This special issue includes the select proceedings of a conference -Value(s) Added: Sharing Voice... more This special issue includes the select proceedings of a conference -Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal Community Economic Development -held in May 2002 at the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. An important first for the University, the conference marked the beginning of a process of sharing voices and visions and adding values to current debate on Aboriginal community economic development. By learning from practitioners as well as academics, from traditional voices as well as postcolonial and postmodern perspectives, from the success stories as well as the challenges, the conference aimed to forge new networks and re-imagine CED for the 21st century. In a world where inequity and poverty kill, we all have a stake in the future of Aboriginal CED in Canada: CED practitioners and researchers; Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples; Elders, educators, and students; people in the resources, cultural, business, legal, and government sectors. In addressing issues of Aboriginal and treaty rights and community economic development in the context of globalization and resource depletion, the program was designed to promote possibilities rather than problems and to nourish alternative models of development and communities dependent on reciprocity rather than inequality. To encourage mutual education and public understanding and to enrich the current discourses on Aboriginal CED, the conference program presented a sampling of current research and practice from British Columbia to Cape Breton and featured keynote speakers and panel presenters whose work animated talking circles. The talking circles allowed delegates to share knowledge and experience in a traditional way, to create new networks and celebrate Aboriginal economies. By offering such networking opportunities, the conference aimed to break down some of the unproductive barriers that impede major innovation and more effective building on tradition. Presentations and discussions worked to unpack the costs of colonial xiii Editors' Comments
In Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, r... more In Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion. In this section, we invite our readers to offer their thoughts and ideas on the meanings and understandings of engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway communities, diverse cultural settings, and in various disciplinary contexts. We especially welcome community-based scholars' views and opinions on their collaborations with university-based partners in particular and engaged scholarship in general.
... Lou Hammond Ketilson, Principal Investigator, Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterpris... more ... Lou Hammond Ketilson, Principal Investigator, Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies and Sustainable Communities Rob Dobrohoczki and Lori Blondeau, co-researchers Len Usiskin, Community Co-Leader, CED Module ...
In recent decades changing faculty and student bodies and new methodologies have raised questions... more In recent decades changing faculty and student bodies and new methodologies have raised questions about the nature and distribution of power and authority, challenging traditional institutional, disciplinary and discursive protocols. Not surprisingly, the consequent reconstitution of English as a discipline - a veritable paradigm shift registered in the 1992 MLA publication Redrawing the Boundaries (Greenblatt and Gunn, eds.) - has occasioned very different responses: read apocalyptically by formalists and literary historians, this reconstitution has been seen as the dangerous politicizing of literary studies and the academy, or even as the end of Western civilization; read approvingly by feminists, poststructuralists and Marxists, it is seen as a belated gesture of inclusion and liberation. What therefore becomes dramatically clear is the way that such rhetoric and polarization attest to the continuing political importance of the canon, its role in the construction of social subjec...
Supplemental material, WES867279_-_sup_mat for Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Car... more Supplemental material, WES867279_-_sup_mat for Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention by Elizabeth Quinlan, Susan Robertson, Ann-Marie Urban, Isobel M Findlay and Beth Bilson in Work, Employment and Society
... Jason Perepelkin ... and related medication counselling, many of the pharmacists currently wo... more ... Jason Perepelkin ... and related medication counselling, many of the pharmacists currently working in community practice are seeking a more service-oriented, patient-focused approach with greater emphasis on the use of their clinical skills (Amsler et al., 2001; Bissell et al., 2002 ...
There is no human being who is not the product of every social experience, every process of educa... more There is no human being who is not the product of every social experience, every process of education ... Indeed, even if it were possible, a judge free of this heritage of past experience would probably lack the very qualities of humanity required of a judge. Rather, the wisdom required of a judge is to recognize, consciously allow for, and perhaps to question, all the baggage of past attitudes and sympathies that fellow citizens are free to carry, untested, to the grave. True impartiality does not require that the judge have no sympathies or opinions; it requires that the judge nevertheless be free to entertain and act upon different points of view with an open mind ... Canadian Judicial Council Commentaries on Judicial Conduct (1991) You cannot just 'write the truth,' you have to write it for and to somebody, somebody who can do something with it. Bertolt Brecht "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties" To promote legal cultures that fulfill their mandate to create...
The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to d... more The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life. The nine case studies in this diverse collection provide real life examples of community-based research in Aboriginal, urban, and rural communities. Journeys in Community-Based Research shows how taking into account socio-economic, geographic, and cultural contexts can lead to public policy that better serves the most vulnerable in our society.
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment amon... more The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by challenging the normative codes governing social interactions in participants’ workplaces. The study’s analysis indicates that the intervention’s Theatre of the Oppressed activities energized the participating caregivers to imagine, enact and collectively assess new social interactions. The caregivers developed strategies to resist the oppressive relations of their employment and became competent contesters of dominant discourses circulating in their workplaces. The solidarity developed through the bodily sculptures and enacted scenarios elicited...
This special issue includes the select proceedings of a conference -Value(s) Added: Sharing Voice... more This special issue includes the select proceedings of a conference -Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal Community Economic Development -held in May 2002 at the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. An important first for the University, the conference marked the beginning of a process of sharing voices and visions and adding values to current debate on Aboriginal community economic development. By learning from practitioners as well as academics, from traditional voices as well as postcolonial and postmodern perspectives, from the success stories as well as the challenges, the conference aimed to forge new networks and re-imagine CED for the 21st century. In a world where inequity and poverty kill, we all have a stake in the future of Aboriginal CED in Canada: CED practitioners and researchers; Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples; Elders, educators, and students; people in the resources, cultural, business, legal, and government sectors. In addressing issues of Aboriginal and treaty rights and community economic development in the context of globalization and resource depletion, the program was designed to promote possibilities rather than problems and to nourish alternative models of development and communities dependent on reciprocity rather than inequality. To encourage mutual education and public understanding and to enrich the current discourses on Aboriginal CED, the conference program presented a sampling of current research and practice from British Columbia to Cape Breton and featured keynote speakers and panel presenters whose work animated talking circles. The talking circles allowed delegates to share knowledge and experience in a traditional way, to create new networks and celebrate Aboriginal economies. By offering such networking opportunities, the conference aimed to break down some of the unproductive barriers that impede major innovation and more effective building on tradition. Presentations and discussions worked to unpack the costs of colonial xiii Editors' Comments
In Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, r... more In Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion. In this section, we invite our readers to offer their thoughts and ideas on the meanings and understandings of engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway communities, diverse cultural settings, and in various disciplinary contexts. We especially welcome community-based scholars' views and opinions on their collaborations with university-based partners in particular and engaged scholarship in general.
... Lou Hammond Ketilson, Principal Investigator, Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterpris... more ... Lou Hammond Ketilson, Principal Investigator, Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies and Sustainable Communities Rob Dobrohoczki and Lori Blondeau, co-researchers Len Usiskin, Community Co-Leader, CED Module ...
In recent decades changing faculty and student bodies and new methodologies have raised questions... more In recent decades changing faculty and student bodies and new methodologies have raised questions about the nature and distribution of power and authority, challenging traditional institutional, disciplinary and discursive protocols. Not surprisingly, the consequent reconstitution of English as a discipline - a veritable paradigm shift registered in the 1992 MLA publication Redrawing the Boundaries (Greenblatt and Gunn, eds.) - has occasioned very different responses: read apocalyptically by formalists and literary historians, this reconstitution has been seen as the dangerous politicizing of literary studies and the academy, or even as the end of Western civilization; read approvingly by feminists, poststructuralists and Marxists, it is seen as a belated gesture of inclusion and liberation. What therefore becomes dramatically clear is the way that such rhetoric and polarization attest to the continuing political importance of the canon, its role in the construction of social subjec...
Supplemental material, WES867279_-_sup_mat for Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Car... more Supplemental material, WES867279_-_sup_mat for Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention by Elizabeth Quinlan, Susan Robertson, Ann-Marie Urban, Isobel M Findlay and Beth Bilson in Work, Employment and Society
... Jason Perepelkin ... and related medication counselling, many of the pharmacists currently wo... more ... Jason Perepelkin ... and related medication counselling, many of the pharmacists currently working in community practice are seeking a more service-oriented, patient-focused approach with greater emphasis on the use of their clinical skills (Amsler et al., 2001; Bissell et al., 2002 ...
There is no human being who is not the product of every social experience, every process of educa... more There is no human being who is not the product of every social experience, every process of education ... Indeed, even if it were possible, a judge free of this heritage of past experience would probably lack the very qualities of humanity required of a judge. Rather, the wisdom required of a judge is to recognize, consciously allow for, and perhaps to question, all the baggage of past attitudes and sympathies that fellow citizens are free to carry, untested, to the grave. True impartiality does not require that the judge have no sympathies or opinions; it requires that the judge nevertheless be free to entertain and act upon different points of view with an open mind ... Canadian Judicial Council Commentaries on Judicial Conduct (1991) You cannot just 'write the truth,' you have to write it for and to somebody, somebody who can do something with it. Bertolt Brecht "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties" To promote legal cultures that fulfill their mandate to create...
The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to d... more The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life. The nine case studies in this diverse collection provide real life examples of community-based research in Aboriginal, urban, and rural communities. Journeys in Community-Based Research shows how taking into account socio-economic, geographic, and cultural contexts can lead to public policy that better serves the most vulnerable in our society.
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment amon... more The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by challenging the normative codes governing social interactions in participants’ workplaces. The study’s analysis indicates that the intervention’s Theatre of the Oppressed activities energized the participating caregivers to imagine, enact and collectively assess new social interactions. The caregivers developed strategies to resist the oppressive relations of their employment and became competent contesters of dominant discourses circulating in their workplaces. The solidarity developed through the bodily sculptures and enacted scenarios elicited...
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