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CPI Welcomes the Summer 2020 Special Issue Influenced by Maya Angelou\u27s Poem: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
No full textEditorial to the CPI special issue, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with a collaboration of invited Guest Editors, Cecille DePass, Enid Lee, Alleson Mason, and Sonia Aujla-Bhullar who collectively produce an issue that includes voices of more than 30 contributors who live in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, as well as a refugee camp in Kenya.
Writing in Exile: Bidoon Resistance and Speaking Truth to Power
No full textThis article concentrates on the writings of the late Naser Al-Zafiri who documented the realities of the Bidoon community’s experiences in Kuwait and the diaspora. In his novels, through the detailed portrayals of the characters and their stories, Zafiri explicates lived experiences of belonging and homelessness of the Bidoon in Kuwait, as well as their immigrant experiences and encounters in Canada and other countries. By illustrating the pedagogical and political significance of Zafiri’s novels, and situating it in relation to other resistance work, the article contributes to our understanding of truth-telling, resistance, resiliency and survival of the Bidoons in Kuwait and in the diaspora
You\u27re Skating on Native Land: Queering and Decolonizing Skate Pedagogy
No full textThis paper draws from a new materialist interpretation of Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird to analyze how Queer and Indigenous skateboarders develop critical and community-responsive ways of knowing and being. This analysis is contrasted with the implications of skateboarding’s Olympic debut to theorize how non-dominant groups build self-supporting enclaves in spite of concerted efforts to regulate and exclude them from public life. Skateboarding is herein conceptualized as a critical pedagogy which enables participants to reclaim space, achieve self-defined learning goals, and challenge the authority of oppressive institutions built upon what Angelou calls “the grave of dreams.
Dis/place/ment: The Life and In/animacy of Rocks and Stories
No full textIn this illustrated article, I begin with a question: Do rocks talk? The life, movement and migration of stories – and rocks, as the oldest living beings, have witnessed these histories and transformations (Donald, 2009; Tinker, 2004). This article explores the changing landscapes and stories of our lives, and the places where we live and dwell. It unravels discourses seeped in colonial histories, while recognizing our responsibilities as newcomers and settlers to these places and Indigenous peoples. This métissage of stories speaks to the meaning of places within our lives – and what we can learn from these places, when and if, we are willing to listen. And rocks, as the oldest living beings, always remember
Boat Ride
No full textA photographic image featuring a Boat Ride, near Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Jamaica by photographer Emma Lewis
Reconsidering Difference: The curricular and pedagogical significance of holistic insights in the face of colonial exclusions
No full textThis paper explores how holistic-guided, sacred, ecological insights can support youth in their healing journeys from the individual and systemic violence of colonial exclusions. Drawing upon guidance from Indigenous sharing circle philosophies and sacred ecological insights, this article contends that the coming together of similarities and differences can generate the ethic of “wisdom relationality” (Kasamali, 2019) and promote healing. This theorizing is guided by the métissage sensibility and is supported by research conducted with an Alberta, Aboriginal Studies 30, secondary, high school class. By concentrating on experiences of four former Aboriginal Studies 30 students, this article illuminates their key learnings acquired from reconnecting with the healing energy that flows from Indigenous sharing circle philosophies. The article demonstrates that by reconsidering difference and responding to colonial exclusions from the place of holism inspires the students to achieve freedom, agency and in doing so, restores their sense of balance
Reimagining Black Freedom – Beyond Place and Time
No full textIn this article, the writings of three prolific writers, Canadian Katherine McKittrick, Canadian-Trinidadian Marlene NourbeSe Philips and American Maya Angelou, intersect at the point of Black liberation and form a singular voice where a reimagined freedom can emerge.
The piece begins with McKittrick’s research of Black geographies and what Black freedom as a destination looks like, by way of a fixed Underground Railroad journey to settlements like Ontario’s Negro Creek Road. It further interrogates and reverses the power dynamic between the European colonizer and Black settler, by engaging with Philip’s novel, Harriet’s Daughter. Here, teen protagonist, Margaret, changes the rules of her Underground Railroad game, making it possible for anybody to be a slave. Finally, these ideas are connected to Angelou’s autobiographical accounts of racism in the Deep South and her poetic expressions of hope and freedom through her writings, Caged Bird and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Dialogic Tropes:: Pearls and Bodies in The Burden of 4000 Pearls (2007-2009) and hole/whole (2009-2011)
No full textCalgary-based installation artist and printmaker Kim Huynh’s projects are profoundly aware of materiality and ways in which it can encourage us to jump out of the ruts and customary ways of categorizing and thinking in late Capitalism. The media that Kim Huynh adopts can range from the extraordinary to the banal, from a vast string of pearls to orange peels. This short interview with Kim Huynh investigates matters that are material and conceptual, incorporated into two projects referencing social injustice and embodied female experiences
Beauty and the Beast: Using creative expression to envision a just society amid post-truth politics, pandemic, and climate change
No full textCall for Submissions for the Special Issue of Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (CPI), Fall 2021 entitiled "Beauty and the Beast: Using creative expression to envision a just society amid post-truth politics, pandemic, and climate change
Borders, Kinship Disruption, and Collapsed Immobility: A Pendula of All My Relations
No full textWords are like arrows…
Through poetic inquiry and art, this co-authored submission will include an inter/textual representation of Indigenous Métissage which will ask readers to ‘explore’ the lived experiences of colonialist displacement that has (re)framed kinship disruption through a lens that includes collapsed immobility. By engaging both ethical relationality and collapsed immobility (a response to a threat or strategies), the authors will navigate ‘the self’ through a lens that will speak to the (de)lineation and/or (non)existence of governmentally enforced borders present on ancestral territories. Leaning into ancestral aptitude, the authors will make space for All Our Relations to simultaneously step forward by reaching back to “come home” (McLeod, 2007, p. 67)