Standing By and Doing Nothing about Genocide in Sudan and Canada
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[Thesis]
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Johnston, Rochelle Nadine
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Restoule, Jean-Paul
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University of Toronto (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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378
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
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University of Toronto (Canada)
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2019
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The purpose of this research is to understand how riverain Sudanese stand by to genocide targeting peoples of Sudan's peripheries, and how non-Indigenous Canadians stand by to genocide targeting Indigenous peoples in Canada. Influenced by Indigenous relational approaches to research, this study was designed collaboratively with scholars and activists targeted by genocide in both contexts. Employing constructivist grounded theory methods (Charmaz, 2008) I have conducted in-depth interviews with 44 riverain Sudanese and 18 non-Indigenous Canadians complicit in genocide. Genocides such as these destroy social figurations (Elias, 1978), the value-laden networks of relationships that define us. Reflecting this I uncovered two grounded theories of standing by to genocide, one for riverain Sudanese and one for non-Indigenous Canadians, with four relational dimensions in common: 1.