Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress
ISBN: 9780773571822
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Ukrainian Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation 1914–1920; Ukrainian Canadians -- History;

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of redress. Situating the campaign for Ukrainian-Canadian redress within a wider discussion on political leadership and transitional justice, the authors argue that, by reaffirming the values that are central to a rule-based society, symbolic redress might not only play an important role in reconciling the past with present and future generations but also aid the country to reconnect with those foundational traditions that inform Canadian political culture.

Kordan Bohdan S. :

Bohdan S. Kordan is professor of international relations at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and author of Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan.


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