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edition:Paperback
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category: Social Science
published: Dec 2015
ISBN:9781442612754
publisher: University of Toronto Press

Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

by Amber Dean

tagged: gender studies, native american studies
Description

Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver’s disappeared women to the attention of a wider public. Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women traces “what lives on” from the violent loss of so many women from the same neighbourhood.

Dean interrogates representations that aim to humanize the murdered or missing women, asking how these might inadvertently feed into the presumed dehumanization of sex work, Indigeneity, and living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Taking inspiration from Indigenous women’s research, activism, and art, she challenges readers to reckon with our collective implication in the ongoing violence of settler colonialism and to accept responsibility for addressing its countless injustices.

About the Author
Amber Dean is an associate professor of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at McMaster University. She is the author of Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance (2015), and co-editor with Chandrima Chakraborty and Angela Failler of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (2017).
Awards
  • Joint winner, Outstanding Scholarship Prize awarded by the Women’s and Gender Studies Association
  • Winner, Donald Shepherd Book Prize awarded by the McMaster University Faculty of Humanities
  • Winner, Best Book in Canadian Studies awarded by The Canadian Studies Network – Réseau d'études canadienne

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