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Songs of Prescience: Canadian Musical Activism in Climate Breakdown
No full textThe possibility of using music as a method of communicating the reality of the climate emergency has become an increasingly popular object of scholarly analysis. At a time when we need to collectively act with extreme urgency to militate against a future of climate collapse, music provides a generative and convincing counterpoint to prevalent scientific forms of environmental communication. This article argues that music which grows out of place-based engagement with ecocide has a unique capacity to serve the purpose of communicating the sensoria of climate breakdown. I focus on the songs, albums, and performances that constitute climate music in Canada and theorize the effects of mediated and immediate experiences of live performance, as well as the virtual and physical media available for consuming music today. I contend that a musical language for dealing with deeply unsettled states of being in the age of fossil capitalism has the capacity to positively impact the struggle for climate justice
Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adina Shibli’s Minor Detail
No full textAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes have been given scant coverage by main stream media or even academia. A nomadic life is often stigmatized by the notion of transience, and thus barely considered as valuable as other lives. Furthermore, the ownership and rights to the lands that nomadic people occupy are rarely recognized. In her latest novel, Minor Detail, Palestinian writer Adania Shibli traces the story of a Bedouin girl in 1949 and her brutal slaying at the hands of Zionist gangs through the narrative of a young West Bank woman from Ramallah, who becomes obsessed with uncovering the burial site of the slain girl. The nameless narrator in the book embarks on a journey in an attempt to unravel the circumstances behind the death of the nameless Bedouin girl; her expedition results in unearthing minor details relating to the ethnic cleansing of the girl’s tribe along with their silenced history. The novel evolves into a story of parallel lives, albeit 25 years apart. The Ramallah woman’s insistence in finding the exact place in which the atrocity was committed develops into a quest that is haunted by specters from the past. In this paper, I will argue that exposing the story of the Bedouin girl and her community not only allows the reader to reconstruct the marginalized lives of a people who were and remain part of the fabric of a disappearing country but is also an attempt at marking an absent life
A Looking Forward: Phil's Final Weeks
Get PDFAlexandra Gillis is a teacher and educational researcher living in the city of Vancouver, on the territorial lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, amidst mountains and ocean of Canada’s west coast. She has published Thinking Woman (2006) and is co-author, with John Benton and Philip McShane, of Introducing Critical Thinking (2005). She currently works for the Ministry of Education
In Gratitude: Remembering Philip McShane
Get PDFBrendan Lovett SSC is an Irish-born member of the missionary Society of St. Columban which was founded in 1918. He has been working in the Republic of the Philippines since 1967, excepting periods spent receiving his Dr. theol. in Münster (1972–75) followed by a four-year teaching assignment in Sydney (1976–1979) and, much later, a one-year invitation to the National Seminary in Yangon, Myanmar (2004–2005)
Editor's Introduction
Get PDFThere are four parts to this introduction: (i) an overview of the problem that concerned Lonergan for more than thirty years; (ii) a summary of some attempts to implement the “doubling” idea in the last 50 years; (iii) some comments on the three-step procedure (or three “objectifications”) carried out in this volume; (iv) a few suggestions regarding “What next?” possibilities
Toward Holistic and Community-Based Interventions in the Mental Health of Black and Filipino Youth
No full textThe field of social work needs critical education on how colonialism and oppression have impacted the mental-health experiences of Black and Filipino youth. The psychological and socio-political factors impacting these particular youth have been examined in the literature, and we highlight the need for transformative change within service provision and interventions. Our article proposes an alternative model based on culturally relevant, decolonial, intersectional, holistic, and community-based interventions within the Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada. Situated within a settler colonial nation-state, we maintain that our proposed interventions have the potential to engage in decolonization and solidarities with other marginalized groups, specifically other racialized communities and Indigenous Nations, going beyond the dominant clinical models in youth mental health. We propose that these interventions centre the particular and respective experiences of Black and Filipino youth in this geographical location, dismantling settler colonialism using intersectional and decolonial frameworks
