZED the steadfast existence of structural and ideological barriers undermining the recognition of Indigenous rights – especially pre-existing rights to land and governance. Indigenous legal scholars, for instance, have regularly drawn attention to the intricate connection between Canadian law and colonialism, particularly the manner in which violence continues to be deployed through the Canadian legal system in relation to Indigenous women and alternate relationships to land.1 More recently, in this current era of rights “recognition” and “reconciliation” with Indigenous populations, scholars in such disparate fields as anthropology and political theory have offered incisive accounts of how liberal discourses of recognition and reconciliation have served to undercut Indigenous claims and sustain structures of domination by reconfiguring and reproducing settler-colonial assemblages of power – ultimately drawing Indigenous peoples further into the ambit of the state.2 Given the presumed efficacy and prominence of discourses of reconciliation in Canada today, such concerns continue to resonate. Indeed, the four texts reviewed in this essay not only continue to “unsettle” prominent national mythologies and conventional legal conceptions but also trace strategies of resistance and possibilities for establishing decolonial relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples: Arthur","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"33 1","pages":"159 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87554636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0010
I. Mckay
{"title":"The \"Morals of Genealogy\": Liberal Settler Colonialism, the Nova Scotia Archives, and the North American Ancestor-Hunters, 1890-1980","authors":"I. Mckay","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:La généalogie occupait une place importante dans la culture de la Nouvelle-Écosse des années 1890 aux années 1970. Pourtant, lorsque D.C. Harvey, l'archiviste provincial à compter de 1931, a défini les principaux objectifs des Archives publiques de la Nouvelle-Écosse, il a exclu la recherche généalogique des objectifs fondamentaux de ce « laboratoire historique ». Il menait une bataille perdue d'avance. Que cela lui ait plu ou non, l'institution qu'il dirigeait faisait partie d'un réseau mnémonique transnational à l'intérieur duquel les approches généalogiques devenaient de plus en plus influentes, et d'une province dont l'élite coloniale blanche avait des liens profonds avec la NouvelleAngleterre, l'épicentre de la généalogie populaire aux États-Unis.Abstract:Genealogy loomed large in the culture of Nova Scotia from the 1890s to the 1970s, yet when D.C. Harvey, the provincial archivist after 1931, defined the key purposes of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, he excluded genealogical research from the core objectives of this \"historical laboratory.\" He was fighting a losing battle. Like it or not, the institution he headed operated as part of a transnational mnemonic network within which genealogical approaches were becoming more influential and within a province whose White colonial elite had deep connections with New England – the epicentre of popular genealogy in the United States.","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"45 1","pages":"43 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85458736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0014
S. Morton, A. Nurse, D. Wright
{"title":"New Voices in Regional Scholarship","authors":"S. Morton, A. Nurse, D. Wright","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"66 1","pages":"177 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86027417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0009
Tina Loo
{"title":"The View from Jacob Street: Reframing Urban Renewal in Postwar Halifax","authors":"Tina Loo","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:En nous concentrant sur la période qui a suivi immédiatement l'étude de l'urbaniste Gordon Stephenson sur le réaménagement d'Halifax en 1957 et précédé le début de la relocalisation d'Africville en 1964, nous acquérons une compréhension différente de l'ampleur du transfert de population, de la façon dont l'effet combiné de la race et de la classe sociale a rendu des gens vulnérables au réaménagement urbain, et du pouvoir de l'administration municipale. La compréhension de ces premières initiatives de réaménagement nous amène également à porter un regard différent sur Africville. Les mesures prises par la Ville à cet endroit ont été façonnées par un changement d'attitudes envers le racisme et une tentative, certes inadéquate, de remédier à celui-ci en mettant l'accent sur l'une de ses manifestations les plus visibles : la ségrégation.Abstract:By focusing on the period immediately following planner Gordon Stephenson's redevelopment study of Halifax in 1957 and before the start of the Africville relocation in 1964, we gain a different appreciation of the scale of displacement, the interplay of race and class in shaping people's vulnerability to urban renewal, and the power of the municipal state. Understanding these early redevelopment efforts also provides us with a different perspective on Africville. The city's actions there were shaped by shifting attitudes towards racism and an attempt, albeit inadequate, to rectify it by focusing on one of its most visible manifestations – segregation.","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"108 1","pages":"42 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81632916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0019
L. Mackinnon
{"title":"A Region in Retrospective: The History of Atlantic Canada, 2009-2019","authors":"L. Mackinnon","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"REGION IS A SLIPPERY IDEA. From its earliest iteration at the turn of the century, David Russell Jack’s magazine Acadiensis concerned itself with the study of the Maritimes from a geographical perspective. With the revival of the journal in 1971, Newfoundland and Labrador were introduced as key areas of interest for scholars of the now-expanded Atlantic region. In the journal’s first essay, entitled “Acadiensis II,” Philip Bucker describes its focus as encompassing “not only the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland, but also Gaspésia and Maine with further extensions into Central Canada and Northern New England.”1 The impetus for a journal dedicated to this area emerged out of a historiographical suspicion of nationally focused historical narratives that ignored regional concerns and produced a collective antipathy towards the sense, famously expressed by Frank Underhill, that “nothing, of course, ever happens” in the Maritimes.2 The assumption of a coherent Atlantic region that conforms with the boundaries of political geography has also inspired calls for political action. Jack, in the earliest years of the original Acadiensis, was a proponent of Maritime Union.3 Ernie Forbes argued in 1979 that the Maritime Rights Movement, the regional flavour of the social gospel, and working class activism in places like industrial Cape Breton revealed a radical sense of regionalism that emboldened various forms of resistance to structural decline.4 This vision of the Atlantic region has also invigorated calls for political action from more conservative perspectives. A future union of the region’s provinces, whether under a Maritime Union or Atlantic Union model, would – under this line of argument – reduce wasteful inefficiencies that go hand-in-hand with operating three (or four) distinct provinces. Why bother maintaining such","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"126 1","pages":"230 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72666416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0018
T. Peace, G. Allen
{"title":"Rethinking Access to the Past: History and Archives in the Digital Age","authors":"T. Peace, G. Allen","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"212 1","pages":"217 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73132593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0013
Vicki S. Hallett
{"title":"Against Prevailing Currents: The History of Them Days Magazine in Labrador","authors":"Vicki S. Hallett","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Depuis plus de quatre décennies, la revue Them Days dépeint les gens du Labrador dans leurs propres mots grâce à la publication d'un numéro trimestriel et de nombreux livres sur le Labrador, ainsi qu'à la création d'un fonds d'archives publiques. Cet article s'intéresse principalement aux aspects historiques de la fondation de la revue et aux défis que ses fondateurs ont dû relever pour construire un stock de récits du Labrador qui représenteraient les cultures qui font l'originalité du Labrador et qui documenteraient un mode de vie considéré comme en déclin rapide. Il examine également comment les individus, les peuples et même les revues doivent continuellement négocier leur identité à travers des rapports de force dans un État de peuplement colonial.Abstract:For more than four decades, Them Days magazine has portrayed Labradorians in their own words through publishing a quarterly periodical and multiple books about Labrador as well as creating a public archive. This article will focus on the historical aspects of the magazine's inception and the challenges its creators faced as they built a storehouse of Labrador narratives that would represent the cultures that make Labrador unique and document a way of life considered to be in precipitous decline. It will also discuss how individuals, peoples, and even magazines must continually negotiate their identities through power relations in a settler-colonial state.","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"203 2 1","pages":"146 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82921774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0015
Fred Burrill
{"title":"Re-developing Underdevelopment: An Agenda for New Histories of Capitalism in the Maritimes","authors":"Fred Burrill","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT MARITIME HISTORY has always been intensely personal for me.1 Although I have made my adult life in a different province, (largely) in a different language, and do my main academic work on an unrelated topic, there remains an integral part of me conditioned by having grown up in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia. Much of this, I suppose, is similar to what any of us feels when we look back: a childhood home lost, formative relationships broken up, old friends now gone. As bell hooks has written, “We are born and have our being in a place of memory.”2 But another part is a result of having experienced my early political awakenings in a household steeped in the radical regionalism of the 1980s, my central analyses shaped by that New Maritimes3 generation that adapted core-periphery frameworks to the regional context while denouncing the exploitation of the transient, Maritime “light infantry of capital.”4 This formulation, and therefore mine, was all about “our people,” “our culture,” and our “colonization” by Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Toronto, and, later, the multinational corporations of the Alberta tar sands.5","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"68 1","pages":"179 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82489726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0016
P. Volpé
{"title":"Passer à l'agora : de la pertinence d'une histoire des sujets en action en Acadie","authors":"P. Volpé","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0016","url":null,"abstract":"DEPUIS UNE DIZAINE D’ANNÉES, les rétrospections sur la production historiographique acadienne sont monnaie courante2. Des bilans critiques ont été rédigés3, des limites ont été soulevées mais, hormis quelques rares exceptions4, peu de projets prospectifs ont clairement été énoncés. Nous avons certes pu observer des plaidoyers en faveur d’une histoire politique – tantôt consubstantielle à une histoire culturelle et intellectuelle – ou sociale, selon les cas, mais il a bien souvent semblé se dégager de ces positions une attitude défensive où il importait davantage de se réclamer d’un champ pour préserver sa dénomination que de dessiner les contours d’une entreprise, d’une posture, d’une méthode, bref d’un projet historiographique. Ce n’est pas notre intention ici de revenir sur cette « attitude » – pour ne pas dire « ces débats » qui, eux, nourrissent la pensée critique – dont l’esprit qui s’en dégage nous paraît contraire à l’avancement des connaissances; comme si « un » champ pouvait répondre à toutes les questions de l’humanité : « la réalité historique, par essence multiforme, est forcément à entrée[s] multiple[s]5 ». D’autant plus que nous sommes d’avis, avec l’historien Martin Pâquet, que les frontières entre les champs sont beaucoup moins étanches qu’on ne le laisse souvent","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"40 1","pages":"190 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79889786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RegioniPub Date : 2019-11-06DOI: 10.1353/aca.2019.0020
C. Coates
{"title":"Statues in Time: Canadian Days and Holidays","authors":"C. Coates","doi":"10.1353/aca.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36377,"journal":{"name":"Regioni","volume":"30 1","pages":"241 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72848862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}