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Documenting Border Barriers
No full textDocumenting Border Barriers is an ongoing research-based artwork in etching and relief printmaking that addresses the exponential rise in fences and walls that have been built on the borders of nations and territories to keep people out. Each print details a specific border barrier in the world today, based on documentary photos, texts, and reports.
The technique combines drypoint etching and relief printmaking. Drawings are scratched into a rectangular plexiglass plate using an etching needle and abrasive tools. A thick ink is then spread on the scratched surface and wiped clean, leaving ink in the abrasions. Finally, the plate is pressed on paper with a manual etching press. Surrounding details are omitted to portray the razor wire, cement, and steel with visceral immediacy. An impression of landscape and sky are evoked with an under-printing of wood grain patterns. In some prints, printed window screen creates the impression of chain link. The prints, each unique in detail yet similar in composition, bear witness to the violent policies of exclusion and lack of concern for the lives of people on the move
Rugged Paths, Challenging Borders: A Time for Drunken Horses
No full textA review of Bahman Ghobadi\u27s 2000 film dramatizing the precarious life of smuggling in Kurdish borderlands.  
Sounds of Life and Concern: Echoing Through Lively Storytelling in Early Childhood Education
No full textThis paper emerges from the journey of a group of early childhood educators seeking to reconnect with land in meaningful and ethical ways. Reorienting from humancentric views, the authors explore “lively storytelling” to bring attention to overlooked stories and create alternative ways of being and thinking. We are called into new relations and ecological entanglements through a sensitive and responsive attunement to the soundscapes of Lynn Creek and Hastings Creek in Vancouver and Bow River in Calgary. Our engagement encompasses a posthumanist framework while weaving interdisciplinary studies in environmental humanities, materiality, and architecture to encourage generative inquiries and dialogue in early childhood classrooms and communities
Beyond Expectation: Problematizing the Performance of Femininity in “Backfisch” Literature
No full textReview of Julie Pfeiffer’s Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescenc
Experiences of Unbelonging and Ableism in the Early Learning and Childcare Sector in British Columbia
No full textIn an era in which Canadian governments are focused on increasing families’ access to affordable early learning and childcare (ELCC), there are increasing concerns about the inclusion of children with disabilities. This paper reports on the experiences of parents of children with disabilities in accessing ELCC programs in British Columbia. Findings highlight four interrelated themes: experiences of unbelonging; systemic mechanisms that reinforce unbelonging; impacts of unbelonging on children, parents, and families; and experiences of inclusion and belonging. The paper concludes with a discussion on opportunities for disrupting structural ableism and reorienting towards a childcare system in which all children can belong
A Student’s Interpretation of Research and the Field of Child and Youth Care: An Invitation by Kiaras Gharabaghi
No full textBurn The Ancient Flints Bright: Proving a Unique Colonialism in the Andean Region: 2021/2022 Submission
No full textDrawing on the works of Latin American intellectuals such as Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Guevara, and Jose Carlos Mariátegui, this paper explores the limitations of the commonly used academic definitions of ‘settler’ and ‘exploitative’ colonialisms. The Andean region is used as an example of an area that cannot be easily categorized into those labels due to its unique geographic location, the population demographics that emerged shortly after the initial Conquest, the nature of Indigenous participation in the new society, and the motivations of the Spanish colonial forces. The impacts of these unique factors on the modern Andes are used as a proof of why it is important to question Eurocentric definitions of subaltern experiences.Drawing on the works of Latin American intellectuals such as Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Guevara, and Jose Carlos Mariátegui, this paper explores the limitations of the commonly used academic definitions of ‘settler’ and ‘exploitative’ colonialisms. The Andean region is used as an example of an area that cannot be easily categorized into those labels due to its unique geographic location, the population demographics that emerged shortly after the initial Conquest, the nature of Indigenous participation in the new society, and the motivations of the Spanish colonial forces. The impacts of these unique factors on the modern Andes are used as a proof of why it is important to question Eurocentric definitions of subaltern experiences.Drawing on the works of Latin American intellectuals such as Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Guevara, and Jose Carlos Mariátegui, this paper explores the limitations of the commonly used academic definitions of ‘settler’ and ‘exploitative’ colonialisms. The Andean region is used as an example of an area that cannot be easily categorized into those labels due to its unique geographic location, the population demographics that emerged shortly after the initial Conquest, the nature of Indigenous participation in the new society, and the motivations of the Spanish colonial forces. The impacts of these unique factors on the modern Andes are used as a proof of why it is important to question Eurocentric definitions of subaltern experiences
"A Sideshow of a Sideshow": Postcolonial Personae of War in Lawrence of Arabia and In the Year of the Pig
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OTHER-INITIATED INTERACTIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO RESILIENT OUTCOMES AMONG YOUNG ADULTS RAISED BY CAREGIVERS WHO MISUSE ALCOHOL
No full textThis study offers an understanding of interactional resilience processes between young adults raised by caregivers who misused alcohol and people in their social-ecology who initiated supportive interactions that enabled them to achieve better-than-expected outcomes. Multiple in-depth face-to-face interviews and a draw-and-write methodology were used with 15 National University of Lesotho undergraduate students raised by caregivers who misused alcohol. An interactional resilience approach, building on person-in-environment and social-ecology perspectives on resilience, informed this study. Using constructivist grounded theory methods of data analysis, three themes were formulated: (a) other-initiated material support that elicits a response of resolve or obligation towards the other; (b) other-initiated sustained emotional support that elicits a response of hope for the future; and (c) other-initiated challenging support that elicits a change in behaviour. Given these findings, the study recommends that child and youth workers and social workers cultivate enabling and support-initiating social environments in key contexts such as schools, churches, and clubs, and develop children and young people’s skills to respond to and receive such support