No time for nostalgia!: Asylum-making, medicalized colonialism in British Columbia (1859-97) and artistic praxis for social transformation

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-63

  Roman, Leslie G ^a   Brown, Sheena ^c   Noble, Steven ^b   Wainer, Rafael ^a   Young, Alannah Earl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asylum; Disability; Indigenous arts

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849139108     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: 13665898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09518390802581919     Document Type: Article

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