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<p>This paper traces annual commemorations of two anti-Muslim massacres in recent Canadian history: the 2017 shooting at a mosque in Québec City and the 2021 vehicle-ramming attack against a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Both attacks have prompted numerous commemorative efforts and emerged at the forefront of public debates around Islamophobia, far-right terrorism and hate crimes, as well as inclusion and national belonging. I examine these public contests and memory projects by combining sociological research on memory and commemoration with critical scholarship on the politics of grief. Empirically, I build a corpus of annual commemorative efforts and their associated media coverage (2017–2022), analyzing how practices and discourses of commemoration articulate grief and political grievances. Drawing on this corpus of public texts, I conceptualize <i>commemoration as recognition</i> and <i>commemoration as repair</i> as two overarching political grammars of commemoration in the aftermath of racially and religiously targeted massacres. By attending to these grammars and the barriers they encounter, this paper offers insights into public responses to white nationalist and anti-Muslim violence, and contributes to the growing focus, within memory studies, on the transformative potential of commemoration. Implications for theories of recognition and repair in cultural and political sociology are discussed.</p>

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“Remember, reclaim, heal”: commemorating anti-Muslim violence in Canada

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    2025年2月21日

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  • Sophie Marois

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This paper traces annual commemorations of two anti-Muslim massacres in recent Canadian history: the 2017 shooting at a mosque in Québec City and the 2021 vehicle-ramming attack against a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Both attacks have prompted numerous commemorative efforts and emerged at the forefront of public debates around Islamophobia, far-right terrorism and hate crimes, as well as inclusion and national belonging. I examine these public contests and memory projects by combining sociological research on memory and commemoration with critical scholarship on the politics of grief. Empirically, I build a corpus of annual commemorative efforts and their associated media coverage (2017–2022), analyzing how practices and discourses of commemoration articulate grief and political grievances. Drawing on this corpus of public texts, I conceptualize commemoration as recognition and commemoration as repair as two overarching political grammars of commemoration in the aftermath of racially and religiously targeted massacres. By attending to these grammars and the barriers they encounter, this paper offers insights into public responses to white nationalist and anti-Muslim violence, and contributes to the growing focus, within memory studies, on the transformative potential of commemoration. Implications for theories of recognition and repair in cultural and political sociology are discussed.