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Orthogonal colourings of tensor graphs
No full textPerfect -orthogonal colourings of tensor product graphs are studied in this article. First, the problem of determining if a given graph has a perfect 2-orthogonal colouring is reformulated as a tensor subgraph problem. Then, it is shown that if two graphs have a perfect -orthogonal colouring, then so does their tensor graph. This provides an upper bound on the -orthogonal chromatic number for general tensor graphs. Lastly, two other conditions for a tensor graph to have a perfect -orthogonal colouring are given
Construction of (a, b, c) tilings of the Euclidean plane, hyperbolic plane, and the sphere
No full textAn tiling forms under its symmetry group orbits of vertices; orbits of edges; and orbits of tiles. This paper discusses a method to arrive at an tiling of the Euclidean plane (), hyperbolic plane () or 2-dimensional sphere (). An application of the method facilitates the complete enumeration of the tiling of and as well as a listing of tilings of
Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy
Full text linkCo-written by four doctoral students and a professor, this article reflects on a novel social work doctoral seminar, “Social Justice Pedagogy.” This course was offered in the 2022 fall term at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, as part of concerted efforts to acknowledge learning spaces as sites of harm. The mutual draw to this course included all of the authors witnessing, causing, experiencing, or fearing harm in the classroom. This course became about the process and experience of a socially just pedagogical approach. Few PhD social work programs require or even offer a course on the discipline-specific skills of teaching social justice content (Lee et al., 2022; Oktay et al., 2013; Pryce et al., 2011). In this paper, we discuss our motivations for engaging in this novel course and share key insights gained through challenging discussions of racism, gender, and neurodiversity. We engage with themes of intersubjectivity and intersectional identities, attending to process and content in social work education. Further, we engage possibilities related to creating and fostering spaces that emphasize non-hierarchical communication and learning to shape a community of practice among educators. This reflects and reinforces the expectations of social workers to routinely reflect on ethical dilemmas, questions, challenges, and relational dynamics.Décoloniser les études supérieures en travail social : pédagogie et justice sociale au niveau doctoral
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Cette réponse aux appels à la décolonisation des espaces éducatifs traditionnels de travail social sonde le processus pédagogique de l’enseignement de la justice sociale. Rédigé par quatre doctorant·es·x et une professeure, l’article ouvre une réflexion suite à un nouveau séminaire de troisième cycle en travail social, « Social Justice Pedagogy », un cours offert à l’automne 2022 à l’Université Wilfrid Laurier, en Ontario, au Canada, dans le cadre d’efforts concertés pour aborder des façon authentique et systémique la décolonisation de l’enseignement dans le domaine. La structure du cours a été élaborée à partir du processus de cercle de qualité fondé sur les principes de la pédagogie autochtone et de la responsabilité relationnelle (Barkaskas et Gladwin, 2021 ; Graveline, 1998 ; Hart, 2002). Peu de programmes de doctorat en travail social exigent ou offrent un cours sur les compétences particulières de cette discipline qui visent l’enseignement d’un contenu axé sur la justice sociale (Oktay et al., 2013 ; Pryce et al., 2011 ; Lee et al., 2022). Dans cet article, nous abordons les raisons de notre implication dans ce nouveau cours et nous partageons les apprentissages essentiels acquis par des discussions stimulantes sur le racisme, le genre et la neurodiversité. Nous traitons de l’intersubjectivité et des identités intersectionnelles en nous penchant sur le processus et le contenu de la formation en travail social. Nous explorons comment les étudiant·es·x et les éducateur·ices·x allochtones peuvent participer à une formation en travail social qui se veut décoloniale en respectant le savoir et la pédagogie autochtones sans pour autant les approprier. Nous suggérons en outre qu’il serait utile de créer et de soutenir des espaces qui favorisent la communication et l’apprentissage non hiérarchiques et ainsi de former une communauté de pratique en enseignement afin de refléter et de renforcer les attentes du personnel en travail social pour encourager la réflexion régulière sur les problèmes, les questions, les défis et les dynamiques relationnelles éthiques.
Mots-clés : pédagogie, éducation de justice sociale, programme d’études doctorales, cercle de qualité, travail social, décolonisatio
Bayanihan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Grounding in community organizing and social movement praxis toward transformative social work
Full text linkThis article analyzes ways to transition toward transformative social work by drawing from the historical, social, political, and economic contexts of Filipino migrant workers and their organizing praxis during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper provides an overview of how the inequitable impacts on migrant and racialized populations by systems shaped around neoliberalism and racial capitalism only intensified the vulnerable conditions that Filipino migrants faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Mutual aid networks burgeoned as a response to systemic failures and the need for communities themselves to provide basic needs, combat isolation, and advocate for systemic change. These networks build from existing forms of solidarity and support that communities often excluded from dominant discourses already have in place. These communities continually revitalize forms of collective action through cultural and local knowledge systems and histories of resistance, such as the Filipino notion of Bayanihan. The authors critically reflect on their participation in two mutual aid and community organizing initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic drawing from Filipino epistemologies of Bayanihan and research on mutual aid, critical social work, community organizing, and social movements. Through these reflections, the authors unveil some of the practices and epistemological orientations that may help guide the profession toward its transformation by learning from community organizing and social movement praxis
Social justice in action: Showcasing the work of doctoral students in social work (part 1)
Full text linkThe Palestine Within : Exploring Diasporic Identity, Emotional Struggle, and Social Media’s Role in Shaping Resistance and Belonging
No full textThe Palestine Within, an auto-ethnography, explores the complex relationship between the way in which individuals of Palestinian descent living in the West perceive their cultural and ethnic identity and how the ongoing genocide in Palestine is portrayed on social media. As an individual of Palestinian descent myself, over the course of a week-long data collection process I compiled and analyzed media content from the social media applications of Instagram and TikTok, journaling emotional reactions, themes, and concepts evoked by each post in the process. The research aimed to explore how the cultural identity of individuals apart of diasporic communities are shaped by the representation of Palestine within social media content, which amplified feelings of guilt, alienation, and moral conflict. Three key findings were revealed following a thematic analysis: (1) an internal conflict between Canadian/Western identity and Palestinian ethnicity, (2) the emotional struggle of questioning one\u27s legitimacy in expressing Palestinian identity amidst the genocide, and (3) the privilege and responsibility of Palestinians in the West to engage in resistance and activism. Using the words written in the journals during the data collection process to inform a poetic literary response, I crafted a poem to express the nuanced emotions and reflections that arose from the data collection process. The project culminated in a visual body art-in-motion performance that embodied the key findings, combining interpretive art with poetry to convey the emotional complexity of the diaspora experience during a crisis. This study illustrates the difficulties diaspora communities encounter in balancing their lived experiences in the West with their ancestral ties by examining the emotional and social effects of media consumption on identity formation. The findings underscore the power of social media in shaping identity and activism, highlighting the role of diaspora communities in global resistance movements, even from afar
Unpacking the ideas that shape the health policy process: A genealogy of the EU’s Better Regulation agenda
Full text linkBetter Regulation – a meta-regulatory framework governing European Union (EU) policy-making, and a political determinant of health – is contested on account of the threat that it poses to health, environmental and other social objectives. This contestation stems from Better Regulation’s origins in neoliberal, market-driven rationalities, and the role of corporations in its promotion. Yet, precisely how, where and in what sense neoliberalism manifests within Better Regulation, whether it is the only or dominant set of beliefs that underpin the framework, and how this might (have) change(d) over time, is under-explored. Adopting a genealogical approach, this article seeks to construct a more nuanced account of the historical context, continual (re)interpretation, and potential for contestation of the beliefs that underpin Better Regulation, and ]thus to inform a more concrete assessment of the threat that its neoliberal (and other) origins pose to public health. Based on an analysis of EU policy documentation the article identifies three ‘roots’ of Better Regulation, informed by multiple ideas and rationalities, and argues that a more nuanced understanding might support efforts to make the underlying logics of Better Regulation work for public health, rather than against it
The post-politics of partnership: Understanding corporate power in multistakeholder governance
Full text linkThe rise of ‘multistakeholderism’ in global governance over the past few decades has led to the increasing involvement of corporations as key ‘stakeholders’ in decision-making. As a norm, multistakeholderism invokes deliberative democratic ideals of dialogue and consensus as a procedural solution to complex societal problems. Through an examination of a food policy partnership, this article explores processes of political marginalisation that occur within multistakeholder governance, contrasting formal structures of inclusion with informal exclusion. The article draws on the notion of ‘post-politics’ in developing a decentred analysis of a multistakeholder setting, arguing that the informalisation of decision-making constitutes a key means through which unequal power relations are rendered invisible. While presented as inclusive and participatory, multistakeholder partnerships often reflect a form of post-political regulation in which contestation and conflict are intentionally displaced to informal spheres of decision-making. This article unpacks how pressures to maintain the vision of multistakeholder partnership as deliberative and inclusive can paradoxically result in processes of marginalisation and exclusion, which enhance the power and influence of corporations over policy making. In doing so, the article contributes to understandings of power in a world increasingly characterised by multistakeholder governance, illustrating the tensions that surface between the ‘post-political’ vision of partnerships and informalisation and exclusion in practice
Public health in peril? Critical scholarship in times of crisis
Full text linkIt is hard to resist the conclusion that improvements in public health are set for a calamitous reversal. As the US administration’s assault on aid, science, and what is left of the public sector relentlessly unfolds, there are devastating implications globally, as vaccine development and roll out, and support for HIV/AIDS treatment, sexual health, and the broader upstream determinants of well-being and health equity are abandoned and isolationism replaces a commitment to global health governance. Within the USA, fatal outbreaks of measles – declared eliminated in 2000 – have been associated with declines in vaccine coverage as a vaccine-sceptic Health Secretary advocated rolling back ‘big state’ public health measures. His libertarian rhetoric has emboldened states in a raft of measures that threaten health and health equity, such as Florida’s ban on fluoridation of drinking water
Northern Corridor Research Program: Phase 2 Final Report
Full text linkThe Canadian Northern Corridor is an idea that responds to Canada’s need to increase interregional and international trade, provide services to northern communities, and establish a broadly accepted approach to large-scale infrastructure development. Since 2015, the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary has undertaken research and public engagement sessions to study the feasibility, acceptability, and desirability of a coherent and unified approach to national and regional infrastructure development in Canada. This paper stands as a final abbreviated summary report of the research and engagement program to date. The entire program comprises well over 40 individual studies conducted by over 50 contributing researchers and authors across eight research themes over the past 8 years. As such, this summary final report provides only a very basic overview of the research program. At the most fundamental level, the research conducted under this program suggests that a large-scale corridor concept is challenging to conceive, in both theory and practice for mid- and northern Canada. For that reason, we recommend a segmented corridor approach focused on development initiatives which are already gaining public acceptance and that communities identify as key priorities, such as digital infrastructure. One early priority could be the digitization of highways and roadways to enhance safety while travelling and to digitally connect communities. As such, a corridor approach must reflect a holistic strategy addressing the existing shortcomings related to the infrastructure gap in mid- and northern Canada which contributes to problems around unreliable transportation pathways, digital connectivity, food insecurity, inadequate housing, and lack of healthcare and education services