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4 “I Am Here for Justice and I Am Here for Change” Reflections on Anticolonial Remembering within the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

© 2025 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2025 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface xi
  4. Introduction A Transnational Feminist Approach to Memorialization 1
  5. 1 Tracing Absent Presence 17
  6. Part 1 The Colonial, Imperial Logics of Memorializing
  7. 2 Law’s Racial Memory 29
  8. 3 Toward a Queer Diasporic Remembrance of Air India Flight 182 Memorializing Transnational Flows of Loss and Desire 43
  9. Part 2 Inhabiting Loss, Exceeding the Frame
  10. 4 “I Am Here for Justice and I Am Here for Change” Reflections on Anticolonial Remembering within the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada 59
  11. 5 Transnational Contestations: Remembering Sexual Violence in Postgenocide Guatemala 72
  12. 6 Poetics and Politics of Sound Memory and Social Repair in the Afterlives of Mass Violence: The Cantadoras of the Atrato River of Colombia 87
  13. Part 3 Invoking Revolutionary Present Pasts
  14. 7 Figures of Dissent: Women’s Memoirs of Defiance 105
  15. 8 Filming Disappearance: An Account of a Visual Battle 119
  16. 9 Dialita Choir: Women Survivors Reclaiming History in Indonesia 130
  17. Part 4 Care in/as Collective Mourning
  18. 10 Ceremonies of Mourning, Remembrance, and Care in the Context of Violence: A Conversation about Performing Song for the Beloved 147
  19. 11 Maternal Activism and the Politics of Memorialization in the Mothers of the Movement: A Black Feminist Reading 160
  20. 12 The Embroidering for Peace Initiative: Crafting Feminist Politics and Memorializing Resistance to the “War on Drugs” in Mexico 173
  21. 13 Epigraph 24584: In Which She Talks to the Dead and Sometimes the Dead Talk Back 187
  22. Part 5 On Worlding
  23. 14 Dreams to Remember: A Conversation on Unsilencing the Archive: An Afronautic Approach 209
  24. Acknowledgments 219
  25. References 221
  26. Notes on Contributors 243
  27. Index 249
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