SOCIABILITY The University of Manitoba Department of Sociology Newsletter

SOCIABILITY
The University of Manitoba Department of Sociology Newsletter
Past Events
September 6: Graduate & Honours
Orientation
September 27 and October 4th:
Feeding and Growing Your Academic
Career: Applying for Funding
November 15: The CV Doctor is In
November 27: Public Lecture and
Discussion with Leo Panitch.
"Understanding American Empire: The
Canadian Model for Governing Global
Capitalism." 7 PM, Hotel Fort Garry,
Club Room (lower level)
2014 Winter Grad Committee Events
HEAD NOTES
This has been a year of change in our
Department.
Elizabeth
Comack
completed her term as Department Head
on December 31, 2012. After five years
of strong and creative leadership, the
Department faced the reality that,
because of heavy research commitments,
those prepared to take up the Headship
were not immediately available to do so.
Faculty members collectively worked to
develop a strategy that would ensure the
important administrative support would
be intact and so Rick Linden and I
agreed to take turns in the role of Acting
Head until the next Head would take up
the position on July 1, 2014. The
Headship Search Committee will get
underway in the New Year. Taking on
the responsibility of Acting
Head for six months after
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many years away from this position
quickly reminded me of how important
this work is and how effective Elizabeth
had been in attending to the details,
championing our cause, and supporting
the self-reflexive renewal the Department
achieved under her supportive leadership.
There have been changes in our faculty
complement this year. Chris Powell has
left us to take up a position at Ryerson
University. We thank him for his
important
contributions
to
our
Department and wish him well on the
next phase of his career. After forty-four
years of service, Wayne Taylor has
retired from the University. We thank
him for his significant contribution to the
development and the direction of
Research Ethics Boards for the university
community and wish him the best in his
retirement. Mary-Anne Kandrack, who
has been a very successful Sociology
sessional instructor for several years, has
now secured a continuing position at the
rank of Instructor II. We also welcome
(see next page) Annette Desmarais who
has been awarded a Canada Research
Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice,
and Food Sovereignty. We are delighted
to have her join us. Mara Fridell has
also joined the Department and adds to
our strength in Theory and Global
Sociology. Lori Wilkinson is returning
from her Associate Dean of Arts position
to take up a major grant from Citizenship
and Immigration Canada, leading a team
of academics and community-based
organizations in the examination of the
initial
settlement
experiences
of
immigrants in Canada. We are glad to
CONTENTS
2013
have her back in the Department.
The
Department
underwent
an
undergraduate program review this past
year. Russell Smandych guided the
review process and ensured that the
external
reviewers
—
Terry
Wotherspoon (Saskatchewan), Patrizia
Albanese (Ryerson), and Karen Busby
(UM Law) — received all the information
and support they needed to conduct this
important undertaking. Their report
provided us with a very positive review
of our program and offered many
thoughtful suggestions on how to
enhance what they found to be a very
healthy undergraduate program. These
recommendations are now under review
in the Department.
Also significant this fall is the launching
of the new Criminology Honours
Program. Interest in this program is high
among students and we are excited to
have this important addition to our
Criminology curriculum.
So the level of activity associated with
teaching and research in the Department
continues unabated and the infusion of
new strengths and directions will
contribute to our positive collective
enterprise.
• Head’s Message, p. 1
• New Faculty Members:
Annette
Desmarais and Mara Fridell,
p. 2
• Practicing Permaculture, p. 2
• Meet the Graduate Students:
Rachell Dolynchuk , p.3
Rod Kueneman,
Acting Head
• Student Accomplishments,
p. 3
• Keeping Tabs on Our
Graduates, p. 4
• Letter to the Sociology
Department Head, p. 5
• Teaching Awards, p. 5
• Faculty Activities, pp. 5-11
New Sociology Faculty:
Annette Desmarais
Equality, Development, Peace and Diversity.
Toronto: Ianna Publications.
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2012. “Food
Sovereignty: A Radical Alternative for
Sustainable Food Systems.” In Mustafa
Koc, Jennifer Sumner and Tony Winson
(Eds.), Critical Perspectives in Food Studies
Studies.
Toronto: Oxford University Press.
New Sociology Faculty:
Mara Fridell
In July 2013 Annette Aurélie Desmarais
joined the Department of Sociology at
the University of Manitoba where she
will pursue research and teaching on
human rights, social justice and food
sovereignty. Annette is the author of La
Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power
of Peasants (2007), which has been
published in French, Spanish, Korean,
Italian and Portuguese. She also co-edited
Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature
and Community (2010) and Food Sovereignty
in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food
Systems (2011). Prior to obtaining her
doctorate in geography, Annette was a
small-scale cattle and grain farmer in
Canada for fourteen years. She also
worked as technical support to La Via
Campesina for a decade and continues to
conduct participatory research with the
movement.
Selected Recent Publications
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie and Jim
Handy. (Accepted). “Food Sovereignty,
Food
Security:
Markets
and
Dispossession.” In Daniel Lee Kleinman,
Karen A. Cloud-Hansen and Jo
Handelsman (Eds.), Controversies in Science
and T
Technology, Vol. 4. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2013. A Vía
Campesina: Globalização e o poder do
campesinato. Portuguese translation of
La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the
Power of Peasants. Editora UNESP, Sao
Paulo University, Presidente Prudente
Campus.
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. 2013. “The
Vía Campesina: Women on the Frontiers
of Food Sovereignty.” In Angela Miles
(Ed.), Women in a Globalizing World:
Margunn Bjornholt and Alisa McKary
(Eds.), Counting on Marilyn Waring
Waring. Toronto:
Demeter Press.
Hudson, Ian, Mark Hudson and Mara
Fridell. 2013. Fair Trade, Sustainability, and
Social Change.. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Fridell, M., I. Hudson, and M. Hudson.
2008. “With Friends Like These…: The
Corporate Response to Fair Trade Coffee.”
Review of Radical Political Economics 40 (1).
Practicing
Permaculture
Mara Fridell is a political sociologist and
political economist specializing in
comparative research and theory from a
historical-materialist perspective. She
earned her Ph.D. at the Department of
Sociology at the University of Oregon,
prior to which she earned an MA in
Sociology from the University of New
Mexico while simultaneously training in
complex ecology through the National
Science Foundation. Since moving to
Manitoba, she has gained experience in
participatory and collaborative research
projects, having worked in partnership
with Manitoba Community Economic
Development, gender equity, and First
Nations organizations. She has also
worked on provincial and comparative
education policy. Mara’s current research
program investigates factors enabling and
constraining social democratic politics in
Scandinavia in comparison with the
Anglosphere, comparative immigration
policy in Canada and Sweden, elite-driven
social movements and elite theory, and
Fair Trade, Communit
Community Economic
Development, public provisioning and
complementary
alternative-economy
social movements.
Selected Recent Publications
Fridell, M. and L. Turnbull. (forthcoming).
“Resilient Feminism: Social Movement
Strategy in a Conservative Regnum.” In
In mid-July, our department hosted 20
students as they embarked on a twoweek long intensive Summer Institute
called “Building a Community
Commons: Urban Permaculture in
Practice.” This course provided an
opportunity to apply the main ideas
from classes such as Ecology and
Society (SOC 3838) and Social and
Community Reconstruction (SOC
3840) currently offered in the
Department. We surveyed some of the
most
pressing
contemporary
environmental problems, and with the
help of our non-profit grassroots
partner organization, Sustainable
South
Osborne
Community
Cooperative, the students worked on a
variety of community projects and
engaged with a number of local
experts, activists and government
representatives.
Students from Building A Community
Commons: Urban Permaculture in Practice,
along with Instructor Evan Bowness,
guest lecturer and course participant Dr.
Rod Kueneman and teaching assistant
Sarah Carson.
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Meet the Graduate Students:
An Interview with
Rachell Dolynchuk
Q: How did the courses you took help you in
attempting to achieve the goals that you set for
yourself in your program?
A: I was among those who delighted in
Quantitative Social Analysis during my
undergraduate coursework. Because of
that, I made it my goal to advance my
quantitative analysis skills while working
on my graduate degree. When I was
finally interviewing for jobs, I had so
many examples to draw from that
showed I had experience cleaning and
analyzing large amounts of data. Refuse
to downplay the skills and work
experience you acquire during your time
as a student.
Q: What was your MA project about, and how
did you go about finding a faculty advisor to
work with?
Rachell, a recent graduate of the M.A. program,
speaks about her experience at the UM Sociology
Department.
Q: What was your experience like in the
Master’s program?
A: I found the work rewarding and
challenging. It was so gratifying to apply
what I was learning in my coursework to
what I was doing as a research assistant.
I was able to see a research project
through from its brainstorming stage to
finally presenting our findings at
academic conferences. Along the way I
was able to learn so much from my
professor, my peers and the people who
graciously participated in our research.
“
I was able to see a research
project
through
from
its
brainstorming stage to finally
presenting our findings at
academic conferences. Along the
way I was able to learn so much
from my professor, my peers and
the people who graciously
participated in our research..”
A:
I had known for some time that I
wanted to learn as much as I could from
my advisor Lori Wilkinson during my
limited time as a graduate student. I
chose my advisor first, and then chose a
topic and a data source that would be a
good fit for both of us. My project
included topics like immigration, aging
and mental health. I gained experience
working with a large Statistics Canada
dataset, which prepared me in many ways
for the work I am doing now.
Q: Are you planning to go on and do a Ph.D.?
If so, how well do you think the MA program at
the UM has prepared you for Ph.D. studies?
A: I am not planning to go on and do a
Ph.D. at this time, however it’s not
because I feel ill-prepared. If I decide to
work towards a Ph.D., I’ll do so with
confidence in my training.
Q: Two things that can make or break a
student’s experience are the student culture in the
department and peer support. What was your
experience with these during your time in the
Sociology Department as an undergraduate and
graduate student?
A: A large part of writing a thesis
involves sitting alone in front of a
computer, so it’s easy to neglect
becoming
involved
in
university
communities. I often felt that I didn’t
have enough time for other things in my
life, and this was incorrect. When my
personal life began affecting my ability to
get my work done (as it always does—
count on that), the fact that I had
somewhat isolated myself made it more
difficult for me to reach out to those who
could help me. While there is a
temptation to view our peers as
competitors for awards, the top grade,
research assistant positions, etc., I did not
feel this was the overarching attitude in
our department. In the end I learned that
it was worthwhile to lighten up a little bit
and that we were all supporting each
other and going through similar struggles.
I made some enduring friendships, and
the difficulties and laughter that I shared
with people in my cohort are the
memories that will last long after my
diploma is pushed to the back of the
bookshelf.
Q: What do you see yourself doing with your
future career as a sociologist?
A: Though I have only been employed in
my current position for six months, I can
already see the value that someone with a
background in sociology can bring to an
environment where there are people
from many different educational
disciplines working as a team. I have
excellent
analytical
skills,
an
understanding of research ethics, and a
keen sense of social justice. I look
forward to becoming more involved in
my community and in volunteer
positions as well.
“ the difficulties and laughter that
I shared with people in my cohort
are the memories that will last
long after my diploma is pushed
to the back of the bookshelf.”
Q: What words of wisdom might you have for
students considering graduate work in Sociology?
A: Karl was not joking—the work you
do in graduate school can be alienating,
especially when close friends and family
members do not understand or support
your choice to pursue graduate work.
Do not fail to participate in activity that
nourishes your sociological imagination,
whether that’s reading poetry for the joy
of it, gardening, protesting or paintball.
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Student
Accomplishments
Scott McCulloch was awarded a
Manitoba Graduate Scholarship
Shauna Zinnick received the Honours
Book Award
Zoë St. Aubin received the Faculty of
Arts J G. Fletcher Award and the
Garfield Weston Award for Northern
Research.
2012-13 HONOURS THESES
The Practicum in Criminological and
Sociological Research was again
offered in 2012-13 and coordinated by
Mary-Anne Kandrack. The students
pictured
above
gained
valuable
experience in the research process and
successfully completed projects with the
RCMP D Division, NEEDS, Inc., John
Howard and Elizabeth Fry Societies,
Manitoba Justice, and Manitoba Housing.
RECENT AWARDS
Catherine Taylor was awarded a
SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Canada Masters Graduate Scholarship.
Daniel Levin received the Headship
Fund Award
Faculty of Arts Graduate Award and the
Carolynne Boivin Bursary.
Janine Bramadat received the Faculty
of Graduate Studies Special Award.
Jenna Jones was awarded a Manitoba
Graduate Scholarship.
Jill Bucklaschuk received a Manitoba
Graduate Scholarship, the Faculty of Arts
J G. Fletcher Award, the Canadian
Japanese Mennonite Scholarship, and the
Carla Thorkalson Graduate Fellowship.
Jon Bilan. “As Real as it Gets; An
Analysis of Brand Management Strategies
and Cultural Mythologies of the Ultimate
Fighting Championship (UFC)” (D.
Spencer, advisor)
Ryan Catte. “‘The Thin Blue Line,’
Memorialisation, and a Closed Door: An
Investigation of the Winnipeg Police
Museum” (D. Spencer, advisor)
Tracey Corner. “The Open Method of
Coordination, Civic Literacy and Europe
2020: Improving the Quality of Life of
European Citizens” (M. Hudson,
advisor)
Oluwatosin Daodu. “Aboriginal Youth
Gangs in Manitoba: Prevention and
Evaluation” (R. Smandych, advisor)
James Gacek. “‘What is the Truth?’:
Assessing the Adequacy of Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions for the
Reconstruction of Post-Conflict
Societies” (A. Woolford, advisor)
Jill Patterson. “Is Canada Becoming
More Punitive?: A Discourse Analysis of
the Safe Streets and Communities Act”
(D. Spencer, advisor)
Joseph Asomah received the Sociology
Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship.
Matthew Sanscartier. “Food Fit for
Royalty: Corporate Cohesion, Power, and
the Decline of Canadian Food
Sovereignty” (M. Hudson, advisor)
Mariah Baldwin received the Carolynne
Boivin Bursary.
2012 M.A. THESES
Natalia Ilyniak received a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada
Masters Graduate Scholarship.
Palak Dhiman received a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada
Masters Graduate Scholarship.
Ryan Coulling received a Faculty of
Arts Graduate Award.
Evan Bowness (M.A.) “Racialized
Policing in Winnipeg: A Critical
Discourse Analysis of Online
Comments” (E. Comack, advisor)
Matthew Giesbrecht (M.A.) “Canadian
Corporate Criminal Liability in
Workplace Fatalities: Evaluating Bill C45” (R. Linden, advisor)
Mark Hanly (M.A.) “Nodal Governance
and Security Provision: The University
of Manitoba Security Service” (R. Linden,
advisor)
Carly Johnston (M.A.) “Government as
Learnaucracy: Learning and
Performance in a Canadian Public Sector
Organization” (R. Linden, advisor)
Brianne Messina (M.A.) “Gender and
Social Policy: An Examination of Four
Welfare States” (G. Olsen, advisor)
Charles Mulvenna (M.A.) “Orienting
Terrorism: Representations of Terrorism
in ‘the West’” (C. Powell, advisor)
Ashley Pearson (M.A.) “An Evaluation
of Winnipeg's Electronic Monitoring
Pilot Project for Youth Auto Theft
Offenders” (R. Linden, advisor)
Nicholas Sasaki (M.A.) “An Evaluation
of Food Security in Manitoba: An Issue
of Sustainable Supply” (R. Kueneman,
advisor)
Where are they now?
Keeping tabs on our
graduates
Rana Bokhari is now the leader of the
Liberal Party of Manitoba
Evan Bowness is currently teaching in
the UM Sociology Department.
Matthew Giesbrecht is a Consumer
Services Officer at the Consumer
Protection Office with the Government
of Manitoba.
Brianne Goertzen (Messina) is now
working as the Campaigns Coordinator
of the Canadian Federation of Students,
Manitoba
Carly Johnston is the Executive
Director for Disability Programs and
Early Learning and Child Care, Manitoba
Family Services and Labour (Province of
Manitoba)
Charles Mulvenna is now a Broker at
Colliers International, specializing in
Retail Leasing and Development.
Carly Sacco works for Manitoba Liquor
& Lotteries as a Research Analyst.
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Letter to the Sociology
Department Head
I am writing in order to give a sincere
thanks to the Sociology program at
the University of Manitoba. I was
enrolled in the undergraduate honours
program last year from September
2010 to April 2011. I have since
moved to Ottawa to obtain my
Masters of Sociology degree at
Carleton University. My first year in
graduate school has been very
successful and I know I owe a lot of
thanks to the hard working people
who each played a role in my
preparation for graduate school.
Although my courses this year were
intense and competitive, I found the
year to be enjoyable and stress-free
due to the skills I had already acquired
during my honours year.
The honours sociology program at the
University of Manitoba is truly a
unique experience that prepares a
student for graduate work and
academic life, not just in terms of
skills for study but also coping and
stress mechanisms and time
management. I firmly believe that my
current success has much to do with
the wonderful experience I had in the
honours program. Specifically I must
thank the outstanding professors who
assisted in my education: Gregg
Olsen, Chris Powell, and Mark
Hudson. I also owe gratitude to the
wonderful support staff for all of their
assistance in applications and course
registrations.
Awards and
Recognition
Donna Alexiuk, Dianne Bulback, and
Margaret Currie received the Team
Contribution Award, Faculty of Arts.
Lance Roberts was the recipient of the
Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award
for Excellence in Teaching.
Rick Linden received the Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Christopher Fries received the Faculty
Access Award from Student Affairs.
Brym, R. J., L. W. Roberts, J. Lie, S.
Rytina. (2012). Sociology: Your Compass for a
New World. Fourth Canadian Edition.
Toronto: Nelson.
Faculty Activities
2012 BOOKS
Winterdyk, J. & R. Smandych, eds.
(2012). Youth at Risk and Youth Justice: A
Canadian Overview. Toronto: Oxford
University Press.
Comack, E. (2012). Racialized Policing:
Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police.
(Foreword by Donald E. Worme, Q.C.,
I.P.C.). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
In short; please do not change a thing.
The program is wonderful, and I hope
more universities adopt the same
system of preparation for success.
With gratitude,
Tiffany Hall
Linden, R. (2012). Criminology: A
Canadian Perspective. Seventh Edition.
Toronto: Nelson.
Spencer, D., K. Walby, & A. Hunt, eds.
(2012). Emotions Matter: A Relational
Approach to Emotions. Toronto: University
of Toronto Press.
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Comack, E. “Feminism and
Criminology.” In R. Linden (ed.),
Criminology: A Canadian Perspective (7th
edition). Toronto: Nelson.
Driedger, L. “Human Rights Types:
Separatist to Engaged Variations.” Oxford
Forum on Public Policy 2-20.
Bouma, G., R. Ling & L. Wilkinson.
(2012). The Research Process. Second
Canadian Edition. Don Mills, ON:
Oxford University Press.
2012 JOURNAL ARTICLES &
BOOK CHAPTERS
Aoun, S., B. Bentley, L.M., Funk, C.
Toye, G. Grande & K. Stajduhar. “A 10year literature review of family caregiving
for motor neurone disease: moving from
caregiver burden studies to palliative care
interventions.” Palliative Medicine.
Driedger, L. “Where is Home?
Reconstruction of Immigrant Oases.” In
M Baffoe (Ed.), Strangers in New
Homelands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing
Driedger, L. “The Stranger: Finding
New Homes, Networks, Identities.” In
M. Baffoe (Ed.), Strangers in New
Homelands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing.
Edgerton, J.D., L.W. Roberts, & T.
Peters. “Disparities in Academic
Achievement: Assessing the role of
habitus and practice” Social Indicators
Research.
Bookman. S. “Branded
Cosmopolitanisms: ‘Global’ Coffee
Brands and the Co-creation of
‘Cosmopolitan Cool.’” Cultural Sociology.
Friendly, M., & S. Prentice. “Provision,
Policy and Politics in Early Childhood
Education and Care in Canada.” In N.
Howe & L. Prochner (Eds.), Recent
Perspectives in Early Childhood Education and
Care in Canada. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press.
Bookman, S. “Feeling Cosmopolitan:
Experiential Brands and Urban
Cosmopolitan Sensibilities.” In D.
Spencer, K. Walby and A. Hunt (Eds.),
Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to
Emotions. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
Fries, C. J. “Ethnicity and the Use of
“Accepted” and “Rejected”
Complementary/Alternative Medical
Therapies in Canada: Evidence from the
Canadian Community Health Survey”, In
J. J. Kronenfeld (ed.). Research in the
Sociology of Health Care (30).
Brownlee, J. & R. Kueneman.
“Transitioning From Endgame to
Sustainability: Revisiting the Commons
Trusts Model.” Organization &
Environment 25 (1).
Funk, L.M. “Shared Responsibility?
Family caregivers and home care nurses.”
Canadian Nurse 108 (6).
Hogeveen, B. and A. Woolford.
“Contemporary Critical Criminology in
English Canada.” In Rick Linden (ed.),
Criminology: A Canadian Perspective (7th
edition). Toronto: Nelson.
Chappell, N., & L.M. Funk. “Filial
responsibility: does it matter for
caregiving behaviours?” Ageing and Society
32(7).
Funk, L.M., K.I. Stajduhar, R. Cohen,
D. Heyland & A. Williams. “Legitimizing
and Rationalizing in Talk about
Satisfaction with Formal Health Care
among Bereaved Family Members.”
Sociology of Health and Illness 34 (7).
Hébert, Y., L. Wilkinson & M. Ali.
“Second Generation Youth and
Mobilities of Mind, Body and Boundary.”
In Y. Hébert & A. Abdi (Eds.), Critical
Perspectives of International Education.
Rotterdam & Taipei: Sense Publishers.
Hudson, M., I. Hudson, I., & J.D.
Edgerton. “Political Consumerism in
Context: An experiment on status and
information in ethical consumption
decisions.” American Journal of Economics
and Sociology.
Kueneman, R. “The Origins and Role
of Law in Society.” In R. Linden (Ed.),
Criminology: A Canadian Perspective (7th
edition). Toronto: Nelson.
Lauer, S., L. Wilkinson, M. Chung, R.
Sin & A. Ka Ta Tsang. “Immigrant
Youth and Employment: Lessons
Learned from the analysis of LSIC and
82 lived stories” Journal of International
Migration and Integration 13(1).
Lovell, B. L., J. Daneshnia, & C.J. Fries.
“Alternative and Complementary
Medicine.” In S. Loue and M. Sajatovic
(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health.
New York: Springer.
Peter, T., & C. Taylor. “‘Homophobia
High’: Sexual and Gender Minority
Youth in Canadian Schools.” In L.
Samuelson & W. Antony (Eds.), Power &
Resistance: Critical thinking about Canadian
social issues. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Shum, M., E. Comack, T. Stuart, R.
Ayre, S. Perron, R. Taki, & T. Kosatsky.
“Bed Bugs and Public Health: New
Approaches for an Old Scourge”
Canadian Journal of Public Health 103
(6).
Smandych, R. “From ‘Misguided
Children’ to ‘Criminal Youth’: Exploring
Historical and Contemporary Trends in
Canadian Youth Justice.” In J. Winterdyk
and R. Smandych (Eds.) Youth at Risk
and Youth Justice: A Canadian Overview.
Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Spencer, D. “Narratives of Despair and
Loss: Pain, Injury and Masculinity in the
Sport of Mixed Martial Arts.” Qualitative
Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 4(1).
Ursel, J. & L. Dean. “Oskinikiskwewak
Natomost – Young women seeking
safety.” In H. Berman and Y. Jiwani,
(Eds.), Faces of Violence in the Lives of Girls.
London, Ontario: Althouse Press.
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Ursel, J. “Domestic Violence and
Problem Solving Courts.” In K. Ismali, J.
Sprott, and K. Varma (Eds.), Canadian
Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary
Reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press
Walby, K, D. Spencer & A. Hunt.
(2012). “Introduction.” In D. Spencer, K.
Walby, and A. Hunt (eds.), Emotions
Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Walby, K., & D. Spencer. “Shiri (A mass
spectrometer) and the Emotional Climate
of an Earth Sciences Department.” In D.
Spencer, K. Walby and A. Hunt (Eds.),
Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to
Emotions. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
Warner, M., & S. Prentice. “Regional
Economic Development and Child Care:
Toward Social Rights.” Journal of Urban
Affairs
Waskiewich, S., L.M. Funk & Stajduhar,
K.I. “End of Life in Residential Care
from the Perspective of Care Aides.”
Canadian Journal on Aging 31(4).
Wei, Y., R. Clifton, and L. Roberts.
“School Resources and the Academic
Achievement of Canadian Students.”
Alberta Journal of Educational Research. 57
(4).
Wilkinson, L., Y. Hébert & M. Ali.
“Examining Youth’s Perceptions of
Safety, Fear, Inclusion and Exclusion in a
Canadian City.” In C. Bassani (Ed.),
Adolescent Behavior. Hauppauge NY: Nova
Science Publishers.
Woolford, A. & A. Nelund. “Adult
Restorative Justice in Canada.” J.
Winterdyk and M. Weinrath (Eds.), Adult
Corrections in Canada: A Comprehensive
Overview. Whitby, Ontario: deSitter
Publishing.
2012 RESEARCH REPORTS
& OTHER FORMS OF
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Comack, E. “Reproducing Order: The
Policing of Aboriginal Peoples.” Canadian
Dimension 46 (3) (May/June).
Comack, E. “Racialized Policing
Workshop” Invited presenter and
facilitator at the Justice in a Post Bill C10 World: A Public Learning/Forum
Event sponsored by The Manitoba
Research Alliance and The John Howard
Society of Manitoba, May 10.
Bookman, S. & A. Woolford. “Policing
(by) the Urban Brand: Governing
Security in Winnipeg’s Exchange
District.” Presented by S. Bookman at
the Securing Justice Conference,
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, May.
Funk,
L.
“Manitoba
Caregiver
Consultation Final Report: July 2012.”
Prepared for the Seniors and Healthy
Aging Secretariat, Ministry of Healthy
Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs.
Bookman, S. “Urban Brands, Culture
and Social Division: Creativity, Tension
and Differentiation among Middle Class
Consumers.” Invited paper presented to
Symbolic Power and Urban Inequality:
Taking Bourdieu to Town Research
Seminar. Hosted by the York European
Centre for Cultural Exploration and the
Centre for Urban Research, York
University, York, UK.
Hudson, M. “The Weight of the One
Percent: Environmental costs of
inequality.” CCPA Monitor. Ottawa:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Hudson, M., I. Hudson, & J. Edgerton.
“Fostering
Community
Economic
Development with Ethical Consumption:
An Experiment Using Fair Trade
Coffee.” Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives, Manitoba Office.
Woolford, A. “Genocidal Distortion.”
Winnipeg Free Press, November 8.
Woolford, A. “Narrow Definition.”
Winnipeg Free Press, November 30.
Woolford, A., J. Benvenuto & A.
Hinton. “Genocide Was at Work Here.”
Winnipeg Free Press, October 13.
2012 CONFERENCE PAPERS
& PRESENTATIONS
Albas D. & C. Albas. “Aces and
Bombers: In Student Life and Everyday
Life”
Presented at the University of
North Dakota, College of Arts and
Sciences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series,
Grand Forks, ND, February
Albas D. & C. Albas. “Proxemics and
Motives”, Presented at The Couch-Stone
Symposium, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, April 20-22.
Albas D. & C. Albas. “University
Examinations and Family Life: An
Exercise in Cooperation and Conflict”
Presented at The European Society for
the Study of Symbolic Interaction,
Erasmus
University,
Rotterdam
Netherlands, July 4-6
Comack, E. “Racialized Policing:
Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the
Police” Mauro Centre for Peace and
Justice Studies, University of Manitoba,
October 19.
Comack, E. “Racialized Policing:
Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the
Police.” Invited presentation at the
University of Winnipeg Inner-City and
Urban Studies Program, April 19.
Comack, E. “Racialized Policing” Big
Ideas Series, Thin Air: Winnipeg
International Writers Festival, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, September 25.
Driedger, L. “Human Rights Types:
Separatist
to
Engaged
Religious
Variations.” Paper read at the Oxford
Round Table, Oxford University,
England, August 5-9, 2012.
Driedger, L. “Mennonites and Human
Rights: Sorting Individual, Group,
National, Religious Rights.” Paper
presented at the “Mennonites and
Human Rights” Conference held at the
University of Winnipeg, October 2012.
Driedger, L. “Mennonites: From
Separatist to Engaged Rights.” Paper
read at the “Mennonites and Human
Rights” conference, held at the
University of Winnipeg, October 18-20,
2012.
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Fries, C. J. “Using Bourdieu’s Relational
Sociology to Theorize Intersectional
Health Inequalities” poster presented to
The Canadian Society for the Sociology
of Health, Ottawa, Ontario, October 25 27.
Peter, T. “You can’t break… when you
are already broken:” A university-based
study of prevalence and risk/protective
factors for suicidality among sexual
minority youth. Summit on LGBTQ
youth suicide, Toronto, May.
Funk, L., & K. Kobayashi. “Living
Apart Together (LAT) Relationships: a
new emerging family form in Canada.”
Canadian
Sociological
Association
Annual Conference, Waterloo, Ontario.
Powell, C. “Building the Non-Genocidal
Society: A Relational and Bottom-Up
Perspective”, International Network of
Genocide Scholars Third Annual
Conference on Genocide, San Francisco,
June.
Funk, L.M. “Meaning-making and
managing difficult feelings: death, dying
and the provision of front-line end of life
care in residential settings.” Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Association on
Gerontology, Vancouver, BC.
Funk, L.M. “The Manitoba Caregiver
Recognition Act: implementation and
evaluation through the Caregiver Policy
Lens.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Association on Gerontology, Vancouver,
BC.
Hemingway, D., & L. M. Funk. “Using
the Caregiver Toolkit to develop
curriculum and international policy
analysis.” Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Association on Gerontology,
Vancouver.
Hudson, I., M. Hudson, & J.D.
Edgerton. “Do the Right Thing: An
Experiment on the Willingness to Pay for
Community Economic Development.”
Paper presented at the annual conference
of the Canadian Economics Association,
June, Calgary.
Langford, R., S. Prentice, and P.
Albanese. “Early Childhood Education
Professionalism as an Innovation in
Advocacy:
Critical
Exploration.”
Presented at International Innovations in
ECEC: A Canadian Forum on Early
Childhood Frameworks. Victoria, BC.
Langford, R., S. Prentice, P. Albanese,
B. Summers, B. Messina, B. Richardson.
“Keeping Up With Changing Times -A
Content Analysis of Child Care Social
Movement
Organizations:
2008
Discursive Resources in Alberta,
Manitoba, Ontario and at the Federal
Level.”
Presented
at
Canadian
Sociological
Association
Meeting,
Waterloo, June.
Powell,
C.
“Contradiction
and
Interdependency:
Epistemological
Differences Between Elias and Marx”,
Canadian Sociological Association 2012
Annual Congress, Waterloo.
Powell, C. “Residential Schools in the
Human Rights Context” (panelist),
Canadian Political Science Students’
Association
National
Conference,
Winnipeg, 21 January.
Powell, C. “Towards Positive Critique:
Notes on Making Sociology Useful for
Revolutionary Praxis”, Faultlines of
Revolution! Fourth Annual Conference
in Critical Social Research, Critical Social
Research
Collaborative,
Carleton
University, Ottawa, 4 May.
Powell, C. and J. Peristerakis. “Beyond
Residential Schools: A Relational
Account of Genocide in Canada.”
Colonial Genocide and Indigenous
North America, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, 21 September.
Roberts, L. Keynote presentation
“Mission-Relevant
School
Facility
Renewal” Manitoba Association of
School Superintendents Sustainability:
Education for Action conference,
November, Winnipeg.
Roberts, L. Keynote presentation
“Teaching Digital Natives” at Inspired
Teaching
Symposium,
Fostering
Conversations about Teaching Sociology
in Canada”, Toronto, Sponsored by
Nelson Publishing.
Smandych, R. “Settler Colonialism and
its Legacies in Australia and Western
Canada.”
Paper
presented
at
International Conference on Legal
Histories of the British Empire,
Singapore, July 4-7.
Smandych, R. “British Law and
Colonial Legal Regimes in Australia and
Western Canada.” Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Australian
Historical Association, Adelaide, July.
Taylor, C. & T. Peter “Six lessons from
Canada’s youth on homophobia,
biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian
schools.” Teen Services Network,
Winnipeg, Feb.
Ursel, J. & L. DeRiviere. “The Healing
Journey Labour Market Study: Some
Preliminary Findings.” The Economic
Costs of Domestic Violence Symposium.
Jointly hosted by the Status of Women
and Justice Canada, Ottawa, Feb.
Ursel, J. “The Costs of Abuse and the
Promise of Intervention.” RESOLVE
Research Day, Regina, Oct.
Ursel, J. & M. Krygier. “The Processing
of child Sexual Abuse Cases in the
Winnipeg Family Violence Court.”
National Research Day, Canadian
Alliance of Family Violence Research
Centres, Vancouver Nov. 7.
Ursel, J. “The Manitoba Domestic
Violence Death Review Committee:
Process and Participation.” Canadian
Sociological
Association
meetings,
Waterloo University, June 1.
Ursel, J. “The Winnipeg Family Violence
Court: Lessons Learned and Ongoing
Challenges.”
Canadian
Sociological
Association
meetings,
Waterloo
University, June 2.
Wilkinson, L. “Finding a Job in the
Academy” invited panelist for Graduate
Students Forum, Canadian Sociological
Association, Waterloo.
Wilkinson, L., J. Bramadat, Zoe St.
Aubin, & R. Dolnychuk. “Barriers to
Labour Market Participation among
Immigrants to Canada in the LongTerm” Association of Canadian Studies
and Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Joint Annual Conference, Niagara-onthe-Lake.
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Woolford, A. “Boarding Schools,
Genocide and Redress in North
America”, Department of Sociology,
University of New Mexico, February 24.
Woolford, A, B. Stuart and C. Morgan.
Panel discussion on Restorative Justice at
Justice in a Post Bill C-10 World:
Restribution vs. Restoration, May.
Against Humanity. University
Montréal, October 25-27.
de
Woolford, A., L. Wilkinson, J. Wilson,
and E. Laroque. “We Need to Talk about
Racism,” Visionary Conversations Series,
September 12, 2012, U of M.
2012 RESEARCH GRANTS
Woolford, A. & B. Hogeveen. “Cold
Cities: Neoliberal Restructuring and
NonProfit Services in the Inner Cities of
Edmonton & Winnipeg”, Canadian Law
and Society Association meetings,
University of Waterloo, May 27-29.
Esses, V. (P.I.), L. Wilkinson
(collaborator). (2012-2017). Pathways to
Prosperity:
The
Integration
of
Immigrants
in
Canada.
SSHRC
Partnership Grant $2.5 million.
Woolford, A. “Colonial Genocide and
the Indian Residential School Settlement
Agreement”, Seine River School Division
Learning Day, November 7.
Funk, L. (P.I.) (2012). Volunteers and
Paid Companions: Supporting Older
Adults in In-Patient and Residential
Settings. Research Fellowship, Centre on
Aging, U of M. $9, 605
Woolford, A. “Discipline, Territory, and
the Colonial Mesh: Boarding/Residential
Schools in the US and Canada,” Colonial
Genocide and Indigenous North
America Workshop. University of
Manitoba, September.
Funk,
L.
(2012-13).
Principal
Investigator: Loving Together, Living
Apart: Exploring Commitment in Long
Distance
Couples.
University
of
Manitoba University Research Grant.
$7,050.
Woolford, A. “Discipline, Territory, and
the Colonial Mesh: Boarding/Residential
Schools in the US and Canada,” Native
Studies Colloquium, University of
Manitoba, November
Funk, L., M. Penning and D. Cloutier.
(2012-2015). Co-Investigator: Transitions
and Trajectories in Late Life Care:
Patterns and Predictors. Canadian
Institutes
of
Health
Research,
Partnerships
for
Health
System
Improvement Grant, and Michael Smith
Foundation for Health Research.
$330,000 and $99,000.
Woolford, A. “Networks of Destruction
in
Indigenous
North
America:
Boarding/Residential
Schools
and
Securing the ‘Indian Problem’ in Canada
and the US,” International Network of
Genocide Scholars Annual Meetings, San
Francisco, Jun/Jul.
Woolford, A. “Networks of Destruction
in
Indigenous
North
America:
Boarding/Residential
Schools
and
Securing the ‘Indian Problem’ in Canada
and the US,” presented at Securing
Justice, U of W, May.
Woolford, A. “The Healing State:
Residential Schools and Reparations in
Canada,” Brown Bag Lecture, Arthur
Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice,
November 16.
Woolford, A. “The Healing State:
Residential Schools and Reparations in
Canada,” The Healing Role of
Reparations for Victims of Crimes
Funk, L. (P.I.) (2012-13). Emotional
Labour in Residential Care for
Chronically and Terminally Ill Persons
and their Families. Riverview Health
Centre Research Grant, Winnipeg,
Manitoba. $11,564.
J. Loxley (P.I.) with Co-Investigators L.
Bruce, E. Comack, J. Hajer, I. Hudson,
P. Kulchyski, S. MacKinnon, K. Mallett,
E. Peters, D. Roussin, J. Silver, T. Simms,
I. Skelton, J. Weins, and A. Woolford
(2012-19). Partnering for Change:
Community-Based
Solutions
for
Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty.
SSHRC Partnership Grant. $2.5 million.
Unifying Exploration of Human Rights,
Branding, and Place in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside. Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Partnership
Development
Grant.
$199,565.
Saewyc, E. (P.I.), T. Peter, B. Austin,
Beaulieu-Prevost, L. Chamberland, G.
Emond, J. Gahagan, A. Grace., Marshall,
W. O’Brian, H. Rose, S. Russell, A.
Smith, C. Taylor, R. Travers,, & K. Wells.
(2012-2016).
Reducing
Stigma,
Promoting Resilience: Population Health
Interventions for LGBTQ Youth.
Canadian Institute for Health Research
(CIHR), Operating Grant (Large grants
competition) Population Health and
Institute of Gender and Health,
$1,997,930.
Woolford, A., A. Muller, S. Sinclair
(2012). SSHRC Bridge-Funding, Faculty
of Arts, University of Manitoba, $5000.
Woolford, A., A. Hinton and J.
Benvenuto. (2012). Social Sciences and
Humanities
Research
Council
Connections,
Aid
to
Research
Workshops and Conferences Funding.
Project: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous
North America. September 20-22.,
University of Manitoba, $24,930.
2012 BOOK REVIEWS
Peter, T. Book Review of “The Grads
are Playing Tonight! The story of the
Edmonton
Commercial
Graduates
Basketball Club.” Herizons.
Spencer, D. Book Review of “Second
Wounds: Victims’ Rights and the Media
in the U.S.” Canadian Journal of Law and
Society
Woolford, A. Book Review of
“Community and Collective Rights: A
Theoretical Framework for Rights Held
by Groups.” Canadian Journal of Law and
Society.
Masuda, J. (P.I.), S. Bookman, B. Carter,
J. Rock, A. Kobayashi, and M. Fridell.
(2012-2015). Revitalizing Japantown? A
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NEW BOOKS FOR 2013
Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence
Deane, Larry Morrissette and Jim
Silver. “Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism,
Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs.
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
With the advent of Aboriginal street
gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba
Warriors, and Native Syndicate,
Winnipeg garnered a reputation as
the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet
beyond the stereotypes of outsiders,
little is known about these street
gangs and the factors and conditions
that have produced them. “Indians
Wear Red” locates Aboriginal street
gangs in the context of the racialized
poverty that has become entrenched
in the colonized space of Winnipeg’s
North End. Drawing upon extensive
interviews with Aboriginal street gang
members as well as with Aboriginal
women and elders, the authors
develop an understanding from
“inside” the inner city and through
the voices of Aboriginal people —
especially street gang members
themselves.
Lance Roberts, Barry Ferguson,
Mathias Bös and Susanne Von Below
(editors). Multicultural Variations: Social
Incorporation in Europe and North
America. Montreal: McGill Queen's
University Press.
Contrary to mid-twentieth century
predictions, ethnic pluralism has
increased dramatically in North
America and significantly in Europe.
Neither the post 9/11 emphasis on
international border security nor antiimmigration and anti-multiculturalism
movements have affected the fifty
year trend of increasing labour
mobility and sustained levels of
migration. The ethnic pluralism
accompanying this powerful trend
has fueled academic research and
public debate.
Multicultural
Variations
includes
national reports describing each of
the six countries under investigation
and is book-ended by introductory
and concluding chapters that present
a new understanding of and synthesis
on multiculturalism that is distinct
from either enthusiastic support or
ideological critiques.
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Raúl Sánchez García and Dale C.
Spencer (editors). Fighting Scholars:
Habirus and Ethnographies of Martial
Arts and Combat Sports. New York:
Anthem Press.
Fighting Scholars brings to the fore the
ethnographic study of combat sports
and martial arts as a means of
exploring embodied human existence.
The book’s main claim is that such
activities represent privileged grounds
to access different social dimensions,
such as emotion, violence, pain,
gender, ethnicity and religion. In
order to explore these dimensions,
the concept of ‘habitus’ is presented
prominently as an epistemic remedy
for the academic distant gaze of the
effaced academic body. The different
contributions of this volume are
aligned within the same project that
began to crystallize in Loïc
Wacquant’s Body and Soul: the
construction of a ‘carnal sociology’
that constitutes an exploration of the
social world ‘from’ the body.
Ian Hudson, Mark Hudson and
Mara Fridell. Fair Trade,
Sustainability, and Social Change.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Is fair trade a radical movement
aiming to transform global systems of
production and exchange, or is it a
marketing niche that delivers small
benefits to Southern farmers and a
clean conscience to Northern
consumers? Schisms currently
opening between the US-based Fair
Trade USA and the rest of the
international fair trade movement are
reflective of this choice. This book
evaluates the extent to which fair
trade is likely to be a transformative
movement. The authors show that
fair trade's most significant, and
threatened, contribution is its
potential to reveal to otherwise
‘blinded’ consumers the qualitative
aspects of labour and nature
embodied in commodities.
Integrating insights from economic
and sociological theory and research,
the book sheds new light on this
potential of the movement, its role in
producing social change, and, given
the recent strategic trajectory of the
movement, the serious problems it
now faces.
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