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Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question (Book Review)
No full textBook review of Bonner Miller Cutting's 2018 book, Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question.https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/the-oxfordian
‘An Amazing Gift’? Memory Entrepreneurship, Settler Colonialism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Get PDFAccepted version of manuscriptDrawing on research undertaken at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, this article considers the role of memory entrepreneurship in the museum’s historic launch and in a sampling of its content, social media posts, points of sale and marketing campaigns. These examples are read in tension with Roger I. Simon’s conceptualization of ‘the terrible gift’ of what we come to know belatedly about events of mass violence, which calls into question the consolatory promises of learning from ‘those who came before us’ and the ‘lessons of their lives’. The museum’s involvement in the City of Winnipeg’s tourism initiatives and the revitalization of Winnipeg’s downtown are also considered, and we suggest that the museum’s participation in the creative economy might affect its tendency to situate human rights violations primarily in the past. Critiques of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ present occupation of Indigenous land and the museum (and City of Winnipeg)’s ongoing reliance on natural resources extracted at the expense of Indigenous communities remain as difficult or inassimilable knowledge. Juxtaposing Indigenous, cultural and economic critiques with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ advancement of memory entrepreneurship, our article explores the inter-implication of consumer culture, capitalism, settler colonialism and the museum’s ability to contribute to societal change. We conclude by turning to the activism of members of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, arguing that their calls for access to safe water and an all-season road in and out of their community pose both an economic and a political challenge to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and its brand of memory entrepreneurship by insisting that gestures to include and proffer representational forms of recognition to Indigenous peoples must simultaneously attend to sovereigntist calls for redistribution of land and resources in order to meaningfully address the historical and ongoing injustices of settler colonialism.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/175069801984397
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Get PDFTestes Proteases Expression and Hybrid Male Sterility Between Subspecies of Drosophila pseudoobscura
No full textHybrid male sterility (HMS) is a form of postmating postzygotic isolation among closely related species that can act as an effective barrier to gene flow. The Dobzhansky-Muller model provides a framework to explain how gene interactions can cause HMS between species. Genomics highlights the preponderance of non-coding DNA targets that could be involved in gene interactions resulting in gene expression changes and the establishment of isolating barriers. However, we have limited knowledge of changes in gene expression associated with HMS, gene interacting partners linked to HMS, and whether substitutions in DNA regulatory regions (cis) causes misexpression (i.e., expression of genes beyond levels found in parental species) of HMS genes in sterile hybrids. A previous transcriptome survey in a pair of D. pseudoobscura species found male reproductive tract (MRT) proteases as the largest class of genes misregulated in sterile hybrids. Here we assay gene expression in backcross (BC) and introgression (IG) progeny, along with site of expression within the MRT, to identify misexpression of proteases that might directly contribute to HMS. We find limited evidence of an accumulation of cis-regulatory changes upstream of such candidate HMS genes. The expression of four genes was differentially modulated by alleles of the previously characterized HMS gene Ovd.This work was funded by an NSERC Discovery Grant to A. Civetta. D. Alhazmi was funded by a graduate scholarship from the Government of Saudi Arabia.https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article/9/4/1065/602800
Active-Constructive-Interactive: A Taxonomy for Designing Learning Activities for Subject-Specific Information Literacy Instruction
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Re-Envisioning Land-Based Pedagogies as Transformative Third Space: A Case Study of the University of Winnipeg
No full textThe research project is based in an examination of experiences at the University of Winnipeg in facilitating land-based pedagogical (LBP) courses in First Nations communities in Manitoba, with the goals of strengthening students' connection with the land and with Indigenous ways of knowing. The overarching aim of the research is to create empirical support for transformative third space through building bridges among the pedagogical approaches of landbased learning, two-eyed seeing and trans formative learning. Transformative third space (Bhabha, 1994) is utilized to conceptualize the process of weaving together Indigenous knowledges (IK) and Western knowledges (WK) to encourage intercultural dialogue and perceptual shifts in students' understanding ofIndigenous knowledges. This was approached through three main objectives: a) To gain more insight into the potential ofLBP courses for weaving together IK and WK in transformative third space; b) to explore the main challenges that can arise in this process; and c) to generate recommendations for best practices in facilitating LBP courses, as well as strategies for addressing challenges that can arise in this process. Specifically, the geographic regions of North East and Southern Manitoba are considered. The study employed a transformative research paradigm within a critical theory framework to address the marginalization of Indigenous perspectives within academia, and to promote wider engagement with LBP curriculum as a potential force of decolonization. Data collection methods included an extensive literature review, an analysis of fifty-five Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), and twenty semi-structured interviews conducted with: a) Two Indigenous knowledge holders and three Indigenous knowledge carriers who have participated in a LBP course; b) seven post-secondary instructors who have facilitated a LBP course; c) six students who have attended a LBP course; and d) two administrators who have been or are currently involved in experiential learning at the University of Winnipeg. The research findings suggest that learning on the land and from IK holders can encourage an increased appreciation for the coherence of Indigenous knowledges (IK), an enhanced sense of environmental stewardship, and critical reflection on one's role as an ally in a reconciliatory relationship with First Nations communities. However, integrating these components as foundational to curriculum can be challenging at the post-secondary level. To address these challenges, participants presented recommendations ranging from relational, administrative and logistical actions to institution-wide collaboration and mentorship.Master of Arts in Indigenous Governanc