Resources for Feminist Research articles from March 22 2008

Resources for Feminist Research archives from March 22 2008

Decolonizing Spaces/Espaces decolonisants.(INTRODUCTION)
March 22, 2008... Decolonizing Spaces is a special issue of Resources for Feminist Research that confronts the longstanding utopian feminist project of seeking possibilities for breaking down barriers and dominant power structures. We conceptualized this issue...

Community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
March 22, 2008... This paper examines the rewards and problematics of doing community-based research in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. British Columbia, It examines how the research process, experiences, and goals of a project may differ depending on one's...

Re/moving forward?: spacing mad degeneracy at the Queen Street site.
March 22, 2008... This article explores the site of the Queen Street Mental Health Centre (now CAMH) in Toronto. The building of Ontario's first asylum in 1850 on this site was a result of moral interventions in order to build Canada as a respectable nation. The...

"So, what's a white girl like me doing in a place like this?": rethinking pedagogical practices in an indigenous context.
March 22, 2008... This article addresses the question of whether a white academic can act as an ally to Native students and faculty in their struggle to "Indigenize" the Canadian university system. Through an analysis of two personal experiences teaching in an...

Re-imagining home and belonging: feminism, nostalgia, and critical memory.
March 22, 2008... I begin this paper with some personal childhood narratives about the ambivalence I associate with the concept of home. I use a visit "back home" to Lebanon as an opportunity for re-imagining home and for understanding what is at stake when we...

Gentrification and playful disregard.
March 22, 2008... Currently in Vancouver, BC, a process of rapid development within the urban centre as well as the containment and regulation of entertainment space is occurring. Drawing from interviews, observation and analysis of print media, this paper...

Three sisters.(DISCUSSIONS)
March 22, 2008... We begin our conversation about decolonization on our way to the lower longhouse of the Cayuga Nation, the first stop on Jacqueline's tour of Six Nations of the Grand River and surrounding area. Our journey ends at the site of an old...

The yellow peril revisited: the impact of SARS on Chinese and Southeast Asian Communities.(DISCUSSIONS)
March 22, 2008... Introduction News of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first hit Canada in early March 2003. For the duration of the spring and into the summer, extensive media coverage with headlines like "U.N. warns of worldwide threat from...

Housing statement of forward.
March 22, 2008... We are the women of FORWARD, Feminist Organization for Women's Advancement, Rights & Dignity. (2) We meet every week at Sistering, a women's drop-in centre in Toronto, Canada. We have experienced homelessness and bad housing conditions. When we...