“Four Guys and a Hole in the Floor”

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amie McLean
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
South Asian ◽  
White Male ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Trucking Industry ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Normative Status ◽  
National Mythologies

In this article, I map out the foundational context and procedural dynamics through which the normative status of the white male trucker is achieved and maintained in the British Columbia-based long haul trucking industry. I pay particular attention to the dehumanizing racism and masculine subordination directed toward South Asian truckers. Drawing on ethnographic data, I socially and historically situate these dynamics in relation to Canadian national mythologies, practices of nation building, and the neoliberal organization of trucking labor. To provide a richly detailed analysis of precisely how these narrative dynamics shape hierarchies of race and mobility in the industry, I examine a pervasive, racializing story among white truckers concerning workplace politics and practices of excretion.

scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-408
Author(s):  
SARAH ANSARI
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
First Century ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
South Asian Studies ◽  
University Of British Columbia

This special issue of the JRAS, guest-edited by Heidi Pauwels University of Washington and Anne Murphy University of British Columbia, brings together an extremely interesting set of articles that collectively explore vernacular perspectives on the emperor Aurangzeb/Alamgir drawn from outside the Persianate heartland of Mughal India. Its beginnings lay in an innovative interdisciplinary panel at the 2014 European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) held in Zurich in July 2014, which was organised by Heidi and Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Horstmann). Drawing on vernacular literature, as opposed to more mainstream Persian sources, their authors seek, in various ways, to complicate past and present-day assumptions about the nature of Aurangzeb's rule, how he interacted with his subjects, both Muslim and non-Muslim, and how his subjects in turn viewed him. Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707 as Alamgir) continues to divide opinion sharply, as reactions to Audrey Truschke's 2017 study Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King (Stanford University Press) have recently underlined. Aurangzeb remains a firm fixture in South Asia's twenty-first century ‘culture wars’. By drawing on less-commonly referenced vernacular sources, and hence offering access to less state-centric views of Aurangzeb, this special issue makes a welcome — and very opportune — case for more rounded and nuanced understandings of the emperor and the India in which he lived.

scholarly journals Stepping-up: ‘Urban’ and ‘queer’ cultural capital in LGBT and queer communities in Kansai, Japan

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-682
Author(s):  
Jane Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Hierarchical Nature ◽  
Queer Communities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Successful Transfer

This article argues that the Bourdieusian concepts of field, habitus and cultural capital open up theoretical space in which to analyse the hierarchical nature of LGBT and queer communities living in the Kansai region of Japan. Drawing upon data collected during ethnographic fieldwork, this article will show how ‘urban’ and ‘queer’ forms of LGBT-activist practice acted as a kind of cultural capital (in the form of symbolic capital) within the groups studied. The possession of and ability to engage in specific ways with these cultural capitals determined the respondents’ positions in the field. However, access is not universal, and is determined by context. Furthermore, the processes involved in a renegotiation of an individual’s position in the field can bring multiple habitus into contact, resulting not only in instances of successful transfer, but also tension and rupture. This article provides an original and timely contribution to sexuality and gender studies of Japan, by adding a detailed analysis of the ways in which cultural capital plays out in the field using ethnographic data.

scholarly journals Racial Differences in the Incidence of Colorectal Cancer

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukinder Virk ◽  
Sharlene Gill ◽  
Eric Yoshida ◽  
Simon Radley ◽  
Baljinder Salh
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Saturated Fat ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Colorectal Cancers ◽  
Canadian Population ◽  
Cancer Agency ◽  
Different Populations

BACKGROUND: Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second most common cause of cancer mortality in Western societies. Population screening has been introduced as a means to reducing its impact; however, there are little or no data on the incidence of this disorder in the different populations that comprise the Canadian population.OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively determine the incidence of colorectal cancer in selected racial populations of British Columbia.METHODS: The British Columbia Cancer Agency database was used to retrieve information on the incidence of cancers occurring during the years 1994 to 1998, with the British Columbia and national population censuses used to derive the age-specific and age-standardized incidence rates of colorectal cancers. Surnames were used to identify the origin of individuals from South Asian and Chinese backgrounds.RESULTS: For the Caucasian Canadian (C) population, the weighted age-standardized incidence rate ranged from 51.99 per 100,000 in 1995, to 57.68 per 100,000 in 1998. For Chinese Canadians (CC), the range was 39.2 per 100,000 in 1996, to 31.2 per 100,000 in 1998. For South Asian Canadians (SAC), the range was 7.40 per 100,000 in 1994, to 24.85 per 100,000 in 1998. The RR for the development of cancer were significantly different when comparing C versus CC (RR 1.9; 95% CI 1.58 to 2.31; P<0.001), C versus SAC (RR 7.1; 95% CI 4.20 to 12.0; P<0.0001) and CC versus SAC (RR 3.7; 95% CI 2.14 to 6.5; P<0.0001).CONCLUSIONS: Significant differences in the incidence of colorectal cancers have been defined for the first time in various racial subgroups in British Columbia. This finding may have important implications for both screening and understanding of the environmental factors influencing the biology of these lesions. Because SAC have among the highest incidence of atherosclerotic heart disease and diabetes, it suggests that unidentified genetic and/or environmental protective factors are capable of countering the traditionally recognized risk of high saturated fat intake for the development of colorectal cancer.

Equality, Democracy, Monogamy: Discourses of Canadian Nation Building in the 2010–2011 British Columbia Polygamy Reference

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Sweet
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Equality Rights ◽  
Women's Equality

Abstract This article examines how the 2010-2011 Reference re s 293, which considered the constitutionality of the polygamy prohibition, contributed to nation building discourses in Canada. A critical discourse analysis demonstrates that traditional views of monogamous marriage remain an important tenet of nation building in Canada. Discourses in the reference portrayed monogamous marriage as a central national institution and as a means of safeguarding women’s equality rights. These discourses, in turn, had racialized consequences for defining Canadian national identity.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the South Asian Pediatric Population of British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 1077-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vared Pinsk ◽  
Daniel A. Lemberg ◽  
Karan Grewal ◽  
Collin C. Barker ◽  
Richard A. Schreiber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
The South ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

scholarly journals “The deportation of the Hindus from British Columbia will be a blessing to all concerned”: Intersections of Class and Race in the British Honduras Scheme

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenny Reilly
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
South Asian Immigrants ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
British Honduras ◽  
Asian People

In the fall and winter of 1908, the Canadian Government developed the British Honduras Scheme, a plan to transport all South Asian immigrants from British Columbia to British Honduras. To justify this relocation, the Canadian Government argued that British Honduras needed cheap labour to maintain sugar plantations, railroads and that these immigrants could not survive in Canada because they faced unemployment, starvation, and they were not suited for harsh winters. Analyzing this scheme in the context of the way newspapers represented it at the time demonstrates how class and race intersected in popular understandings of South Asian people in Canada. Primary sources also reveal how South Asian immigrants resisted the scheme. They show that despite popular views of South Asians being hapless, hopeless, and inferior “hindoos” who could not survive in the northern hemisphere, the South Asian community recognized and advocated for their own interests, while resisting discrimination.

Recovering the past in Jodhaa Akbar: Masculinities, Femininities and Cultural Politics in Bombay Cinema

2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Diaspora

As the dominant media institution in South Asia, Bombay cinema's cultural production of narratives, images and spectacle plays a crucial role in the effort to consolidate and project definitions of the nation. Moreover, such images are exported to the South Asian diaspora worldwide as part of the processes associated with the globalized cultural product referred to as Bollywood. This discussion examines the production and reception of the 2008 film Jodhaa Akbar both as process and product of complex historical, cultural and political nation-building projects in which gender plays a central role.

scholarly journals Ethnic Variation in the Annual Rates of Adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Hospitalized Patients in Vancouver, British Columbia

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birinder K Mangat ◽  
Chad Evaschesen ◽  
Tim Lee ◽  
Eric M Yoshida ◽  
Baljinder Salh
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Asian Population ◽  
Annual Rate ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Extent Of Disease

BACKGROUND: There is currently little available information regarding the impact of ethnicity on the clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Migrating populations and changing demographics in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) provide a unique opportunity to examine the role of ethnicity in the prevalence, expression and complications of IBD.OBJECTIVES: To determine the demographics of IBD and its subtypes leading to hospitalization in the adult population of BC.METHODS: A one-year retrospective study was performed for all patients who presented acutely with IBD to Vancouver General Hospital from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006. Data regarding sex, age, ethnicity, IBD type and extent of disease, complications and management strategies were collected. Clinical data were confirmed by pathology and radiology reports.RESULTS: There were 186 cases of IBD comprising Crohn’s disease (CD) 56%, ulcerative colitis (UC) 43% and indeterminate colitis (1%) 1%. The annual rate of IBD cases warranting hospitalization in Caucasians was 12.9 per 100,000 persons (7.9 per 100,000 persons for CD and 5.0 per 100,000 persons for UC). This was in contrast to the annual rate of IBD in South Asians at 7.7 per 100,000 persons (1.0 per 100,000 persons for CD and 6.8 per 100,000 persons for UC) and in Pacific Asians at 2.1 per 100,000 persons (1.3 per 100,000 persons for CD, 0.8 per 100,000 persons for UC). The male to female ratio was higher in South Asians and Pacific Asians than in Caucasians. The extent of disease was significantly different across racial groups, as was the rate of complications.CONCLUSIONS: These early results suggest that there are ethnic disparities in the annual rates of IBD warranting hospitalization in the adult population of BC. There was a significantly higher rate of CD in the Caucasian population than in South Asian and Pacific Asian populations. The South Asian population had a higher rate of UC, with an increased rate of complications and male predominance. Interestingly, the rate of CD and UC was lowest in the Pacific Asian population. These racial differences – which were statistically significant – suggest a role for ethnodiversity and environmental changes in the prevalence of IBD in Vancouver.

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