Dealing with Difficult Emotions: Anger at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Authors

  • Anne-Marie Reynaud Freie Universitat Berlin

Keywords:

Indian Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, emotions, feeling rules, reconciliation, healing

Abstract

This article approaches the Canadian TRC and its aspiration for reconciliation from an emotions perspective, thereby acknowledging the significant role emotions play in constituting identities and political communities, as well as understanding emotions as central to how conflicts are generated, viewed and solved (Hutchison and Bleiker 2008). I explore Michael Ure's claim that TRCs are host to a fundamental tension between the competing imperatives of justice (and its prime emotion of anger) and reconciliation (2008:286). The aim is to understand how survivors deal with this emotionally tense process and make sense of the TRC in this context.

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Published

2014-11-30

How to Cite

Reynaud, A.-M. (2014). Dealing with Difficult Emotions: Anger at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Anthropologica, 56(2), 369–382. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/552

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2014): Ending War and Sustaining Peace in Pacific Societies

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2014 Anne-Marie Reynaud

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