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Mental health experiences of Somali immigrants living in Edmonton, Alberta : a focused ethnographic study
No full textFactors influencing immigrants to flee their country of origin and transition to resettlement in a new region can evoke unstable employment, stress, and vulnerability to their mental health status. Immigrants’ cultural constructs and practices shape their perceptions of mental illness and treatments. This research was designed to explore mental health conceptions, practices, beliefs, and experiences from the perspective of immigrant Somalis in Edmonton, Alberta. To this end, Leininge’s ethnonursing model was employed, which holds that culturally congruent mental health care can be provided for a culturally diverse population when the nurse and client collaborate. Participants were recruited using purposive snowball sampling, data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, and data analysis was conducted simultaneously. Themes uncovered include knowledge of mental illness and treatment options, healing process/practices of mental illness, and barriers to accessing mental health services. This research aims to better enable healthcare providers to align their services with immigrants’ needs. Maintaining a clear understanding of Somali immigrants’ mental health beliefs, perceptions, and practices is essential to promoting culturally congruent and effective care.
Keywords: immigrants, Somali immigrants and mental health, mental health and culture, ethnograph
Queer inclusion in sport: From "chilly" spaces to "feel-good" spaces
No full textPresentation delivered at the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Sportif conference, Calgary, Alberta (November 2-3, 2023).
In this workshop, we will draw on the lived experiences of the facilitators and attendees, narratives from community members, and existing research to explore the features of sport spaces that can make them (un)welcoming for Queer community members. We will also work together to identify changes we want to see in our own community sport spaces and consider action we can take to make these changes a reality, from the individual level to the structural level.
Our central goal in facilitating this workshop at this conference is to provide coaches with direct, tangible, and well-researched tips on how to make their practices more inclusive the minute they walk out the door. Our interactive workshop will draw on current qualitative and quantitative data on queer youth and adults who (did or do) participate in sport, to offer practical examples of ways to improve material conditions in sport for queer athletes. Intended outcomes for the workshop are threefold: first, to demystify queer identities that athletes hold at every level of sport; second, to illuminate and generate individual actions that positively impact athletes at risk of ceasing participation in sport; and third, to empower organizations to take simple but powerful action to support all participants equitably. The current anti-trans climate – one that has weaponized sport – makes the timing and content of this presentation crucial. Sport organizations are scrambling to ensure they meet the needs of their members, and in doing so, do not cause harm to specific groups. We hope that by framing our knowledge through lived experience and simple, direct tips, we create meaningful and lasting change. We are also aware that the composition and dynamic of our research team is a strength that we hope will help the message sink in: One of us is an academic who has studied and worked in the sport sector for 20 years and is the parent of a gender non-conforming son. The other is a non-binary, trans student, athlete, and coach who is co-Chair of one of the Canada’s largest queer sport clubs.Not peer reviewedPresentationQueer CommunitySportCoachingInclusionBest Practice
A Historical-Ecological Approach to Understanding the Effects of Timber Harvest on Wa’uumst (Devil's Club, Oplopanax horridus) in Lax'yip Madii Lii
No full textIndustrial land-use has had profound impacts on Indigenous peoples’ homelands throughout Canada. Over the last century, logging practices in British Columbia have severed peoples’ connections to the land-base, creating access challenges and disrupting the availability of important plant resources. Devil’s club (Oplopanax horridus) is an important medicinal plant to communities in northwestern British Columbia, and there are mounting concerns about the impacts of logging on this ethnobotanically salient species. Over the last 70 years, swathes of productive forests throughout Gitxsan homelands have been impacted by the logging industry. Wilp (house) Luutkudziiwus has seen ~12% of their territory of Madii Lii altered by industrial-scale clearcut logging, which has left a mosaic of even-aged cutblocks that have potentially altered devil’s club habitat. To investigate and detail the potential impacts of logging on devil’s club in Madii Lii territory, this research measured
devil’s club health and vigour across a chrono-sequence of clearcut-logged sites compared with traditionally managed and unlogged sites in the territory. In addition, Species Distribution Models in conjunction with two different climate change scenarios (SSP245 moderate GHGs and SSP585 high GHGs) were used to predict habitat suitability for devil’s club in Madii Lii and throughout British Columbia to the end of the 21st century. Results suggest that, compared to traditionally managed areas (and controls), extensive logging in the territory negatively impacted the health and vigour of devil’s club, especially the most desirable individuals (with the largest and thickest stems). In addition, the predictive modelling for both climate scenarios suggest that climate change will increasingly impact highquality devil’s club habitat
Urban Orienteering
No full textWe have become too reliant on navigation technologies which have obscured our relationship with our surroundings. While apps like Google Maps enable a high degree of knowledge about one’s neighborhood to be at one’s fingertips, they undermine exploration and radical immersion in one’s surroundings. Immersion is our natural way of existing in our spaces, prior to the rise of technological mediation. These days, the sport of “Orienteering” has formed to encourage fitness and engagement with nature and the outdoors, and some adventure in this style in the city, but we can also envision the significance of “Urban Orienteering,” where we focus on the city, its machinery, and its steel and glass, since these are now our home. Hip-hop, punk rock, skateboarding culture, parkour, …. and radical solidarities await us in the modern city, but we won’t locate these vital spaces and places and concepts in our mapped reality. Encouraging walking, public transit, and wandering, and regulating the place of cars and dangerous vehicles is the pathway to a new commons for a new era of radical interdependence of all life in a technologically-enframed consciousness.
We hit SDG’s # 3,4,5,7,9,11,13 and 16
A very special episode live from the International Congress on Medieval Studies
No full textSelection from the Canterbury Fails podcast hosted by David Coley and Matt Hussey. This episode, "A Very Special Episode Live from the International Congress on Medieval Studies" was recorded at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 11-13, 2023). In this section, Noëlle Phillips and Carissa Harris discuss John Lydgate's poem, Ballad on an Ale-Seller.</p
The Negotiation Table: Artists' Labor, Cultural Power, and Institutional Accountability
No full text“The Negotiation Table” contends with the challenges that arts workers face in building ethical art practices in the context of an exploitative fine arts industry. This paper also acts as a living record of multiple artist-led protests pushing for fair labor practices, cultural representation, and institutional accountability.
The arts industry is structurally designed to rely on unpaid artists’ labor, which is further weaponized to gentrify cities. Marginalized artists must contend with a two-fold problem: there is a dire need for our work to exist, and the systems around us readily prey upon what we create. In response to these problems, I enter my work with the questions: Whom will this work benefit? What role will it play in the surrounding ecosystem? How can individual changes inform collective action, and how can collective action lead to institutional accountability and transformation?
I have created a new body of work, which I call my Negotiation Tables. My methodology involves taking hand-carved woodblocks and transforming them into sites of negotiation. This transformation is in response to the history of how print became indoctrinated in the fine arts, in contrast to its use in political campaigning, protest, and community activation. Working through my methodologies, I reflect on what it means for me to challenge print, as a Taiwanese-Chinese American and woman of color who has been made artificially rare in white dominant spaces.
I have centered my research on the act of negotiation, and the critical transformation in my work is about how we, as artists and arts professionals, move away from an industry based in artificial rarity to one of abundance.Art ethicsArt and protestArts-based gentrificationArts activismPrintmakingPublic artInstitutional critiqueAsian AmericaArtists' labo
Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care?: Student Perspectives
No full textAs a response to the increasing commercialization of postsecondary education, educators argue for a practice of care in education. Open pedagogy (OP) seems like an ideal practice where care, trust, and inclusion can be realized. OP is characterized as a democratic and collaborative pedagogical practice, in which students and teachers work to co-create learning and knowledge using openly licensed materials, open platforms, and other open processes. The purposes of this study were, first, to reveal ways students in postsecondary institutions perceive care and, second, to determine how students suggest OP can be used to create an open/caring learning process. A task-oriented focus group method engaged students from four teaching-focused institutions. The students created open cases on social issues for class discussion and reflected on care and OP processes in postsecondary settings. Using four elements of the ethics of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and trustworthiness—as conceptual categories, the study examined students’ experience of care and care in OP using affective coding and thematic analysis. The results showed that through OP, with teacher support and explicitly designed practices of care, students can assert their agency, have quintessential roles in creating and participating in highly relevant curriculum and importantly, care about others, and be cared for. OP is a process able to involve a diverse population of students and embody care as an all-encompassing practice
Digital citizenship and the big five personality traits
No full textOver the past two decades, the internet has become an increasingly important venue for political expression, community building, and social activism. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have endeavored to understand and measure how these transformations have affected individuals’ civic attitudes and behaviors. The Digital Citizenship Scale (original and revised form) has become one of the most widely used instruments for measuring and evaluating these changes, but to date, no study has investigated how digital citizenship behaviors relate to exogenous variables. Using the classic Big Five Factor model of personality (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), this study investigated how personality traits relate to the key components of digital citizenship. Survey results were gathered across three countries (n = 1820), and analysis revealed that personality traits map uniquely on to digital citizenship in comparison to traditional forms of civic engagement. The implications of these findings are discussed.Peer revieweddigital citizenshipmeasurementpersonality traitsOCEANonline activis
Enhancing PM2.5 monitoring: Calibrating low-cost monitors and analysing community-wide variability
No full textFine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is a significant health concern for the global population. The increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of wildfire smoke events continues to worsen people’s exposure, regardless of their proximity to other major sources such as industry and roadways. To mitigate this exposure, it is crucial to understand the
variability of PM2.5 in both space and time. However, the current PM2.5 monitoring network in Canada is limited to major population centres, due to the prohibitive costs of maintenance and deployment. In this study, we propose that low-cost air quality monitors are a viable solution to supplementing this monitoring network. Chapter 2 presents a comprehensive evaluation of these low-cost monitors by comparison with monitors from regulatory networks, including the development of a general-use bias correction model to improve their data quality. The focus of this analysis was to ensure optimal performance in the moderate to high concentration range, where variations in the concentrations have the greatest impact on human health. Chapter 3 demonstrates the application of this bias correction model to a network of low-cost monitors in a northern Canadian city. The data generated by this network was then combined with a novel interpolation method to assess the spatial and temporal variation in PM2.5 concentrations. This analysis represents a valuable resource for any population centre with a sufficient number of monitors installed, and has the potential to inform the siting of new regulatory monitors in locations without existing coverage