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Introduction. Enfolded: Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009)
This paper reflects on how the relationship between embodiment and agency might be illuminated through developments in psychoanalytic theory on racialization and racism. A recent interdisciplinary study by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
Remember Me Nought: The 1985 Cultural "Nachträglichkeit"
(York University, 2010)
This paper engages with the politics of remembering and forgetting that surround the unsettled history of the 1985 Air India bombings. In particular, I use the concepts Nachträglichkeit and "affective recircuitry" to ...
Introduction: Caring for Difficult Knowledge--Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-15)
Hope Without Consolation: Prospects for Critical Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-15)
The Art of Public Mourning: An Introduction
(University of Alberta Press, 2017)
'War-on-terror' Frames of Remembrance: The 1985 Air India Bombings After 9/11
(University of Toronto Press, 2012)
This paper critically analyzes Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson’s documentary Air India 182 in light of recent official efforts to remember and redress the 1985 Air India bombings. The author argues that the film, in ...
‘An Amazing Gift’? Memory Entrepreneurship, Settler Colonialism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Sage Journals, 2019-04-22)
Drawing on research undertaken at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, this article considers the role of memory entrepreneurship in the museum’s historic launch and in a sampling of its content, social media posts, points ...
Appetizing loss: Anorexia as an experiment in living
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-21)
This paper turns upside-down the commonly held assumption that anorexia nervosa is inherently destructive or counter-productive. The author delves beneath the façade of anorexia’s main symptom, self-starvation, to explore ...
Canada 150: Exhibiting National Memory at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-19)
This paper features an analysis of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and its showcase for ‘Canada 150’, the sesquicentennial anniversary of Canadian Confederation. Particular attention is paid to how the Museum ...