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"Ask the Colonial Ghosts": Intimate Histories, Harmful Complicities, and the Search for an Accountable Relationship with the Past

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dc.contributor.advisorHaig-Brown, E. Celia
dc.contributor.advisorCreet, Julia
dc.contributor.advisorMongia, Radhika
dc.creatorLewis, Johanna Madeleine
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-25T14:02:42Z
dc.date.available2016-11-25T14:02:42Z
dc.date.copyright2016-06-28
dc.date.issued2016-11-25
dc.date.updated2016-11-25T14:02:41Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractI take episodes from my life and my familys past as sites through which to explore connections between individual lives and larger structures, between the ways we tell our stories and the ways that histories are constructed, between colonial pasts and colonial presents. By researching and contextualizing the lives of my ancestors who homesteaded in Saskatchewan and those who participated in the British Raj, I analyze the lived practice of particular colonial structures and racial logics, and the consequences of our relationships with these histories. I then explore my contemporary participation in settler colonial seizure and amnesia, and my connection and responsibility to the Indigenous peoples who have lived (and continue to live) in relation with this land we now call Toronto. Grounded in a decolonial analysis, I aim to challenge both the erasure of unpalatable histories and the denial that these histories have any bearing on our world today.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32694
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subject.keywordsHistory
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsEmpire
dc.subject.keywordsColonial history
dc.subject.keywordsSettler colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsFamily history
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsMemory studies
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonial frameworks
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonial autobiography
dc.subject.keywordsRemembrance
dc.subject.keywordsRelationality
dc.subject.keywordsIntergenerational
dc.subject.keywordsMicrohistory
dc.subject.keywordsWhite supremacy
dc.subject.keywordsHomesteads
dc.subject.keywordsSaskatchewan
dc.subject.keywordsBritish Raj
dc.subject.keywordsToronto
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous studies
dc.subject.keywordsTemporality
dc.subject.keywordsPrivilege
dc.subject.keywordsAccountability
dc.subject.keywordsSettler harm reduction
dc.subject.keywordsResponsibility
dc.subject.keywordsStory
dc.subject.keywordsLegacy
dc.title"Ask the Colonial Ghosts": Intimate Histories, Harmful Complicities, and the Search for an Accountable Relationship with the Past
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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