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The Holobiont, Food Justice, and Gaia 2.0: A Post-Human(ist) Approach to Functional Medicine
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Functional medicine is a personalized and holistic approach to treating chronic disease. In this article, I build upon posthumanist literature by examing how functional medicine practitioners are decentering and destabilizing what it means to be human. Functional medicine discourse on the holobiont, which considers the human as an assemblage of different microbial species, reframes the “humananimal” (see Nayar 2018) as the “humicrobe.” I engage Gaia 2.0 (see Lenton and Latour 2018) when analyzing the interconnectivity, interdependence, and mutualism of all life. My approach to interconnectivity interweaves both functional medicine descriptions of systems biology and Luhmann’s (2012) approach to system’s theory to endeavor into how autopoietic entities create a shared environment (Wolfe 2010). I emphasize functional medicine perspectives on food justice—particularly with regards to glyphosate, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and soil depletion—to highlight the unfolding of the Anthropocene and recenter human health
Building Strong Relationships to Create Inviting Schools: Tips and Techniques
No full textThe theme for the fall 2023 International Alliance for Invitational Education conference was, “Invitational Education: A Relationships-Based Framework for Healthy and Connected Schools.” Strong relationships are important. According to Purkey et al. (2016), “All the professional success in the universe will not make up for lack of success with significant others” (p. 31). As teachers, we are powerful role models for our students. They will learn to be personally inviting with others and build strong relationships by watching the way we are personally inviting and build strong relationships with others in the school and with them. We can use intentionality, care, optimism, respect, and trust as we are building these relationships (Purkey et al., 2020; Anderson, 2021)
Analyse de quelques aspects de la tradition orientale dans Fictions et L’aleph de Jorge Luis Borges
No full textThis article studies the presence of oriental resonances in some of Jorge Luis Borges’ short stories, and highlights intertexts from the Islamic world, mysticism and Buddhism.La production littéraire de Jorge Luis Borges se veut ouverte sur un nombre infini d’imaginaires. Grand lecteur, l’auteur argentin fait de sa bibliothèque l’univers dans lequel il puise les thèmes fondamentaux de son écriture. L’un des aspects prépondérants de cette dernière est le phénomène de l’intertextualité. Ses nouvelles, tout en exploitant les motifs du labyrinthe, du temps infini et du livre, sont traversées par des textes relevant de la tradition. Cet article se propose d’étudier la présence des résonnances orientales dans quelques nouvelles de l’auteur. L’accent sera porté sur les intertextes en relation avec le monde islamique, la mystique et le bouddhisme
Maëlle Dupon. Vènus a l’escorpion / Vénus en scorpion
No full textBook review: Maëlle Dupon. Vènus a l’escorpion / Vénus en scorpionCompte rendu : Maëlle Dupon. Vènus a l’escorpion / Vénus en scorpio
Tender Readings: Readers
No full textA few artists reflect on Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort\u27s book Touch, and Tender Readings. Books as Archives, as well as on paintings of readers
Miriam Cusson, Yolande Jimenez, Suzanne Kemenang, Andrée Lacelle, Charlotte L’Orage et Guylaine Tousignant. Lieux-dits
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Rage at the Rink: Parental Aggression in Quebec Minor Hockey
No full textThis article examines the problem of parental aggression in minor hockey in the Canadian province of Quebec. Findings of the study are based on 30 semi-structured, qualitative interviews with minor hockey stakeholders in Quebec, including parents, coaches, referees and league executives. Interviews were conducted in both French and English. All 30 study participants observed parental violence and harassment while watching, coaching, and/or refereeing minor hockey and shared their perspectives on why parental aggression occurs in Quebec minor hockey. Drawing on Spaaij’s (2014) social-ecological model, we introduce a social-ecological model specific to the Canadian minor hockey context, which includes structural, social environmental, situational, interpersonal and individual. Moving from the structural to the individual, these factors include 1) levels of racism, xenophobia, and identity-based antagonisms in society, 2) high parental expectations related to their children’s performance, team success, and development, the high cost of hockey, hockey’s cultural significance as Canada’s game, and the lack of leverage leagues and arenas to punish spectator misbehaviour, 3) the layout of arenas and the rules around alcohol at particular arenas, perceived ‘bad’ refereeing, illegal play, or unfair ice time allotments, higher levels of on-ice violence and injuries, and rivalries, 4) spectators trying to coach from the stands and/or yelling at referees and coaches, and 5) the behaviour and demeanour of spectators, coaches, referees, and even the players on the ice
Coupling in Sport: Geopolitics and Hockey Player Production Links Between Canada and China
No full textChina’s rise in recent years to become an economic superpower has been accompanied by active policies to promote sport and culture. Once chosen by the Olympic Committee in 2015 to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, China faced a problem since its hockey team was not strong and could potentially be humiliated in the climax events of the Games. The Chinese Ice Hockey Association (CIHA) decided on a strategic coupling with Canadian hockey expertise to create credible men’s and women’s hockey teams, including hiring Canadian coaches, taking teams to Canada for extended professional training, playing exhibition games against Canadian teams, inviting Canadian hockey teams and players to China, and recruiting Canadian hockey players with Chinese heritage to play professionally in China on the HC Kunlun Red Star team (men) and the KRS Vanke Rays (women). We label this relationship a global player production network. However, the strict Covid lockdown in China and the froideur that developed in Canada-China geopolitical relations after the detention in Vancouver of Meng Wanzhou and the arrest in China of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, was followed by a decoupling of the Canada-China hockey relationship. But by granting national status to Canadian-born “heritage” players, and by selecting at the eleventh hour the Kunlun Red Star and Vanke Ray teams as their Olympic teams, China effectively re-coupled with Canada and was thereby able to field two credible hockey teams
Investigating Teachers’ Oral Corrective Feedback and Students’ Uptake in Grade 6 Bhutanese Primary Classrooms
No full textOral corrective feedback (OCF) plays an important role in language teaching and learning, but little research has examined Bhutanese teachers’ practices of OCF on students’ speaking performance and uptake. This paper reports on a mixed-method approach to investigate the rate of students\u27 uptake on teachers\u27 OCF within an ESL setting in Bhutanese grade six primary classrooms. Convenience sampling was applied to gather data from observations of two teachers and fifty-seven students in a primary school. The results of content analysis from classroom observations indicate that the teachers used four types of OCF: explicit correction, recast, metalinguistic feedback, and repetition, with recast being the highest used. The results showed a high degree of student participation, which resulted in error correction following the teachers\u27 OCF. It is suggested that different classes be studied to see if there are differences in the effects of OCF on students
