This book explores the challenges of promise-making in societies characterized by legal and religious pluralism and shaped by colonialism. It examines how promises are sites of meaning and memory, made through spiritual appeals, contestation, and more.
This book explores the challenges of promise-making in societies characterized by legal and religious pluralism and shaped by colonialism. It examines how promises are sites of meaning and memory, made through spiritual appeals, contestation, and more.
Edited by Benjamin L. Berger, Pamela E. Klassen, and Monique Scheer
Inhaltsangabe
Promising Practices: A Preface Pamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin L. Berger Introduction: Fragmented Promises, Pentimento & the Salvage Paradigm Jeffery Hewitt Part I: Promises in Place: A Great Lakes Pentimento Pamela E. Klassen 1. Remembering, Forgetting and the Telling of Stories: Land and Commemoration in the Aftermath of the American Revolution Elizabeth Elbourne 2. "The Culture of the Soil": Agriculture, Improvement, and Settler Colonial Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century Manitoulin Island Kate Stoehr 3. Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony for Racialized Refugees Sujith Xavier Part II: The Weight of the Promise: Material-Immaterial Practices Monique Scheer 4. Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch United East Indian Company in Japan Pooyan Tamimi Arab 5. Longing and Belonging in France and Algeria: The Promise of Amel’s Chedda Jennifer Selby 6. Quid pro Quo? Egyptian Papyri Distributions and the Bureaucracy of a Promise Gregory Fewster 7. Covenant, Torah, and the Failed Promise of Jewish Museums Yaniv Feller Part III: The Oath, the Law, and the "Sense of Religion" Benjamin L. Berger 8. "However Honestly Meant": Chinese Australians and Truth-Telling in Colonial Victorian Courts Catherine Evans 9. An Oath on the Big Book: Oaths and Examinations in American Codes of Procedure Kellen Funk 10. Ceremonial Promises: Oath, Treaties, and the Transformation of Christian Privilege in Canada Pamela E. Klassen and Isabel Klassen-Marshall Conclusion: Promises That Make Us Who We Are Jeremy Webber
Promising Practices: A Preface Pamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin L. Berger Introduction: Fragmented Promises, Pentimento & the Salvage Paradigm Jeffery Hewitt Part I: Promises in Place: A Great Lakes Pentimento Pamela E. Klassen 1. Remembering, Forgetting and the Telling of Stories: Land and Commemoration in the Aftermath of the American Revolution Elizabeth Elbourne 2. "The Culture of the Soil": Agriculture, Improvement, and Settler Colonial Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century Manitoulin Island Kate Stoehr 3. Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony for Racialized Refugees Sujith Xavier Part II: The Weight of the Promise: Material-Immaterial Practices Monique Scheer 4. Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch United East Indian Company in Japan Pooyan Tamimi Arab 5. Longing and Belonging in France and Algeria: The Promise of Amel’s Chedda Jennifer Selby 6. Quid pro Quo? Egyptian Papyri Distributions and the Bureaucracy of a Promise Gregory Fewster 7. Covenant, Torah, and the Failed Promise of Jewish Museums Yaniv Feller Part III: The Oath, the Law, and the "Sense of Religion" Benjamin L. Berger 8. "However Honestly Meant": Chinese Australians and Truth-Telling in Colonial Victorian Courts Catherine Evans 9. An Oath on the Big Book: Oaths and Examinations in American Codes of Procedure Kellen Funk 10. Ceremonial Promises: Oath, Treaties, and the Transformation of Christian Privilege in Canada Pamela E. Klassen and Isabel Klassen-Marshall Conclusion: Promises That Make Us Who We Are Jeremy Webber
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