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School of Communication professor Kirsten Emiko McAllister released a new book on April 1st, 2025. Titled , this book addresses Japanese Canadian and Indigenous peoples struggles for justice in Canada. 

After Redress examines how struggles for justice continue long after truth and reconciliation commissions conclude and state redress is supposedly made. Contributors to this trenchant volume analyze the complex, often paradoxical process of redress from the perspectives of the communities involved. In a context where mechanisms for reconciliation and redress have been defined by the settler state, this book reveals how Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have responded to Western liberal notions of justice, whether by challenging or conforming to them or pursuing their own approaches. It asks: What are the links between knowledge systems and governance, between narrative tactics and political strategy? After Redress uncovers the effectiveness and the effects of demands for reparations and strategies to assert resistance.

The book was co-edited with Mona Oikawa, a faculty member in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University and a writer of poetry and creative nonfiction.