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Social work educational engagement with anti-racism
Get PDFCanada is a country built on colonization and cultural imperialism and, as a result, racism is rampant yet normalized in Canadian society. Social work practitioners provide services to vulnerable members of society. Therefore, anti-racism is an essential component of social work education. This paper seeks to answer the following research questions: What are the considerations when teaching anti-racism in social work education? What are the shortcomings of how race is currently taught in social work education? This paper utilizes critical race theory as a theoretical framework to explore systemic racial inequities in social work education. Two overarching themes -- the contexts of anti-racist education in social work and the shortcomings of teaching about race in social work education -- were identified through an extensive review of relevant literature. The first overarching theme incorporated four subthemes: colonialism; whiteness; anti-racism in settler societies; and mandates related to anti-racist education for social work students. The second overarching theme incorporated three subthemes: anti-oppression; cultural competence; and cultural humility. Finally, the paper discusses the implications of the findings for social work education, including decentring whiteness, classroom dynamics, and social work practice
Diffused effort, asset heterogeneity, and real estate brokerage
No full textWe generalize the classic Williams (1998, Review of Financial Studies, 11, 239–280) brokerage model by introducing diffused effort and asset heterogeneity. The term "diffused effort" refers to the fact that an agent can cross‐utilize effort spending on one listing to another. One counterintuitive finding in Williams' paper is the absence of the agency problem. As a special case in our model, we recover the agency problem. We demonstrate the positive externality due to the diffused effort and show it depends on the agent's inventory size. Hence, there is a trade‐off between agents' effort committed to existing listings and expanding network size by soliciting new listings.Peer reviewedFinal article published.DC Author's celebration 202
Their voices matter : how intersectionality and systems of oppression play a role in understanding the sexual exploitation of youth
Get PDFThe sexual exploitation of youth is a complex social issue that is receiving growing attention in today’s literature. Research suggests there is a significant overrepresentation of Indigenous and 2SLBTQIA+ youth who are impacted by sexual exploitation. This paper uses an intersectional and anti-oppressive framework to further explore individual and systemic risk factors that increase the possibility of youth becoming sexually exploited and further analyzes how systems of oppression and intersecting identities play a role in the sexual exploitation of youth today. Suggestions are made for ways to deliver trauma-informed intervention and prevention programming to youth in a way that recognizes power imbalances when working with service providers to help better understand how essential it is for survivors’ voices to be heard the loudest when making decisions and creating goals. The impacts of media discourse and how these narratives influence systems of oppression, racism, stereotypes, stigma and awareness on the issue of youth sexual exploitation are also analyzed. Finally, future research is suggested to increase awareness, address oppressive policy and prevent a homogenizing understanding of this social justice issue
Men, masculinities, and infertilities
Get PDFDrawing on diverse examples from literature, film, memoirs, and popular culture, Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities analyses cultural representations of male infertility.
Going beyond the biomedical and sociological towards interdisciplinary cultural studies, this book studies depictions of men’s infertility. It includes fictional representations alongside memoirs, newspaper articles, ethnographies and autoethnographies, and scientific reporting. Works under discussion range from twentieth-century novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover to romantic comedy film Not Suitable For Children, and science fiction classic Mr Adam, as well as encompassing genres including blockbuster romance
and memoir. Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities draws upon both sociological and popular culture research to trace how the discourse of cultural anxiety unfolds across disciplines.Published Online. Full text from the publisher is open access and available via the DOI
A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Messages of Sex and Their Impacts on Newlywed Christian Men
Get PDFReligion, and Christianity in particular, holds considerable influence on experiences and perceptions of sexuality. However, there is little research on how this influence is experienced. Therefore, the primary research question of this study is: how do newlywed heterosexual Christian men experience religious messages about sex, and what are the impacts of these messages on their sexuality? This study uses a qualitative phenomenological approach to understand how participants experienced Christian sexual messages before and within marriage. Data analysis was conducted using Creswell’s (2013) adaptation of Moustakas’ (1994) phenomenological design. Participants indicated five overarching themes regarding messages of sex and how these messages influence them: (1) conflicting messages about sex; (2) the need for accountability; (3) premarital sexuality as a journey; (4) changing understandings of sex within marriage; and (5) changing the conversation. Therapeutic and pastoral implications of the findings are further discussed.sexuality, marriage, religion, men, Christianit
White spaces, Asian faces: Onboarding for racialized academic librarians
Get PDFRacialized librarians experience vocational awe and the consequences of how vocational awe plays out with their white colleagues. Namely, racialized librarians witness the inconsistencies between library values and library practices (Ettarh, 2018). Through a series of vignettes, two racialized academic librarians, one mid-career and one early-career, will share their experiences and reflections on the hiring and onboarding of a racialized librarian at a predominantly white institution. These vignettes illustrate the gaps in the existing recruitment and onboarding processes and how these institutional failures cause harm to both new and existing employees. While libraries and librarians have made commitments to diversifying the field and decolonizing their teaching and external-facing practices, this attention has not been extended to inward-facing library policies and practices, as evidenced by the recent research on bureaucracy in libraries (Nataraj, Hampton, Matlin & Meulemans, 2020). The presenters pose areas for further investigation into onboarding practices for racialized librarians and propose that libraries treat onboarding not as a checklist but as a practice to intentionally retain BIPOC librarians.Onboarding; Academic Libraries; Retention; Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Vocational Aw
Xqéntwecw – Learning a Language Together: Secwepemctsín Mentor Apprenticeship Immersion
Get PDFIndigenous language revitalization is a growing movement in Canada, specifically in British Columbia which has 34 distinct Indigenous languages (FPCC, 2018). Secwepemctsín, the language of the Secwépemc peoples in the Interior of British Columbia, is one such language that is considered critically endangered (April 18, 2021, retrieved from http://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1472). Current established methods of language revitalization within Secwepemcúl̓ecw, the land of the Secwépemc, focus on community language programming, K-12 public and Band school language classes, and the Chief Atahm immersion school. Other than the immersion school, new language speakers are not emerging from these language programs. To enhance the growth of new speakers, and support Secwepemctsín revitalization efforts, new methods of language revitalization, including the Mentor Apprentice Program and the piloting of the Direct Acquisition Model developed by the Salish School of Spokane, are being implemented to augment the dearth of adult speakers. This study aims to explore the effects of the Mentor Apprentice Program model on the development of language and cultural fluency, the methods of language instruction within that model, and a brief exploration of how morphological analysis fits into this picture. Relationality and cultural immersive environments were found to be the most effective means of enhancing language development. As this research examined only successful participants within the Mentor Apprentice Program, further exploration into those dyads that did not continue within the language program would be beneficial, as well as further examining the nature of morphological analysis in the training of future mentors and how traditional storytelling (legends and relayed experiences) complements this research area.language revitalizationmentor apprentice programimmersionIndigenousSecwépemcSecwepemctsí
Breaking the Binary: Exploring Orality in India through Typography, Cryptography and Craft
Get PDFThis thesis explores the fluidity of language through the fusion of heterogenous visual traditions — creating hybrid forms and coded communication. It voyages through the linguistic landscape of India. Delving into its social, political and cultural identities it finds expression in typography, cryptography, craft arts and poetry. From this body of work emerged the hybrid typeface Latinagari, a character set that fuses the letterforms of the Devanagari and Latin scripts.
Embodying both forms it is also neither. Being familiar to readers of either script, yet obscure. It both invites and denies the viewer’s desire to read. Representing the in-between spaces of spoken language in India, it is its own being.
Through it, a novel graphic language finds form and with it new opportunities for expression, communication and mis-communication. Like the way Hindi flows to English and back in contemporary Indian culture this visual vocabulary becomes its own thing, An expression of identity, a linguistic code and a way of knowing.Communication designCryptographyEmbroideryCraftCoded communicationMultilingual typographyDownload for optimal viewing experience