Narrative and Identity

The major historical issue in the Israeli–Arab/Palestinian conflict is the causes for the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Among the Israelis/Jews there are two main narratives regarding this issue: the Zionist one – the refugees fled, for various reasons; and the critical one – some fled while others were expelled by the Jewish/Israeli security forces. This article explores the way the Israeli/Jewish historical memory (i.e. the Israeli/Jewish research community) related to this historical issue from 1949 until 2004. According to the findings, until 1957 this memory exclusively presented the Zionist narrative. However, from 1958 to 1976 this Zionist trend largely continued but was accompanied by considerable critical studies. Later, from 1977 to 2004, this memory was characterized by the almost exclusive adoption of the critical narrative (with major increase in its significance since 1988). These findings contradict the way the literature relates to this memory as almost exclusively Zionist until the late-1980s. Other aspects of this memory are also discussed, such as the explanations for its characteristics, the significance of non-academic scholars, the contribution of scholars who reside externally to the given country, state–research community relations, the influence of present interests on the portrayal of the past, and gender issues. The findings have theoretical implications for collective and historical memories.

Recent and past events indicate that the meanings, effects, and outcomes of globalization are highly contested. Despite this, an underlying assumption of inevitability characterizes dominant globalization discourses. How is it possible that inevitability claims persist despite multiple contestations? In this article, the author makes two arguments. The first corrects a pervasive problem in the literature that separates contingency and inevitability as two competing logics of globalization; the second proposes a new analytic approach, based on a postcolonial critique, that more appropriately challenges teleological arguments while explaining their persistence. This approach is illustrated through an examination of an encounter that took place during an antiglobalization rally in Washington, D.C., in April 2000 and in a rethinking of our current economic crisis and the “new thrift” that has changed US consumer behavior.

KEYWORDS: globalization, anti-globalization, teleology, inevitability, resistance, Provincializing Europe, economic crisis, the new thrift, Dipesh Chakrabarty

Constructing the personal and social identity in the current complex era might be seen as non-trivial achievement. In the context of post-socialist housing market and in the practice of creating the home I present the findings of my field research based on several interviews with " middle-class " people from Czech Republic acquiring their home during recent years. Combing the narrative and content analysis the article presents broad and deep insight into the people᾽s understanding of space, places and morality. The conclusion is that the realm of housing is more important, than might have been regarded in the connection of performance of certain roles – good parent, capable husband or wife and successful person in general. Thus it reveals the values and ethos, which are regarded as principal by the middle-class people. Moreover the issue of emotions is tackled and proved to be crucial in the people decision making and moral evaluation. The article thus provides the presentation of original method of analysis and persuasive presentation of ordinary people everyday life with regard to their valued ethos, objects and beliefs.

This study summarizes the historical experience of violence and oppression in Slovakia between 1939-60 which had ensued from two different and yet very much akin ideologies – Nazism and Communism. Focusing on the Marxist ideology, the second part argues that (1) its historical expressions of violence were not mere byproducts of an otherwise noble endeavor to finalize the ‘proletarian’ revolution but rather necessary, or even essential tools of the new, ‘revolutionary morality’ driven by the vision of a post-theistic redemption. (2) The post-Holocaust and post-Gulag societies are fearful of metanarratives, yet searching for ways to fight the spreading nihilism. The last part (3) deals with the current task of public theology to reintroduce the Biblical metanarrative into the public discourse, within a newly facilitated ‘dialogue of narratives,’ as a preventive measure against new outbreaks of violence and oppression in the present European society.

This article aims to explore the ways in which mental illness is used in contemporary cinema, highlighting the differences of representation of the mentally ill in accordance to genre. Furthermore, this article will examine not only the use of mentally ill characters, but also the narrative structure of films which include the mentally ill, and how the genre of such a film can dictate the resolution of the narrative. The genres studied include horror, comedy, drama, and children’s cinema, as well as sub-genres within these; an analysis of these genres will illuminate the ways in which modern cinema uses mental illness as a narrative drive, and how doing so has implications on the audiences that watch it.

I stand in front of my class, struggling to explain the concepts of voice and audience. The words don’t come to me, but a
feeling does. It’s a feeling I first encountered reading H. L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. Bud approached the reader as if talking to a
sympathetic but skeptical stranger at a party, leaning in close and sharing a revelatory story that he hoped would convince
the other person to live his or her life a bit more fully. That’s what I want to tell the students today. But how do you put
that into words? Bud knew.

"Introduction

1: The underside of difference and the limits of particularism
• Semiotics and some programmatic consequences of the culture wars
• A postmodern society? Vattimo’s wager
• A more cautious optimism
• The underside of disorientation
• The underside of multiplicity
• Universals, the discourse of rights and liberalism

2. Populism as a spectre of democracy
• Populism and democracy
• The gap between faith and scepticism and the elusiveness of populism
•Spectral recurrences

3. Populism as an internal periphery of democratic politics
• The verbal smoke surrounding populism
• Populism as a mode of representation
• Populism as a symptom of democracy
• Populism as an underside of democracy

4. Stirred and shaken. From ‘the art of the possible’ to emancipatory politics
• The realist coding of the impossible
• The impossible as supplement
• Agitation as unveiling/translation
• Emancipation, revolutionising and the interstitial region of politics

5. Talkin’ bout a revolution: The end of mourning
• The mourning after
• Polemicizing the limit: how radical does a radical change have to be?
• The play between the promise and the figure
• Revolutionary realism as enthusiasm for the impossible
• Figures of the promise and the iterability of revolution
• Postcards of a socialist imaginary
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Pripadnici ortodoksne židovske zajednice u Brooklynu sljedbenici su haredskog i hasidskog judaizma koji je nastao među aškenaskim Židovima Istočne Europe u 18. stoljeću, proširivši se kasnije na Srednju Europu i Baltik. Na tim je područjima u spomenutom razdoblju židovska dijaspora koristila triglosičan jezični repertoar, tj. hebrejski kao sveti jezik, jidiš kao razgovorni jezik zajednice i jezik zemlje domaćina. Sociolingvističko istraživanje u hasidskim zajednicama u Brooklynu provedeno je tijekom 2012. i 2013. godine. Pripadnici hasidskih zajednica žive u strogo izoliranim četvrtima, pohađaju isključivo vjerske škole u kojima se nastava odvija na jidišu uz izučavanje svetih knjiga na hebrejskom i aramejskom (lašon hakodeš). Budući da su hasidi po političkom opredjeljenju anticionisti, moderni hebrejski (ivrit) se u školama ne podučava. Engleski jezik smatra se ”nužnim zlom” i uči se samo kako bi se, prema potrebi, ostvario kontakt s vanjskim svijetom. U istraživanju je korištena metodologija jezičnobiografskog narativnog intervjua na temelju kojih su izrađene jezične biografije informanata te je izvršena rekonstrukcija narativnog identiteta i analiza jezičnih biografija.
Cilj istraživanja bio je pokazati kako na početku 21. stoljeća haredska zajednica u Brooklynu nastavlja kontinuitet triglosičnog jezičnog repertoara židovske dijaspore. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo nekoliko hasidskih sekti te je analizirano usvajanje engleskog jezika, lašon hakodeša, ivrita i jidiša, kao i stavovi govornika prema uporabi ovih jezika. Rezulatati istraživanja prikazuju na koji način pripadnici ortodoksne židovske zajednice u Brooklynu koriste triglosičan repertoar, te kakav je odnos jezika i etničkoga, kulturnoga i religijskoga identiteta.

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo brings together a stimulating range of interdisciplinary essays considering the connections between orality and modern Irish culture. From literature to song, folklore to the visual arts, contributors examine not only the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland, but also the theoretical concept of “orality” itself and the corresponding significance of oral texts in Irish society. Featuring work by emerging scholars in the fields of history, literature, folklore, music, women’s studies, film and theatre studies and disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, this multifaceted volume also includes contributions from scholars long engaged with issues of orality such as Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.

Images tell stories that carry us to imaginary worlds other than our own. An arresting story in pictures engages us deeply, opening the doors of fantastic places and times. In antiquity many architectural monuments displayed pictorial narratives that animated public spaces and enthralled broad audiences. This course explores cultural aspects of visual narrative imagery from Western Asian and Mediterranean worlds, from magical hunt scenes in Palaeolithic caves to mythical histories of Mesopotamian sculpted stones; from the paradises on Egyptian tomb walls to Aegean frescoes and Assyrian reliefs of exotic landscapes, from domestic intimacies on Greek vases to Roman commemorations of campaigns to the fringes of the known world. Using contemporary perspectives on ancient art, we will explore the material power and the everyday significance of such pictorial representations as intimate visual spectacles.

The article presents a semiotic overview of identity thinking in contemporary Russian glossy magazines. It inquires into the cognitive nature of the self-identification process in the modern world. The author argues that self-identification is a clear semiotic procedure based on the personal need to dwell on certain "objective" criteria in the process of self-representation within a semiotic network depicting the reality.

This article presents an autoethnographic, autobiographical investigation into the story of a boy (now a man) and his relationship with his missing father. The account includes flashes of memory and brief conversations with other members of my family. After innumerable years, my father was located upon my grand- mother’s death. I recall the special trip I took to Florida in order to reconnect with my father. After our brief reunion, he disappeared once again. I ask questions about his emotional state, but find that I am asking questions into a void. Finally, I come to the realization that he does not want to be found, and that realization is a form of closure itself.

In this text, I discuss the environmental education project "Legible Landscape", which aims to teach inhabitants to read their landscape and develop a closer, more engaged relationship to place. I show that the project's semiotic perspective on landscape legibility tends to hamper the understanding of the moral dimension of reading landscapes, and argue that a hermeneutical perspective is better suited to acknowledge the way that readers and texts are intimately connected.

Events of victimization that upend young lives and expose them to conditions of precarity are examined. Drawing on Judith Butler’s recent reflections on precarity, this article contributes to the extant critical victimology literature by linking precarity to selfhood and narrative. Narrative analysis is used to analyze two young people – Beatrice and Randall – who experienced sexual victimization and a number of subsequent victimizations at the hands of corporate and state organizations. To account for these subsequent persecutions, the concept of compounding victimization to expose the link between successive victimization that intensifies the experience of precarity.

For decades, the media has been a powerful agency in presenting Kashmir and shaping views in the national and the international imaginations. Recognising the complex multiplexity of the influences on the media that report on Kashmir, this work is an endeavour to examine the history of the media's relationship with the state through Archival Research. Documents accessed from Srinagar's Civil Secretariat's media section of the archives unravel the state's attempts to establish a relationship with the media in the militarised region since the early 1950s. This research sheds light on the nature of the association between the media and the state, as this understanding is crucial in understanding any conflict region. Hence, it becomes necessary to uncover the trajectory of power, as well as the nuances of histo-political nature of the liaison between the two entities that have contoured the narrative on this region of conflict.

This article discusses the intersection of ethnographic, reflexive and anecdotal styles in travel writing produced out of contemporary international volunteer tourism, and analyses the impact of volunteer tourism on the production of a narrating subject and on the
representation of host communities. The comparison of a primary work in Spanish (Herminia Esteban’s 2004 Un viaje solidario) with one in English (Cate Kennedy’s 2005 Sing, and Don’t Cry) allows us to better understand the specific historical, cultural and linguistic dimensions of
different routes and encounters, as well as travel writing’s potential – and its limitations – in expressing a broader critique of global inequality. The texts are analysed to foreground the quotidian aspects of mobility and degree of authorial transparency regarding the terms under
which volunteer activities take place. Extending from this analysis of the authors’ reflexivity, awareness and expression of critical engagement, the article explores the nature of representation in the narration of encounters between privilege and poverty, and frames these in relation to the ethical dimensions of contemporary practices of solidarity-based volunteer travel.

This article investigates the historical processes contributing towards the specific development of Turkey after the 1920s that in turn established the main contours of Turkey's conflict with the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK). It first argues that the traumatic conflict memories of the Turkish leadership (1918-35) influenced its individual-level patterns of actions. These memories were used by the leadership to consolidate its imagined national agency in Turkey. The leadership perceived the traditional-conservative groups as ontological insecurity sources, jeopardizing this agency. It second claims that Turkey's military apparatus is designed to silence these ontological insecurity sources. Finally, it claims these developments informed the ways in which the PKK's narratives of rebellion were constructed. Empirically, it problematizes the impact of the Ottoman Empire's collapse on the Turkish elites. Then, through a discourse analysis of elites' speeches and legal documents, it traces their anxieties to the Ottoman Empire's traumatic end. This article contributes to the trauma literature on ontological security and the emotions literature in International Relations in two ways. It first explores the particular national context in which traumatic memories are shaped and in turn articulated through emotional performances. Secondly, it shows the interplay between sociopsychological processes of security and agency making.

We need to find strategies for resisting dominant cultural narratives, such as the deconstruction of social myths and the telling of counter‐narratives, re‐imagined narratives and emphasize on the need to resist these dominant narratives, but it can only happen, when we try to understand the ground realities rather than wanting the ground to stick to our notion-ed narratives.

It is important to stress that Arab woman writers have produced a new kaleidoscope of narrative fiction In English. They focus on a variety of representations with respect to identity, dislocation, cultural hybridity and belonging. Moreover, they have tried to construct a stable subjectivity and a space of belonging. These narratives are now dispersed and relocated by Arab women Diasporic novelists such as Hala Alyan. This article will examine Hala Alyan's Salt Houses (2017) novel. This debut novel has amalgamated different narrative experimentations and techniques, and how polyphonic spaces have dislocated the conventional act of narration and relocated it in tandem with non-homogeneity of the Arab world itself. Indeed, Alyan's text deconstructs signs of centrality, compose juxtaposed mosaics of multiple cultures and characters to construct a general human knowledge and experience drowning in the sea of belonging.

This article describes a potential way of counseling emerging adults from a life design perspective to construct a self that could enable them to be agents of both their own development and the development of others. Theoretical issues relating to a dynamic, developmental and systems framework of the understanding of wellbeing are described and the process involved is delineated. The research design was qualitative and comprised case studies. Six participants who subscribed to the definition of " emerging adults " and were comparatively representative of the ethnic diversity of South Africa, were selected purposively from a group of individuals who applied for career counseling in a private practice context. The intervention involved life design counseling and occurred over a period of 6 weeks. Information related to participants' self-construction was gathered using qualitative techniques, including the Career Interest Profile, the Career Construction Interview, a timeline, video clips, a collage, and semi-structured interviews. Following the intervention, the participants revealed heightened insights with regard to aspects of their sense of a relational-moral self. Results indicated that life design counseling could enhance elaborative personal development (enhancing self-awareness and reaping the benefits of developing an improved relational-moral self) and the promotion of an awareness of the importance to promote social justice in work-related contexts.

This thesis has two purposes. First, to explore the ways in which a group of "South African immigrants" to Greater Vancouver talked about their racial, ethnic and national identities, and how these may shift depending on social context Secondly, to examine how the participants differentially experienced the immigration process (i.e., deciding to emigrate, immigrating, and adjusting to life in Canada) depending on their identities  and skin colour.
Through narratives, participants from varied backgrounds construct understandings about what it means to be from South Africa, to be racialized, and to immigrate to Canada. Excerpts from these narratives provide the basis for an ethnographic analysis of how the experiences of the group of  participants are differentially shaped according to notions of self-identity and ascriptions of "othemess".
Drawing on the framework of relational positionality, I explore what the participants communicated about self and other and how these may shift depending on social context. By supplementing agonistic, self-other
binaries with relational positionality, one is able to see how power circulates through relationships in complicated ways, as social actors seek to re-direct the flow of power in communicating who they are, and just as importantly, who they are not. As contexts shift, so to do the meanings participants attach to identities and ascriptions of othemess (i.e., categorizations).
The meanings associated with self and other are also influenced by the immigration process as different sets of difference-producing relationships are encountered. Available identity options and associated meanings are also shaped by public perceptions of political changes in the "new" South Africa, which serve to both constrain and enable available identity options as some possibilities were restricted while others were opened up (as with "White" South Africans re-claiming their South Africanness). The research also shows that skin colour differentially affected the experiences of the participants not only in South Africa, but also when "starting over" in Greater Vancouver. Although Canada provided more "freedom" to choose identity options than in South Africa, this was accompanied by more ambiguous "othering' and racializing processes which also served to constrain and enable available identity options.

This paper reports on a multi-modal exploratory case study within the realm of pragmatism to study the attitudes of 11 and 15-year-old students towards Mathematics (ATM). More than 200 secondary school children from the East Midlands, England, participated in this research. The aim of this research was to understand students' emotions, perceptions, beliefs and vision about Mathematics and to investigate the factors which influence their attitudes. This study employed a multi-modal research design to elicit data from the young learners by engaging and involving them through different media of communication. Four different kinds of data were collected namely aural or spoken data (audio recorded in focus group interviews), scale data (from Likert scale style items in the questionnaire), textual/written data (collected through open ended questions in the questionnaire), and visual data (in the form of pictures drawn by the participants). Since the favoured mode of expression varies from person to person, multiple modes of data collection can include a larger number of respondents by providing them the opportunity to orchestrate their perspective in their preferred mode of communication. This research suggests that gender and attainment level have a significant impact on attitudes towards Mathematics. Boys and high ability learners have a more positive attitude towards the subject as compared to girls and low ability students. Age, socio economic status and linguistic background also seem to influence ATM but the effect is statistically insignificant.

This book aims to uncover social reflection on the shift from traditional societies to modern societies, taking the theoretical framework of Durkheim and applying the narrative analysis models proposed by Labov and Waletzky (1967), Labov (1997) and Bruner (1991) especially focused on language studies. It is based on the hypothesis of Jerome Seymour Bruner (1915-2016), who gave compelling arguments so that our own identity could be understood as a narrative phenomenon. There is no way to decide whether this hypothesis corresponds to reality, but it is feasible to accept it as plausible, especially since it allows explaining a very significant set of social facts as will be seen. The discussion will start from the social formation, which is the larger whole, carrying all human information, to common sense, understood as the set of information that society seeks to maintain; hence for the formation of individuals, who would be those who gathered under the same common-sense form society and then for the way in which individuals acquire and carry this symbolic set, with which they build themselves and society. Finally, the narratives and their possibilities of approaches will appear that will be the only material basis for the social complexion. For social formation, the hypothesis of the differentiation between Emile Durkheim's societies - here regarded as traditional societies and modern societies - will be the basis of all discussion. The hypothesis of the differentiation between acquired status and assigned status from Ralph Linton will complement the discussion. Both will permeate the discussion of common sense, individuation, and symbolic formation. The discussion about common sense will not have a basic text, but a set of anthropological works. This hypothesis, however, will culminate in the images of Ernest Gellner and Mário de Andrade, who will present their hypotheses of immersion of the common man in a belief system that obscures his own perception of reality. Individuation, whose starting point will be the ideas of Aristotle, will follow the hypotheses of David Hume that will serve as the basis for later discussions. George Mead will serve as a point of passage for Gerard Genette's discussion of the separation of fiction from fiction. Symbolic formation, which is the chapter in which language will ultimately play a predominant role, will have as its starting point and basis for all discussions, even retroactively, the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce and Gottlob Frege, whose symbol conceptions will link the end of everything that was discussed so that, starting from them, the analysis of the narratives begins. Finally, in addition to presenting some models of narrative analysis, in general, which will be based on the proposals of Labov & Waletzky (1967), Labov (1997) and Bruner (1991), try to establish differences between narrative aspects that the maintenance of behaviors and those that advocate innovation through the critical reflection of traditional behavior.

Molte sono le definizioni che sono state date dell'esperienza dell'esilio come fenomeno di radicale sradicamento, espulsione o allontanamento forzato. La maggior parte di esse si riferiscono alla dimensione spaziale. Ma come dire l'esilio rispetto al tempo? Seguendo le riflessioni di José Solanes e di Josef Wittlin, cercheremo di trovare –a partire dalle narrazioni personali, dai nomi che gli esiliati si sono dati– dei modelli interpretativi condivisibili e socialmente rilevanti. Forme del sentirsi e percepirsi coinvolti o no nella storia collettiva, forme del narrare e del ricordare.

There are many definitions given of the experience of exile as a phenomenon of radical eradication, expulsion, or forced departure. The greatest number part of them refers to the spatial dimension, but how to say the exile in relation to time? Following the reflections of José Solanes and Josef Wittlin we will try to find –beginning from the personal narrations, from the names that the exiled have given to themselves– some interpretative models shareable and socially relevant. Forms of feeling and perceiving oneself whether involved or not in the collective history, and forms to narrate and to remember.

Snakes suffer from a bad reputation, and few human allies stand to  prevent their extirpation. Yet more rhetorically powerful than any ethical injunction halting human violence upon nature, a sensuous moment of intertwining with the serpent can enact onto-epistemological shifts and dispositional transformations. Through a serpentine mêtis and mythopoetics of cunning wisdom and knowledge production, we can imaginatively, transversally, re-member the feeling of raising serpentine energy along the spine, sloughing off old skin, and slithering down  among the roots and rhizomes into the depths of uncertainty. Opening up a space for the otherwise, responding to the hum of rhetorical energy coursing through our more-than-human relations, we may still live to tell new stories with the snakes and the rest of our strange kin.

Keywords: becoming-animal, cunning, entanglement, narrative identity,  posthumanism

Resumo: Lançando mão da hermenêutica em Ricoeur (2010;2012), o presente artigo investiga a hipótese de que o território Palestino como corpo político (SAFATLE, 2015), encontra fundamento na dimensão simbólica da palavra narrada. Com apoio do método indiciário (GIZBURG, 1989), desejamos construir esta hipótese através do rastreamento de relatos que compõem uma espécie de narrativa polifônica sobre a questão Palestina. Entre os textos estão os poemas do poeta símbolo da Palestina Mahmoud Darwish, a narrativa memorialística de Sahar Hamouda e as reportagens de Joe Sacco. Como operador central, a narrativa como vetor da memória catalisa o luto em potência política. À guisa de conclusão, defendemos que a identidade palestina se organiza a partir de um mosaico de vozes a partir do exílio da memória. Palavras-Chave: Palestina. Memória. Narrativa. Abstract: Building upon the hermeneutic approach, as in Ricoeur (2010;2012), the present work investigates the hypothesis that the Palestine becomes a political body (SAFATLE, 2015) in the symbolic dimension of the narrated word. Building upon the indiciary paradigm (GIZBURG, 1989) the research gathers a diverse number of texts which, put together, suggest a polyphonic narrative on the Palestine question. Among the texts analyzed, are the poems of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the memorialistic narrative of Sahar Hamouda and the reports of Joe Sacco. As a central operator, narrative as a vector of memory catalyzes mourning into political power. By way of conclusion, we argue that the Palestinian identity is organized from a mosaic of voices from the exile of memory.

Se estudia apropiación del personaje de Percival, que representa en la tradición caballeresca el inicio de las aventuras de busca del Graal, trasladando a la actualidad su potencial simbólico como modelo heroico a través de una interpretación que introduce un nuevo modelo en el imaginario colectivo y que interpela al lector.

The recent loss of composer Robert Ashley (1930–2014) prompted in some of us a grab-bag of reflections – private but perhaps peculiarly shareable. My first encounter with Ashley's music was when I was working in college radio in Chicago. We used to receive CDs from the label Lovely Music Ltd., among others. I suppose it was my first full-blown exposure to what we now call post-minimalist music, although these CDs did include earlier sound-art minimalism such as Alvin Lucier's. I'm not sure whether I got to hear William Duckworth's, Joan LaBarbara's, David Behrman's, Robert Ashley's, or ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny's music first, but despite some scepticism, I did find all of this music strangely attractive in ways I didn't expect.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S004029821600070X

(Previously published version of the article: 
https://www.academia.edu/12166638/Crash_and_getting_me_started_How_Robert_Ashley_changed_my_mind)

The objective of this chapter, that's forthcoming in a volume for UBC Press, is to highlight the variety of narrative strategies that are employed by Indian Residential Schools Survivors to account for forced residential schooling and its aftermath. It also aims to identify what prompts the use of one narrative framework over another. Drawing on his work on a Coeur d’Alene family’s narratives of “forced removal from homelands, mandated residential schools and forced adoption programs”, anthropologist Aaron Denham (2008, 397) calls for distinguishing historical trauma from the historical trauma response. This response, he argues, may or may not be comprised of the dysfunction usually associated with historical trauma in the literature describing this condition within Indigenous populations. Notably, this response may also include expressions of resistance and resilience. In this chapter, I first describe how forced residential schooling and the ratification of the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA) are alternately storied in the Cree Nation of Wemindji through a narrative of disculturation and irreparable loss, or a narrative of resistance and resilience. I then demonstrate that one of the main factors influencing what type of narrative the Cree I interviewed in Wemindji employ is how the IRS system and the JBNQA figure into these actors’ views of their nation’s colonial history, decolonization processes, and agenda for decolonization.