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Towards a More Just Canadian Education-migration System: International Student Mobility in Crisis
No full textEducation-migration, or the multi-step recruitment and retention of international students as immigrants, is an increasingly important component of both higher education and so-called highly-skilled migration. This is particularly true in Canada, a country portrayed as a model for highly-skilled migration and supportive of international student mobility. However, education-migration remains under-analyzed from a social justice perspective. Using a mobility justice framework, this paper considers COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s education-migration system at four scales: individuals, education institutions, state immigration regimes, and planetary geoecologies. It identifies ethical tensions inherent to Canada’s education-migration from a systems-level and suggests that a multi-scalar approach to social justice can both usefully complexify discussions and introduce unsettling paradoxes. It also stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reimagine rather than return
Education as Acceptance: Including Differences in Studio Pedagogy to Achieve Spatial Justice
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Entangling Viral Encounters, Immunity and the Gift
No full textIn the urgent context of COVID-19 – and future viral pandemics - the accepted narrative marks the virus as a stealthy predator challenging bio-immunity and causing millions of painful deaths. Even though the status of a virus as non/living suggests that it cannot function independently, we attribute malign agency to it and pitch it as an enemy to defeat. While the personal pain of death and morbidity is very real, a more challenging perspective shifts our understanding of viral encounters from contamination to co-operation. What constitutes a pathogen relies on an unbalanced environmental context in which human, animals, and multiple microbes are constantly entangled. If all life relies on otherness, is it be possible to reclaim the virus in the register of mutualistic benefits? I analyse both the biophilosophy of Esposito’s immunitary paradigm and some contemporary trends in micro-biology to upend conventional binaries and rethink the virus as a gift
Le noir et le blanc du Fils d’Agatha Moudio, discours sur l’altérité et la mêmeté
No full textThis article examines self-representation in relation to others in Le fils d’Agatha Moudio by Francis Bebey, a novel about the arrival of European during the colonial era in Cameroon.« Notre village gardait le pied de la colline d’où descendait la rue grise venue de la ville lointaine ». C’est par cette première phrase que s’ouvre Le fils d’Agatha Moudio, roman de Francis Bebey. Ce propos introductif est un premier indice d’autoreprésentation qui va situer le texte dans une séquence intradiégétique. Le village, géographiquement localisé par rapport à la ville lointaine et au pied d’une colline, plante le décor de ce qui va constituer dans le roman un poste d’observation pour scruter l’arrivée des colons. De ce contact des cultures va naître un fils, celui d’Agatha Moudio, source de réflexions discursives qui interrogent de manière originale le moi et l’autre. Dès lors, le je, le nous et le notre du narrateur établissent un jeu conséquent dont l’horizon d’attente déconstruit les codes de l’indigénat en même temps qu’il repense les rapports de race
Poèma per Nour / Poème à Nour
No full textMaëlle Dupon est poète et écrivaine, née à Montpellier (France). Elle est titulaire d’un master en littérature occitane de l’Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier et d’un baccalauréat en littérature québécoise et catalane de l’Université de Montréal. Son premier recueil bilingue La color lenta de la pluèja / La couleur lente de la pluie a été publié aux éditions Jorn en 2013. Elle vit entre le Québec et l’Occitanie et participe à de nombreux événements littéraires. Elle est membre du PEN Occitan, section du PEN International pour la défense des écrivains, et membre du Cercle culturel Catalan du Québec ainsi que du Comité de rédaction de la revue littéraire Femmes de parole. Son deuxième ouvrage bilingue Vènus a l’Escorpion / Vénus en Scorpion est paru aux éditions Reclams en 2022.Maëlle Dupon est poète et écrivaine, née à Montpellier (France). Elle est titulaire d’un master en littérature occitane de l’Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier et d’un baccalauréat en littérature québécoise et catalane de l’Université de Montréal. Son premier recueil bilingue La color lenta de la pluèja / La couleur lente de la pluie a été publié aux éditions Jorn en 2013. Elle vit entre le Québec et l’Occitanie et participe à de nombreux événements littéraires. Elle est membre du PEN Occitan, section du PEN International pour la défense des écrivains, et membre du Cercle culturel Catalan du Québec ainsi que du Comité de rédaction de la revue littéraire Femmes de parole. Son deuxième ouvrage bilingue Vènus a l’Escorpion / Vénus en Scorpion est paru aux éditions Reclams en 2022
Q: What Happened Then? The Visual Workshop
No full textAt the moment that all Canadian universities went into lockdown in March 2020, Landon Mackenzie was a visiting artist at Brock University. Our lives and plans were all abruptly interrupted at the stroke of midnight, and we woke up in the unknown. In March 2022, she conducted a visual workshop at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts). Students in Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and Visual Arts (VISA) were invited to reflect on how the self reacts to the pandemic experience of lockdowns and restricted use of space outside one’s own four walls. During the Visual Workshop, participants used sheets of paper cut into rounds (tondo) and conceptualized this working space as a charged “surface of record” to contain fragments of time lost but insights gained. 
The Mystery of National Identity of Chinese International Students amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Western Neo-racism and Chinese Nationalism
No full textThe research aims to explore the changes of national identity among Chinese international students in the odd social context of the global pandemic. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 10 Chinese undergraduate and postgraduate students in a prestigious university located in London, UK, the study provides evidence of Western neo-racism against Chinese students and the rise of Chinese nationalism. More significantly, it is found that Western neo-racism and Chinese nationalism have a push and pull effect on the national identity enhancement of Chinese international students. The participants revealed that bottom-up popular nationalism is more than a shadow of top-down state nationalism in China, and is more influential on students’ national identity formation. The research also discusses the implications of these findings, limitations and future research directions
When Lay Knowledge is a Symptom: The Uses of Insight in Psychiatric Interventions
No full textIn psychiatry, the concept of “insight” commonly refers to a patient’s judgment that they have a mental illness and need clinical treatment. However, this concept has been criticized because it imposes psychiatric knowledge on the subjective experiences of mental illness and possible interventions. A significant body of literature is critical of mental health interventions; however, insight remains under-explored in this realm. This paper adds to critical analyses of insight by exploring how it is defined and deployed by mental health professionals in an acute inpatient mental health unit in a Canadian general hospital and what disciplinary and epistemic effects it has on patients. To this end, I draw on Foucault’s theories of psychiatric power and Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice to analyze results from an ethnographic study conducted in an inpatient mental health unit. The results show how patients’ resistance to medical compliance is framed by staff as a lack of insight, which reinforces the psychiatric model of mental illness