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A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
Contributor(s): Fairweather, Joan G. (Author)

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ISBN: 1552381927     ISBN-13: 9781552381922
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
OUR PRICE: $43.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2006
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Annotation: The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications place a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. The effects of colonial exploitation on the lives of indigenous people in Canada and South Africa bear uncanny resemblance, especially when considering the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, and Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The responses from these governments demonstrate clearly the importance of an effective means of dealing with the issue of aboriginal land claims. In both cases, the fundamental issues of isolation, economic marginalization, and discrimination have left deep wounds that society must attempt to heal.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa
- Business & Economics | Real Estate - General
- Social Science
Dewey: 333.2
LCCN: 2006497169
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.06" W x 9" L (0.96 lbs) 284 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southern Africa
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 118
 
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Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity.

Based on extensive research carried out in both countries, A Common Hunger is a comparative work on the history of indigenous land rights in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa. Joan Fairweather has constructed a balanced examination of the impact of land dispossession on the lives of indigenous peoples in both countries and their response to centuries of European domination. By reclaiming rights to the land and an equitable share in the wealth-producing resources they contain, the first peoples of Canada and South Africa are taking important steps to confront the legacies of poverty that characterize many of their communities. A Common Hunger provides historical context to the current land claim process in these two former British colonies and examines the efforts of governments and the courts to ensure that justice is done.


Contributor Bio(s): Fairweather, Joan G.: - Joan G. Fairweather is a South African historian, archivist and writer living in Ottawa. After many years as a sound and film archivist at Library and Archives Canada, she worked at the Open Society Archives in Budapest and more recently in South Africa at the Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture in South Africa, now part of the Robben Island Museum in Cape Town.
 
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