La gouvernance de l’eau et la planification relative aux bassins hydrographiques dans les communautés des Premières Nations de la Colombie-Britannique

Les processus de gouvernance des Premières Nations sont particulièrement complexes puisqu’ils mettent en jeu toute une série de lois et d’institutions fédérales ainsi que le plus vaste contexte de l’autonomie gouvernementale de première importance pour ces communautés. Cette recherche améliorera la compréhension globale des interactions entre les Premières Nations et le cadre actuel de la gouvernance de l’eau en Colombie-Britannique et des interactions complexes entretenues par les Premières Nations au sein de ce cadre. En outre, elle dégagera les perspectives des Premières Nations concernant les barrières et les priorités relatives à l’amélioration de la gouvernance de l’eau en Colombie-Britannique, à l’échelle provinciale, tout en mettant l’accent sur la gouvernance au niveau de bassins hydrographiques individuels. L’examen de ces dimensions illuminera les types de réactions nécessaires à la réalisation de réels progrès relativement à ces enjeux

Water Governance and Watershed Planning in British Columbia First Nations Communities

First Nations governance processes are particularly complex, with a suite of legislation and federal institutions, as well as the broader context of self-governance important for these communities. This research will contribute to a more complete understanding of the interactions between First Nations and the current water governance framework in British Columbia and the complex interactions First Nations have had within this framework. Further, it will highlight First Nations perspectives on barriers and priorities for enhanced water governance in British Columbia, at a provincial scale and with particular focus on watershed-level governance. Considering these dimensions will inform the types of responses that are required to make meaningful progress on these issues

Automatic motor cortex activation for natural as compared to awkward grips of a manipulable object

It has been suggested that, relative to natural objects, man-made object representations in the brain are more specifically defined by functional properties that reflect how an object is used and/or what it is used for (Warrington and Shallice 1984). We recorded 123-channel event-related potentials (ERP) in healthy participants during a mental rotation task involving a manipulable (hammer) and a non-manipulable (church) object. Both stimuli had standard and mirror-image versions rotated in four different orientations, resulting for the manipulable object in some natural and some awkward grips. Using spatial cluster analysis, time periods were determined during which the ERP maps differed between stimulus conditions. Specific maps appeared for natural versus awkward grips with the manipulable object at a very early stage (60-116ms) as well as during a later stage (180-280ms). Source estimations derived from the topographic data indicated that during the second time window the left motor cortex was significantly activated in the case of natural grips. We argue that the motor programs that are semantically associated with the object are automatically activated when it is presented in graspable orientation

States at the Limit: Tracing Contemporary State-Society Relations in the Borderlands of Southeastern Turkey

There is theoretical significance to studying states and nations at their metaphorical and literal ‘borders’. Focusing on the contested border region of southeastern Anatolia, this chapter highlights the tensions, contradictions, and recent shifts in state-society relations in the rural spaces of the southeast. As I detail, state delivery of irrigated agriculture represents a recent and significant chapter in the evolving state-society relations in this contested border area. With contemporary changes associated with the large-scale Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), state influence in rural areas and encounters with the state by rural populations are intensified. This occurs both horizontally, in terms of infiltrating new spaces and life practices, and also vertically, in terms of intensified interaction, such as that associated with the increased incorporation of rural residents into the Turkish economy or the increased dependence of villagers on state services. Reading the state ethnographically through the differentiated responses of villagers to recent irrigation-related changes, my aim is to analyze how the state is lived, in very real terms, in the fabric of everyday life, and to consider what this suggests for understanding state-society relations and the changing citizen subjectivities in the liminal spaces of Turkey’s southeast

A produção literária de escritoras contemporâneas que migraram do Caribe para o Canadá e os Estados Unidos

Theoretical considerations about the literary production of contemporary Caribbean woman writers who have migrated to Canada and the United States, with emphasis on the literary representation of hyphenated identities influenced by the intersectionalities of gender, ethnicity and social class and conditioned by cultural and historical specificities; the intertwining of history and memory; the connections between the diasporic process and literary expression, migration and the re-writing of home; the relevance of (self-) representation for a recovery of the individual and collective past.Considerações teóricas sobre a produção literária de escritoras contemporâneas que migraram do Caribe para o Canadá e os Estados Unidos, com ênfase nas representações literárias de identidades hifenizadas influenciadas pelos imbricamentos das questões de gênero, etnia e classe social e condicionadas pelas especificidades históricas e culturais; nos entrelaçamentos entre história e memória; nas conexões entre o processo diaspórico e a expressão literária, a migração e a reescritura do lar/pátria; na relevância da (auto-)representação para resgate do passado individual e coletivo

Desvelando afinidades através das diferenças: saberes e estéticas pós/ descoloniais

Sob o viés do feminismo multicultural, os conceitos de relacionalidade, de posicionamento dos discursos e das interseccionalidades de opressões são instrumentais para um melhor entendimento das múltiplas perspectivas que norteiam as práticas feministas atuais, ancoradas em saberes e estéticas pós e descoloniais. Nosso objetivo é colocar em pauta as práticas e estéticas políticas adotadas por mulheres de lugares geográficos e sociais bastante diversos. A produção artística que desenvolvem através de linguagens e narrativas variadas promove possibilidades de fomentar poéticas de resistência e descolonização de gênero que desafiam nossa compreensão tradicional sobre o estético, o político e o epistemológico

A produção literária de escritoras contemporâneas que migraram do caribe para o Canadá e os Estados UnidosÂ

Theoretical considerations about the literary production of contemporary Caribbean woman writers who have migrated to Canada and the United States, with emphasis on the literary representation of hyphenated identities influenced by the intersectionalities of gender, ethnicity and social class and conditioned by cultural and historical specificities; the intertwining of history and memory; the connections between the diasporic process and literary expression, migration and the re-writing of home; the relevance of (self-) representation for a recovery of the individual and collective past.Considerações teóricas sobre a produção literária de escritoras contemporâneas que migraram do Caribe para o Canadá e os Estados Unidos, com ênfase nas representaçõesliterárias de identidades hifenizadas influenciadas pelos imbricamentos das questões de gênero, etnia e classe social e condicionadas pelas especificidades históricas e culturais; nos entrelaçamentos entre história e memória; nas conexões entre o processo diaspórico e a expressão literária, a migração e a reescritura do lar/pátria; na relevância da (auto-)representação para resgate do passado individual e coletivo

Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics

This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once is to focus on diverse ontologies, meanings and values of water, and related contestations regarding its use, or its importance for livelihoods, identity, or place-making. Building on insights from science and technology studies, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, we engage broadly with the ways that water-related decision making is often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning—and to what effect. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance