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BUILDING A WORKFORCE WHICH HAS THE RESILIENCE TO DEAL WITH THE DEMANDS OF POLICING
Get PDFOn November 23, 2022, Chief Constable (C.C.) Chris Rowley for Lancashire Constabulary presented Building a Workforce Which Has the Resilience to Deal with the Demands of Policing. The key points discussed were the conceptualization of resilience, the need for and benefit of resilience training for individuals in law enforcement, and strategies for building and maintaining resilience in organisations and individuals.
Received: 2022-12-28Revised: 2022-12-3
The Big Michif Dream: Enacting Love & Healing Through Kîyokêwin
Get PDFThis presentation focused on my master’s thesis research, “We Are Links in a Daisy Chain: The Important Role of Relationships in the Cultural Identity of Métis Women.” For my thesis research, I visited with my maternal Métis grandmother and mother to collect family stories to create a more fulsome account of life as a Métis woman on the prairies. The data I collected was stitched together with archival research to “locate the ways in which familial and colonial histories intersect” (Hunt, 2016). I facilitated informal gatherings, or ‘visits’, with my mother and grandmother to discuss our understanding of Michif culture, tell stories, strengthen our bonds through kîyokêwin (visiting) and contribute to the repairing of cultural knowledge transmission pathways to create a better life for future generations. I took cues from my family on the best ways in which to facilitate the kîyokêwin and Indigenous life history research. My work is for them, for the future generations and for other people like me who are finding their way back to themselves and their identity. By employing Indigenous feminist methodologies of kîyokêwin and storytelling in my research, I privileged ways in which Métis women had been sharing and producing knowledges for generations
nanay: a response to Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
Get PDFA poem geographically set in Taiwan, the Philippines, and British Columbia
Operator Please: Field Recording Practices Through The Lens Of Agential Realism
Get PDFThe past decade has seen the proliferation of inexpensive long-duration field recording technologies made available to creative practitioners, researchers and amateurs alike. Without the need for continuous attendance of equipment, such technologies have led to the rise of unattended field recording methodologies, considered as objective and minimally impactful on recording sites.
The presentation draws on perspectives offered by Karen Barad’s ‘agential realist’ paradigm - which view the ontological and epistemological relationships object/subject, phenomena/apparatus as intra-active and entangled - and interrogates (material-discursive) field recordings practices as related to acoustic ecology and ecoacoustics. The agency of the field recordist as part of the field recording apparatus is given particular consideration, complicating claims of objective observation and offering renewed ideas of acoustic observation and listening
Sounding Soil: An Acoustic, Ecological & Artistic Investigation of Soil Life
Get PDFThe interdisciplinary Sounding Soil project explores the soil’s soundscape and renders experienceable and investigable the activity and diversity of soil life in an artistic-acoustic observatory. The main aim is to increase soil awareness in the general population as well as among decision-makers involved in soil policies and food producers. While moving through or digging the soil matrix, the soil fauna produces noises. Moreover, some animals seem to use the soil as a communication medium, forming a complex soundscape. Land use and agricultural management may have marked effects on the soil soundscape. Thus, the (acoustic) richness of a local soil animal community may serve as an indicator of the functioning of a soil ecosystem. In the scientific module of the Sounding Soil project, we implement and test acoustic indices to assess soil biodiversity and community composition. In the art and citizen science module, several Swiss farmers and subsequently the broader public record the soundscapes of their soils with a low-cost recording device. The result is a sound art installation as a publicly accessible observatory, integrating our scientific findings with recordings by participants in the citizen science module. This article describes the character of soil soundscapes in agricultural land and forests and reports on our research design and first insights into the relations between land use, soil types, biodiversity, and soil soundscapes
Information Through the Lens of Safety and Security
Get PDFOn April 20, 2023, Dr. Patrick Neal, Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Identity-Based Conflict and Vice President of Cyber Research at CASIS Vancouver, presented Information Through the Lens of Safety and Security at the April 2023 CASIS Digital Roundtable. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience. The key points discussed were how information has shifted to shape culture, the future evolution of Public and National Safety, and transformations in technology from language analysis.
Received: 2023-05-11
Revised: 2023-05-1
LEVERAGING DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) IN MEETING MODERN INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES
Get PDFOn November 22, 2022, Ms. Michelle Tessier, Deputy Director of Operations, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), presented on Leveraging Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Meeting Modern Intelligence Challenges. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were the ways in which DEI strategy helps the government of Canada deliver programs and services to all Canadians and examples of steps taken to ensure the implementation of such strategy.
Received: 2022-12-10Revised: 2022-12-3
ETHICS IN DYSTOPIA? DIGITAL ADAPTATION AND US MILITARY INFORMATION OPERATIONS
Get PDFOn November 22, 2022, Dr. Emma Briant, Associate Professor at Bard College (United States of America) presented on Ethics in Dystopia? Digital Adaptation and U.S. Military Information Operations. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS-Vancouver executives. They key points discussed were: 1) the need for enhancing digital literacy skills so that one can be resilient in the face of online information that conveys an existential threat; 2) the competition between the different forms of media prevailing today, and its impact on the online information environment; and 3) the differences between the U.S. and Canada in terms of strategic visions and legal frameworks as it pertains to media, information, and public diplomacy.
Received: 2022-12-21Revised: 2023-01-0
EN(COUNTERING) TERRORISM
Get PDFOn November 23, 2022, Dr. Mia Bloom, Communications and Middle East Studies professor at Georgia State University, presented on “En(countering) Terrorism” at the 2022 Annual CASIS Vancouver West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were the changing roles of women in terrorist groups, the relationship between social media and terrorist groups, and the emergence of the QAnon movement.
Received: 2023-01-08Revised: 2023-01-1