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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Reconciliation, democracy and the challenges for Indigenous-settler engagement</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Ravi de Costa</span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">, York University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Chair
</span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Karen Jackson</span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">, Moondani Balluk
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& discussant </span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Tom Clark</span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">, Victoria University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Abstract:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">A major difficulty for the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been in engaging the “mainstream”, a task that forms one part
of its mandate for reconciliation. Initial interest and media coverage has now subsided and notwithstanding considerable effort, its critical work of reexamining the injustice of Indian Residential Schools is now largely taking place without non-Indigenous
Canada “witnessing” its efforts. Could this have been different? And if so, how? These questions shape an essential policy task for reconciliation and the TRC in particular: how to create social and cultural conditions that would prevent such injustice from
happening again. In three parts, this paper takes up this discussion, first considering recent debates about deliberative and agonistic democracy and the public sphere, in light of the structure of the TRC as a primarily discursive institution. It then considers
the work of the TRC since its relaunch in 2009. Finally, it draws on an ongoing series of focus groups with non-Indigenous peoples that explore how identity and belonging affect attitudes to colonial injustice and willingness to engage with Indigenous peoples
in respectful ways.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Victoria University, Melbourne</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">More details:
</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:#08673E">http://communityidentity.com.au/?page_id=2327</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"; color:black">Contact: CIDRN@VU.edu.au</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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