Lindsay Anne Balfour

TL;DR: While Indigenous-Government relations are currently contextualized within Canada's emphasis on reconciliation, they are also a part of the larger discourse of the War on/of Terror as discussed by the authors, and these incidences reveal that discussions of terrorism in North America must be undertaken with the acknowledgement that designations of "terrorist" extend beyond the Muslim community and towards Indigenous people as well.

TL;DR: In this article, Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel consistently teetering on the brink of violence, begins in a surprisingly benign manner but ultimately offers a sustained interrogation of the possibilities and limits of hospitality in a time of terror.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the ways in which objects and artifacts exist in relation to one another in the museum act out hospitality in ways that are both unexpected and unintended, and argue that while the disjunctures between artifacts may seem initially jarring, these are items, after all, that are meant to produce very different material and mediatized effects; they offer a working-through of a hospitality that is crucial to the museum and all culture produced in response to the attacks.

TL;DR: This article argued that the subversion of political rhetoric surrounding violence might become possible through a reconfiguration of the term violence itself, and what might is mean to reconsider violence as a site of potential ethical formation and address rather than the foreclosure of relational bonds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the extent to which Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses troubles dominant constructions of the grotesque in order to understand whether and how much we can be "beckoned" or "interpellated" by lives that are different from our own.