Structures of Indifference : an Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City / Mary Jane McCallum and Adele Perry.

By:

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974-

Contributor(s):

Perry, Adele

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780887555718
0887555713
9780887555732
088755573X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Structures of Indifference : An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City.DDC classification:

305.89707127/43

LOC classification:

E78.M25

Other classification:

cci1icc
coll13
coll29

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Intro; Introduction; Chapter 1: The City; Chapter 2: The Hospital; Chapter 3: Brian Sinclair; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index

Summary: "Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination."-- Provided by publisher

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Intro; Introduction; Chapter 1: The City; Chapter 2: The Hospital; Chapter 3: Brian Sinclair; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index

"Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination."-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English.

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