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Reflecting on vulnerability, skill-building, and identity in an interdisciplinary SaP project
Full text linkLaunched in 2021 by a team of undergraduate students, university faculty, associate researchers, and community partners collaborating as genuine equals in a diverse team, the Together Time Story Sacks intergenerational literacies program forms part of an ongoing action research project aimed at understanding and addressing barriers that residents of rural regions face in accessing literacies programming. In this paper, six team members who co-imagined, co-designed and co-implemented Together Time but occupy different roles on and beyond university campuses reflect on the ways the students-as-partners (SaP) model, through which we brought Together Time to life, shaped both our process and our outputs during the project’s pilot phase (September 2021–August 2022). We suggest that empowering humans with diverse academic and lived experiences through the SaP model is an Invigorating, messy, and, at times, nerve-racking process but an eminently fruitful enterprise that, in our opinion, produces rich research with and for our community while transforming our understanding of education and ourselves
Investigating interdisciplinarity in SaP programming: A 3-year retrospective study of student partnerships at McMaster University
Full text linkIn recent years, many universities across the world have been implementing students-as-partners (SaP) programs to collaborate with students on teaching and learning projects. Within these SaP programs, for the benefits that cross-disciplinary learning brings, interdisciplinary partnership has been made a priority. To assess the extent to which interdisciplinarity has occurred within a university’s SaP program, this study quantified the number of interdisciplinary partnerships that have occurred in the Student Partners program at McMaster University since 2020 and investigated the hiring practices within those partnerships. Results showed that certain faculties comparatively did not have as many interdisciplinary partnerships. Hiring practice analyses also revealed that there were faculties with a greater proportion of students applying to work with faculty/staff of the same faculty origin as themselves. This case study examines the variations in interdisciplinarity across faculties at McMaster University involved in a SaP program and explores ideas on future directions for enhancing interdisciplinarity in student partnerships
Disrupting Colonial Narratives: (Re)claiming Autonomy and (Re)affirming Traditional Family Structures through Story in the Teme-augaming
Full text linkLand displacement, theft, and erasure have been key drivers in undermining the political, economic, cultural, linguistic, ancestral, and family formations of First Nations people in Canada. Nation rebuilding is the cornerstone of all sovereignty efforts and is a necessary component of improving the social and political conditions that impact health and wellness. Exercising sovereignty is tightly linked to the autonomous assertion of land and resource rights. Discrimination through the Crown’s self-imposed position as the natural owner of all land and resources across the country is evidenced by a continued failure to recognize the many ways that First Nations self-identify. This inadequacy overlooks First Nations’ inherent rights to self-determination while advancing colonial ideologies. This paper presents a thread of qualitative research findings from a project that included an Indigenous storywork method with one First Nations’ Elder and grandmother, kookum. Within the context of her-story and traditional knowledge mobilization, this work challenges the colonially defined territorial boundaries of the hereditary family clan structures across the Temagami region in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Kookum’s story demonstrates how colonial policies and practices undermine hereditary conceptions of traditional family identity and led to the misguided and unauthorized theft of the Friday family territories. The reconstruction of identity damages hereditary forms of governance and impairs traditional and familial connection to land, culture, language, and traditions, and is 1) incompatible with self-determination; 2) maintains and perpetuates colonialism; 3) hinders genuine reconciliation; and 4) furthers health and socio-economic inequities for First Nations people.
Le déplacement, le vol et l’effacement des terres ont été les principaux facteurs qui ont miné les formations politiques, économiques, culturelles, linguistiques, ancestrales et familiales des peuples des Premières nations du Canada. La reconstruction de la nation est la pierre angulaire de tous les efforts de souveraineté et constitue un élément nécessaire à l’amélioration des conditions sociales et politiques qui ont un impact sur la santé et le bien-être. L’exercice de la souveraineté est étroitement lié à l’affirmation autonome des droits à la terre et aux ressources. La discrimination qui découle de la position que la Couronne s’est imposée en tant que propriétaire naturel de toutes les terres et ressources du pays est attestée par l’incapacité persistante de reconnaître les nombreuses façons dont les Premières nations s’identifient. Cette inadéquation néglige les droits inhérents des Premières nations à l’autodétermination tout en faisant progresser les idéologies coloniales. Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche qualitative menée dans le cadre d’un projet incluant une méthode de travail narrative indigène avec une aînée et grand-mère des Premières Nations, kookum. Dans le contexte de la mobilisation de son histoire et de son savoir traditionnel, ce travail remet en question les frontières territoriales définies par la colonisation des structures claniques familiales héréditaires dans la région de Temagami, dans le nord-est de l’Ontario, au Canada. L’histoire de kookum montre comment les politiques et les pratiques coloniales ont sapé les conceptions héréditaires de l’identité familiale traditionnelle et conduit au vol malavisé et non autorisé des territoires de la famille Friday. La reconstruction de l’identité porte atteinte aux formes héréditaires de gouvernance et compromet les liens traditionnels et familiaux avec la terre, la culture, la langue et les traditions, ce qui est 1) incompatible avec l’autodétermination ; 2) maintient et perpétue le colonialisme ; 3) fait obstacle à une véritable réconciliation ; et 4) aggrave les inégalités sanitaires et socio-économiques pour les peuples des Premières nations
Introduction to the Special Issue: Indigenous Self-determination in Health System Reforms
Full text linkAcross Canada, First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and communities live in rural, remote, Northern and reserve places, as well as urban places, and experience health inequities when compared with non-Indigenous peoples. These inequities are founded by pervasive colonial ideologies, policies, systems, and practices, many of which persist today resulting in multiple disparities in health as well as social, political, and economic areas (Adelson 2005; Allan and Smylie 2015).
In Canada, the federal government’s role in the provision of health services is primarily through the limited public health and prevention services offered by the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB), now Indigenous Services Canada (ISC). Services are offered to status (registered) First Nations living on-reserve and to Inuit living in their traditional territories. They provide non-insured health benefits (NIHB) such as prescription drugs, dental, and vision coverage to all status/registered First Nations and Inuit, regardless of where they live; however, non-insured health benefits are not offered to Métis or non-status First Nations. As a result of historical legislative vagueness, and the multiplicity of authorities that has resulted, the First Nations, Inuit and Métis legislation and health policy framework is very complex, which itself results in a great deal of diversity in health service provision across provinces and territories. The framework fails to adequately address the health care needs of the Métis or First Nations and Inuit people who are either not registered or not living on reserve or in their traditional territory (Lavoie and Gervais 2012). [continued in PDF / HTML
Voices from the field: Equipping student leaders as partners for sustainable humanitarian action
Full text linkBringing ‘Such Matters Upon the Stage’: Women Exemplars in A Warning for Fair Women (1599) and Golding’s A Briefe Discourse (1573)
No full textThis essay argues that the unnamed playwright of the 1599 tragedy A Warning for Fair Women adapts Arthur Golding’s 1573 (rpt 1577) pamphlet to reshape the heroine from a negative example of adultery and the beneficiary of church-induced repentance into a positive model of motherhood and spiritual agency aided by another woman. Missing from Golding’s account, the play’s main source and the fount of subsequent reportage on the murder of George Sanders, is attention to women’s spiritual agency and their friendship. I compare the play and source text to argue that the playwright’s emendations of Golding’s material omit or minimize certain elements, including the moralizing tone, to advance a more positive view of women than critics have recognized
The Elder Brother, Virgil’s De apibus, and the Chronology of the Plays in the Canon of John Fletcher and His Collaborators, 1617–20
No full textThis article argues that John Brinsley\u27s 1620 translation of Virgil\u27s Georgics, Book IV, is a source for John Fletcher and Philip Massinger\u27s The Elder Brother. This contention results in dating the play to 1620 rather than 1618 as suggested by Martin Wiggins. The re-dating has consequences for the dating of other plays in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators for the period 1617 to 1620, and I propose a new chronology for the Fletcher plays in this time span
Callan Davies. What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
No full textThis review considers Callan Davies\u27s What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620
Separating Birth from Community: Colonialism and Historical Institutionalism in Indigenous Pregnancy Evacuation Policies
Full text linkEvacuating pregnant Indigenous individuals who live in remote communities to urban centres for birthing is not a formal or written policy in Canada, but has been the norm for several decades. Canada is a geographically large country with remote communities, often inhabited by Indigenous peoples, which provides universal health care to communities spanning from the Pacific to Atlantic oceans. The evacuation of pregnant Indigenous peoples has resulted in a disconnection between birth and community, land, ceremony, and Traditional Healing. This policy displacing pregnant Indigenous women has been reportedto bring them emotional, financial, and physical harm. Historical institutionalism may be precluding significant change to the norm of maternal evacuation. Euro-Canadian epistemologies and colonial mindsets have prevented biomedical institutions from seeing the detachment from land and community as a problem, as the transfer to tertiary hospitals may have been considered beneficial for Indigenous women. Indigenous self-determination in reforming Indigenous maternity care policies is crucial in addressing this health systems issue.
L’évacuation des personnes enceintes autochtones vivant en communautés isolées vers des centres urbains pour y accoucher n’est pas une politique officielle, ni écrite, au Canada, mais la norme existe depuis plusieurs dizaines d’années. Le Canada est un pays géographiquement vaste comptant de nombreuses communautés isolées, souvent habitées par des personnes autochtones, et fournissant des soins de santé universels aux communautés qui s’étendent de l’océan Pacifique à l’océan Atlantique. L’évacuation des personnes enceintes autochtones a entraîné une déconnexion entre la naissance et la communauté, la terre, les cérémonies et la guérison traditionnelle. Cette politique de déplacement des femmes enceintes autochtones leur causent des effets néfastes émotionnels, financiers et physiques. L’institutionnalisme historique peut empêcher un changement significatif de la norme d’évacuation des mères. Les épistémologies euro-canadiennes et les mentalités coloniales ont empêché les institutions biomédicales de considérer le détachement de la terre et de la communauté comme un problème, car le transfert vers des hôpitaux tertiaires a pu être considéré comme bénéfique pour les femmes autochtones. L’autodétermination autochtone par rapport à la réforme des politiques de soins obstétricaux chez les personnes autochtones est cruciale pour résoudre ce problème de systèmes de santé
Examining Policy Shifts and Transformations in Indigenous Primary Health Care in Alberta, Canada
No full textPrimary health care (PHC) transformation continues to be identified as a key pathway to achieve health equity for Indigenous peoples. In Alberta, varying degrees of PHC services exist within First Nations, Métis, and urban contexts that are fragmented, under-resourced, and disconnected from each other, perpetuating existing health inequities. A retrospective policy analysis was conducted to a) analyze federal, provincial, and local policies to advance Indigenous PHC in Alberta; and b) examine the engagement of Indigenous peoples in PHC policy and decision-making. The review found that prior to and into the early 1960s, the federal government controlled Indigenous peoples’ rights to health. By the end of the decade, the federal government shifted their responsibilities to Indigenous peoples in an attempt to reduce their role in health care delivery. In the late 1970s, the federal government reaffirmed their responsibilities in providing PHC to Indigenous peoples by establishing Indigenous-specific policies. This led to the creation of many co-designed reforms and initiatives provincially to increase Indigenous participation in policy throughout the 2000s. Despite these advancements, more work is needed to ensure that health priorities important to Indigenous peoples are appropriately addressed. Future Indigenous PHC-focused policy reforms can enhance Indigenous health experiences by clarifying the roles of federal, provincial, and Indigenous governments in the coordination of PHC; by ensuring Indigenous representation at all relevant decision-making tables; and by actively working to decolonize the health care institution and promote health equity.
La transformation des soins de santé primaires (SSP) continue d\u27être identifiée comme une voie clé pour atteindre l\u27équité en matière de santé pour les peuples autochtones. En Alberta, il existe divers degrés de SSP au sein des premières nations, des métis et des contextes urbains qui sont fragmentés, manquent de ressources et sont déconnectés les uns des autres, ce qui perpétue les iniquités dans la domaine de la santé. Une analyse rétrospective des politiques a été menée pour a) analyser les politiques fédérales, provinciales et locales visant à faire progresser les soins de santé primaires autochtones en Alberta et b) examiner l\u27engagement des peuples autochtones dans la politique et la prise de décision en ce qui concerne les SSP. Les résultats de l\u27analyse ont montré que, jusqu’au début des années 1960, le gouvernement fédéral gérait les droits des peuples autochtones en ce qui concerne la santé. À la fin de la décennie, le gouvernement fédéral a transféré ses responsabilités aux peuples autochtones dans le but de réduire son rôle dans la prestation des soins de santé. À la fin des années 1970, le gouvernement fédéral a réaffirmé ses responsabilités en fournissant des soins de santé primaires aux peuples autochtones, en établissant des politiques spécifiques aux peuples autochtones. Cela a mené à la création de nombreuses réformes et initiatives co-conçues au niveau provincial afin d\u27accroître la participation des autochtones à la politique tout au long des années 2000. Malgré tous ces progrès, il reste encore du travail à faire pour s\u27assurer que les priorités de santé importantes pour les peuples autochtones sont prises en compte de manière appropriée. Les futures réformes politiques axées sur les soins de santé primaires autochtones peuvent améliorer les expériences de santé des autochtones en clarifiant les rôles des gouvernements fédéral, provinciaux et autochtones dans la coordination des SSP, en garantissant la représentation des peuples autochtones à toutes les instances de décision pertinentes et en œuvrant activement à la décolonisation de l\u27institution des SSP pour promouvoir l\u27équité dans la santé