{"product_id":"prairie-rising-9781442614710","title":"Prairie Rising","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrairie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eCritical Ethnic Studies\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408352190807,"sku":"9781442614710","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442614710.jpg?v=1730502556","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prairie-rising-9781442614710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}