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In recent years community-university partnerships have become the ‘flavour of the month’. There a... more In recent years community-university partnerships have become the ‘flavour of the month’. There are pressures from funding bodies such as SSHRC on the academic side and Social Development Canada (HRDC or whatever its current incarnation is) on the non-profit side to build partnerships on research projects. In this discussion, I will ask how can research partnerships be built on principles of equality and mutual interest, in which each group benefits. More important for me is to ask how can struggles for social and economic justice be furthered by these relationships? The discussion will begin with some contextual and wider social questions, examine aspects of the SSHRC CURA program and conclude with a practice example of the collaboration between the Immigrant Workers Centre and the researchers involved in this project over the past 4 years and more recently with Solidarity Across Borders. Lessons from this experience will be shared. First, what can be gained by community organizati...
Canadian Journal For the Study of Adult Education, Dec 1, 2007
In recent years community-university partnerships have become the 'flavour of the month'... more In recent years community-university partnerships have become the 'flavour of the month'. There are pressures from funding bodies such as SSHRC on the academic side and Social Development Canada (HRDC or whatever its current incarnation is) on the non-profit side to build partnerships on research projects. In this discussion, I will ask how can research partnerships be built on principles of equality and mutual interest, in which each group benefits. More important for me is to ask how can struggles for social and economic justice be furthered by these relationships? The discussion will begin with some contextual and wider social questions, examine aspects of the SSHRC CURA program and conclude with a practice example of the collaboration between the Immigrant Workers Centre and the researchers involved in this project over the past 4 years and more recently with Solidarity Across Borders. Lessons from this experience will be shared. First, what can be gained by community ...
... Thanks to Terry, Cindy and Brandon Farnsworth for being so patient with me and my camera; and... more ... Thanks to Terry, Cindy and Brandon Farnsworth for being so patient with me and my camera; and to Arthur Bull, John Kearney, Kwegsi, gkisedtanamoogk, Miigam'agan, Pat Kerans, Shiri Pasternak, Monica Mulrennan, Thomas Kocherry, Norma Brown, Martin Kay, Bill Whitman ...
Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying th... more It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying the structural inequalities Canadian society is built upon. We are now a year and a half into the global pandemic. I am writing from Toronto, where “hot spots” (neighbourhoods with high infection rates) is code for racial and economic inequality (Wallace 2021) and public health guidelines have rendered low income “essential workers” disposable, amidst ballooning food insecurity rates, especially in low-income racialized communities (Toronto Foundation 2020; CBC News 2020). We are all in the same storm but in very different boats, as the new saying goes. I want to suggest that this moment, as Canadians are poised to step out of lockdown and return to ‘normal’, is a particularly useful one for Food Studies to consider what we could learn from Disability Justice movements in order to address a glaring hole in our collective scholarship and analysis.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, Jun 18, 2015
Ethical standards of conduct in research undertaken at Canadian universities involving humans has... more Ethical standards of conduct in research undertaken at Canadian universities involving humans has been guided by the three federal research funding agencies through the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (or TCPS for short) since 1998. The statement was revised for the first time in 2010 and is now commonly referred to as the TCPS2, which includes an entire chapter (Chapter 9) devoted to the subject of research involving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Canada. While the establishment of TCPS2 is an important initial step on the long road towards decolonizing Indigenous research within the academy, our frustrations-which echo those of many colleagues struggling to do research "in a good way" (see, for example, Ball & Janyst 2008; Bull, 2008; Guta et al., 2010) within this framework-highlight the urgent work that remains to be done if university-based researchers are to be enabled by establishment channels to do "ethical" research with Aboriginal peoples. In our (and others') experience to date, we seem to have been able to do research in a good way, despite, not because of the TCPS2 (see Castleden et al., 2012). The disconnect between the stated goals of TCPS2, and the challenges researchers face when attempting to navigate how individual, rotating members of REBs interpret the TPCS2 and operate within this framework, begs the question: Wherein lies the disconnect? A number of scholars are currently researching this divide (see for example see Guta et al. 2010; Flicker & Worthington, 2011; and Guta et al., 2013). In this editorial, we offer an anecdote to illustrate our experience regarding some of these tensions and then offer reflections about what might need to change for the next iteration of the TCPS.
Learning from the Ground Up, 2010
In recent years community-university partnerships have become the ‘flavour of the month’. There a... more In recent years community-university partnerships have become the ‘flavour of the month’. There are pressures from funding bodies such as SSHRC on the academic side and Social Development Canada (HRDC or whatever its current incarnation is) on the non-profit side to build partnerships on research projects. In this discussion, I will ask how can research partnerships be built on principles of equality and mutual interest, in which each group benefits. More important for me is to ask how can struggles for social and economic justice be furthered by these relationships? The discussion will begin with some contextual and wider social questions, examine aspects of the SSHRC CURA program and conclude with a practice example of the collaboration between the Immigrant Workers Centre and the researchers involved in this project over the past 4 years and more recently with Solidarity Across Borders. Lessons from this experience will be shared. First, what can be gained by community organizati...
Canadian Journal For the Study of Adult Education, Dec 1, 2007
In recent years community-university partnerships have become the 'flavour of the month'... more In recent years community-university partnerships have become the 'flavour of the month'. There are pressures from funding bodies such as SSHRC on the academic side and Social Development Canada (HRDC or whatever its current incarnation is) on the non-profit side to build partnerships on research projects. In this discussion, I will ask how can research partnerships be built on principles of equality and mutual interest, in which each group benefits. More important for me is to ask how can struggles for social and economic justice be furthered by these relationships? The discussion will begin with some contextual and wider social questions, examine aspects of the SSHRC CURA program and conclude with a practice example of the collaboration between the Immigrant Workers Centre and the researchers involved in this project over the past 4 years and more recently with Solidarity Across Borders. Lessons from this experience will be shared. First, what can be gained by community ...
... Thanks to Terry, Cindy and Brandon Farnsworth for being so patient with me and my camera; and... more ... Thanks to Terry, Cindy and Brandon Farnsworth for being so patient with me and my camera; and to Arthur Bull, John Kearney, Kwegsi, gkisedtanamoogk, Miigam'agan, Pat Kerans, Shiri Pasternak, Monica Mulrennan, Thomas Kocherry, Norma Brown, Martin Kay, Bill Whitman ...
Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying th... more It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying the structural inequalities Canadian society is built upon. We are now a year and a half into the global pandemic. I am writing from Toronto, where “hot spots” (neighbourhoods with high infection rates) is code for racial and economic inequality (Wallace 2021) and public health guidelines have rendered low income “essential workers” disposable, amidst ballooning food insecurity rates, especially in low-income racialized communities (Toronto Foundation 2020; CBC News 2020). We are all in the same storm but in very different boats, as the new saying goes. I want to suggest that this moment, as Canadians are poised to step out of lockdown and return to ‘normal’, is a particularly useful one for Food Studies to consider what we could learn from Disability Justice movements in order to address a glaring hole in our collective scholarship and analysis.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, Jun 18, 2015
Ethical standards of conduct in research undertaken at Canadian universities involving humans has... more Ethical standards of conduct in research undertaken at Canadian universities involving humans has been guided by the three federal research funding agencies through the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (or TCPS for short) since 1998. The statement was revised for the first time in 2010 and is now commonly referred to as the TCPS2, which includes an entire chapter (Chapter 9) devoted to the subject of research involving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Canada. While the establishment of TCPS2 is an important initial step on the long road towards decolonizing Indigenous research within the academy, our frustrations-which echo those of many colleagues struggling to do research "in a good way" (see, for example, Ball & Janyst 2008; Bull, 2008; Guta et al., 2010) within this framework-highlight the urgent work that remains to be done if university-based researchers are to be enabled by establishment channels to do "ethical" research with Aboriginal peoples. In our (and others') experience to date, we seem to have been able to do research in a good way, despite, not because of the TCPS2 (see Castleden et al., 2012). The disconnect between the stated goals of TCPS2, and the challenges researchers face when attempting to navigate how individual, rotating members of REBs interpret the TPCS2 and operate within this framework, begs the question: Wherein lies the disconnect? A number of scholars are currently researching this divide (see for example see Guta et al. 2010; Flicker & Worthington, 2011; and Guta et al., 2013). In this editorial, we offer an anecdote to illustrate our experience regarding some of these tensions and then offer reflections about what might need to change for the next iteration of the TCPS.
Learning from the Ground Up, 2010