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Sqilxw Educator Rising: Relationality as Methodology in a Social Work Abolitionist Framework
Get PDFWai, iskwis (my name is), Percy Lezard. Sqilxw ways, personal introductions come before any other words. I am outma sqilxw I was born into a family of sexʷwrmin̓ (firekeepers). This research demonstrates how I as a sqilxw stamya? educator have been able to survive and thrive, through my sqilxw identity and Indigenous knowledges, in mainstream post-secondary education institutions. I have used myself as both the subject and researcher within the social context of post-secondary social work settings, with an insider’s vantage point to chronicle my own pedagogical transition, using the qualitative methodology of relationality. Through my interpretations and reflections about two post-secondary programs, I use comparison to highlight the complexities of their strengths and inadequacies.
This work includes my account as an Indigenous scholar working within a college program grounded in feminist theory, and a university department grounded in an anti-oppression/anti-racism framework. It explores experiences of anti-Indigenous racism, cis-sexism, pushback for my position of solidarity with Black liberation, and oppressions within a disability justice framework.
Using the methodology of relationality, I share the experiences I have encountered and the problems I have faced, to facilitate an understanding of the processes of transition. As the genre of qualitative research brings the reader closer to the subculture studied through the experiences of the author, my work serves to provide an evaluation and insights into the cultures of these two learning environments.
Data gathering consisted of a reflexive journal, my personal calendar, faculty agendas, staff memos, and reflective analysis. As well, in each of the institutions, I was able to gather support and insight through ceremony and interactions with Knowledge Keepers and Elders. In this way, I was able to reflect upon teachings and to apply Indigenous knowledges to my work. These research tools were used to capture the experiences of my transition.
The results of this study were expressed in a personal narrative that comprises of Section 1: Situation, Owing, Questioning. Section 2: How did I come to formulating an Abolitionist Social Work Framework? Section 3: History of Social Work Harms. Section 4: Alternatives Section 5: Vision and closing remarksPh.D
Sqilxw Educator Rising: Sqilxw Educator Rising: Relationality as Methodology in a Social Work Abolitionist Framework
No full textAbstractWai, iskwis (my name is), Percy Lezard. Sqilxw ways, personal introductions come before any other words. I am outma sqilxw I was born into a family of sexʷwrmin̓ (firekeepers).
This research demonstrates how I as a sqilxw stamya? educator have been able to survive and thrive, through my sqilxw identity and Indigenous knowledges, in mainstream post-secondary education institutions. I have used myself as both the subject and researcher within the social context of post-secondary social work settings, with an insider’s vantage point to chronicle my own pedagogical transition, using the qualitative methodology of relationality. Through my interpretations and reflections about two post-secondary programs, I use comparison to highlight the complexities of their strengths and inadequacies.
This work includes my account as an Indigenous scholar working within a college program grounded in feminist theory, and a university department grounded in an anti-oppression/anti-racism framework. It explores experiences of anti-Indigenous racism, cis-sexism, pushback for my position of solidarity with Black liberation, and oppressions within a disability justice framework.
Using the methodology of relationality, I share the experiences I have encountered and the problems I have faced, to facilitate an understanding of the processes of transition. As the genre of qualitative research brings the reader closer to the subculture studied through the experiences of the author, my work serves to provide an evaluation and insights into the cultures of these two learning environments.
Data gathering consisted of a reflexive journal, my personal calendar, faculty agendas, staff memos, and reflective analysis. As well, in each of the institutions, I was able to gather support and insight through ceremony and interactions with Knowledge Keepers and Elders. In this way, I was able to reflect upon teachings and to apply Indigenous knowledges to my work. These research tools were used to capture the experiences of my transition.
The results of this study were expressed in a personal narrative that comprises of Section 1: Situation, Owing, Questioning. Section 2: How did I come to formulating an Abolitionist Social Work Framework? Section 3: History of Social Work Harms. Section 4: Alternatives Section 5: Vision and closing remarks.Ph.D
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Resisting Erasure and Empire: Rap and Counter-discourses in the Francophone Black Atlantic
No full textFocusing on the work of Black, diasporic rappers in France, my thesis investigates the ways in which rap music and popular culture transforms notions of nation and diaspora. Considering identity formation, public discourse, and the language of political and social protest in the rappers' lyrics and interviews, I argue that hip-hop uniquely enables Francophone Black diasporic rappers to transform national discourses of identity, radically unveiling and exposing dismissed history(ies) while mediating counter-discourses of modernity. These rappers have grasped the ambiguities and frictions within French discourses of nation and empire to rewrite the nation from a Black, diasporic perspective, transforming their exclusion from the national discourse into the driving force leading their creative ventures.
Within this context, I investigate who is considered French, and how otherness, Blackness, Frenchness and resistance are constructed in the lyrics and imaginations of the artists. This analysis will develop an understanding of how those artistic ventures speak about a diasporic consciousness and how they enrich our understanding of the Black Atlantic at the moment. It adds to the existing collection of works on Black Europe and its forgotten histories, and lays a foundation for work that could develop into a comparative study with Francophone Black Canada. Ultimately this sheds light on the ways in which resistance is articulated and identity negotiated in the Francophone Black diaspora, within a world dominated by Anglophones.
Axée sur les productions culturelles de rappeurs issus de la diaspora noire en France, ma thèse explore les différentes façons dont le rap et la culture populaire transforment les conceptions de nation et diaspora. Analysant la formation identitaire, les discours publics et l’expression de revendications politiques et sociales dans les textes et interviews des rappeurs, je soutiens que le hip-hop permet à certains rappeurs francophones issus de la diaspora noire de transformer la conception de l’identité nationale en révélant et exposant des aspects obscurcis de l’histoire de France, tout en articulant un discours qui remet en cause certaines perceptions liées à la modernité. Ces rappeurs ont saisi les ambiguïtés et les tensions existantes dans les discours publics liés à la nation et à l’empire colonial français, et offrent un regard différent sur la nation, nourri d’une perspective noire et diasporique. Exclus des notions d’identité nationale, leur marginalisation devient la force motrice qui guide leurs productions artistiques.
Dans ce contexte, j’observe comment « le Français », « l’Autre », « le Noir » et la notion de résistance sont perçus dans les textes des rappeurs. Cette étude démontre que ces productions artistiques mettent en avant une conscience diasporique et enrichissent notre conception de l’Atlantique Noir. Elle contribue à la recherche existante autour de la diaspora noire en Europe et constitue la fondation d’un projet d’étude comparative avec la diaspora noire francophone au Canada. Cette analyse comparée permettra de mettre en avant différentes formes de résistance et d’affirmation identitaire dans la diaspora noire francophone, au sein d’un monde dominé par les anglophones.Ph.D
In the Mood for Mentoring: Critical Spotlights on the Canadian Integration of Immigrants as Citizens and Consumers
Get PDFHistorically considered an informal process of knowledge transmission, mentoring has more recently become an institutional form of intervention. Over the past forty years, formalized mentoring programs have mushroomed in workplaces, schools and non-profit organizations in North America. To specifically understand the influence of mentoring on the integration of immigrants into Canadian society, this project explored the mentoring experiences of adult newcomers from diverse national backgrounds. In two Torontonian mentoring programs with instrumental and community-based elements, mentees were matched with volunteer mentors in groups. For the examination of these experiences, the researcher utilized a theoretical framework based on critical theory as well as a conceptual framework blending studies on emotions, citizenship and consumption. Methodologically, this doctoral project employed an exploratory qualitative approach combining and integrating participant observations, individual interviews and collages. The key findings revealed that participants recognized as their mentors primarily those who were named as such, had roles, and were affiliated to organizations. Concomitantly, the same participants often ignored or discredited informal mentors. Indeed, the mentees displaying instrumental or corporate orientations seemed to fit particularly well into the researched programs, which are based on a generalized conformance to Canada's dominant values and mainstream social norms. Nonetheless, this study concluded that both mentoring and integration were fundamentally dynamic and partial processes. At the expense of its epistemological nature as a way of knowing, mentoring was commodified as part of a broader national training and volunteer process conducted under the Canadian multicultural framework. In this context, citizenship and consumerist discourses and practices intertwined to support the social construction of immigrant experiences fostered throughout happy narratives and representations. Overall, this study demonstrated that the institutionalization of mentoring is presently a powerful strategy for the integration of immigrants. Finally, this research also indicated the salience of nationality, language and emotions in these processes.Ed.D
Fracturing White Feminism: Race, Nation, and Representation at the National Film Board’s New Initiatives in Film Program at Studio D
Get PDFThis dissertation examines the final years of Studio D, the state-funded, feminist film studio at the National Film Board of Canada (1974-1996) during its attempts to deal with the question of racial diversity within a post-multicultural policy Canada. As a national, feminist space, Studio D positioned itself as the cinematic center of the white Canadian women’s movement and their documentaries produced our understanding of the (mainly) white Canadian feminist subject to the exclusion of women of colour and First Nations women. This thesis interrogates the discursive collision between white hegemonic feminism and multicultural policy, specifically with an examination of the case study of the New Initiatives in Film Program (NIF) (1990-1996), the NFB’s first formal attempt to deal with questions of race and gender simultaneously and the representation of racial inequity within the women’s movement, as well as the discursive and historical conditions of the late 1980s/ early 1990s which led to its creation.
Using archival documents and primary interviews, I employ the methods of intersectionality and counter-narrative to describe the power/knowledge nexus of white hegemonic feminism within Studio D’s institutional boundaries and the struggles for racial equity that challenged the Second Wave’s myth of a united sisterhood. In examining the successes and failures of NIF, I also demonstrate how grass-roots consciousness-raising by women of colour within the Canadian women’s movement and Studio D eventually paved the way for the NFB’s Special Mandate Team for Cultural Diversity, where the lack of non-Caucasian male filmmakers was finally addressed. I argue that the shifting relationships between notions of feminism, race and nation provide optimism for a radical possibility for transformation within Canadian cultural institutions, where diversity speak can be replaced with a foregrounding of co-existing, multiracial, and collaborative differences.Ph.D
The Power and Politics of Immigrant Philanthropy: Charitable Giving and the Making of the New Canadian Establishment
No full textThis study explores how high net worth immigrants are contributing to the new golden age of philanthropy. Who are the actors behind the transnational philanthropic class? How are local and regional diaspora networks sustained through charitable giving? What role do non-profits, governments, corporations, and the media play in advancing a model minority aesthetic? These questions are brought to life through an analysis of forty in-depth interviews with immigrant philanthropists and volunteers, fundraising executives of large non-profits, and executive directors of settlement charities conducted from 2013 to 2015 in Toronto, Canada. Through these voices, a number of social, political, and economic themes are explored. First, drawing on Jacques Derrida's writings about hospitality and gift exchange, I consider how the philanthropic actions of elite immigrants challenge the rules of engagement between the old and new establishments. Second, I explore how the making of a philanthropic diaspora is a translocal process that reinforces a growing divide between have and have not charities. Finally, I look at the role of high net worth immigrants in the development of a philanthropic state within the context of financialization. Ultimately, this study articulates how diaspora philanthropy is entering a new evolutionary phase that is strategically incorporating the rhetorics of diversity and inclusion, philanthrocapitalist models of investing, and a variety of domestic and global agendas aimed at reconciling politics, giving, and the expansionist logic of advanced capitalism. Moreover, this study suggests that large charities uniquely offer elite diasporas with an opportunity to bundle their humanitarian, business, and community interests through strategic investments while advancing macro-level political and economic agendas that further stratify the charitable sector in Canada.Ph.D
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