Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco

7 reviews

laverna's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Incest

minkkmuse's review

informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

 amazed and compelled by how much detail and empathy sacco’s ethnographic research contains 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Racism

ellaschalski's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

bookbuzzard's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Though I'm not as familiar with the subject matter as I'd like, I think this book does a really great job showing us a variety of perspectives from the Dene people and telling us their stories. 
This book, like Sacco's other books, is very narration heavy, with lots of small print in small boxes that can often be hard to read and absorb, I often find myself reading one page over and over. However, overall, I am glad to have read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Genocide, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Death

Minor: Incest, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Pregnancy

serendipitysbooks's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

 Paying the Land is exemplary graphic journalism - graphic in format not content. Sensitive topics like sexual abuse are handled sensitively. The author travelled extensively in the Dene land (part of what many know as Canada’s Northwest Territory). His focus was on the impacts of and attitudes towards development and the extraction of natural resources like oil, gas and diamonds. Is fracking an economic opportunity to be embraced or the antithesis of traditional ways and beliefs that should be rejected? The book inevitably is broader in scope highlighting traditional ways of life, and the impacts of colonialism especially the residential schools. I appreciated the way the author gave space to differing opinions and points of view, letting willing Dene people speak for themselves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual violence

annabunce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Excellent read - a holistic look at Dene and their relationship to resource extraction, the impacts of colonization and residential schools, and the complexity of community politics. Would highly recommend to anyone although I do have some questions about whether any of the funds from this book were directed back to community and noticed a couple errors that made me wonder about the editing process (ex writing Inuits instead of Inuit)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual violence, and Suicide

brogan7's review

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse