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Portraits of Resistance: Exploring Intra-personal, Social, and Institutional Resistances through the Use of Arts-Based Research among Racialized Parents of Autistic Children and Youth
No full textThe lives of children who live at the intersectional nexus between childhood autism and race may be considered as “shadow stories” that have remained silenced in autism literature. We explored the experiences of racialized parents who provide care to autistic children. We drew on a theoretical framework known as DisCrit and decolonizing arts-based methodologies. Racialized parents of autistic children demonstrated resistance along various themes, including fighting the system, protecting my child, and creating cultural communities. We join black girlhood studies, critical race theory, and disabled children’s childhood studies by continuing the journey of decentering Whiteness in childhood disability research. We demonstrate how disabled racialized communities engage in activism and social justice while forming powerful counter-discourses.
Towards a Feminist Research Ethics of Care: Reflections, Lessons, and Methodological Considerations for Doing Research During a Pandemic
No full textConducting feminist research during the global COVID-19 pandemic has evoked a renewed interest in the concept of care within our research team. The purpose of this paper is to provide concrete examples of how feminist ethics of care changed the initial and ongoing design of a community-engaged research project in Ontario, Canada. Drawing from examples and lessons learned, we focus on various adjustments to our methodological decision-making that intentionally honoured and prioritized our responsibilities to community partners, research participants, broader communities impacted by research, and the research team. By illustrating the methodological and ethical implications of these decisions, we argue that attending to these responsibilities prioritized both feminist research ethics and feminist ethics of care. As a result, we propose moving towards a conceptualization of a feminist research ethics of care, and discuss the value of this concept for researchers studying social justice
Challenging Involuntary Treatment and Confinement in Canada Through the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
No full textThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) came into force in 2008. People with disabilities, including people with psychosocial disabilities, were instrumental to its development. Article 12 and Article 14 of the CRPD, which respectively affirm the universal legal capacity and right to liberty of persons with disabilities, were viewed as key victories by disability rights movements. These provisions are particularly important for people with psychosocial disabilities who are routinely subjected to human rights violations through psychiatric detainment and involuntary treatment authorized under domestic mental health legislation in many states. We aim to advance discourse surrounding the CRPD and its development by centring mad peoples’ voices and individuals with lived experience through a literature review and interviews with key disability rights advocates. Using Canada as a case study, we critically examine the implementation of the CRPD and the need to align mental health acts with our international human rights obligations. We argue that forced psychiatric interventions violate the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities and cause inherent harm. There is an urgent need to move towards new paradigms of care that promote the dignity and autonomy of people with psychosocial disabilities
How to Read When the World is on Fire
No full textAs Mishra Tarc (2020) does through her evocative words on engaging texts today, I contemplate how texts, specifically children’s books, open pedagogical possibilities to reckon, repair, and reworld in a world that is on fire. From climate change to racial justice, it is children’s books, I believe, that can serve as pedagogical interventions and responses for teachers and teacher educators who are interested in addressing and confronting these complex and sometimes ineffable issues. I offer a glimpse of this approach through my practice as an elementary school teacher, a teacher candidate, and a teacher educator. Through these experiences, I consider how children’s books open up productive conversations around “difficult” and “hard” topics while also grappling with the ongoing questions that remain in my practice. Turning to children’s books, I outline both the immense potential of and need for using texts in the field of education. Immersing texts pedagogically and as a site of study, I hope, animates a renewed significance in supporting students to examine and tackle the issues confronting them
Just Housing Unrealized: The Canada Housing Benefit in Atlantic Canada
No full textWe examine the design and implementation of the Canada Housing Benefit (CHB), which is a rent subsidy provided to low-income tenants and an important part of the National Housing Strategy. Focusing on three Atlantic provinces, we explore to what extent the CHB adheres to just housing, based on the perspectives of stakeholders (n=18) who work with people living in poverty. We find that the CHB fails to provide assistance to many marginalized renters, thus perpetuating their exclusion. The CHB also falls short in providing housing that is affordable and secure, and lacks involvement in decision-making on the part of those with lived experience. Finally, the current state of the rental market, including a lack of units and landlord discrimination, poses significant limitations to its implementation. We conclude that the design of the CHB needs to be overhauled to comply with just housing, but that the housing terrain in which allowances are provided needs to be transformed or just housing will remain unrealized
Challenging the Brotherhood: American Women’s Involvement in the Order of the Eastern Star
No full textWhen most people think of the term ‘freemasonry,’ they likely think of an organization dominated by males rather than acknowledging, or perhaps even being aware of, the unique role that women played within fraternal associations. As early as the 1740s, women began serving an active role in ‘challenging the brotherhood’ by establishing female or mixed para-masonic orders. American women were actively involved throughout various organizations that were based on main fraternal associations such as the Degree of Rebekah, the Pythian Sisters, and the largest organization of them all, the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.). This paper aims to closely examine the role American women played within the O.E.S. throughout the 1920s-1940s by using a selection of newspaper clippings and proceeding minutes, primarily from the state of Alabama, which had over 300 O.E.S. chapters in the 1920s. Thus, this essay argues that despite having the potential for male members to dominate, as they traditionally did in most masonic organizations, women who were involved in the O.E.S. continued to ‘challenge the brotherhood’ based on their perception and promotion of the organization, their attendance and participation during meetings and rituals, and their ability to align with common Christian morals
Book Review: More Posthuman Glossary
No full textThis text comprises a review of the book More Posthuman Glossary edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbytė
Special Tribute: Thoughts on a Colleague, Friend, and Associate Editor of JISTE (2022 - 2024) - Dr. Megan Hamilton
No full textThis tribute, written by Katarina Pantic, ISfTE Communication Officer, honors Dr. Megan Hamilton, a dedicated scholar who embraced her Anishinaabe heritage and focused her career on promoting Indigenous education. Known for her creativity and mentorship, Megan inspired students by sharing her journey and encouraging them to pursue their dreams. Her work, including a notable dissertation on Montana’s Indian Education for All resources, reflects her commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing. As we remember Megan, we are reminded to live with humility, honesty, respect, and love, values she held dear