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Queering Ecology: (Re)Constructing Ecology as a Home to Better Understand the Social-Ecological Pressures Wildlife Face
No full textHomes are intimate spaces where many bodies come together in space and time to deeply learn and understand the processes that have created one another. Ecology, the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment, is based on the study of a home. Yet ecologists are trained in patriarchal, heteronormative, and otherwise Western articulations and understandings of nature that prevent access to this ecological home. In this article, I argue that through (re)constructing ecology as a home, ecologists can better understand the social and ecological processes that shape an organism. To (re)construct ecology as a home, I first dissect conflict with wildlife as a concept that reinforces taxonomical hierarchies and prevents humans from making a home with wildlife. I then leverage Queer theory to flatten taxonomical hierarchies and create a landscape that invites the (re)construction of ecology as a homemaking discipline. Lastly, I sit within the ecological home to examine urban wildlife and the environmental pressures they are subjected to—using the urban coyote as an example. This work leverages Queerness to collapse taxonomical hierarchies and push traditional ecology towards a boundless relationality with wildlife to more holistically understand the various social and ecological pressures that ultimately create their phenotype
Tracing Relational Care Across Borders: Towards Geopolitical Imaginaries Otherwise
No full textIn this paper, we enrich feminist theorizing on care by tracing more-than-human relationalities that are grounded in place but also stretch across México, the United States, and Canada. In three brief vignettes, we outline how geopolitical conditions of im/mobility intersect with specific material, semiotic, and affective relations of care involving Sonoran Desert soils, berries, toxins, and human bodies. In line with Indigenous theorizing on the myriad ways borders have colonized our political imaginaries, we suggest that more-than-human care is relational, not territorial—not contained by borders.
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En este artículo, enriquecemos la teoría feminista sobre el cuidado al rastrear relaciones más-que-humanas que están arraigadas al lugar pero que también se extienden a lo largo de México, los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá. En tres breves viñetas, describimos cómo las condiciones geopolíticas de in/movilidad se entrelazan con diferentes aspectos del cuidado, desde sus relaciones materiales, semióticas y afectivas hasta las más específicas que involucran los suelos del desierto de sonora, frutos rojos, toxinas y humanos en movimiento. En línea con la teoría indígena sobre las formas en que las fronteras han colonizado nuestros imaginarios políticos, sugerimos que el cuidado más-que-humano es relacional, no territorial. No está contenido por fronteras
Falling In Love with a Man Who Doesn’t Exist: Chinese Female-Oriented Dating Sims (yi nü) as a Case Study of Game Interactivity and Liminality
No full textComment on: Mental Health Recovery of Students attending a hospital-based Recovery College in Canada.
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The camera-animot: Speculations on Matteo Garrone’s Cinematic Gaze
No full textThis essay analyzes three specific filming techniques employed by Matteo Garrone: camera obstruction in Gomorrah (2008), shallow depth of focus in First Love (2004), and non-human point of view (POV) in The Embalmer (2002). I argue that these uncommon camera framings and movements produce alternative, uncanny, more-than-human points of view that question the privilege, centrality, and independence of the human perspective. These techniques are also essential to understanding central themes in Garrone’s oeuvre, in particular the expressionist tension of his cinema that he employs to expose the co-relationality of any life experience
COMPTE RENDU : Bibliothèques, lecteurs, lectures
No full textViviane Griveau-Genest, Anne Kucab et Elisa Lonati (dir.). « Bibliothèques, lecteurs, lectures », Questes, vol. 44, 2023, 139 p.,DOI 10.4000/questes.6104.Viviane Griveau-Genest, Anne Kucab et Elisa Lonati (dir.). « Bibliothèques, lecteurs, lectures », Questes, vol. 44, 2023, 139 p.,DOI 10.4000/questes.6104
“Information is everywhere and all encompassing”: Exploring how the iSchool environment shapes LIS student conceptions of information
No full textWhat is information? This question echoes through the field of information science and the many attempts at defining the essence of the field are well documented. For graduate students entering the field, answering this question is an intimidating prospect. This paper presents an exploratory, ethnographic study as a thematic narrative exploring the way three first-year library and information science (LIS) students at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information conceptualize information and how the iSchool environment—in which diverse approaches to studying information beyond LIS are present— has impacted their perspective. An extension of the draw-and-write technique was used to have participants create a visual representation of their current understanding of information and how they would have conceptualized it before becoming an iSchool student. Paired with guided tours of the iSchool environment, participants conveyed that information was messy and manifests through a variety of behaviours and sources. The iSchool environment provides information and students pay attention to the values and aesthetics conveyed through physical and digital interactions with the Faculty. Ultimately, the paper argues that students go beyond recognizing how their own understanding of “information” is influenced by their time at the iSchool and come to appreciate diverse perspectives that exist within their cohort and the field while embracing the complex and at times messy nature of information
Book Review | Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice, by Ashleigh Greene Wade (Duke University Press, 2024)
No full textBook review of Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice, by Ashleigh Greene Wade (Duke University Press, 2024
Two-Eyed Seeing in Knowledge Synthesis: Weaving Together Western Scoping Review Methods with Indigenous Storytelling to Explore Indigenous Approaches to Harm Reduction
No full textUsing methodological approaches rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and being can help to ensure that research findings are relevant and useful to Indigenous communities, while providing evidence for more responsive public health policy and practice. This article explores a practical application of a Two-Eyed Seeing approach in knowledge synthesis as part of Phase I of the First Nation Health Authority’s Indigenizing Harm Reduction Study. The Study aims to develop a First Nations harm reduction framework rooted in community knowledges in response to the disproportionate harms of the toxic drug emergency on First Nations people in British Columbia (BC). Our approach prioritized Indigenist research methods, centering relationality and storytelling in knowledge gathering, analyses, and validation activities, while weaving in a Western scoping review methodology. The literature review explored harm reduction among Indigenous communities globally. Conversational interviews and questionnaires gathered knowledge from individuals who identified as First Nations people who access harm reduction services or individuals who provide harm reduction services to First Nations people in BC. Weaving together these knowledge systems helped our team to develop a more wholistic understanding of existing harm reduction approaches and current needs of First Nations communities in BC, grounded in Indigenous values and lived experiences. This culturally relevant approach to knowledge synthesis contributes to the knowledge base on Indigenous research methodologies and presents a practical Two-Eyed Seeing framework for weaving together both academic and community-based evidence within healthcare contexts. We share this methodology as an offering for both Indigenous and settler scholars, care providers, and decision makers working in health to privilege Indigenous knowledges in developing evidence-informed policies and practices.