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The looking ahead project: A lesson in community engagement and positive change
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2019 In response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement across the country, the Greater Sudbury Police Service initiated a community engagement approach to build a project with the goal of reducing violence against Indigenous women ...
Paul E. Pedersen
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Violence Against Native American Women in the United States
Politikon, 2013 In response to the topic of Global Justice and Human Rights: Country Case Studies, I will discuss the origin and continuation of violence against Native American women in the United States.
Jennifer Di Paolo
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INvoke, 2020 Drawing on the current research, I argue that the extensive violence against Canada's Indigenous women and girls is enabled by public discourses that rely heavily on racist stereotypes. I use Razack's theoretical framework of "gendered disposibility" and "colonial terror" as a lense for critically viewing violence against Indigenous women and girls. To
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Deeping Our Relationships for Healing: Our Land, Our People, Our Freedom
Health Equity, 2023 The relationship with Indigenous people and the United States is devastating and complex. There is shame carried within this relationship. The shame holds the power to force society, systems, and individuals to create new narratives.
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The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2018 This article describes the impact of a case study of the REDress project on a university campus in Nova Scotia, Canada. The REDress project is a grassroots initiative that operates at the local level to empower Aboriginal women through an evocative art ...
Natalie Marie Lesco
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Humanities, 2019 Theories of literary ethics often emphasize either content or the structural relationship between text and reader, and they tend to bracket pedagogy. This essay advocates instead for an approach that sees literary representation and readerly attention as
Cynthia R. Wallace
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Analyzing the NIMMIWG’s 231 Calls for Justice through a food studies lens
Canadian Food StudiesIn 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released a report containing 231 Calls to Justice to address the disproportionate level of violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in ...
Tabitha Robin +3 more
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Healing Generational Trauma in Aboriginal Canadians
Voices in Bioethics, 2018 Case Introduction: Makayla’s story On January 19, 2015, Makayla Sault, an 11 year old Aboriginal girl, died of leukemia [1]. Although her physicians gave her a 75% cure rate with treatment, she and her family refused chemotherapy in favor of pursuing
Jocelyn Chase
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Climate change is altering the timing of many plant phenological events, yet most studies focus on flowering, with less attention given to later reproductive stages such as fruit development and ripening. Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry) is an important perennial berry species that may be sensitive to these changes.
Jenna Floyd +5 more
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