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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Sexual Health And HIV Prevention Outreach By And For Indigenous Youth
Full text linkBackground: This paper examines how a group of Indigenous youth leaders take up the notion of leadership in the context of HIV prevention.
Methods: Taking Action II is an Indigenous community based participatory action research project. Eighteen Indigenous youth leaders were invited from across Canada to share their narratives about their passion for HIV prevention through digital storytelling. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants after they developed their digital stories, and then again several months later. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify major themes arising from Indigenous youth leaders' responses.
Results: Central to participants' visions of Indigenous leadership were the following characteristics: confidence, trustworthiness, being a good listener,
humility, patience, dedication, resilience and being healthy. Challenges to leadership included: being a member of a young population, a lack of role models,
tokenism, intergenerational trauma, HIV stigma, and pressure to succeed. Despite these challenges, youth were demonstrating leadership in a variety of
capacities within their communities. Common themes included: starting small, education, mobilizing community, teaching others, and preserving culture.
Discussion: In contrast to dominant individualized mainstream ideals, Indigenous youth think about leadership as connected to relationships with their families, communities, histories, legacies and health. Cultivating and supporting Indigenous youth leaders is an important part of the solution in tackling the devastating HIV statistics and in making positive change within our communities
Braiding Our Past, Present And Future: Understanding Treaties And Embodying Settler Responsibilities Through Engagement With Community Arts
Full text linkThis major research project looks at how community arts practices can inform and engage on themes of treaty responsibility, settler colonialism and Indigenous histories of space. By looking at two different examples of community arts projects, this paper investigates how both personal reflection and larger collaborative education can lead us to greater understandings of history and responsibility, as well as stronger relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. The first example of community arts practice is a multi-season research engagement with my personal settler history. Through spending time with extended family in Nova Scotia, I was able to utilize existing genealogy records to further my investigations of settler-colonialism through an auto-ethnographic lens. By conducting interviews, visiting historical sites in Nova Scotia, and ultimately creating an art exhibit called Unsettling the Homestead, I was able to ground myself in some of my own settler history before I extended the work into the next community arts project. My second example is Talking Treaties Spectacle, a large scale outdoor performance which was developed over several years with hundreds of collaborators. This arts engagement aimed to educate people about Indigenous histories of Toronto and settler responsibilities to treaties through both the creation of the project as well as the finished performance. This community arts practice invited people to reflect on their own positionality, as well as their knowledge of place and history – or lack thereof. Braids were central metaphorical and structural pieces to both Unsettling the Homestead and Talking Treaties Spectacle. Extending this metaphor helped me to think about the links between past, present and future, both personally and in relation to greater social movements of Indigenous resistance and settler solidarity
Beyond the Colonial Divide: African Diasporic and Indigenous Youth Alliance Building for HIV Prevention
Full text linkThis dissertation examines the history of and potential for solidarity building approaches in HIV prevention between Aboriginal and African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) - Canadian communities, through the utilization of arts-based research approaches. Colonization, conquest and slavery have and continue to shape the experiences of discrimination that are embodied and expressed in the health of these communities. This is exemplified by the disproportionate rates of HIV within both Aboriginal and ACB communities. In unpacking this complicated socio-historical embodied health issue, data was collected from two focus groups and a two-day mural-making workshop. Black and Aboriginal youth leaders were encouraged to think about and artistically express the possibilities for, and challenges to, HIV prevention and health promotion through cross-community collaboration. The analysis offered here situates these discussions in the history of social, political, and colonial relations between African diasporic and Indigenous communities in the Americas. It interrogates the possibilities for health promotion activism and HIV prevention that incorporates the arts as a communicative medium for honouring the lived experience of embodied health ills a direct opposition to Western, top-down, bio-medicalized and individualized explorations of health disparities. This dissertation includes an introduction chapter, three core chapters written in manuscript format, and a concluding chapter. In the introduction, I outline my dissertation, providing context for my inquiry and situating it at the intersections of HIV, public health, critical theory and arts- and community-based research. Each of the three core chapters are written from different perspectives. Chapter 2 is intended to highlight the large breadth of scholarship that informs my work. As such, it examines the history of racial formation and anti-colonial and anti-racist aims as they contribute to Indigenous-Black relations in the Americas. Chapter 3 is a reflective paper, written as a first person account of how I reconciled my personal history, world views, and community commitments with my engagement with different qualitative arts- and community-based methods. Chapter 4 highlights the voices of the youth participants and examines the empirical findings of my arts-based approach to engaging Black and Indigenous youth in a cross-community HIV focused health promotion intervention. Lastly, I conclude with the implications of my work for theory, practice and social mobilizing between African diasporic and Indigenous communities in envisioning possible futures
Uncovering Funding Inequities: Young Racialized Climate Justice Activists' Struggle within the Realm of Climate Philanthropy
No full textGlobal climate philanthropy remains chronically underfunded, with youth only receiving a mere 0.76% out of the global pool of climate funds. Racialized youth, including Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) receive even less than their white counterparts. This report delves into a year-long research project which explores how young racialized climate activists feel about this situation and what can be done about it. Through cellphilm making, that is, films made on cellphilms, 10 young racialized climate justice activists were given the opportunity to share their story, as well as their barriers and solutions on securing funding for their grassroots activism, projects and nonprofit organizations. These films were compiled together like a quilt, and the quilted cellphilm was later shared with 13 environmental funders and to 70 members in the Tkaronto community where there was feedback given and corresponding recommendations developed.
The findings of the study highlighted the disconnect between funder requirements and the lived realities of young racialized climate justice activists who do not have the capacity for financial management and robust governance structures, among other requirements. The study further recognized the desire for funders to want to change their practices and allocate more funding in racialized communities. However, the bureaucratic resistance employees at these organisations might face whether needing to heed to their board, having the inability to participate in multi stakeholder events, and not having diverse staff hinder their progress to make systems change.
Recommendations put forward for funders include funding more nonqualified donees, collecting demographic data on groups funded, creating more board positions for racialized youth, and spending down their endowments. The role of funder networks are essential for funders in moving the needle on these issues, so suggestions for these stakeholders include encouraging funders to support more nonqualified donees, training for funders so that they can change their practices and developing a conference fund for young racialized climate justice activists. This study shows promise in convincing environmental funders across what is currently Canada in making more accessible, inclusive and equitable decisions in the hope of a sustainable and just future
Perceptions of wellbeing in climate-just futures among youth climate activists
No full textThis paper merges the two fields of degrowth and climate education through reconsidering narratives of wellbeing and what constitutes these ideas of wellbeing in the capitalist present and in envisioned climate-just futures. Wellbeing is a key aspect of ‘degrowth’, an academic field and emerging social movement that advocates reduced production and consumption while shifting ideas of ‘progress’ from economic growth towards wellbeing for all within ecological limits. Yet, climate education discourse skirts around challenging limits to economic growth and falls in line with ‘green growth’ narratives, despite the clear necessity of decreasing overconsumption in the Global North to meet the required climate targets. Formal and non-formal education are key sites for shifting cultural common senses and practices towards those that are both compatible with ecological limits and ensure that basic needs are met for all people. This study uses participatory visual research methods, namely ‘cellphilm’, to explore youth climate activists’ perceptions of wellbeing in the context of the climate emergency and in visions of climate-just futures. Participants identified justice, interconnectedness, collaboration and cooperation, and longtermism as aspects of a holistic understanding of wellbeing needed to imagine and prefigure climate-just futures. Participants identified several themes in their cellphilms that align with ideas in the degrowth discourse. While this study did not have the scope to go beyond this exploration of wellbeing to link to degrowth explicitly, it does begin laying foundations for merging climate change education and education for degrowth
Culturally Safe(r) Trauma Services for Indigenous and Black Women Identifying Mainstream Barriers and Facilitators to Healing
Full text linkIndigenous and Black women continue to be overrepresented as the victims of sexual violence, yet are least likely to access legal or medical services due to the inherent systemic barriers present in contemporary systems. The objective of this paper is to encourage service providers to recognize the systemic barriers that are innate within Canada's socio-political systems, along with, how Euro-centrism maintains their status quo based on oppression. My research will identify the barriers, along with make recommendations in how to support Black and Indigenous women healing. I have utilized community action-based research methods to ensure that it is the women's voices are heard regarding their re-victimization by service providers. My interviews were with women who had accessed social services for their victimization in order to identify the barriers they encountered and not to exploit or sensationalize their stories. The data gathered from my work with service providers provided insight into their understanding of the intersectionality that shapes gender based violence. The women I worked were clear in identifying the systemic barriers in place. They also made clear recommendations on what is required for plausibility of healing to occur in mainstream settings
Comparing the Experiences of Refugee Women, Unwed Mothers, Sex Workers, and Women Living with HIV Accessing Healthcare in Morocco: Narrating Citizenship and Health
Full text linkAlthough research on women’s health has been conducted throughout Morocco there are still significant gaps that require our attention. This is a result of the ever changing political, physical, and social environment in Morocco and across the world. Furthermore, the majority of emerging literature from Morocco with a focus on women's health has traditionally been conducted in silos focusing on women from very specific social locations. Intersecting factors impact health for women in Morocco, and this study hopes to bridge some of the existing gaps and speak to women’s health in Morocco beyond the identity specific silos while also acknowledging nuances and differences in lived experiences amongst women. This research investigates, compares, and contrasts four groups of women and their experiences accessing healthcare, specifically: 1) unwed mothers 2) women who are HIV positive 3) sex workers and 4) Syrian refugee women. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews and critical narrative methods. Furthermore multiple bodies of work in the fields of public health, community health, gender studies, narrative theory, and refugee and forced migration studies were examined to supplement this research. The data was coded three times using open coding and then coded using axial coding. The results of this small qualitative study illustrate that much of the previous literature provides a good foreground for research in this field, however, the results also disrupts notions perpetuated by siloed research of the past. By examining the four groups identified together, counter-narratives are formed that illuminate new findings and challenge older ones. For instance, some studies conflated the experiences of some of the groups of women I interviewed when in fact their experiences are diverse and should be complicated. The results will be shared back with community partners, non-governmental organizations, and published in both print and digital forms that are academic and nonacademic with the goal of enhancing health outcomes for women in Morocco
"What makes a great story?: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives On Digital Stories By Youth Formerly In Foster Care In Canada
Full text linkWhat makes a great story? This qualitative arts-based dissertation study explores multidisciplinary and international perspectives on digital stories created by youth formerly in foster care. Over Skype, thirty-five participants from the arts, healthcare, education, and social services sectors watched three short digital stories about experiences of youth in foster care. Then, each participated in a 90 minute semi-structured interview to discuss the value, impact, and potential for digital storytelling to influence social change.
All participants spoke about how the three digital stories presented honest and personal experiences that contrast dramatically with stories presented in the media about foster care. After viewing these stories, all participants asserted that there is a need for the creation and sharing of authentic and emotional stories that connect with specific audiences to subvert idealistic narratives in the media about youth currently and formerly in foster care.
I drew on participant narratives using Constructivist Grounded Theory approaches to develop the 4A model to describe the attributes of “great stories”: Anticipation, Actualization, Affect, and Authenticity. I also created seven multimodal outputs that contributed to the shaping of the findings and enhanced reflexive praxis.
The implications of this work varies across disciplines. Digital storytelling facilitators may develop insights into better supporting future participants to think critically about the impact and value of their stories before they write them. Artists may consider how best to employ their aesthetic skills and techniques to create compelling and storied artworks. Social service professionals may consider how to further leverage stories to build empathy and positively impact care delivery
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