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Book SynopsisExamines the interplay between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal visions of justice and certainty to determine whether there is a space between the two concepts in which modern treaties can be made.
Trade Review[T]his argument is very well made.
Between Justice and Certainty is strongest in its presentation of a sociology of knowledge and meaning. Woolford’s work clearly demonstrates the profound gulf between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parties at the negotiating table – and that these disjunctures are simultaneously masked and intensified by the very procedures that were designed to bridge these distances. -- Nathan Young * The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology *
This book is destined to become a standard text for university courses dealing with First Nations issues, but, equally important, it should be required reading for politicians, negotiators, and policy makers involved in the B.C. treaty process.
Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia will inform all those who seek a deeper understanding of why treaty making and reconciliation must begin with facing our history. For as Woolford argues so persuasively, our failure to do this will create neither certainty nor justice in indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia in the twenty-first century. -- Paulette Regan * BC Studies, no. 149, Spring 2006 *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Between the Procedure and Substance of Justice
3 The Imposition of Colonial Visions of Justice
4 First Nations Justice Frames
5 The British Columbia Treaty Process
6 Visions of Justice
7 Visions of Certainty
8 Conclusion
Notes
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