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This article reflects on multidisciplinary research in a specific context: a community-based, economic impact research project intended to map the potential effects of a “living wage” as a poverty reduction strategy for the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Living wage initiatives have emerged across Canada. Intended to reduce poverty among the...
Studies of islands have emerged as a unique and vital focus of research over the last couple decades. Works like Hau'ofa's 1994 'Our Sea of Islands' have moved us quite systematically towards the study of islands, underlining the dynamic connectedness between terrestrial and marine environments, and between individual islands and elsewhere. By trac...
Maps are explicitly positioned within the realms of power, representation, and epistemology; this article sets out to explore how these ideas are manifest in the academic Geographic Information Science (GIScience) literature. We analyze 10 years of literature (2005–2014) from top tier GIScience journals specific to the geoweb and geographic crowdso...
Social justice seeks to support fairness through fostering relationships that enhance and strengthen responsibility for one another. It is built upon the principle of equality of opportunity. In the context of government and governance it is often linked to specific policies or programs that seek to ensure the fair (re)distribution of services and...
In Canada, cultural safety (CS) is emerging as a theoretical and practice lens to orient health care services to meet the needs of Aboriginal people. Evidence suggests Aboriginal peoples' encounters with health care are commonly negative, and there is concern that these experiences can contribute to further adverse health outcomes. In this article,...
The interactive capability and ease of use of Geoweb technologies suggest great potential for Aboriginal communities to store, manage, and communicate place-related knowledge. For the Métis, who have a long history of dispossession and dispersion in Canada, the Geoweb offers an opportunity in realizing the desire to articulate a coherent sense of p...
As a province composed of hundreds of small islands, Maluku is highly susceptible to decreasing biodiversity of plant resources for agriculture. Pressures from pests and disease infestations, difficulty of seed storage, market demands for specific cultivars, and the introduction of new superior varieties are decreasing crop and plant genetic divers...
Indigenous approaches to research are fundamentally rooted in the traditions and knowledge systems
of Indigenous peoples themselves, although Indigenous methodologies and methods have become
both systems for generating knowledge and ways of responding to the processes of colonization. Very
specific Indigenous methods emerge from language, culture,...
Working collaboratively with Indigenous populations necessitates a focus on partnerships at the core of sharing, implementing and disseminating Indigenous knowledge. The Tri-Council Policy 2 ISSN: ISSN 1837-0144 © International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies Statement (CIHR, 2010) notes that respectful, reciprocal and ethical research stand...
All existing research points to dramatic and disturbing differences in the health and well being of Aboriginal communities when compared to other Canadians. Explanations as to the causes and ongoing consequences of such differences vary, but there is nonetheless a consensus that existing social and health service delivery systems require change. Co...
Recent ethical guidelines developed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research along with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans stress the importance of Aboriginal community engagement in research. Although these are positive changes meant to ensure respectful and responsive research relationships betwee...
Recent ethical guidelines developed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research along with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans stress the importance of Aboriginal community engagement in research. Although these are positive changes meant to ensure respectful and responsive research relationships betwee...
In this photo and text essay we chronicle the disappearance of an Island community of marginalised Aboriginal people. This disappearance is the result of changes in both the landscape (rendering the Island itself part of the mainland) and landscape memory (erasing the historiographic markers of the former insular community). The essay alerts us to...
Participatory research is now a central approach for shaping relationships between the academy and marginalized communities and people. Somewhat less developed has been the concern for ensuring that participatory processes have research products that are inclusive and accessible as well. Participatory video has emerged as a key tool in putting toge...
Participatory research is now a central approach for shaping relationships between the academy and marginalized communities and people. Somewhat less developed has been the concern for ensuring that participatory processes have research products that are inclusive and accessible as well. Participatory video has emerged as a key tool in putting toge...
In this article, we discuss three broad research approaches: indigenous methodologies, participatory action research, and White studies. We suggest that a fusion of these three approaches can be useful, especially in terms of collaborative work with indigenous communities. More specifically, we argue that using indigenous methodologies and particip...
Accession Number: 41018686; Barman, Jean Evans, Mike; Source Info: Spring2009, Issue 161, p59; Subject Term: METIS; Subject Term: RACE relations; Subject Term: ETHNICITY; Subject Term: POLITICAL science; Subject Term: INDIANS of North America -- Mixed descent; Subject Term: BRITISH Columbia -- History; Subject Term: BRITISH Columbia; Subject Term:...
This paper explores the consequences of whale-watching tourism with reference to the Kingdom of Tonga. Whale-watching tourism has been proposed as a viable development option for small island states. This proposal is frequently linked to permanent cessation of what is, in many cases, traditional whale hunting. This article critiques some earlier wo...
Accession Number: 24831807; Evans, Mike 1; Affiliation: 1: The University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Source Info: 2007, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p182; Subject Term: BOOKS -- Reviews; Subject Term: METIS; Subject Term: NONFICTION; Reviews & Products: WE Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community (Book); People: FOSTER, Martha Harroun; Number...
The agro-forestry system of Tonga includes crops used for food, medicine, and other purposes. Among these is the 'ahi or sandalwood tree. This paper describes events that occurred in the Ha'apai region, in the early 1980s, when a trader offered to buy 'ahi at unheard of prices. Although farmers have detailed and sophisticated knowledge of the islan...
Under International Whaling Commission regulations there are two types of whaling. The class of Aboriginal subsistence whaling has a preferred status in terms of access to whale resources; different criteria are used when weighing the value of whale use and the precautionary principle in terms of conservation values. The designation of which commun...
This paper examines bureaucratic structures and the interplay of race, place and institutional ethics involved in a process of establishing a multi-cultural research project with Aboriginal peoples in a Canadian urban context. The paper focuses on the way that one of Canada's national research councils (SSHRC) has attempted to respond positively to...
This paper examines bureaucratic structures and the interplay of race, place and institutional ethics involved in a process of establishing a multi-cultural research project with Aboriginal peoples in a Canadian urban context. The paper focuses on the way that one of Canada's national research councils (SSHRC) has attempted to respond positively to...
The Contemporary Pacific 17.2 (2005) 499-501
Paul van der Grijp's Identity and Development is an important contribution to the growing literature on the incorporation of world-system institutions into Tongan culture and economy. It is a significant monograph-length treatment of cash crop production and its results over the last ten years (for squas...
The confluence of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers is a complicated place. Prince George, a key centre for Aboriginal European interaction in the BC interior, drew various people to the opportunities on offer. For many indigenous peoples however, opportunities were hard to realize, and urban poverty persisted. Located just before the rivers meet is a...
In Tonga as elsewhere, consumption of inexpensive, high calorie, fatty foods are associated with increases in diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Programs have been designed to educate people about dangers associated with these foods, but if consumption has increased for economic reasons (e.g., price or availability), such programs may h...
An essential element of the "health transition" is the emergence of disease patterns associated with changes in dietary regimes. The consumption of nutritionally poor (imported) foods in the Pacific is associated with increasing rates of diet related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). An oft-made assumption is that changes in consumption patterns ar...
The increased flow of goods, people, and ideas associated with globalization have contributed to an increase in noncommunicable diseases in much of the world. One response has been to encourage lifestyle changes with educational programmes, thus controlling the lifestyle-related disease. Key assumptions with this approach are that people's food pre...
Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world's few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system through markets and political relationships, in the last few decades emerging regional and global structures have had particularly intense and transfo...
Invited chapter for a companion volume to Robbins' Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach, this paper shows how anthropology addresses a fundamental dilemma: the simultaneous facts of human diversity and similarity, human change and continuity. We use ethnographic material from rural Tonga to illustrate how anthropologists answer key quest...
This paper is the first to emerge from a series of research projects on pressing topics for Pacific island governments which are certain to be major problems for policy makers in the region within 20 yr. It concentrates on population growth in the islands, and includes a "doomsday scenario', an essay on the relationships between population, develop...
The agro-forestry system of Tonga includes crops used for food, medicine, and other purposes. Among these is the 'ahi or sandalwood tree. This paper describes events that occurred in the Ha'apai region, in the early 1980s, when a trader offered to buy 'ahi at unheard of prices. Although farmers have detailed and sophisticated knowledge of the islan...
