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VOICES OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR: MOBILIZING CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR A CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE
Get PDFThis paper reports on the history and progress of Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador, a website that will build and expand upon work initiated by affiliates of the English Language Research Centre in 1999. Voices is intended as a sibling site to the online Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.dialectatlas.mun.ca), launched in 2013 to much public and scholarly acclaim
TO CAPTURE THE SOUND OF WATER: SOME THOUGHTS ON A LANGUAGE DENIED
Get PDFThoughts and reflections on growing up speaking Newfoundland English and on how language realtes to identity, place and education
Healthcare and Social-Services Institutions in the Face of Radical Differences
No full textWhen people at risk of discrimination on multiple grounds or experiencing identity-based oppression meet healthcare and social services, their complex life stories often result in mistrust and prejudice. The aim of this article is to show how individuals themselves locate their multiple dimensions of difference in specific situations and contexts and how they perceive the ways in which healthcare and social services encounter them. We further point out how the different social divisions are enmeshed with and influenced by each other in given situations and contexts. The article points out that dynamics of mistrust and prejudice can not be overcome by treating people equally, as that approach would require abstracting from individuals’ specificities and ignoring asymmetries in the relationship between institutions and their clients. As the article shows, what is required instead is a practice of creating trust and responding to individual differences societies produce. Methodologically, we worked with in-depth interviews conducted with 22 persons in the Geneva region (during 2012) who possessed at least two categories of difference related to their sexual orientation, their physical and psychological abilities, and/or their origins. The number of interviewed people was determined by the logic of saturation. Based on these 22 in-depth interviews with people at risk of discrimination on multiple grounds and experiencing identity-based oppression, this study describes dynamics of incomprehension between them and healthcare and social services and how they might be overcome
"Rape me, I’m Irish": An Analysis of the Intersecting Discourses of Anti-Irish Racism and Sexual Violence
No full textWell documented experiences of the Irish diaspora in England include humiliation, discrimination, and higher rates of suicide and psychiatric intervention (Hickman, 2000). However, the construction of the Irish in relation to rape has rarely been considered, despite the longstanding history of the term being used as a metaphor in the context of colonization (Sharkey, 1994). This paper examines intersecting discourses around anti-Irish racism and sexual violence through a genealogical tracing of the concept of rape in relation to men, women, and the discursive category of “The Irish.” This historically situated, discourse analysis (Parker, 2003, 2014) includes contemporary material from microblogs (Java, Song, Finan, & Tseng, 2007). It reveals the construction of the Irish as passive recipients of sexual conquest (whether consensual or coercive) that implies sexual availability. Whether it is the popular “Kiss me I’m Irish” or the more aggressive “Rape me I’m Irish” “joke,” the conceptual Irish body is positioned as an object for others to act upon. This analysis exposes the myth of white homogeneity and the relative invisibility of anti-Irish racism, particularly when combined with other axes of oppression such as gender and class. For professionals working with victims of violence, the complex relationship between colonialism, sectarianism, and racism should be considered beyond visible differences and black–white dichotomies
Generation Gap!: A comparison of seven psychometric properties between generations and their implications for medical schools
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Awakening the right brain and hushing the left brain: Enhancement of scholarly writing skills in an academic setting
Get PDFSocial accountability: Impact of the Faculty of Medicine's activities on the community and patient care
Get PDFTHE SOCIAL EVALUATION OF POST-VOCALIC LIGHT /L/ IN ST. JOHN'S ENGLISH
Get PDFThis study addresses the question of perception and evaluation of light post-vocalic /l/ in St. John's through a series of perception experiments. These experiments test whether people are able to hear the difference between post-vocalic light and dark /l/, whether they identify this difference as being a characteristic of Newfoundland or St. John's English, and finally, whether they ascribe any kind of stigma or prestige to the difference