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Developing feminist pedagogical practices to complicate whiteness and work with defensiveness
No full text'The Future is Female': Mapping Postmodernist Panics over Failing Boys and Over-Successful Girls in the UK and Canada
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MIDDLE‐CLASSNESS AND WHITENESS IN PARENTS’ RESPONSES TO MULTICULTURALISM: A STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL
Get PDFSince its founding in 1941 until the 1980s, “Pinecrest” School was dominated by child‐ ren from “Baywoods,” an economically privileged and largely Jewish neighbourhood. In the late 1980s, the population of the school changed to include children of immigrants in an adjacent neighbourhood, “Kerrydale.” Seeking to protect their children’s cultural capital and class advantages, the Baywoods parents’ response involved the construction of fundamental difference and concerns about effects on school quality. The responses were interrupted by dilemma and ambivalence. They are read through the intersections of middle‐class formation and whiteness in terms of three dimensions: practice, relationality, and maintenance. Key words: Jews, immigrants, public school, parents, exclusion, social class, ethnicity Depuis sa création en 1941 jusque dans les années 1990, l’école « Pinecrest » accueillait principalement des enfants de « Baywoods », un quartier habité par des familles à l’aise et surtout par des Juifs. À la fin des années 1980, la population de l’école a changé à la suite de l’intégration d’enfants d’immigrants provenant de « Kerrydale », un quartier voisin. Cherchant à protéger le capital culturel de leurs enfants et les avantages de leur classe sociale, les parents de Baywoods ont réagi en invoquant la notion de différence fondamentale et en se préoccupant des effets possibles sur la qualité de l’école. Dilemmes et ambivalence ont toutefois interrompu le processus. Les réactions des parents sont interprétées dans le contexte du lien entre la formation de la classe moyenne et la blancheur et ce, à trois niveaux : la pratique, les relations et le maintien de la reproduction du groupe. Mots clés: Juifs, immigrants, école publique, parents, exclusion, classe sociale, ethnicité
“They didn’t treat me as a Gypsy”: Romani Refugees in Toronto
Get PDFWith organized hate crime and institutionalized discrimination, thousands of European Roma have fled to Canada, where they claim refugee status. Their arrival coincided with far-ranging reforms to the refugee determination system in 2012–13 in addition to some actions aimed specifically at the Roma. Against this backdrop, former and current Romani refugee claimants substantiate the experience of migration and settlement, beginning with the first moments after arrival, to the tasks of finding housing and work. Agency and resilience are evinced, despite the government’s multiple instruments used against asylum-seekers. Romani refugees’ lives show how, for transnational groups, belongingness is always contested and the meaning of home is always nuanced.En raison des crimes organisés motivés par la haine et de la discrimination institutionnelle, des milliers de Roms européens ont cherché asile au Canada où ils ont effectué des demandes du statut de réfugié. Leur arrivée a coïncidé avec des réformes de grande ampleur en 2012-13 portant sur le système de détermination du statut de réfugié, ainsi que des mesures visant les Roms particulièrement. C’est dans ce contexte que les anciens ainsi que les actuels demandeurs du statut de réfugié d’origine rom réalisent l’expérience de migration et d’installation, en allant des premiers moments après leur arrivée jusqu’aux démarches qu’ils entreprennent pour trouver des logements et du travail. Un esprit d’actualisation et de persévérance se manifeste, malgré les multiples mesures imposées par le gouvernement à l’encontre des chercheurs d’asile. L’expérience des réfugiés d’origine rom démontre que, pour les groupes transnationaux, l’appartenance est toujours soumise à la contestation, et que l’idée de domicile est toujours conditionnelle
Theorizing psychosocial processes in Canadian, middle-class, Jewish mothers' school choice
No full textOutside the Frame: A Critique of Chad Evans Wyatt’s RomaRising
Get PDFPhotographer Chad Wyatt’s RomaRising is an extensive series of black and white portraits of middle-class European Roma who have a wide range of professional occupations. By constituting the Romani subject as middle class, the exhibit defies stereotypes about this maligned group. Two key questions may be raised about its implications: Does RomaRising infer that acceptance of Roma in European society is conditional upon gaining admission to the middle class? And does the way in which the images are framed exclude their social context? Specifically, does it neglect the powerful barriers to Roma’s class mobility caused by widespread anti-Roma racism in European society? When these questions are positioned in the foreground and analyzed, emphasis shifts from the content of the images to the social and political consequences of representing Roma through the photographic image
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
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