Divided Power - Winnipeg Book Talk

Join author Emily Grafton for a discussion of Divided Power: How Federalism Undermines Reconciliation.

The event will be livestreamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/3BJb1oCOFak

Divided Power explores how Canadian federalism, rooted in the settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous Peoples, impedes reconciliation. In its pages, author Emily Grafton meticulously traces the ways that federalism limits the potential for reconciliation and proposes alternative power-sharing models. Ultimately, this book points to a promising approach to holding the Canadian state responsible for integrating the principles of truth and reconciliation into its very foundation.

Emily Grafton grew up primarily in Winnipeg and studied political science and women's studies at the University of Winnipeg. Grafton received a master’s in public administration (University of Manitoba) and subsequently worked in provincial politics at the Manitoba Legislative Assembly. While pursuing a PhD in Native Studies (University of Manitoba), she worked for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Newberry Consortium of American Indian Studies and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. A descendent of the Métis, Grafton's family life and scholarship have been shaped by these politics of settler-based dispossession. She currently serves as an associate professor of politics and international studies at the University of Regina. She is the faculty lead for the Saskatchewan Electoral Parity Project and is a member of the Canadian Political Science Association’s Board and Reconciliation Committee. Grafton lives in Regina with her husband and two children.