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Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities
Author(s): Heather A. Howard (Editor), Craig Proulx
- Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Publication Date: April 12, 2011
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1554582601
- ISBN-13: 9781554582600
Book Description
Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences.
The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volume offer narratives of unique experiences and aspects of urban Aboriginal life. They provide innovative perspectives on cultural transformation and continuity and demonstrate how comparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiences contribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state and to theoretical debates about power dynamics in the production of community and in processes of identity formation.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Research with and by Aboriginal peoples in urban contexts across Canada, mainly using ethnographic methods or essays based on lived experiences, reinforces the authority of each of the book’s 12 chapters.
Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. — G. Bruyere, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, Choice, January 2012, 2012 JanuaryAn important, well-written collection of papers which ought to be compulsory reading for all serious scholars of contemporary Aboriginal affairs. — John Loxley, University of Manitoba, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Volume XXXII, No 1, 2012, 2013 February
About the Author
Heather A. Howard is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University and is affiliated faculty with the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto. She co-edited, with Rae Bridgman and Sally Cole, Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights (1999) and, with Susan Applegate Krouse, Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women’s Activism in Urban Areas (2009).
Craig Proulx is an associate professor in anthropology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. In 2003 he published Reclaiming Aboriginal Justice, Community, and Identity, which discussed the Community Council Project, an Aboriginal-run diversion project in Toronto, Ontario. His current research is in the realm of media representations of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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