A5050460019- Canadian Identity and History
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Political Systems and Governance
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Music History and Culture
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- History of Science and Medicine
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Physical Activity and Health
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
University of Calgary
2022-2025
Western University
2020
Queen's University
2015-2018
Film Independent
2012
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
2011
Louisiana State University
2011
The persistence of communities along Louisiana's coast, despite centuries natural and technological hazard events, suggests an enduring resilience.This paper employs a comparative historical analysis to examine "inherent resilience," i.e., practices that resource-dependent residents deploy cope with disruptions are retained in their collective memory.The classifies activities taken advance following series oil spills within Wilbanks' four elements community resilience: anticipation, reduced...
Reviews exploring social support in physical activity for specific adult populations are numerous. There is a need to synthesize knowledge and translate evidence into practical strategies enhance activity. The objective of this overview reviews was supportive contexts populations. Standardized guidelines conducting reporting were followed. Twenty-three identified, data summarized narratively. Supportive categorized nine functions: feeling welcomed included, making fun, modeling activity,...
Evacuee post Hurricane Katrina Decades before made its awesome landfall in August 2005, two transformative hurricanes struck the U.S. Gulf Coast. Betsy sped inland follo...
Before the advent of refrigeration and grocery stores, Louisiana’s rural Creoles—mixed-race French-heritage people who usually identify as black—supplemented their diets through self-provisioning activities such ritual butchering a hog distributing its products amongst kin neighbors. Called boucherie, this activity continues in state’s southwest is deeply linked to present-day Creole identity. Collected ethnographic archival methods, research argues that boucherie gives spatial expression...
In southwestern Louisiana, the public sphere is dominated by image of Cajuns, presented as a hardy, likable people who have overcome significant obstacles since their arrival Acadians in late eighteenth century. Across cultural region designated "Acadiana," which comprises 22 counties, nearly 30% population black (or Creole, mixed-race peoples generally identifying black). Contributions non-whites to region's history are usually not incorporated into historical narrative, and erasure these...
This paper contends that unfree Indigenous student labour at residential schools was a key—and underappreciated—component of settler colonialism in Canada. Colonial administration and the churches attempted to “civilize” assimilate people—and prepare frontier for white settlers—through schooling. Labour, accordance with Euro‐Canadian gender norms, expected usher Brandon Industrial Institute (later Residential School) students from “backwardness” traditional lifeways industriousness...
Obstacles to electoral involvement for persons with a disability are not limited inaccessible polling sites. Meeting venues, campaign offices and constituency all central the effective functioning of Canadian democracy. The purpose this paper is identify extent which Ontario election 2011 “opened doors” participation disabilities. study used survey document review approach compose snapshot accessibility in 2011. Party leaders were polled seek their official position on issues platform....
While much attention has focused on Louisiana’s Cajun communities, comparatively few academics have studied the traditions of Creole community, a mixed-race group in state’s rural Southwest prairie and bayou regions. Discrepancies value accorded to played out recent debates about limiting or banning trail rides from certain Louisiana municipalities. Trail rides—organized outings horseback wagon, featuring participants hundreds—are one most visible manifestations peoples’ heritage; however,...
Reviewed by: Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling British Columbia by Sean Carleton Alexandra Giancarlo Carleton, – Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022. 331 p. On eve Confederation, was—in words Carleton—a "remote beleaguered colony" (p. 78). How did this colony, beset serious economic problems threatened American annexation, transform over course next half-century into thriving populous province that we recognize today? In Legitimacy, argues...
Photography was a potent settler colonial technology that employed — and contested in the residential school system. In one photographic campaign, Canadian government marshalled images of Indigenous children on once-in-a-lifetime hockey excursion to publicly convey it successfully assimilating them into Euro-Canadian society. The 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, team from Pelican Lake Indian Residential School (Anglican) northwestern Ontario, were taken whirlwind exhibition tour Ottawa...
This essay, a collaboration between Euro-Canadian academic and an Indigenous (Blackfoot) educator, opens window into the cultural persistence of Blackfoot people through photograph leisure practices from 1944. image, found in Alberta provincial archives, shows social dance held on Reserve (now Siksika Nation) during era when Canada's Department Indian Affairs their Christian missionary affiliates attempted to eradicate traditions peoples. In prairies, they focused eliminating Sundance...
In this paper, we discuss the theoretical foundations, methodology, and method for a now-underway historical Indigenous sport photo elicitation project. our sessions with former members of Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, an Indian residential school (boarding school) hockey team that famously toured Ontario, Canada in 1951, use to spark memories provide sense immediacy participants, most whom are their eighties. Our approach, centred around storytelling other methodologies contributes growing...
Scholars have examined how theories of race-based intelligence as they relate to IQ testing impacted Canadian society in the realms educational policy, immigration, and public health, yet little research has focused on role other Indian residential school system. When administrators observed students’ poor grade progression, sought not reform a system that forced children work for at least half day, but rather blame home environments supposedly hereditary racial traits. This paper examines...
Incorporating a social and critical model of disability with an eye to the important intersections race, gender, income, disability, we use existing literature both on chronic disease health within African Nova Scotian community argue that human rights-based approach exemplified by United Nations Convention Rights Persons Disabilities (CRPD), provides most promise for improving lives black Scotians disabilities.
Reviewed by: Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity ed. by Thomas Jessen Adams Matt Sakakeeny Alexandra Giancarlo Authenticity. Edited Sakakeeny. (Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. [x], 358. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-47800287-1; cloth, $104.95, 978-1-4780-0182-9.) [Due to an editorial error, the following review was published in May 2020 issue attributed incorrect reviewer. It is here again, with correct reviewer's name. The editor apologizes Dr....