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Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- (1)to discover, clarify and formally acknowledge past abuses
- (2)to respond to specific needs of victims
- (3)to contribute to justice and accountability
- (4)to outline institutional responsibility
- (5)to promote reconciliation and reduce conflict over the past
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Precariat: existential instability
- 1) Erosion of job security
- 2) Pressure to accept unstable labour such as informal contract work
- 3) High level of education that exceeds the qualifications of their labour
- 4) Work includes labour that is neither paid nor recognized
- 5) Relies on wages without benefits
- 6) A class defined by debt
- 7) Weaker entitlement to their rights
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identity
- (1) Identities are a process of recognizing shared characteristics
- (2) Identities are not fixed, but is in a state of transformation.
- (3) Identities operate across difference.
- (4) Identities are unstable and heterogenous
- (5) Identities are never singular, people have multiple identities
- (6) invokes a primordial past; a historical moment
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Indigenous Sovereignty: Refusal of Recognition (critiques)
- Recognition: a universal human desire?
- Conditional: Do politics and alterity of groups challenge the structures and institutions of settler society?
- Native groups are not ethnic groups
- Recognition renders sovereignty invisible
- From ‘nation’ to ‘group’
- Mutual recognition cannot exist between settler and colonized people
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refusal
- political stance
- generative
- social and affiliative
- not just resistance
- hopeful and willful
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what makes a church multicultural?
- being less eurocentric
- spatial accommodations
- unsettling whiteness
- programs for racialized congregants
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settler colonialism
- tactic to govern
- 1) it doe snot dissolve with changes to government regimes
- 2)"repressive authenticity"
- 3) assimilation as strategy for elimination
- 4) goal is to acquire land
- 5) it is a structure, not an event
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mainline churches are ...
- well-behind in institutionalizing diversity policies
- trailing in developing cultural awareness training for laity leaders
- lethargic in establishing structural support for integrating
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the united church apologies (critiques)
- quasi-apology: we don't know what they are apologizing for
- there is no recognition of Indigenous ppl being sovereign
- very passive
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Requirement for Authentic Apology
- recorded officially in writing
- names the wrongs in question
- accepts responsibility
- states regret
- promise of non-repetition
- does not demand forgiveness
- is not hypocritical or arbitrary
- undertakes measures to engage morally with those, to whom the apology is being made that the apology is sincere
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neoliberal heritage redress (goals)
- national cohesion
- cultural understanding
- political and legal stability
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