Full Description
Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization explores how communication might accelerate decolonial actions in Canada. Tracing a middle path between essential Indigenous-focused calls for resurgence, and idealistic appeals to settler conscience, Patrick Belanger identifies communication forms that can generate settler support for decolonization. Accenting the importance of both Indigenous and settler audiences, this book suggests the promise of decolonial rhetoric framed in the language of mutual benefit.
Contents
Chapter 1: Colonization
Chapter 2: The Federal Apology for Indian Residential Schools
Chapter 3: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Chapter 4: The U'mista Cultural Centre
Chapter 5: Common Ground
Chapter 6: Interest Convergence
