Leanne Petherick

• Professor (Assistant) at University of British Columbia

When it comes to examining Indigenous boys, men, and masculinities, much of the research remains theoretical in nature, with few scholarly explorations of how diverse, place-specific Indigenous nations engage in processes of recuperating and sustaining the Indigenous values, roles, and responsibilities of boys and men. In this paper, we present res...

We situate the race-based division of Manitoba’s Keystone Junior Hockey League as a case study to reveal the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. We argue that this split is an example of “White settler possessive logics,” whereby settler belonging is naturalized through reiterative embodied acts of occupation. That this split happened in hock...

In this paper, we introduce readers to the Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project, a 4-year research collaboration between scholars from the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia and Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochékwi Sipi). We overview the research design of the project, paying particular attention to the foundational strategies that...

RéSUMé: OBJECTIF: L'objectif était d'étudier le déploiement des discours sur la vaccination contre les VPH (VVPH) et leur impact sur les filles, les parents, les infirmiers/infirmières et les médecins canadiens. MéTHODES: Des entrevues ont été réalisées avec des participant(e)s (n = 146) de quatre provinces canadiennes. Une analyse poststructuralis...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore issues of race and culture in health education in the secondary school health and physical education (HPE) curriculum in Ontario, Canada. Design/methodology/approach Using Ontario’s secondary school curriculum as a point of analysis, this paper draws from critical race theory and a whiteness lens t...

Within the Canadian context, the physical activity levels of children and youth in the after school time period has become a source of public health concern. We argue that this concern is informed by broader public health crises, in particular the ‘global obesity epidemic’ and the closely related ‘global pandemic of physical inactivity', and that t...

In this paper, we argue that standard built environmental accounts of obesity and physical inactivity offer little insight into the multiplicity of power relations that shape the localized mobility practices of rural places. In making this argument, we draw upon literature from with the "new mobilities paradigm" in qualitatively examining the multi...

Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the "Youth...

Currently, in Canada and elsewhere in the West, government spending, media, and health activities focus heavily on "lifestyles" and the "obesity epidemic." In the last decade, many health and education professionals in Canada have adopted policies to improve health and fitness among youth, seeing them particularly "at risk" for engaging in unhealth...

Epidemiological data construct the population of Newfoundland and Labrador as being one of the most obese populations in Canada. The concern for child and youth health is particularly pertinent within school culture and places teachers in precarious positions where they are being asked to share in shaping healthy lifestyle messages while also consi...

While interdisciplinary knowledge is critical to moving beyond categorical ways of knowing, this comes with its own set of pedagogical challenges. We contend that acknowledging existing knowledge hierarchies and epistemological differences, recognizing the ideological baggage that students' bring to the classroom in terms of their understandings of...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children’s Sport is the most recent synthesis of Noel Dyck’s research into the area of children and sport. Dyck’s scholarly and storytelling abilities unfold through the complexities and contradictions constituting children’s sporting environments. We...

Given that the health of the nation is often interpreted in and through the health of the nation's youth, the threat of the ‘childhood obesity epidemic’ garners much attention and it is hardly surprising that physical education has been recruited in the ‘war on [childhood] obesity’.This paper explores how students aged 13–15 years, at a secondary s...

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