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Representations of Autism in Ontario Newsroom: A Critical Content Analysis of Online Government Press Releases, Media Advisories, and Bulletins
No full textIn Ontario, Canada, autism has become widely politicized. In the last 20 years, instances of personal and organizational advocacy developed into wider-scale policy and programs. Government press releases indicate Ontario’s developing response to autism as a social policy issue, while reflecting societal perceptions and priorities surrounding autism. Informed by Critical Disability Studies and Critical Autism Studies, this article uses a content analysis to explore the manifest and latent priorities of Ontario’s provincial government displayed in press releases between 2001-2019 accessed through the Ontario Newsroom, an online repository of press releases and media advisories that features different initiatives published by the government of Ontario. Press releases were selected based on the search term “autism” and analyzed in two steps. First, this article presents the most frequently used words in press release headlines. Second, key themes within press releases are explored. Press releases emphasize the stories of non-autistic people, altruists, positivists, treatment-seekers, autistic children, and normative families. What is left out is a social representation of autism. Prominent themes display ableist perceptions of autism, reproducing power imbalances and inequity based on disability and family status. These findings reveal government objectives and priorities, reflecting broader societal perceptions of autism
A Human Rights-based Approach to Participation
No full textThis article proposes a systematic approach to designing and assessing participatory processes, built from principles in the field of human rights. It argues that participatory processes should be organised around human rights principles which provide detailed but flexible guidance on participatory processes. Drawing from well-established human rights principles and the commentary of human rights bodies on participation, the article outlines a framework that can be used to advocate for, establish, implement, and evaluate participatory processes. It addresses four normative questions relating to participation: what decisions require participation, who should participate, how should participation be implemented, and what consequences should it have on subsequent decisions with human rights norms informing each of these questions
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No full textThis article is an attempt to chart the field of contemporary posthumanist theory. Inspired by the work of Rita Felski, it identifies three principal styles of thought, or \u27modes\u27, of theorizing which are central to the field: critique, repair, and escalation. The essay successively characterizes and discusses each of these modes, and argues that for a posthumanist Cultural Studies today, the task should not so much be to choose or side with one of the currents of contemporary posthumanism, but rather to combine them. To this end, it emphasizes the significance of the work of articulation and advocates an orientation that would be essentially a pragmatic one. In this way, the article makes a case for the production not of Theory, but situated and contextual theorizations of local, specific problem-spaces – \u27low theory\u27
Diffractively Watching Queer Eye: difficult knowledge through posthumanism and neoliberalism
No full textUtilising a method of “diffractive watching” of the first of the 2018 series Queer Eye (Netflix) this article explores how qualitative methods can respond to different approaches to research brought to the forefront through philosophies of posthumanism and new materialism, whilst still understanding how these operate with neoliberal structures and discourses. Using Lather’s (2007) concept of “difficult knowledge”, the article suggests that posthumanism and neoliberalism might be read diffractively through one another, despite their potentially contradictory value structures of individuality vs. multiplicity, and individual agency vs. emergence. The supposed contradictions in the research are drawn through different diffractive prepositions, to demonstrate the insights offered by embracing complexity and avoiding representational readings of texts. This article, therefore, contributes an original methodological approach to textual analysis, as well as an original theoretical negotiation of the ways in which we can extend neoliberal and posthuman critique by diffractively reading them through one another.
Creating the Inviting Classroom Through a Competency-Based Guidance System
No full textFor some years there has been growing interest in meeting both the affective and academic needs of students. For example, Goodwin (1989), Morse (1990), and Hoffman (1991) have supported the need to meet the affective as well as the academic needs of students in elementary schools. This article reports findings of a study that examined the effects of a systematic affective education program on students and teachers in an elementary school
Sylvie Rancourt, après Montréal
No full textCet article s’intéresse à une situation de double mise à l’écart dans sa lecture des autobiographies de Sylvie Rancourt, venant de la « campagne » (Abitibi) et travaillant dans des milieux interlopes, découverte dans les années 80, pour son authenticité dite naïve, puis longtemps délaissée et redécouverte dans les années 2010.Cet article s’intéresse à une situation de double mise à l’écart dans sa lecture des autobiographies de Sylvie Rancourt, venant de la « campagne » (Abitibi) et travaillant dans des milieux interlopes, découverte dans les années 80, pour son authenticité dite naïve, puis longtemps délaissée et redécouverte dans les années 2010
Expérience migratoire et plaidoyer pour le vivre-ensemble : un décryptage de l’errance et de l’exil dans Partir de Tahar Ben Jelloun
No full textVoyager pour l’inconnu, dans des conditions pour le moins suicidaires se révèle-t-il être la solution idoine pour une jeunesse en proie à des pesanteurs telles que la pauvreté, le chômage et l’oppression politique ? La présente contribution revisite la vision du monde de Tahar Ben Jelloun sur cette question dans son roman Partir. S’appuyant sur l’approche sociocritique d’Edmond Cros, elle montre l’urgence pour la politique de repenser la gouvernance africaine en vue d’impulser une dynamique de développement endogène qui place le bonheur des jeunes au centre des préoccupations étatiques.Voyager pour l’inconnu, dans des conditions pour le moins suicidaires se révèle-t-il être la solution idoine pour une jeunesse en proie à des pesanteurs telles que la pauvreté, le chômage et l’oppression politique ? La présente contribution revisite la vision du monde de Tahar Ben Jelloun sur cette question dans son roman Partir. S’appuyant sur l’approche sociocritique d’Edmond Cros, elle montre l’urgence pour la politique de repenser la gouvernance africaine en vue d’impulser une dynamique de développement endogène qui place le bonheur des jeunes au centre des préoccupations étatiques
Laguerre, Djennie. Manman la mer, suivi de Rendez-vous lakay
No full textBook review: Laguerre, Djennie. Manman la mer, suivi de Rendez-vous lakayCompte rendu de : Laguerre, Djennie. Manman la mer, suivi de Rendez-vous laka