scholarly journals Mediating Environments: Introduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Hroch ◽  
Mark CJ Stoddart
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Actors

The impetus behind this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology on “Mediating Environments” is to bring together current Canadian scholarship interrogating the relationships among the environment, media, and evolving concepts of mediation. Using “mediation” as a way of conceptualizing the interaction of human and non-human actors – whether environmental, technological, social, political – opens up ways of understanding social relationships to include more-than-human agencies and to reconsider the relations that shape subjects, objects, and identities.

scholarly journals The materiality of languages in engagements with the environment

Multilingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Siragusa ◽  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Related Language ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Human Actors

Abstract Communication, an apparently intangible practice, does in fact affect the way people engage with their social worlds in very material ways. Inspired by both ethnographic and archival-driven research, this special issue aims to fill the gap in studies of language materiality by addressing entanglements with other-than-human agencies. The contributions of this special issue on verbal and non-verbal communicative practices among Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in the Global North and the South interpret language materiality as practice- and process-oriented, performative, and embodied relations between humans and other-than-human actors. The articles cover three major sub-themes, which ostensibly intertwine to a greater or lesser degree in all the works: (in-)visible actors and elements-related language; language materiality narrating and producing sociality; and the emotions and affect of language. The topic of this special issue, the materiality of languages, manifested in multiple engagements with the environment, proves particularly critical at the moment, given the current environmental crisis and the need to comprehend in more depth social relations with numerous other-than-human agencies.

scholarly journals COMMENTARY: Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: It’s About the People

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Zborover
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Mortuary Practices ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ethnic Affiliation ◽  
The People ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Global Connections

<p>Bioarchaeology is clearly all about the people. A human bone, although technically an artifact, is conceptually different than ceramic sherds, lithics, or even animal bones. It is us. The notions of embodiment and culturally-embedded interpretation intersects all the articles in this special issue, where authors take a detailed contextual approach to tackle diverse and complex themes such as mortuary practices, pre- and postmortem treatment, corporeal and skeletal modifications, individual and corporate identities, ethnic affiliation, social memory, violence and interpersonal conflict, trauma, gender and childhood, ancestral veneration, daily activities, nutritional and occupational stress, social organization, social relationships, and local, regional, continental, and global connections.</p>

scholarly journals Editorial – Contentious Mobilities/Canadian Mobilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Sodero ◽  
Nicholas Scott
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Life And Death

This special issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology on ‘Contentious Mobilities’ showcases Canadian scholarship that investigates mobilities in the context of unequal power relations. Mobilities become contentious when they confront the systematic exclusion of others, advance unconventional mobile practices and defy or destabilize existing power relations. Increasingly, mobilities are contentious in relation to rapidly changing economies, societies and environments. This special issue stages an overdue encounter between the mobilities paradigm and research on sociopolitical contention. Simultaneously, this special issue addresses an empirical gap, featuring Canada as a prolific and influential site for leading-edge research. Five key themes emerge amongst the diverse papers in this issue: life and death, employment-related mobility, intersectionality/in(visibility), governance, and automobility. Further, we identify five potential topics for Canadian mobilities, including climate change, disaster, technology and travel, the good city and methods.

Oxytocin, social relationships, and health: An introduction to the special issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Julianne Holt-Lunstad ◽  
Beate Ditzen ◽  
Kathleen C. Light
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Special Issue

Historical introduction, overview, and reproductive biology of the protochordates

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Biology ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Free Swimming ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structural Traits

This issue of the Canadian Journal of Zoology exhaustively reviews most major aspects of protochordate biology by specialists in their fields. Protochordates are members of two deuterostome phyla that are exclusively marine. The Hemichordata, with solitary enteropneusts and colonial pterobranchs, share a ciliated larva with echinoderms and appear to be closely related, but they also have many chordate-like features. The invertebrate chordates are composed of the exclusively solitary cephalochordates and the tunicates with both solitary and colonial forms. The cephalochordates are all free-swimming, but the tunicates include both sessile and free-swimming forms. Here I explore the history of research on protochordates, show how views on their relationships have changed with time, and review some of their reproductive and structural traits not included in other contributions to this special issue.

Introduction to special issue of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences: The Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect of Lithoprobe

2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Hajnal ◽  
Kevin M Ansdell ◽  
Ken E Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Volcanic Arc ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Flin Flon

Dedication: Dr. John F. Lewry (1939–1999; see Saskatchewan Geological Survey 1999) dedicated his career to investigations of the Saskatchewan–Manitoba segment of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO), one of the principal Paleoproterozoic orogens associated with the assembly of Laurentia. Indeed, one can make a strong case that Lithoprobe's Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect (THOT) was designed to test the tectonic models proposed by John Lewry. He delineated the distinct tectonic provinces in the western part of the THO, predicted the presence of an Archean craton trapped within the THO, and recognized and interpreted the significance of the Pelican Thrust between the juvenile Paleoproterozoic volcanic arc complex of the western Flin Flon Domain and the Archean craton, now called the Sask craton. The research published in Lewry and Stauffer (1990), and many of his ideas, provided the framework for the design of the THOT geophysical and geological studies. John Lewry was co-leader of the THOT until he passed away in 1999 after a battle with cancer. This Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences is dedicated to him.

Introduction: Law as a Means of Exclusion

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Marie-Andrée Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Legislative Agenda

In our call for papers for this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society on “Law as a factor of exclusion,” we announced that we were seeking contributions on the discriminatory and exclusionary power of legal and non-legal norms and institutions. We also intimated that the use of historical approaches might prove revealing in analyses of statutes and other legislation, especially for their potential to uncover otherwise hidden legislative agenda.The articles in this issue of the Journal meet and surpass our expectations. Each of the authors brings into sharp focus the central issues at stake in the announced theme. While the majority of the contributions take legislation and judicial decisions as their primary material, some are directed to exploring non-legal norms and social rules. Moreover, even in those contributions taking the state law as their object, the authors display a keen awareness of the power of social norms and social institutions; one of these deals specifically with the practices of the legal profession and the legal academy. Nearly all of the authors historicize their subject.

scholarly journals Introduction: Disability Studies in Education—Critical Conversations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Patty Douglas ◽  
Alan Santinele Martino
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Disability Studies In Education

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies brings together 19 articles by scholars and activists across broad academic disciplines and activist communities— from disability studies to inclusive education, early childhood education, decolonial studies, feminist anti-violence organizing, community health and more—as well as geopolitical locations.

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