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Book SynopsisPrairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's largest city.
Trade Review‘Through narratives and images conveyed in the stories of provocative characters, Dhillon makes rich theoretical arguments accessible to readers. Indeed, it is Dhillon’s candid, engaging, and imaginative language that makes this book a pleasure to read.’ -- Janique Dubois * The Journal of Native Studies, vol 37:01:2017 *
‘This book is extremely rich… It makes a number of contributions to fields such as anthropology, sociology, political science, youth studies, and the like. It is moreover a model of how to bridge academic scholarship and responsible community advocacy.’ -- Robert Nichols * Theory and Event vol20:04:2017 *
"By offering a politics of materiality derived from the lived experiences of urban Indigenous youth caught in the teeth of colonial violence, Prairie Rising offers a productive ground for an effective decolonial praxis." -- Melanie K. Yazzie * NAIS, vol 5 no 2 *
"Prairie Rising is an ambitious first book, and makes helpful contributions to the areas of youth studies, the anthropology of the modern state, discourses and institutional practices of neoliberalism, as well as Indigenous resistance and survivance under settler colonial conditions on Turtle Island. Prairie Rising is a useful and thorough reminder that our neighbours to the north themselves have a long way to go before they can speak of true reconciliation, much less justice." -- Smaran Dayal *
Critical Ethnic Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Appreciations Introduction: Urban Indigenous Youth and Participatory Politics in the Paris of the Prairies Part 1: A World of Invisible Things: History and Politics in the Context of Settler Colonial Encounters Chapter 1: Breakage: Settler Colonization, Violence, and the Possibility (Still) of Self-Determined Destiny Chapter 2: The Making of Crisis Stories Part 2: The Space that Lies in Between: Ethnographic Encounters with the Land of Living Skies Chapter 3: Seductive Change: They Say the Best is Yet to Come Chapter 4: Policing the Boundaries and Debates over What's "Real" Part 3: Pushback on the Plains: Tensions and Trials of Participation Chapter 5: Justice in a Binder: Cultural Currency and Urban Indigenous Youth Chapter 6: The Dislocation of Self Conclusion: Red Rising References Notes
