James, Matt
Dr. Matt James is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on transitional justice, reparations, collective memory, political apologies, Canadian politics, and constitutionalism. He is the author of Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics (UBC Press) and has published widely on memory, reparations, and political accountability. He also prepared a major research report for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on truth commissions, victims, and perpetrators. Dr. James is Co-Lead of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Mnemonic Democracy: Collective Memory, Civic Education, and Democratic Engagement, which examines the role of collective memory in strengthening democratic participation and civic engagement in Canada and Europe.
Research Interests: truth commission reports, apologies, social accountability, community responses to acts of hate, and political critique of contemporary mainstream anti-hate discourses.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Colonialism Commemoration and Memorialization Historical Injustice and Trauma Law and Legal Issues Memory Politics Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | mattjame@uvic.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. "The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma, and Assigning Responsibility with the TRC Report." Canadian Journal of Political Science 2021. Firstview publication date 07 June 2021. With Jordan-Stanger Ross, "Impermanent Apologies: On the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology," Human Rights Review 19 (2018): 289-311. "Changing the Subject: The TRC, its National Events, and the Displacement of Substantive Reconciliation in Canadian Media Representations." Journal of Canadian Studies 51:2 (2017): 362-397. "Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, the Impermanent Apologies Approach, and the Politics of Political Apologies," C4E Journal: Perspectives on Ethics 2017 C4EJ 13 (2017). "On Carnival and Context: A Response to Bridget Storrie." International Journal of Transitional Justice 9:3 (2015): 486-493. "Degrees of Freedom in Canada's Culture of Redress." Citizenship Studies 2014 (electronic version). "A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission," International Journal of Transitional Justice 2012; doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijs010. "Against Legitimacy," Les Ateliers de l'ethique/The Ethics Forum. 7:1 (2012): 112-118. With Michelle Bonner. "The Three R’s of Seeking Transitional Justice: Reparation, Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina," The International Indigenous Policy Journal 2:3 (2011), Article 3. |
