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The Lived Experience Circle: An Advisory Committee of the At Home/Chez Soi Project's Winnipeg Site
Get PDFReport: 4 pp., ill. Digital file.The Lived Experience Circle (LEC) was formed in 2010
as an advisory group to the Winnipeg site of the At
Home/Chez Soi study. At Home/Chez Soi is a study on
homelessness and mental illness, and is the largest of its
kind ever undertaken world-wide.Mental Health Commission of Canada, Institute of Urban Studie
Debt: The Sublimated Object of Capital
Get PDFIn psychoanalysis, a ‘sublime object’ is one that signifies the transformation of a condition of impossibility into one of possibility. On the one hand, it represents a moment of internalized prohibition that transforms an impossibility into something possible: the sublime object turns the impossible sexual object, for example, into something that is prohibited, and therefore possible. On the other hand, a sublime object represents the objectification of a lack. Or, in other words, it is lack in object form; it is the objective correlative of nothingness itself. What better definition might we have for the role played by debt in capital, particularly in its financial stage?
Debt is the sublimated object of capital in the sense that it is, itself, a pure nothing
that attains object form. It is in its object form that this pure nothing makes possible the global expansion of capital and the class interests that pertain to the latter. Debt operates similarly to the Lacanian the sublime object as the ‘objectcause
of desire’. If we subtract this object from capitalist system we lose the system itself. Debt is in this sense the object that, on the other side of its ‘normal’, everyday operation contains both a nugget of the truth of the system itself and the mechanism by which the capitalist system may be overthrown. Debt is the lack in the capitalist system that overlaps with the lack that is the exploited subject. In my paper, I use the Lacanian concept of the sublime object to demonstratehow debt represents the sublimated object of capital; and, as such, it is the central, universal cause that has the potential to open up a space for the interpellation of radical revolutionary subjectivity.https://topia.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/topia/article/view/38419Postprin
Biodiversity research in megadiverse countries: strategies for scientific and technical alliances
Get PDFInterrelationship between indigenous worldview and biodiversity: How to protect traditional knowledge and genetic resources?
No full textActivation of Innate Immune-Response Genes in Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) Infected with the Fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans
Get PDFRecently bats have been associated with the emergence of diseases, both as reservoirs for several new viral diseases in humans and other animals and, in the northern Americas, as hosts for a devastating fungal disease that threatens to drive several bat species to regional extinction. However, despite these catastrophic events little Information is available on bat
defences or how they interact with their pathogens. Even less is known about the response of bats to infection during torpor or long-term hibernation. Using tissue samples collected at the termination of an experiment to explore the pathogenesis of White Nose Syndrome in Little Brown Bats, we determined if hibernating bats infected with the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans could respond to infection by activating genes responsible for innate immune and stress responses. Lesions due to fungal infection and, in some cases, secondary bacterial infections, were restricted to the skin. However, we were unable to obtain sufficient amounts of RNA from these sites. We therefore examined lungs for response at an epithelial surface not linked to the primary site of infection. We found that bats responded to infection with a significant increase in lungs of transcripts for Cathelicidin (an anti-microbial peptide) as well as the immune modulators tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukins 10 and 23. In conclusion, hibernating bats can respond to experimental P.
destructans infection by activating expression of innate immune response genes.Funding for this study was provided by a Fish and Wildlife Service grant to CRKW, TB and VM and by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Discovery) grant to VM and a fellowship within the Postdoc Programme of the DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service (to LW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.011228
Winnipeg's Vanishing Rooming Houses: Change in the West Broadway and Spence Neighbourhoods
Get PDFThis In-Brief documents the disappearance of rooming houses from two inner-city neighbourhoods. A community forum held on May 27th, 2014 will bring together more than 80 rooming house tenants, landlords, community members, government representatives, researchers, service agencies and students to discuss the state of rooming houses in Winnipeg.Online resource: 17 pp.; ill., Digital file.Neighbourhood Change Research Partnershi
City of God and Elite Squad: From Fatalistic Violence to Agency
Get PDFOnline resource, 14 pp., digital file.Brazilian favelas (slums)have become cityscapes of exclusion, with their precarious housing on unpaved pathways, overcrowded places stigmatized as shelter for the urban poor and for criminals. This paper analyzes how Brazilian favelas are depicted in two internationally known films: City of God (2002) and Elite Squad (2007). The works highlight a tension between fatalistic violence and agency which perpetuates stigma but have also become manifestos for social change
Senior-Friendly Public Transportation in Winnipeg: Towards a Comprehensive Strategy
Get PDFReport 86 pp.;ill., digital file.Healthy aging requires a safe and convenient method of connecting to life outside of
the home. Public transportation can fulfill this essential role in assisting people to
conduct both instrumental activities of daily life, such as grocery shopping, and social
activities of daily life, such as visiting with family and friends. Senior-friendly public
transportation in Winnipeg has never before been considered by relevant stakeholders
through a sustained and coordinated effort. The Public Transportation Sub-committee
of the Transportation Options Network for Seniors (TONS) is a multi-stakeholder
community coalition that focuses on the importance of addressing this issue. During the
fall and winter of 2008/09, TONS undertook an examination to identify and report upon
the opportunities and challenges in existing public transportation systems and services
for seniors in the city of Winnipeg. The research was conducted through the Institute of
Urban Studies and done in collaboration with seniors in the community as well as
relevant stakeholders so as to develop practical solutions to the problems. This position
paper is intended to inform the various parties responsible for the provision of public
transportation about the gaps in knowledge about seniors as clients. This document
should also serve useful to seniors and other members of the public interested in this
issue-area.Public Health Agency of Canad
Inuktitut and Inuit youth: Language attitudes as a basis for language planning
Get PDFThe objective of this thesis is to identify language perceptions and attitudes among Inuit
youth (18-25 years old) in three Baffin Island communities: Iqaluit, Pangnirtung and
Pond Inlet. The premise of the study is that the Inuktitut language will only thrive if
young Inuit are committed to using and maintaining their ancestral language.
Semi-directed interviews (37) and closed questionnaires (130) elicit information on dayto-
day language choice, perceptions of language use, problems or concerns in daily
language use, symbolic and practical value of Inuktitut, English and French, and opinions
about the promotion of Inuktitut in Nunavut. These language perceptions and attitudes
expressed by young Inuit illuminate reasons for the current level of use of Inuktitut and
help prioritize areas for future language planning.
Findings suggest that although Inuktitut remains relatively strong, Inuit youth are aware
of and sensitive to the loss of Inuktitut, particularly in Iqaluit. Inuktitut is valued by Inuit
youth because it is the mother tongue; the language of Inuit tradition, culture and identity;
a “fun” language; a language that is being lost; a useful language for getting a job; and an
effective tool for participating and integrating in the community. At the same time,
English is valued because it is a “cool” language, the language of the new millennium
that allows Inuit youth to travel, get an education, get jobs, and participate in their local
communities and beyond.
Inuit youth are strongly motivated to maintain both Inuktitut and English. They need both
languages in order to pursue their aspirations of making the best of both worlds in which
they are currently negotiating their place.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistic