Transitional Justice and Forensic Intervention in Canada
Like the US, Canada has a long history of human rights violations and colonial violence against Indigenous peoples. This colonial relationship includes forcible assimilation, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and medical experimentation of Indigenous children through the Indian Residential School System. For four years, Dr. Kim conducted ethnographic research to ask questions such as, Is transitional justice (including forensic intervention) perceived as effective in providing redress? What should be done with remains of children buried in IRSS cemeteries? What are local understandings of forensic capablities?
PROJECT-RELATED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Kim, J. J., & Rosenblatt, A. (2023). Whose humanitarianism, whose forensic anthropology?. Anthropology of Violent Death: Theoretical Foundations for Forensic Humanitarian Action, 153-176.
Kim, J., Elgerud, L., & Tuller, H. (2022). Gaining community entry with survivors for forensic human rights and humanitarian intervention. Forensic Sciences Research, 7(3), 346-357.
Kim, J. (2021). Indigenous Youth and Experiences with Transitional Justice in Canada. In Pursuit of Racial Justice in Child & Youth Studies, 26.
Kim, J. J. (2018). Perspectives from the ground: colonial bureaucratic violence, identity, and transitional justice in Canada. Conflict and Society, 4(1), 116-134.
Kim, J. J. (2017). Applied anthropology in transitional justice. Practicing Anthropology, 39(1), 24-28
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
2017 Kim, Jaymelee J. The Business of Reconciliation: Bureaucracy, Identity, and Indigeneity. 116th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 11/29-12/3, Washington, D.C.
2017 Kim, Jaymelee J. Bureaucracies of Violence: Discussions from Canada and Uganda. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, 3/29-4/2, Sante Fe, NM.
2016 Kim, Jaymelee J. Negotiating the Everyday: Indigenous Trauma, Justice, and Identity in Canada. 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 11/16-11/20, Minneapolis, MN.
2016 Kim, Jaymelee J. Practitioner Perspectives: At the Intersection of Theory and Practice in the Aftermath of Canada’s Indian Residential School Era. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, 3/29-4/2, Vancouver, BC, CAN.
2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. The Other Side of Transitional Justice and Forensics in Canada: Operationalization, Corruption, & Unanticipated Outcomes. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 11/18-11/22, Denver, CO.
2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Living, Dead, and Imagined Bodies: Political Violence and Forensic Inquiry in Canada. Second Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Symposium: Bridging the Collaborative Gap, 9/25-9/27, Knoxville, TN.
2015 Kim, Jaymelee J. Appropriating Power: The Meaning of Reconciliation in Settler Colonial Canada. Southern Anthropology Society 50th Annual Meeting. 4/9-4/11, Athens, GA.
2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Human Rights, Transitional Justice, [Mis]Information, and Anthropological Knowledge in Canada. 113th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 12/3-12/7, Washington, D.C.
2014 Kim, Jaymelee J. Violence and the Recreation of Identity. Southern Anthropological Society Conference, 3/30-4/1, Cherokee, NC.
2013 Kim, Jaymelee J. A Holistic Approach to Forensic Anthropology in Human Rights Investigations: A Canadian Context. Inaugural Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Symposium: Framing the Field, 2/8-2/10, Knoxville, TN..