16 research outputs found
Forests, Clearings, and the Spaces in Between: Reading Land Claims and the Actuality of Context in Ana Historic
âWomen are ground, women are nature,â writes British Columbian poet, novelist, and critic Daphne Marlatt in âSelf-Representation and Fictionanalysis,â a paper that maps and theorizes the work she does in her 1988 novel Ana Historic. Such claims by Marlatt have brought on accusations of essentialism from critics, who have read Marlattâs writings âas advancing a reductive search for origins.â While this article doesnât read her claim of an essential female connectivity with âgroundâ and ânatureâ as reductive, it does see in it, and in Ana Historicâs various references to indigeneity, an invitation to wrestle with the problematics of seeking self-identity with the land when dwelling on contested ground. This article, as it examines Ana Historicâs penetration and translation of British Columbiaâs south coastal space, argues that while the novel is critical of the provinceâs male narratives of resource extraction and settlement, it is itself actively engaged in an appropriative ordering of geography that posits that identity may be wrought from the space where forest and clearing meet
Unlovely Seeds: Human/Nature/Wilderness in Isabella Valancy Crawfordâs Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters
In 1872, Isabella Valancy Crawford answered a call printed in George-Ădouard Desbaratsâs weekly story paper the Hearthstone seeking: ânarratives, novels, sketches penned by vigorous Canadian hands, welling out from fresh and fertile Canadian brains, thrilling with the adventures by sea and land, of Canadian heroesâ (Early and Peterman 25). Crawfordâs winning submission to the Hearthstone's call, Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters, reaps the materials for its narrative from âinexhaustible fieldsâ of both âfact and fancyâ of a burgeoning Canadian national imagination (25). This paper is interested in exploring the specifically Canadian anxieties expressed by the novel, as this paper examines the manner in which the displaced occupants of the novelâs Howard lodge act as uncanny avatars of the natural world and of a wilderness as they resist (or, are denied) a place in the domestic space established by the ânational familyâ (167). In this paper, I argue that Crawfordâs Winona, with its attention to both domestic and natural spaces, provides a productive site through which to interrogate the vexed relationship of a newly Confederated country with its own ânative materialsâ (Johnson 7; Early and Peterman 10)
Barriers and facilitators to mobile phone use for people with aphasia
Purpose: Mobile phone use increases social participation. People with the communication disorder of aphasia are disadvantaged in the use of information and communication technology such as mobile phones and are reported to be more socially isolated than their peers. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health provides a framework to address the impact of environmental factors on individual participation. The aim of this preliminary study was to identify the barriers and facilitators to mobile phone use for people with aphasia. Method: A qualitative descriptive study involving two phases was conducted: (1) semi-structured interviews with 6 individuals with aphasia who owned or expressed a desire to own a mobile phone; (2) structured observations of key scenarios identified in the interviews of 3 participants who were sampled from the interview study. Results: Results identified 18 barriers and 9 facilitators to mobile phone use. Key barriers and facilitators were identified in the areas of design and features, written support and training, and communicative partners. Conclusion: Mobile phone use can be problematic for people with aphasia. Intervention needs to address the barriers and utilise the facilitators to mobile phone use for this population. Further research is required to inform policy and intervention programs to ensure that people with aphasia have access to this technology
Pour une meilleure compréhension des particularités de la violence familiale vécue par les femmes autochtones au Canada1
La violence conjugale en milieu autochtone prĂ©sente des particularitĂ©s qui demeurent trop souvent ignorĂ©es ou confondues avec celles dâautres groupes de femmes violentĂ©es au Canada. Cet article rapporte les rĂ©sultats dâune analyse de documents produits au cours des trois derniĂšres dĂ©cennies afin de dĂ©gager les principales caractĂ©ristiques de cette problĂ©matique. Cette analyse suggĂšre que la notion de violence familiale doit ĂȘtre privilĂ©giĂ©e Ă toute autre et que la violence conjugale dont les femmes autochtones sont victimes se distingue tant par ses formes, sa frĂ©quence que par sa gravitĂ©.Aspects that are unique to conjugal violence as experienced by Aboriginal women are often ignored and confounded with those of other groups of abused women in Canada. This article presents an analysis of documents from different sources of knowledge that have been produced over the last three decades in order to identify distinctive dimensions of this problem. The analysis points to the significance of the notion of family violence over other terms that are used to describe conjugal violence and to the different facets of Aboriginal womenâs experiences of violence with regards to prevalence, severity and forms of violence
Pour une meilleure compréhension des particularités de la violence familiale vécue par les femmes autochtones au Canada
La violence conjugale en milieu autochtone prĂ©sente des particularitĂ©s qui demeurent trop souvent ignorĂ©es ou confondues avec celles dâautres groupes de femmes violentĂ©es au Canada. Cet article rapporte les rĂ©sultats dâune analyse de documents produits au cours des trois derniĂšres dĂ©cennies afin de dĂ©gager les principales caractĂ©ristiques de cette problĂ©matique. Cette analyse suggĂšre que la notion de violence familiale doit ĂȘtre privilĂ©giĂ©e Ă toute autre et que la violence conjugale dont les femmes autochtones sont victimes se distingue tant par ses formes, sa frĂ©quence que par sa gravitĂ©.Aspects that are unique to conjugal violence as experienced by Aboriginal women are often ignored and confounded with those of other groups of abused women in Canada. This article presents an analysis of documents from different sources of knowledge that have been produced over the last three decades in order to identify distinctive dimensions of this problem. The analysis points to the significance of the notion of family violence over other terms that are used to describe conjugal violence and to the different facets of Aboriginal womenâs experiences of violence with regards to prevalence, severity and forms of violence