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OPERATIONALIZING INTERSECTIONALITY ANALYSIS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN QUITO, ECUADOR
Get PDFThis thesis outlines the results of a case study in Quito, Ecuador with the municipally led participatory urban agriculture project, AGRUPAR, an internationally recognized project that promotes women’s empowerment, traditional knowledge, agroecology, and livelihoods. It works to improve the lives of those experiencing high levels of poverty in Quito. This dissertation applies an intersectional analysis to urban agriculture research to enhance attention to power relations, social justice, and equity within its scholarly and practical realms. Intersectionality is an understanding that people have unique experiences of oppression based on their unique social location (what intersecting social categories they belong to) and their identity. An intersectional conceptual framework explores urban agriculture in Quito through a multi-level analysis including power relations, diversity of knowledges, intersecting categories, reflexivity, time, space, social justice, equity, resistance, and resilience. This dissertation highlights the voices of the research participants telling their stories through the lens of intersectionality. The interviews completed in Quito, Ecuador paint a picture of a city where urban agriculture thrives, one that uses grassroots approaches to embark on food policy, and one that tells a story of the importance of intersectional approaches to research. This thesis is an example of operationalizing intersectionality in urban agriculture research and shows how it can be used in food studies and feminist geography research more generally. It also provides greater understanding of how AGRUPAR influences the food system in Quito, the intersectional experiences of the participants, and how to use intersectional analysis to tell a holistic story in research
IUCN WCPA Technical Note No.21: Utilizing Protected and Conserved Areas for Human Health and Well-being: A Technical and Methodological Framework
Get PDFIn recent years, social prescribing—particularly green prescribing and nature prescriptions—has rapidly gained popularity as a holistic approach to improving health and well-being by connecting individuals with nature-based activities and community support. Due to the unique qualities of protected and conserved areas, they provide irreplaceable benefits to humans. This has prompted many to quickly identify, define, and measure their positive impacts on human health and well-being. As exciting as this potential may be, it is imperative to consider that health is the terrain of another sector. Just as ecosystem management may be unfamiliar to health professionals, health is a field that is less familiar to the conservation professional.
In this technical note, we provide a framework for people working in both the conservation and health sectors to effectively and equitably utilize protected and conserved areas as resources that support human health and well-being objectives. By working together, these sectors can develop more comprehensive and effective solutions to both global health and environmental challenges
Exploring the reassessment of palliative home care clients: A mixed methods study
No full textIntroduction: The timely reassessment of clients receiving palliative home care (HC) is critical for supporting clinicians with care planning and service delivery. However, there is little information on the frequency of reassessments and factors driving reassessment in palliative HC clients.
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to: (i) determine the proportion of palliative HC clients reassessed with the interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) instrument, (ii) calculate the average interRAI PC reassessment interval, (iii) identify the key factors driving interRAI PC reassessment at various intervals, and (iv) explore the factors that influence palliative HC clinicians to reassess their clients in general.
Methods: This sequential mixed methods study was comprised of three phases: a quantitative phase (i.e., Phase I), a qualitative phase (i.e., Phase II), and a supplementary quantitative phase (i.e., Phase III). Phase I was a retrospective cohort study using secondary interRAI PC assessment data for palliative HC clients assessed in Ontario from 2011 to 2022 (n = 128,740). Clinically meaningful differences between clients who were not reassessed and those reassessed at four intervals (i.e., within 90 days, 91-180 days, 181-365 days, and beyond 365 days) were identified using absolute standardized differences. A standardized difference of 0.2 or greater represented at least a small effect size and was considered to denote a significant difference. Phase II followed a collective exploratory case approach with palliative HC clinicians (i.e., nurses and nurse practitioners) being recruited from two provinces in Canada (n = 3). Clinicians were recruited through a snowball convenience sampling approach. Background surveys and semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence their decision to complete reassessments. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using a cross-case synthesis and Braun & Clarke’s steps for reflexive thematic analysis. Phase III followed the same design as the first phase of the study and was used to address additional predictors of interRAI PC reassessment based on the results of Phase II.
Results: In Phase I, only 30.5% of the sample had a recorded reassessment, with the average reassessment interval being 198 days (standard deviation = 156). Across all comparisons, clients were significantly more likely to be reassessed if they had a prognosis of 6 months or longer, no/moderate health instability, no/mild levels of functional impairment, and/or a low/mild risk of developing a pressure ulcer. In Phase II, the researcher generated two main themes through her analysis: individualized care plans and a connected care team. In Phase III, clients with independent locomotion (i.e., walking or wheeling) were more likely to receive a reassessment at any interval.
Conclusion: The timely reassessment of palliative HC clients is critical to ensure their changing care needs are identified and they are receiving the proper supports and resources. While this work identified several factors influencing reassessment, further research needs to be conducted to gain a deeper understanding of how the different predictors interact with one another
Episode 0: Welcome to Community of Praxis!
No full textIn this episode, host Brenna Clarke Gray introduces her podcast as a space for educators who crave meaningful change, thoughtful conversation, and a touch of rebellious spirit. She shares her vision of blending theory with practice by interviewing bold thinkers in education and then unpacking those ideas with her longtime collaborator, David N. Wright, in companion episodes full of candid, coffee shop-style chats. With themes of accessibility, kindness, and “productive disobedience,” Brenna invites listeners into a supportive community where big ideas meet real classroom challenge…and where breaking the rules might just be the key to better teaching.https://scholars.wlu.ca/community-of-praxis/1000/thumbnail.jp
No. 35: Venezuelan Migration and COVID-19 Response Measures in Urban Areas of Ecuador
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador, exacerbating their vulnerabilities due to restrictive containment measures, socioeconomic instability, and barriers to healthcare and basic services. This paper examines the intersection of pandemic-related restrictions, migrant precarity, and state responses, highlighting the disproportionate effects on urban Venezuelan migrants. Key challenges included irregular migration pathways, increased food and housing insecurity, exclusion from early vaccination programs, and heightened exposure to gender-based violence. Despite Ecuador’s early adoption of an inclusive vaccination strategy, systemic inequalities persisted, limiting migrants’ social and economic integration. The findings contribute to broader discussions on migration governance, humanitarian responses, and the securitization of migration in Ecuador
Researching Post-Industrial Political Behaviour With The National Occupation Classification In The 2019 and 2021 Canada Election Studies
No full textIn the following note we describe coding of open-ended responses to respondent occupations in the Canada Election Studies 2019 (phone and online) and 2021 (online). 7904 unique entries were gathered from the three surveys and assigned 5- or 4-digit codes from the National Occupational Classification (NOC) using the information such as job and task descriptions and sample job titles from the NOC. 84%of entries were able to be matched to a 4-digit NOC code and 79% could be matched to a 5-digit code. The note concludes with a brief model of vote choice as a func-tion of whether respondents’ occupations are assessed to be in surplus or shortage. Tentative results suggests respondents facing wage declines or layoffs because their occupation project to be in surplus are less likely to vote for a right-wing party
Episode 3a: CoP Interview: Open at the Margins with Maha Bali
No full textIn this episode, Brenna interviews Maha Bali about her edited collection Open at the Margins and the ways open education is not always already equitable. Maha discusses intentionally equitable hospitality, being a scholar outside the dominant discursive frame, and the complexities of consent in the classroom. Maha invites us to consider our values and the challenges in upholding them.https://scholars.wlu.ca/community-of-praxis/1005/thumbnail.jp
Review of “War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943–1948” by Victoria Belco
No full textReview of War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943–1948 by Victoria Belc
The Clear-Up: The Anglo-American Experience in Southeastern Italy, 1943–1946
No full textAs Allied forces gradually ascended Italy in the arduous Italian Campaign, the newly liberated country was left in chaos. Focusing on the often-overlooked experiences of Southeastern Italy, and in particular the area known today as the region of Molise, this article presents an analysis of the Allied clear-up operation within this tumultuous situation. The mass movement of people southwards has been described as the “real drama” of the war for those living in Molise and the experiences of the people here are representative of many in the rural south. Moreover, knowledge gained by Allied forces here would impact future operations in terms of POW rescue missions, casualty clearing and burial procedures