 Subjects -> GEOGRAPHY (Total: 493 journals)
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | | The end of the list has been reached or no journals were found for your choice. |
|
|
- "A serious rift": The Indigenous Health Research Community's Refusal
of the 2014 CIHR Funding Reforms and Underlying Methodological
Conservatism
Authors: John Rose, Heather Castleden
Abstract: In 2014, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) senior administration established reforms to the Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review processes (OSP), implementing changes that it claimed would improve its funding and peer review structures. The purpose of the research reported in this paper was to investigate how CIHR reforms to the OSP were poised to negatively affect Indigenous health research. We found that the reforms were guided by a governmental and institutional trajectory of methodological conservatism that (a) privileged commercial research over projects that focus on social determinants of health and community relations, and (b) created a peer review system re-designed in ways that reduce inclusiveness. Interventions by the CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health' Advisory Board and an ad-hoc Indigenous Health Research Steering Committee (kahwa:tsire) were urgently organized and mobilized to reverse the CIHR decisions that were being made under the guise of so-called 'consultation.’
PubDate: 2022-12-31
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2022.13.3.13961
Issue No: Vol. 13, No. 3 (2022)
- Honouring Water: The Mistawasis Nêhiyawak Water Governance Framework
Authors: Maria Mora, Anthony Johnston, Michelle Watson, Lalita Bharadwaj
Abstract: Collaborative water governance in Indigenous territories requires the building of a nation-to-nation relationship where different water worldviews and knowledges are acknowledged, valued, and included in water governance. This article presents the Mistawasis Nêhiyawak Honour the Water Governance Framework, an alternative collaborative water governance approach in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Nêhiyawak principles, identity, knowledge, and self-determination are its foundation. Equitable dialogue is the central axis. The framework represents an alternative water governance structure to the current Canadian system that may more effectively respond to the water challenges of this First Nation. This framework supports the appeal from Mistawasis First Nation and other Nations, for the de-construction of hegemonic colonial water governance systems towards the co-construction of shared processes of water participation, decision-making, and responsibility.
PubDate: 2022-12-31
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2022.13.3.14271
Issue No: Vol. 13, No. 3 (2022)
- Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at
Canadian Universities
Authors: Candace Brunette-Debassige, Pauline Wakeham, Cindy Smithers-Graeme, Aisha Haque, Sara Mai Chitty
Abstract: This article identifies five predominant approaches to Indigenizing the curriculum occurring within Canadian universities today. Examining these approaches in relation to theories of change articulated by Gaudry and Lorenz (2018) and Stein (2020), the article considers the possibilities and limits of each approach as well as the degree to which they challenge the colonial and Eurocentric edifices of Canadian universities. While many of the current approaches to curricular change involve minor reforms that focus on individual transformation rather than substantive structural shifts, the authors also identify promising initiatives that push toward greater Indigenous intellectual sovereignty and institutional autonomy. The article concludes by calling on academic institutions to better center Indigenous Peoples, lands and knowledges in curricular change, and more specifically, to embrace structural revision that ensures Indigenous leadership and autonomy.
PubDate: 2022-12-31
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2022.13.3.14109
Issue No: Vol. 13, No. 3 (2022)
- The Importance of Culture in Alcohol Care
Authors: Gemma Purcell-Khodr, Emma Webster, Kristie Harrison, Angela Dawson, Kim San Kylie Lee, Katherine Conigrave
Abstract: Integration of cultural knowledges and healing practices with Western medical approaches to alcohol care has been reported for residential and community settings. However, there is little evidence on how culture features in alcohol care in primary health settings. We analysed data from semi-structured interviews (from a broader study) with 17 First Nations Australian staff (n=8 men, n=9 women) from 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services. We used grounded theory and the 8-ways Aboriginal pedagogy in analysis. We describe three key themes: 1) interpersonal processes; 2) a both-ways approach to healing and alcohol care; and 3) service-wide strategies to achieving both-ways healing. We discuss policy implications of facilitating bicultural alcohol care in primary health settings.
PubDate: 2022-12-31
Issue No: Vol. 13, No. 3 (2022)
- Economic Recovery in Response to Worldwide Crises: Fiduciary
Responsibility and the Legislative Consultative Process with Respect to
Bill 150 (Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009) and Bill 197 (COVID-19
Economic Recovery Act, 2020) in Ontario, Canada
Authors: Stephen R. J. Tsuji
Abstract: The Green Energy and Green Economy Act (2009) was an omnibus bill that affected a number of other acts. Due to the breadth of its effects, it should have seen a rigorous consultation and review process; this is especially true given how it would impact First Nations and its explicit mention in the Bill. However, it took less than three months for it to receive Royal Assent and become an act. This timeline is extremely short, even among similar bills within the same context. One of the core reasons for this swift transition is due to its labeling as green energy, which has benign connotations. This effectively allowed the bill to be expedited through the consultation process. The consultation process had many hurdles of its own that inhibited meaningful consultation including its timeframe, location of hearings, accessibility, and other factors. The term green energy was also never defined within the Act, meaning it only served as a form of signaling. This raises many questions with respect to the Government of Ontario’s conduct in the situation and how they handled their legal duty to consult with Indigenous people of Ontario, Canada. There are many voices that have raised issues with this process. If nothing else, this example serves the purpose of demonstrating the dangers of green-labelling, especially to Indigenous people of Canada and other Indigenous groups worldwide.
PubDate: 2022-12-31
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2022.13.3.10696
Issue No: Vol. 13, No. 3 (2022)
|
Open Access journal
