1st Edition
The Quest for Reparations for Indian Residential School Abuse Confronting the Legacy of the Independent Assessment Process
Introduction: The quest for reparations for survivors of Indian Residential School abuse
Chapter 1 - Theorizing reparations for Indigenous Peoples in ongoing settler colonialism
Chapter 2 - The hierarchies of victimization in the Independent Assessment Process
Chapter 3 - Specifying the parameters of exchange of money for violence in the Independent Assessment Process
Chapter 4 - The violent logics of the Independent Assessment Process
Chapter 5 - Resistance, contestation, and refusal in the Independent Assessment Process
Chapter 6 - Moving forward: Concluding remarks and directions for future research
Biography
Konstantin Petoukhov received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. His doctoral research explored the socio-legal constructions of ‘ideal’ and ‘non-ideal’ victims in the Independent Assessment Process that adjudicated claims of physical and sexual abuse among Indian Residential School survivors. Konstantin has also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). As part of his postdoctoral research programme, he studied the constructions of ‘complex’ offenders in restorative justice – individuals who have committed crimes against their victims but who have also been marginalized through social injustice and structural violence.
Konstantin’s research areas fall broadly within several categories. As a critical victimologist by training, he is interested in the socio-legal construction of victim status, victimization, and victimhood. In the area of transitional justice, his research programme focuses on reparations, with a specialization in financial compensation for human rights violations as well as reparations for settler colonial violence. His research in the area of restorative justice explores the complexity of victim and offender experiences with particular attention to structural victimization.
