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Francesco Ciabattoni, Fulvio Orsitto, and Simona Wright, eds. Crocevia: Percorsi dell’intermedialità
No full textMaria Salviati de’ Medici. Selected Letters, 1514–1543. Edited and translated by Natalie R. Tomas
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Alessandro Cabiati. Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857–1912
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Curating Diasporas: Community Museological Practices and Politics of Immigration Memories in the GTA and Beyond
No full textThis article examines how cultural institutions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and nearby regions engage with themes of migration and diaspora through curated exhibitions. Drawing on nine case studies analyzed as part of the Curating Diasporas Initiative (2024), the study explores how community museums, heritage centres, and faith-based archives construct narratives of displacement, adaptation, and identity. While these exhibitions foreground resilience, collective memory, and community building, the article argues that they often follow a linear trajectory (departure, arrival, and integration) that anchors migration and diasporic identities within the boundaries of the Canadian nation-state. Using theoretical frameworks from migration studies, diaspora studies, and memory studies, the analysis is organized around four thematic clusters: Displacement and Migration, Refugees and Religion, Trauma and Belonging, and Architecture and Heritage Building as Migration Narratives. Through these categories, the article identifies shared curatorial strategies, such as the use of personal artifacts, oral histories, and architectural space, while also noting divergences in how trauma, faith, and transnational memory are framed. The conclusion calls for an increased attention toward dynamic, multidirectional curatorial approaches that reflect the ongoing and relational nature of diasporic experience. By examining how institutions both shape and are shaped by multiculturalism in Ontario, this study contributes to critical museology and diaspora scholarship, urging institutions to engage more deeply with the fluid and contested terrain of diasporic identities
The ten harmful myths of psychiatry: The ten harmful myths of psychiatry
No full textPsychiatry has powerfully influenced how mental health issues are conceptualised and addressed internationally. Many people report benefits from mental health assessment and treatment, but other individuals report being harmed by the mental health system. In this regard, mental health services are distinct from other areas of health care. For example, no other area of medicine has an equivalent of a psychiatric survivor movement. This article identifies ten embedded assumptions within psychiatry, which may account for some of these negative experiences. They are myths, in the sense of being beliefs which are widely held, often un-noticed and un-challenged, and routinely applied as if universally true despite being either wholly untrue or only sometimes true. They are also harmful, both in creating direct damage and in consuming patient, clinician, and societal resources which could be better spent in other ways. The myths are: Mental health problems are individual; Mental ill-health is fundamentally biological; A clinician knows what is in the patient’s best interests; A clinician can predict the patient’s future; Diagnosis is fact; Treatment is always justified; Patients need to be trained for social roles; Side effects are peripheral; Improvement is always due to treatment; and Supporting recovery is ‘business as usual’. Approaches to developing new knowledge about mental health are then proposed: learning from people living with mental health issues and not using services; developing a salutogenic knowledge base about wellness to balance our current pathogenic knowledge base about illness; and using standpoint epistemologies to develop more inclusive approaches to knowledge creation
Pūrākau, Death, and Assisted Dying: : A Māori Framework for Understanding End-of-Life
No full textThis conceptual article addresses several critical gaps in Indigenous health literature by exploring the ethical, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of assisted dying through the lens of Māori cosmology and pūrākau (ancestral narratives). While existing end-of-life policy frameworks often prioritise Western bioethical principles, this article argues for the inclusion of Kaupapa Māori principles—such as whakapapa, wairua, mana motuhake, and tapu/noa—as essential components of culturally resonant care. Drawing upon foundational narratives including the separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, the creation of Hineahuone, the transformation of Hinetītama into Hinenuitepō, and the fatal attempt of Māui to conquer death, we position pūrākau as dynamic ethical texts that guide decision-making. This article contributes to Indigenous health discourse by offering a whānau-centred, tikanga-informed critique of the End-of-Life Choice Act 2019 and calls for broader recognition of spiritual and relational dimensions in end-of-life care. We contend that assisted dying, when undertaken with whānau engagement, spiritual awareness, and cultural integrity, may be ethically compatible with tikanga Māori (Māori cultural practices)
