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“Sitting with Myself by Myself”: Indian Students in Canada During the Pandemic
No full textThe number of international students from India in Canada has increased rapidly in the last five years. Students from India now comprise 34 percent of Canada’s international students. This article places the remarkable growth of Indian international students within the broader context of Canada’s internationalization of higher education. Drawing from a national survey, qualitative interviews, and secondary data, it examines the changing profile of Indian international students and the major trends and challenges experienced by Indian international students in Canada during COVID-19. The paper identifies a recent trend of “vocationalization” of Indian international students and several associated vulnerabilities due to the increasing commercialization of international education. Our findings also point to the complex intersections of psychosocial, academic, and economic disruptions during the pandemic, exacerbating the precarious position of Indian international students
Teaching as La-Ing: Thinking About the English Lit and Creative Writing Classroom on Turtle Island
No full textDiagnosis for global health: Threats of infectious disease and why we continue to ignore them.
No full textIn a matter of several weeks, an unknown infectious agent spread over the entire globe; it infected over 2.2 million people and killed at least 150,000 (as of April 2020). This infectious agent has been identified as a novel coronavirus and is now known as COVID-19. In 2007, Cheng et al. warned us of the reemerging ability of coronaviruses and the “ticking time bomb” that awaits. In 2008, Talbot et al. also warned that SARS was only the tip of the iceberg with regards to coronaviruses. There has been an endless amount of information available about how to prevent and minimize the risk of future outbreaks. We knew the importance of implementing these strategies 16 years ago; nonetheless, the number of people infected by COVID-19 are climbing each day. SARS was not the only infectious disease we could have learned from: a more recent example is Ebola. In 2015, Bill Gates discussed the impact of Ebola, warned that “if anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war”, and made suggestions to invest in stronger public health systems. We had the time to implement these suggestions made over the years, yet they were not taken seriously and for the current pandemic, it is too late to use preventative measures as we are managing the consequences. Hopefully, in the world post-COVID-19, these important lessons will finally be applied and our global health system will become stronger
Les relations élèves-enseignants et les attitudes des enseignants : contribution du statut générationnel et de la région d’origine: contribution du statut générationnel et de la région d’origine
No full textCompte tenu du nombre croissant d’élèves issus de l’immigration dans les écoles, cette étude a pour objectif d’examiner comment ils perçoivent les relations avec leurs enseignants ainsi que les attitudes de ces derniers à leur égard. Les données ont été recueillies auprès de 819 élèves dans huit écoles secondaires du Québec. Les résultats montrent que les élèves de 2e génération considèrent leurs relations avec les enseignants comme étant moins chaleureuses, alors que les élèves de 1re génération perçoivent des attentes de réussite plus élevées et davantage de rétroaction négative, comparés à leurs pairs de 3e génération et plus. Les élèves d’origine haïtienne rapportent moins d’échanges chaleureux avec leurs enseignants que les élèves de 3e génération et plus. Aussi, les élèves haïtiens de 1re génération perçoivent davantage d’attentes de réussite que les élèves haïtiens de 2e génération. Les implications de ces résultats pour la pratique et la recherche sont discutées.
Compte tenu du nombre croissant d’élèves issus de l’immigration dans les écoles, cette étude a pour objectif d’examiner leurs perceptions des relations avec leurs enseignants ainsi que des attitudes de ces derniers à leur égard. Les données ont été recueillies auprès de 819 élèves dans huit écoles secondaires du Québec. Les résultats montrent que les élèves de 2egénération considèrent leurs relations avec les enseignants comme étant moins chaleureuses, alors que les élèves de 1regénération perçoivent des attentes de réussite plus élevées et davantage de rétroaction négative, comparés à leurs pairs de 3e génération et plus. Les élèves d’origine haïtienne rapportent moins d’échanges chaleureux avec leurs enseignants que les élèves de 3e génération et plus. Aussi, les élèves haïtiens de 1re génération perçoivent davantage d’attentes de réussite que les élèves haïtiens de 2e génération. Les implications de ces résultats pour la pratique et la recherche sont discutées
The Politics of Space and Everyday Surveillance in a Delhi Homelessness Shelter: An Ethnographic Exploration
No full textIn this paper, I offer a unique lens through which to theorize neoliberal governance from the perspective of the politics of space and everyday surveillance in Akash Sadan, a Delhi homeless shelter. Drawing from interview data and over two years of ethnographic research with children (boys and girls), their families, and civil society and state representatives, I bring theories of homelessness, surveillance, and spatialized control as they connect to scholarship on governance, regulation, and stigmatization into conversation with Miraftab’s (2004) framework on the mutually constitutive concepts of “invited” and “invented” spaces of participation. Extending this framework, I conceptualize the Aakash Sadan shelter as an “invited,” state-sanctioned space supported by a state-legitimized non- governmental organization (NGO). I argue that regulatory power operates through spatial territorialism and stigmatized surveillance exercised by an NGO primarily in league with the state. This stigmatization is inseparable from the community’s historically enforced precarity and state-induced dispossession. The empirical case of the Aakash Sadan shelter thus demonstrates how the convergence of these spatial features in a state-sanctioned community can leave residents with reduced access to basic and urgently needed services, heightening experiences of poverty and precarity
Chaos in 2-d Bohmian Trajectories
No full textWe make a short review of the most general mechanism for the generation of chaos in 2-d Bohmian trajectories, the so called `nodal point-X-point complex' (NPXPC) mechanism. The presentation is based on numerical calculations made with Maple and is enriched with new results on the details of the generation of chaos, and the form of the potential around the NPXPC
Local and Global Properties of the Gravitational Lens Effect with Special Consideration of the Gravitational Lens Effect with Star Perturbation.
No full textSince the late 1970s, gravitational lensing became an important tool in astrophysics, taking advantage of the lens-like bending of light by masses such as planets, stars, galaxies, or clusters of them to determine their properties or even their existence. At that time and later in the 80s, the group at the Hamburg observatory around Sjur Refsdal developed many techniques that are still in use to understand and apply the effect. Although the effect is a consequence of Einstein's general theory of relativity, the equations used to describe the effects of masses on light rays are relatively simple. However, in order to answer questions about what a light source looks like through a special lens, or whether there might be multiple images of a light source, the math got quite complicated and the problems were largely solved numerically.In this article we show, for an important special case of a star in a galaxy as a lens, that the problems of differential geometry that arise can be treated algebraically by a computer algebra system such as Maple and lead to elegant solutions that are generally applicable to mappings from the plane onto the plane
Adaptation et modernité dans le cinéma italien d’après-guerre: La Terre tremble (Visconti, 1948), La Fille de Parme (Pietrangeli, 1963)
No full textThis article invites a reconsideration of the role of adaptation in the development of modern Italian cinema, from the neorealist era to the auteur cinema of the 1960s. While post-war neorealism appears to celebrate the “purity” of a de-dramatized representation of reality, it is far from implying a renunciation of the artifices of screenplay writing. Neorealism is largely based on film adaptations, as evidenced by masterpieces such as Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) or Bicycle Thieves (Ladri da biciclette, De Sica, 1948). Through a comparative analysis of La Terra Trema (Visconti, 1948) and La Parmigiana (Pietrangeli, 1963), we would like to envision Italian modernity as regards the novels: contrary to the principle of fidelity, adaptation challenges the causality of cinematic narrative, leading to the indeterminacy of the modern novel.Cet article invite à reconsidérer la part de l’adaptation dans l’élaboration du cinéma moderne italien, depuis la saison néoréaliste jusqu’au cinéma d’auteur des années 1960. Si le nouveau réalisme d’après-guerre semble célébrer la « pureté » d’une représentation dédramatisée du réel, il est loin d’induire un renoncement aux artifices de l’écriture scénaristique. Le néoréalisme se fonde très largement sur des adaptations cinématographiques, comme en témoignent des chefs d’œuvre tels que Les Amants diaboliques (Visconti, 1943) ou Le Voleur de bicyclettes (De Sica, 1948). À partir de l’analyse comparée de La Terre tremble (Visconti, 1948) et de La Fille de Parme (Pietrangeli, 1963), il s’agit d’envisager la modernité italienne sous les termes du roman : à rebours du principe de fidélité, la pratique de l’adaptation met en crise la causalité du récit cinématographique, qui accède à l’indétermination du roman moderne
Representing a Coherent Brand out of Incommensurate Goals
No full textAbstract
This paper analyses how the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents itself to prospective students on the ubc.ca homepage and its Facebook and Weibo pages. Across all three, we found UBC's high ranking was deployed as evidence of "being the best". However, there are differences across the three platforms in how UBC represents its role and response to colonialism and continued racism in Canadian society. The second part of the paper analyses UBC's discursive framing concerning its ranking and attractiveness as a school for international students and compares and contrasts this with its statements around solidarity with Indigenous and racialised peoples.