« Settler colonialism is biopolitical: Amy Swiffen, Shoshana Paget, ‘The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Foucault’s Historical Method’, in A. Sarat, G. Pavlich, R. Mailey (eds), Interrupting the Legal Person , Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022, pp. 89-102
Incommensurable? Grant Arndt, ‘The Indian’s White Man: Indigenous Knowledge, Mutual Understanding, and the Politics of Indigenous Reason’, Current Anthropology, 2022 »

Cultivating indigeneity: Jordan Stanger-Ross, Lynne Marks, ‘Remembering the Holocaust in a Settler Colonial City: The Case of Victoria, Canada’, History & Memory, 34, 1, 2022, pp. 100-132

23Mar22

Abstract: This article tells the history of Kristallnacht commemorations in the small Jewish community of Victoria, British Columbia. From their founding in the 1980s, the ceremonies were intended to include members of the general public, in addition to the Jewish community, but the events changed over time, when organizers began to include indigenous people as active participants, and the history of colonialism became a key theme in Kristallnacht remembrance. Suggesting that this orientation positioned members of the local Jewish community as implicated in historical injustice, even on the occasion of Holocaust remembrance, the authors explore the history behind this development and consider its implications today.


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