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Countering Displacements The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples Editor Daniel Coleman, Erin Goheen Glanville, Wafaa Hasan, Agnes Kramer-Hamstra The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples, thereby emphasizing capacity and resilience. Throughout their chapters, they show how cultural activities—from public performance to filmmaking to community arts—recur as significant ways in which people counter the powers of displacement. This book is an indispensable resource for displaced peoples everywhere and the policy makers, social scientists, and others who work in concert with them. Contributors: Catherine Graham, Subhasri Ghosh, Jon Gordon, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Agnes Kramer-Hamstra, Mazen Masri, Jean McDonald, and Pavithra Narayanan. Format:  Trade Paperback ISBN:  978-0-88864-592-0 Price:  CND$ 34.95, USD$ 34.95, £ 29.5 Discount:  Trade Subject:  Cultural Studies/Displaced Peoples/Criticism Publication Date:  April 2012 Reviews “Countering Displacements brings together citizenship studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies and indigenous studies to create new conversations…. It is a book that offers diverse and challenging reflections on a wide range of questions around dispossession, migration, and the resilience to remake lives. Everyone working on postcolonial studies will find something of interest here.” Pamela McCallum, Chimo