scholarly journals If I Had a Hammer

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Dynamic Motion ◽  
File Cabinet ◽  
Reconciliation Process

Mixed Media and Print-Installation. If I Had a Hammer represents Canadian society’s progress in social justice. This public narrative, as depicted in the larger installation, relies on the simple motifs of a wooden file cabinet and the dynamic motion of a horse striving forwards. The work focuses on four pivotal years, which have shaped Canadian society, namely: 1854; 1947; 1960 and 2016. These years with their associated narratives/stories correspond, respectively, with the following: the abolition of the feudal system in Canada; the abolition of the Chinese head tax; the establishment of the Canadian Bill of Rights, and the beginning of the reconciliation process with Canada’s indigenous communities.

scholarly journals Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice: Tensions Between Core Values in American Librarianship

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emily J. M. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Hate Groups ◽  
Ethical Philosophy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

AbstractOver the past few years, tensions between two core values in U.S. librarianship, intellectual freedom and social justice, have roiled the profession. This conflict was most recently seen in the insertion and subsequent removal of “hate groups” to the list of entities that cannot be denied access to library meeting rooms in the American Library Association’s Meeting Rooms Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights. This paper is intended to provide context for this conflict. It begins by situating its arguments within ethical philosophy, specifically the study of values or axiology. It then provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of the values of liberalism. Next, the paper discusses the values of truth and freedom from harm in librarianship. Finally, it suggests that a fuller understanding of the library’s place within the public sphere is a possible model for mitigating the tensions currently found in American librarianship. The paper is intended to provide a theoretical foundation for further research.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing from the Inside: Advantages, Complications, and Demands on Insider Positionality

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Chavez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
American Family ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mexican American Family ◽  
Insider Research

The debate on insider/outsider positionality has raised issues about the methodological advantages and liabilities between the two, yet no clear account exists for what insider scholars can expect when they enter the field. First, I conceptualize how insider positionality can dually benefit and disadvantage the insider. Using a partial review of insider studies, including my study of my multigenerational Mexican American family, I also present a practical discussion on specific insider advantages and complications. In conclusion, I present a new approach to training novice insider scholars that will help them mediate between insider perspective and researcher position, an approach that promises greater rigor to insider research that will serve the goals of qualitative research for social justice in minority and indigenous communities.

Public Service Transformation and Affirmative Action Perspectives in South Africa

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.S. Reddy ◽  
R.B.G. Choudree
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Acceptance

Affirmative action is on the agenda in South Africa. It is generally accepted that the new constitution will include a bill of rights which will contain a clause ensuring equality of all persons. It is this clause which will outlaw discrimination and which will sanction affirmative action. However, it is probably that the bill of rights will have to be supplemented by legislation on discrimination, affirmative action and employment equity, which will determine, for example whether and how the Public Service (and the private sector) are compelled or permitted to implement affirmative action. While approaches and strategies to affirmative action vary considerably, there is general acceptance that it may be an effective mechanism of ensuring social justice in the public service. It can play a pivotal role in equalizing and democratizing public instirutions in South Africa.

scholarly journals Diversity Management in the Canadian Workplace: Towards an Antiracism Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanmala Hiranandani
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Urban Markets

Most diversity management programs in Canada maintain that enhancing workforce diversity is of tremendous significance for business organizations in today’s competitive global urban markets. Since well-meaning diversity management initiatives have been largely ineffective thus far in dealing with workplace discrimination and racism in the Canadian workplace, this paper underscores the need to decenter the focus of diversity management from a business imperative to an antidiscrimination and social justice imperative. Within this latter perspective, the paper examines the strengths and limitations of the antiracism approach that has been implemented in various developed countries in recent years. The antiracism approach is an action-oriented strategy for institutional and systemic change that has at its core the interrogation of privilege, power disparities, and other forms of inequity within the organization. Drawing from the lessons of various initiatives that have utilized this approach, the present paper emphasizes the need for a nuanced antiracism approach in the multicultural Canadian society if diversity management is to attain its goal of greater inclusion of all individuals in informal networks and formal organizational programs.

scholarly journals “Just” Stories or “Just Stories”?: Mixed Media Storytelling as a Prism for Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Our lives and the lives of those we study are full of stories. Stories are never mere stories. Qualitative researchers who document, hear, and listen to participant lived-experiences encounter and witness the intimate spaces of people’s everyday lives. Researchers thus find themselves in the position of translator between diverse communities: those affected by policies, the academy and public officials. For academic-activists committed to listening to situated stories in order to improve public policy, several critical questions emerge: How do we do justice to these stories? What are the ethics of engagement involved in telling stories about those who share their knowledges and lived-experiences with us? Can storytelling bridge positivist and post-positivist research methods? Do policymakers listen to stories? How? What can researchers learn from Indigenous storytelling methods to envision decolonial, sustainable futures? To respond to these critical questions, this paper draws from literature in community-engaged research, critical policy studies, interpretive research methods, Indigenous research methods, political ethnography, visual methods and social justice research to argue that stories arenever simply or just stories, but in fact have the potential to be radical tools of change for social and environmental justice. As will be discussed with reference to three mixed media storytelling projects that involved the co-creation of digital stories with Indigenous communities in Canada, stories can intervene on dominant narratives, create space for counternarratives and in doing so challenge the settler-colonial status quo in pursuit of decolonial futures.

scholarly journals Assessing Without Labels:Culturally Defined Inclusive Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David F Philott
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
History Of

This paper will explore the place of assessment in a culturally defined paradigm of inclusive education. Given the global trend towards inclusive classrooms, defi ned by a social justice view of learner diversity, the diagnostic/prescriptive medical view of special education is becoming increasingly antiquated. What is emerging is a growing preference towards empowering the classroom teacher with the knowledge and skills to identify the authentic needs of students and to differentiate instruction to respond to those needs. In a contemporary Canadian society characterized by shifting demographics, and increasing linguistic and cultural diversity, this perspective holds particular relevance. In fact, the history of inclusive education parallels, in many ways, the history of aboriginal1 education, as typifi ed in the territory of Nunavut where a stated commitment to establishing a broader view of diversity is creating a system in which children celebrate difference. This paper explores the wealth of literature on this issue and establishes a Canadian context to present Nunavut’s model as being exemplary within this global debate.

scholarly journals A “Great” Large Family: Understandings of Multiculturalism among Newcomers to Canada

Refuge ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Fries ◽  
Paul Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

Analysts have taken positions either supporting or attacking multicultural policy, yet there is insufficient research concerning the public policy of multiculturalism as it is understood and practiced in the lives of Canadians. This analysis approaches multiculturalism as a text which is constituent of social relations within Canadian society. Data from the Regina Refugee Research Project are analyzed within Nancy Fraser’s social justice framework to explore the manner in which multiculturalism and associated policies are understood and enacted in the lived experience of newcomers. Newcomers’ accounts of multiculturalism are compared with five themes identified via textual analysis of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act—diversity, harmony, equality, overcoming barriers, and resource. Embedded within the accounts newcomers offered of Canadian multiculturalism are relations of ruling that can be understood within the context of struggles for recognition and social justice. Further research is needed to investigate the relational processes in which differing perceptions of and experiences with multiculturalism are embedded and to compare the present accounts with those of other groups of immigrants and Canadian-born.

scholarly journals Perlindungan Konstitusional terhadap Kesatuan Masyarakat Hukum Adat dalam Mewujudkan Keadilan Sosial

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrina Rosyada ◽  
Esmi Warassih ◽  
Ratna Herawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Research Questions

Pasal 18B ayat (2) UUD NRI Tahun 1945 mengamanatkan perlindungan konstitusional terhadap kesatuan masyarakat hukum adat. Namun, perlindungan kontitusional KMHA belum mewujudkan keadilan bagi KMHA itu sendiri. Penelitian ini menggunaan pendekatan sosio-legal, dalam rangka menjawab masalah yang diteliti. Faktor-faktor penyebab belum terwujudknya keadilan bagi KMHA Sedulur Sikep adalah: (1) Belum adanya Undang-Undang khusus tentang KMHA serta keragaman Istilah yang dipakai untuk menyebutkan KMHA, (2) Ego sektoral para pihak, (3) Pengakuan keberadaan KMHA Sedulur Sikep Pati belum dituangkan didalam Perda. Ketiga alasan tersebut berdampak pada konflik yang sering terjadi antara pemerintah dengan KMHA Sedulur Sikep. Constitutional Protection of Indigenous Community in Achieving Social Justice Article 18B paragraph (2) of the Indonesia Constitution 1945 mandates the constitutional protection towards indigenous communities. However, the protection still cannot bring justice for the community. This research uses a socio-legal approach in order to answer research questions. The factors of why Sedulur Sikep Community has not get justice are: (1) There is no any specified law regarding indigenous community and various terminology used to refer to the indigenous  community groups; (2) The sectoral ego of the involved parties (3) The recognition of Sedulur Sikep Community has not been embodied into Regional Regulations. Those three factors result the conflicts oftenly happens between the regional government and the Sedulur Sikep Community, which depict a clear gap between them.

scholarly journals Reconciling social justice and ecosystem-based management in the wake of a successful predator reintroduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1031-1039
Author(s):  
Evelyn Pinkerton ◽  
Anne K. Salomon ◽  
Frank Dragon
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Sea Otter ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Reintroduced Species ◽  
Ecosystem Based Management ◽  
Species At Risk Act

The reintroduction of a previously extirpated predator can engender conflict when the reintroduced species depletes customary fisheries to which indigenous communities have constitutionally protected rights. In the case of sea otter (Enhydra lutris) recovery on the west coast of North America, not only is Canada’s Species at Risk Act in conflict with Indigenous rights, but it also illuminates gaps in the principles of ecosystem-based management (EBM), such as equity and social justice. Broadly, we ask in this paper how EBM might be advanced if Indigenous communities were viewed as components of ecosystems having rights to a sustainable future equal to other components. Specifically, we explore evidence of sea otter management among precontact Northwest Coast societies and a contemporary co-managed system proposed by the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations that would combine research with refinement of traditional hunting practices. We show that barriers persist through lack of knowledge of past controlled hunts, ignorance of recent experiences of successful community-based clam management, distrust of Indigenous capacity to self-manage or co-manage a hunt, and divergent values among actors.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF FREE SOFTWARE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane Couture ◽  
Sophie Toupin ◽  
Mayoral-Baños Alejandro
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Philosophy Of Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
John Perry

Questions of independence and sovereignty have long been present with regards to the Internet. In 1996, for instance, John Perry Barlow published his now well-known “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”. Twenty-five years later, notions like “digital sovereignty”, “data sovereignty” and “technological sovereignty” are increasingly used in public debates. This presentation will explore “technological sovereignty” but through the lens of Indigenous perspectives as well as those of social movements inspired by free software activism. These two perspectives seem to share what can be called an anti-hegemonic perspective on technological sovereignty. While they may reinforce each other, they also differ on many perspectives. It is noted for instance that the philosophy of information sharing in free and open-source software might foster the usage and misappropriation of knowledge held by Indigenous communities (Christen, 2012; Gida, 2019). This analysis will prolong a previous study by the authors which identified different discursive trends around sovereignty (anonymous reference). Methodologically, our approach is grounded in discourse analysis and reviews of academic and activist literature that has mobilized metaphors of digital sovereignty. What is the role of the metaphor of “sovereignty” in reconfiguring Indigenous and social justice activism, in relation to the Internet? What are the commonalities between these perspectives? How are they reinforcing or contradicting each other? We intend to contribute to the theme of this year’s AOIR conference – Independence – by looking at the critical discourses of Indigenous people and social activists through the lens of the metaphor of digital (technological/data) sovereignty.

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