Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice “Changing Climates / Changer d’air”: AAA and CASCA are collaborating for the first time to host the 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Executive Program Committee invites anthropologists and their collaborators to…
By Amy Levine Caregiving, according to a doctor and leader of support services at a large US-based hospital, is “like being prepared for the fire drill at all times. You never know when you’ll have to drop everything, gear up,…
by Daniel Tubb, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNB Fredericton There is a North American phenomenon of young people from rural areas and small towns and medium-sized cities moving to the Big City. In Canada, the destinations are Toronto or Montreal, Vancouver…
By Rylan Higgins, Saint Mary’s University I started writing for a non-academic audience nearly 20 years ago. As a member of a research team looking at the impacts of the oil and gas industry on southern Louisiana, I wrote a…
Kathy M’Closkey, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, ON, was recently given two awards in recognition of her research and activism. The Navajo board of Dine’ Studies granted her the “Excellence in Diné Studies” award during the 21st…
A team of graduate students from the University of North Texas, in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), are replicating the 2009 AAA/CoPAPIA Anthropology MA Career Survey: a major…
Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully University of Toronto Press, 2018 The two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relations on the ground, in the courts, in public policy, and…
By Stacy Lee Lockerbie PhD, Halley Silversides MILS, and Suzanne Goopy PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary The Refugee and Newcomers Emotional Wellness (ReNEW) Partnership for Best Practice is a multi-disciplinary, multi-sited, and multi-lingual research project that explores the…
The Silent G Arpine Konyalian Grenier Corrupt Press, 2019 The collection comes from an inability to be distracted into an extinction of reality, extinction resulting from arcane democratization of matter over time, and the ensuing spread of capitalization into the…
Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism Joseph Weiss UBC Press, 2019 Colonialism in settler societies such as Canada depends on a certain understanding of the relationship between time and Indigenous peoples. Too often, these peoples have…