Canadian Journal of Family and Youth (CJFY)
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Review of: Porter, M and Gustafson, D.L. (2012). Reproducing Women: Family and Health Work Across Three Generations. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
“It Makes Me Feel Good to Teach People About My Culture:” On Collaborative Research Methods with Indigenous Young People
In this article we, as settler scholars, explore process as method within a community-driven, supradisciplinary project in southern Alberta called Raising Spirit. The project was a collaboration between the University of Lethbridge’s Institute for Child and Youth Studies and Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society, a nonprofit that serves Indigenous children and families in southern Alberta. The project team formed in response to Opokaa’sin’s need for a digital library of Blackfoot culture, language, and history. Here, we reflect on the methods used during this project, specifically paraethnography (Marcus & Holmes, 2008) and design studio (Rabinow, Marcus, Faubion, & Rees, 2008). Throughout, we argue that this approach produced a collective sphere (Rappaport, 2008) wherein young people and community partners, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, became collaborators throughout the process. In this space of vulnerability and potential, everyone could contribute, share, and learn
Review of: Pearlman, S.F. (2012). Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters and FTM Transgender Children. Bradford: Demeter Press.
Review of: Pearlman, S.F. (2012). Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters and FTM Transgender Children. Bradford: Demeter Press.
Review of: Karabanow, J., Carson, A., & Clement, P. (2010). Leaving the Streets: Stories of Canadian Youth. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
A Compilation of Four Family-Oriented Songs
The first song was written in one morning for the CBC hockey contest on October 5, 2013. The song is about hockey but it turned into a song about my dad’s role in our family life in western Canada circa 1960’s. The next two songs I can attribute directly to the legacy and fallout of residential schools and the foster care system in Alberta on my family life. The fourth song was sparked by my daughter’s make-up business and home life with children