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Retrospective Look at the First Ten Years of The Hockey Conference
No full textThis article features Colin Howell’s remarks during the inaugural Dr. Colin Howell Distinguished Lecture at the tenth anniversary of The Hockey Conference, held virtually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2021. Howell is the founder of The Hockey Conference and the distinguished lecture has been named after him in honour of his contributions to hockey scholarship more broadly. He delivered the lecture with his former graduate student, MacIntosh Ross, who provided an overview ofHowell’s illustrious career in academia. Howell’s lecture covered the history of the first ten years of the Hockey Conference, estimating that over 250 presentations on hockey scholarship were delivered over that time. The conference was held in various locations across North America, including Halifax, NS, Bridgewater, MA, Victoria, BC, and Buffalo, NY. Keynote speakers, also known as Conference Captains, have included Montreal Canadiens legend Jean Beliveau, Olympian Stacy Wilson, African-Canadian coach John Paris Jr., former professional Everett Sanipass, and actor and broadcaster Austin Willis
Ted Lasso’s Goldfish Principle: An account of Atlantic University Sport (AUS) ice hockey athletes’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThis article maps the impacts of the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic on the daily life and wellbeing of university ice hockey athletes in Atlantic Canada. The study branched out from broader research on participants in all university sports in the region that fall under the national governing body, U SPORTS. The regional conference Atlantic University Sport (AUS) houses eleven member institutions, eight of which are varsity ice hockey teams, for total of approximately 300 athletes in both men’s and women’s competition. In the context of a small body of literature on the university athlete experience in Canada and the new challenges that the pandemic posed for modern life, this exploratory study sought to chronicle how the athletes encountered and endured the pandemic, including the cancellation of competition in the Fall of 2020 and beyond. This is a case study using a multidisciplinary lens. It was informed by a sociological account of disruption and relied on a patchwork of literature from education, psychology, sport management, and health studies. Data collection occurred through an online qualitative questionnaire and a content analysis of local mainstream media articles. It was then analyzed partly through a qualitative debrief interview with an athlete from the population. The study results will offer scholars, university sport administrators, and student services professionals an understanding of how university hockey athletes in the region made sense of the long-term uncertainty and frequent changes to their everyday lives, perhaps with a view to improving the quality of support and development programming that institutions offer in the future
« Être lesbienne est une fête »
No full textCompte rendu de Turbiau, Aurore et al. Écrire à l’encre violette. Littératures lesbiennes de 1900 à nos jours (2022
When Food is Finance: Seeking Global Justice for Migrant Workers
No full textThe steady growth of international labour mobility has been one of the defining features of globalization. Alongside the liberalization of international trade, labour mobility has been a key dynamic propelling economic development in the new millennium. In recent years, migrant labour is increasingly regulated via temporary schemes, deepening and widening migrant precarity. This paper argues that a growing reliance on temporary migrant workers reflects the financialization of global agriculture. Drawing on conceptual debates among scholars of critical finance studies, migration governance and food systems, it explores the implications of financialization for social justice work, asking how a systemic understanding of the migrant experience with financial institutions and practices might enhance rights-based advocacy
The Moral Education and Socialization of Roman Munera
No full textThis paper examines Roman munera, and discusses how the games served as a mechanism for moral education and socialization. It approaches munera, and particularly gladiatorial combat from a different perspective as it highlights the positive aspects of these spectacles rather the violence and bloodshed. This paper examines the unique role and status of a gladiator – an individual who was not respected for their person, but for what they represented. This paper will argue that the games, despite their violence, provided both moral education and socialization for those in the audience. They publicly communicated core Roman values to onlookers, while also providing an environment where one’s identity within society was on clear display
