7 research outputs found
From the Peripheries to the Core: Re-interpreting Canada’s Historic Relations to Conceptualizations of the “Third World”
No full textKaren Dubinsky, Sean Mills, and Scott Rutherford, eds., Canada and the Third World: Overlapping Histories (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).
Amal Madibbo, ed., Canada in Sudan, Sudan in Canada: Immigration, Conflict, and Reconstruction (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015)
Johnson, Michele A., and Funke AladeJebi, eds. – Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History.
No full textFrancis Peddie, Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973 -2010 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014).
No full textCountering Stereotypes and Enabling Resilience: Ethiopian Male Perspective on their Educational Experiences in Canada.
No full textThis article examines how stereotypes of Black males and Black masculinity operate in the construction of the Black male of African descent in the Canadian educational context. Specifically, the study discussed here examined how this archetypal frame informed the lived experience of second-generation Ethiopian males in relation to race, academic performance, ambition to achieve their desired goals, and integration into Canadian society. From qualitative interviews conducted with 11 second-generation Ethiopian males, the study found that stereotypes of African cultural identity and its cumulative effects in their developmental years, along with culturally specific protective factors by way of family, nurturing relationships, and robust social support systems equipped them with the ability to nurture their potential and build on their abilities and skills, to enable them to realize their ambitions. The findings have implications for how social workers/counsellors in educational or clinical contexts can better advocate for a more expansive curriculum and support Black male students of African descent in their pursuit of educational success to enable a healthier pathway to integration
Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers
No full textGlobal health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation
No full textGlobal health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate ‘empowerment’, spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind the laudable aim of ‘empowerment’ of local global health photography there is a simultaneous exploitation of precarious photographer labour and the emergence of ‘glocal’ photography elites. The paper argues that empowerment of local photographers can become a euphemism for reducing image production costs and maintaining control over the image content, while extending the scope of mainstream global health visual culture without challenging it. Finally, the article amplifies the growing concern that uncritical engagement with institutionalised empowerment becomes a warrant for the reproduction of local inequalities behind the fashionable façade of cooperation and care
Assembling a global health image: ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers
No full textBackground: Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is obtained.
Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 29 global health photographers about the ethical and practical challenges they experience in creating global health images, and thematically analysed the findings.
Findings: The following themes were identified: (1) global health photography is undergoing a marketing transformation and images are being increasingly moderated; (2) photographers routinely negotiate stereotypical and abusive tropes purposefully sought by organisations; (3) local scenes are modified, enhanced and staged to achieve a desired marketing effect; (4) ‘empowerment’ is becoming an increasingly prominent dehumanising visual trope; (5) consent to be photographed can be jeopardised by power imbalances, illiteracy, fears and trust; (6) organisations sometimes problematically recycle images.
Interpretation/Discussion: This research has identified practical and ethical issues experienced by global health photographers, suggesting that the production cycle of global health images can be easily abused. The detected themes raise questions of responsibility and accountability, and require further transdisciplinary discussion, especially if promoting ethical photojournalism is the goal for 21st century global health
