Into the archive: : Vancouver’s missing women commission of inquiry

• Autores: Juliane Collard
• Localización: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, ISSN-e 1472-3433, Vol. 33, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 779-795
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In response to public concern over the prolonged serial killings of Vancouver’s Missing Women, in 2010, British Columbia’s provincial government called a public inquiry into the police investigation of Robert William Pickton, the convicted murderer of six women from Vancouver’s downtown eastside. Intended in part as an opportunity for victims, families, and community members to contribute to a process of collective memory making and archivization, the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry ultimately reproduced dominant patterns of silence and exclusion. This article explores the particular mechanisms through which exclusions were enacted; their imbrication with the legal archive that underwrote the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry and the process of archivization in which it was engaged; and the implications for future inquiries into systemic race and gender violence in Canada