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Revisiting Human Rights: Reflections on the Teaching and Study of Human Rights in Canadian History

Revisiting Human Rights: Reflections on the Teaching and Study of Human Rights in Canadian History AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES 2023, VOL. 53, NO. 1, 63–67 https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2172883 SPECIAL SECTION: INTRODUCTION Revisiting Human Rights: Reflections on the Teaching and Study of Human Rights in Canadian History a b Stephanie Bangarth and Jennifer Tunnicliffe Department of History, King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of History, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada It has been a decade since scholars of Canadian human rights history gathered to share research on the transition of civil liberties and other rights discourses in Canada to the universalism of human rights, and the reciprocal tensions or struggles this caused both domestically and in the international rights regime. While there has been substantial growth in the historical scholarship on human rights in Canada, the recent explosion of social movement activity, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter and the Land Back move- ment, along with concerns engendered by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, demonstrate the need for new approaches and a more critical ques- tioning of Canada’s so-called “rights revolution” and its place in national narratives. To that end, we organized a workshop to address http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Review of Canadian Studies Taylor & Francis

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AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES 2023, VOL. 53, NO. 1, 63–67 https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2172883 SPECIAL SECTION: INTRODUCTION Revisiting Human Rights: Reflections on the Teaching and Study of Human Rights in Canadian History a b Stephanie Bangarth and Jennifer Tunnicliffe Department of History, King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of History, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada It has been a decade...
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AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES 2023, VOL. 53, NO. 1, 63–67 https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2172883 SPECIAL SECTION: INTRODUCTION Revisiting Human Rights: Reflections on the Teaching and Study of Human Rights in Canadian History a b Stephanie Bangarth and Jennifer Tunnicliffe Department of History, King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of History, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada It has been a decade since scholars of Canadian human rights history gathered to share research on the transition of civil liberties and other rights discourses in Canada to the universalism of human rights, and the reciprocal tensions or struggles this caused both domestically and in the international rights regime. While there has been substantial growth in the historical scholarship on human rights in Canada, the recent explosion of social movement activity, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter and the Land Back move- ment, along with concerns engendered by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, demonstrate the need for new approaches and a more critical ques- tioning of Canada’s so-called “rights revolution” and its place in national narratives. To that end, we organized a workshop to address

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Published: Jan 2, 2023

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