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This article commemorates the legacy of bell hooks by bringing core themes in her oeuvre to bear on several debates on the conceptualization and use of qualitative research methods in sociology. Despite the uptake of qualitative research methods in sociology as a launching point for critical inquiry with analytical and political overtones, they have been fragmented threefold by debates about their politics (whether to humanize research subjects), practice (whether to intervene in field research), and epistemology (procedural, craft, and bricolage orientations). Reflecting on the legacy of bell hooks, this article articulates a Black feminist approach by unearthing methodological and epistemological themes underwritten in hooks' work (inclusive pedagogy, creative dialogue, and reflexive accountability) to offer new perspectives on the three debates and, in so doing, to identify ways to better qualitative research methods as tools for emancipating the marginalized – by invigorating cross-professional and transdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Colonialism can be seen as a historical process, or an ideology. As this article demonstrates, for Canadian Doukhobors, it is also a lived experience. Canadian Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers, are a group of pacifist religious dissenters of mixed ethnic origins who immigrated to Canada from the Russian Empire in 1899. The worldview of the Doukhobors was radically different from the principles on which the colonial government was founded. The goal of this article is to describe the colonial policies directed towards the Doukhobors, their anticolonial struggles, and to consider the implications of the Doukhobor history for contemporary anti-colonial thought in Canada and worldwide. The government subjected Doukhobors to a range of discriminatory actions including cancellation of earlier granted land registries in Saskatchewan, incarcerations for refusal of military service (despite an existing legal exemption), taking away children of some Doukhobors and placing them in a juvenile detention center to force the assimilation. While considering the significance of the Doukhobor struggles against colonialism, the article proposes a new term, 'colonial privilege.' This article is reflexive and sheds a new light on the earlier recorded facts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses recent anti-racist and migrant rights activism in Finland with the help of Norbert Elias' figurational sociology and the concept of the established-outsiders figuration. The mobilisation of 'outsiders' (racialised minorities and migrants) has reordered the contemporary field and challenged the 'established' majority activists to reflect on their own practices. Through combining figurational and cultural perspectives, I compare the extent to which established liberal and left-libertarian activists, with their distinct ideological positions, have succeeded in transforming the power ratio between themselves and the outsiders. This article advances the use of the established-outsiders conceptualisation in cases where the established support, in principle, the outsiders' inclusion. This helps to shed light on both the more covert and subtle ways through which the established reproduce their power as well as their agency in dismantling the power disparity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the findings of a qualitative study which was undertaken to examine the speech patterns of Canadian university administrators when discussing their perspectives of (1) the barriers to and enablers of educational equity and (2) the extent to which their identity/positionality influences their leadership capacity to advance educational equity. The study aimed to uncover and examine the dominant ideological perspectives and discursive practices of senior administrators in relation to educational equity. The findings uncover discourses of democratic racism across the ten narrative interviews. An analysis of the ideologies underpinning these discursive barriers suggests that change agency is related to both diverse leadership and diversity leadership – identity/positionality and consciousness/proficiency to influence change. The paper reinforces calls for sectorwide and institution-specific efforts (1) to diversify senior administrative teams, with a particular emphasis on cabinet level racial and gender diversity, and (2) to increase the level of proficiency among senior administrative teams to effect more transformative change. Moreover, the paper suggests that contemporary and critical models of leadership, governance, and organizational change are needed to meaningfully advance and account for EDI change in the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global effect. The disproportionate impact on Indigenous peoples and racialized groups has brought ethical challenges to the forefront in research and clinical practice. In Canada, the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS2), and specifically the principle of justice, emphasizes additional care for individuals "whose circumstances make them vulnerable", including Indigenous and racialized communities. In the absence of race-based data to measure and inform health research and clinical practice, we run the risk of causing more harm and contributing to ongoing injustices. However, without an accepted framework for collecting, maintaining, and reporting race-based data in Canada, more guidance is needed on how to do this well. Importantly, a framework for collecting race-based data should build on existing guidance from Indigenous and other structurally marginalized communities, the TCPS2, recommendations from the World Health Organization, and involve relevant stakeholders. In this paper, we describe historical examples of unethical studies on Indigenous and racialized groups, discuss the challenges and potential benefits of collecting race-based data, and conclude with objectives for a pan-Canadian framework to inform how race-based data is collected, stored, and accessed in health research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the study of race in relation to both settler colonialism, and Indigeneity and Indigenous sovereignty is insufficiently supported by sociology and the social sciences in Australia as elsewhere, scholars are exploring the synergetic possibilities between critical race and decolonial, Indigenous-centred approaches to theorizing the racial state. Nevertheless, some scholars have argued that the critical race toolbox is insufficient for making sense of how race is produced, reproduced and maintained in settler colonial states. Contributing to this critical discussion, this article explores the conceptual, empirical and practical relationship between race, Indigeneity and Indigenous sovereignty as lenses to examine racism, antiracism and Indigenous self-determination as interrelated, but discrete, issues. In particular, via a discussion of the concept of 'interest convergence', the article examines the synergetic possibilities of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Indigenous theories and methodologies. The authors conclude that rather than 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater' by jettisoning CRT, we should work to deepen and broaden scholarship that connects race, Indigeneity and Indigenous sovereignty in ways that benefit both local and global understandings of the many and complex workings of race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Interviews with Indigenous and settler players on the Beardy's Blackhawks Midget AAA hockey team, as well as with those players' parents, unanimously acknowledge racism directed at Indigenous players during the team's most recent season. More insidiously, the interviews register social pressures within hockey culture that discourage reactions to such racism and thereby condition acquiescence to and potential reproduction of oppressive colonial conditions. As one First Nation parent states, "you just kind of get used to it and... either shrug it off or retaliate. We've really chosen to shrug it off for the most part." This paper ruminates on the manufacture of compliance in order to interrogate the internalization of various tropes in hockey culture that, we argue, conspire to sustain racialized oppression in the game. In doing so, we advocate for the implementation of decolonial anti-racism strategies at all levels of the sport. Des entrevues avec des joueurs autochtones et allogènes du club de hockey Beardy's Blackhawks Midget AAA, ainsi qu'avec les parents de ces joueurs, reconnaissent unanimement le racisme envers les joueurs autochtones au cours de la dernière saison de l'équipe. Plus insidieusement, les entrevues enregistrent des pressions sociales au sein de la culture du hockey qui découragent les réactions à un tel racisme et conditionnent ainsi l'acquiescement et la regénénération potentielle des conditions coloniales oppressives. Comme le dit un parent authochtone, « on s'y habitue en quelque sorte et... soit on l'ignore, soit on riposte. Nous avons vraiment choisi de ne pas en tenir compte pour la plupart. » Cet article retourne la question du façonnage de la conformité dans le but de scruter l'inhérence, de divers clichés dans la culture du hockey qui, selon nous, conspirent pour soutenir l'oppression racialisée dans le match. Ce faisant, nous plaidons pour la mise en œuvre de stratégies antiracistes décoloniales à tous les niveaux du sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Louise Jefferson, the focus of this article, represents the intersection of two neglected cartographic cultures – women and African Americans – in the mid-twentieth century. Her work as an artist – illustrator, photographer, and cartographer – as well as her life story demonstrates that maps are more than we have conventionally defined them to be. This article outlines a brief history of African American and feminist geographies and examines the more commonly accepted functions of maps and counter-maps, illuminating lesser-known cartographic functions. Building upon these definitions and functions, it shows how both Louise Jefferson's life and selections of her works constitute counter-mapping, a means of "talking back" against racial exclusion and affirming the value of African American lives and histories. Individual pieces of Jefferson's artwork that would not normally be labelled as cartography are examined to illustrate the different functions and appearances of such maps as anti-racist identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the findings of a research study on the formal response of the Canadian library community to the mass Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the resulting global protests over the summer of 2020. The study employed mixed-method content analysis and its principal goals were to (a) identify formal responses between May to August 2020; (b) analyze themes across how the Canadian library community views and situates itself within conversations of racial justice; and (c) identify the scale and scope of commitments made for future accountability and research. The results show that one third (34%) of the Canadian library community formally responded with an organizational statement and even less situated their organizations as contributors to systemic racism in Canadian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

À partir d’une enquête ethnographique par observations et entretiens auprès de plusieurs collectifs antiracistes franciliens formés à partir de 2005, cet article examine les processus de production du « Nous » dans l’action collective. Il s’agit notamment de prendre au sérieux les processus émotionnels, dans une double perspective de sociologie de l’action collective et des rapports sociaux. On montre d’abord le lien entre engagement, sentiment d’injustice et colère face au racisme dans les trajectoires individuelles, lorsque la rencontre avec un cadre collectif permet de transformer cette colère en capacité d’agir. On analyse ensuite la dimension émotionnelle et relationnelle du travail militant, c’est-à-dire l’ensemble des pratiques qui produisent de l’appartenance « pour soi » pour les participant·e·s, dans une logique de communalisation et de subjectivation politique qui dépasse les assignations raciales.

Echoing various controversies on gender and race that have arisen in the French political arena in recent years, minority knowledge has faced a new wave of strong resistance. By analyzing the rhetorical persistence of anti-minority discourse as well as its current specificities (opposition to the so-called “gender theory”, rejection of the category of race), the article shows the ongoing relevance of Colette Guillaumin’s ideas today in analyzing the rationale and stakes of this offensive. Throughout her work, Guillaumin has been engaged in reflecting on the oppositions raised by minority voices and has helped to forge the concepts targeted by the current attacks (minority, race, racization). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aimititau ! Parlons-nous ! (2008) propose un projet de correspondances littéraires entre écrivains/es autochtones et non autochtones créant ainsi « une nouvelle langue appartenant au territoire de l’amitié et de la création ». Cet article considère l’échange épistolaire en lien avec le territoire physique et le contexte social. L’auteure explore certaines des tensions entre les discours qui promeuvent un partage d’humanité, au-delà des différences, et les conditions matérielles des injustices qui se perpétuent. Elle propose l’analyse de deux correspondances, celles entre Denise Brassard et Rita Mestokosho, et entre Nahka Bertrand et Jean Désy, qui mettent de l’avant un lieu commun d’où établir le dialogue, soit le lien avec la nature et le métissage. Couture-Grondin suggère alors que les discours interculturels doivent tenir compte de la matérialité du racisme, qui continue d’affecter nos relations, et de la matérialité de l’écriture, qui permet de reconnaître la positionalité des discours et la particularité des traditions intellectuelles et de création autochtones. Aimititau ! Parlons-nous ! (2008) proposes a project of correspondences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal writers from Quebec that creates “a new language which belongs to the territory of friendship and creativity”. This paper considers the relationship between the epistolary genre, the physical territory, and the social context. The author explores some of the tensions between discourses that promote the idea of sharing humanity, beyond differences, and the material conditions of ongoing injustices. She analyzes two correspondences, between Denise Brassard and Rita Mestokosho, and between Nahka Bertrand and Jean Désy, which uses a common ground to establish their dialogue, either the relation to nature or the definition of a common identity. Couture-Grondin argues that intercultural discourses must take into account the materiality of racism, which continues to affect current relationships, and the materiality of writing, in a way that acknowledges the positionality of discourses and the particularity of Indigenous intellectual and creative traditions.

Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island, was one of the places where Japanese Canadians settled during the twentieth century. In 2018, I published an article in the Canadian Geographer titled, "An anti-racism methodology: The Native Sons and Daughters and racism against Asians in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada", with the goal of using my family's involvement in organizations associated with racism against Asian Canadians to modestly contribute to developing an anti-racism methodology. More recently, I have reconnected with other relatives (small-scale fishermen) who developed close relationships with Japanese Canadian fishing families, both before and after the 1940s. This article considers one Japanese Canadian family in Nanaimo before World War II, during "internment", and after the war in Japan and then in Canada upon their return to their "homeland" in the 1950s and 1960s. I am particularly interested in everyday acts of friendship, particularly during tense periods, as it is important to not only reveal past injustices, but also to recognize and better understand cases when white people treated Japanese Canadians with respect, and also advocated for them when such actions were not fashionable. This sort of non-racist behaviour can constitute part of an anti-Asian racism methodology. This article also has implications for thinking about present-day immigration and deportation politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past number of years there has been increased interest in racism and anti‐racism amongst geographers. This paper focuses on one type of anti‐racism methodology that relates to critically interrogating my own white colonial settler ancestors and particularly the institutions and structures of which they were a part, and using those understandings to resist the contemporary increase in white supremacy and anti‐Asian racism. It also seeks to demonstrate the links between anti‐racism and decolonization. Particularly, I examine the Native Sons and Daughters of British Columbia, Canada, in the Nanaimo city area, where my great‐grandparents from northern England and Scotland settled as working‐class miners at the beginning of the 20th century. I examine white working‐class settler racism against Asians, especially as practiced against Chinese and Japanese immigrants. While I do not argue that this is the only or even the most important type of anti‐racism methodology, this sort of research and associated production of knowledge can be useful in resisting present‐day anti‐Asian racism, even though I acknowledge that I am still embedded in colonial structures of racism and white privilege. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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