The Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts presents Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7| 709-864-8254 | www.mun.ca/arts A FINE CROWD February 2013 GRANTS TO ARTS FACULTY, 2011-12 FUNDING ALONE IS NOT A MEASURE OF RESEARCH SUCCESS IN ARTS BUT $7.5 MILLION IS IMPRESSIVE In 2011-12, Arts researchers were awarded $7,486,472 in funding from SSHRC, CFI, ACOA, and the NL Government’s Research Development Corporation. As our way of saying ‘congratulations’, we offer this newsletter, which showcases projects funded by SSHRC in 2011-12. We include only the external research grants on which Arts faculty are Principle Investigators. Vol. 1, No. 1 mun.ca/arts Faculty of Arts Office of the Dean St. John’s, NL Canada A1C 5S7 TELEPHONE (709) 864-8254 FACSIMILE (709) 864-2135 Dr. Lynne Phillips, Dean of Arts
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The Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts presents
Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7| 709-864-8254 | www.mun.ca/arts
A FINE CROWDFebruary 2013
GRANTS TO ARTS FACULTY, 2011-12
FUNDING ALONE IS NOT A MEASURE OF RESEARCH
SUCCESS IN ARTS
BUT $7.5 MILLION IS IMPRESSIVE
In 2011-12, Arts researchers were awarded $7,486,472 in funding from SSHRC, CFI, ACOA, and the NL Government’s Research Development Corporation. As our way of saying ‘congratulations’, we offer this newsletter, which showcases projects funded by SSHRC in 2011-12. We include only the external research grants on which Arts faculty are Principle Investigators.
Vol. 1, No. 1 mun.ca/arts
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S t . J o h n ’ s , N LC a n a d a A 1 C 5 S 7
T E L E P H O N E(709) 864-8254 F A C S I M I L E( 7 0 9 ) 8 6 4 - 2 1 3 5
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The housing and infrastructure crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation and other Aboriginal communities throughout this country has brought the socio-economic disparities between First Nations and non-Aboriginal communities to the forefront of debates over policy initiatives. The d i s cour se su r round ing Abor ig ina l administration has ranged from those who allege financial mismanagement on the part of First Nations, to others who point to chronic underfunding on the part of the federal government. The contemporary colonial relationship that exists in Canada makes headlines, but it is important to view it as part of a longer historical pattern. As First Nations have gained varied degrees of control over funds since the 1951 revisions to the Indian Act, it is now more important than ever to examine debates in historical context. The ways in which the Indian Act and the Department of Indian Affairs interacted with First Nations communities were undergoing profound changes during this time, and their assimilative nature has been well-documented. The postwar period is often seen as a period of decolonization in Canada and internationally, but the top-down approach of many scholars has excluded the experiences of Aboriginal peoples, and the responses of First Nations women in particular. I argue that the story of politicization on the national scale needs to start at the community level, where many Aboriginal women were and are politically and socially active. Understanding historical developments is essential to formulating a way forward for First Nations in Canada. A n ex a m p l e o f s u ch c o m mu n i t y involvement is the Homemakers' Club, an
o r g a n i z a t i o n e n c o u r a g e d by t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f C i t i z e n s h i p a n d Immigration (which, at the time, was responsible for Aboriginal affairs). First Nations women were encouraged to participate and to exhibit 1950s ideals of charity and domesticity. It is unclear how t h e s e w o m e n r e s p o n d e d t o s u ch encouragement. It is apparent, however, that Aboriginal women used it for their own purposes such as infrastructure, protection and enhancement of community property, employment opportunities, and recreational activities to keep their children busy and in school. Did Aboriginal women, who could not vote in community elections until 195I and in Canada until 1960, develop their own sense of feminist activism? Did they see their actions in political terms? Were their actions political in nature? How can we define political action w h e n c o l o n i a l e x p e r i e n c e s a n d responses are gendered? How did these women use the Homemakers' Club as way to subvert colonial presence and policies, and/or as a way to strengthen traditional kinship and social welfare practices? This project will examine the Homemakers' Club as a case study of Aboriginal womanhood and feminism and seeks to understand the club's ties to community- (and thus nation-) building at a time that has been traditionally known as a period of decolonization in Canada.
Indigenous women and nation-building in Ontario: the postwar experience
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Employment-related geographical mobility entails extended travel and related absences from places of permanent residence for the purpose of, and as part of, employment. A substantial but hard-to-document number of Canadian employees work in different municipalities, provinces or even countries from those in which they live and are away from their primary residence for substantial amounts of time above and beyond working hours. Large numbers of non-Canadians are employed as Temporary Foreign workers in Canada. Existing research on employment-related geographical mobility in Canada is limited and fragmented. It shows that it takes diverse forms and is likely affecting key domains of Canadian life. These domains include: labour recruitment, training requirements, absenteeism, turn-over and broader social relations at work; requirements for, and effectiveness of, key infrastructure (e.g., housing, health, transportation, training); the effectiveness of policy and planning at the municipal, provincial and federal levels; work-life balance and spousal and parent-child relations within families; and (through its impact on investments and consumption patterns) regional economic and community development. But we know little about its diverse and changing patterns and its actual consequences at work, home and in the community. We also know little about how changes in mobility patterns relate to larger-scale changes in the nature of work, competitiveness and prosperity. Our Partnership will produce the first comprehensive study of the spectrum of employment-related geographical mobility in Canada from extended daily travel to long distance travel for periods of weeks, months and, in the case of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada, even years. Our research will track regional, sectoral and socio-demographic patterns and trends in this mobility since 1980 as well as the changing policies that have contributed to it and its consequences. Researchers working in seven provinces and multiple industrial sectors (oil and gas, mining, smelting, retail service, health, construction, transportation and shipping), will carry out in-depth field research among employers, employees and their families, community leaders, and service agencies. They will track
their experiences with such mobility, its role in their larger strategies and assess its ultimate consequences for these different groups in different contexts. We will carry out on-line surveys with human resource managers, union shop stewards and small business owners (among others). We will include new entrants to different types of mobility and those who have exited for different reasons; males and females; those engaged in skilled, less-skilled, professional and managerial jobs; and both Canadian and non-Canadian employees. We have recruited 42 co-applicant researchers and 2 collaborators f r o m 1 7 disciplines and 22 universities across Canada and four other countries. We h a v e b u i l t p a r t n e r s h i p s with 36 partner organizations (11 academic and 25 community). Our academic and community partners will help us design our research, to interpret the results and their policy implications, and to disseminate the results to multiple audiences. We will provide training and mentoring for 68 students and postdoctoral fellows from many disciplines and have devised a comprehensive suite of knowledge mobilization activities. Our research is relevant to two of the SSHRC's priority funding areas: Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity (because of the economic and social impacts of mobility) and Canada's Northern Communities (where such mobility is an especially pervasive phenomenon).
On the move: employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context
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The Faculty of Arts gratefully acknowledges Arts Departments, the Office of the VP (Research), the Office of the VP (Academic), and the School of Graduate Studies, who provided cash and in-kind contributions towards these grant applications.
Staff in the Office of Research Services worked many weekends and evenings to make sure we put forward the best grant applications ever: thank you.
G r a n t a p p l i c a n t s i n A r t s universally acknowledge the valuable contributions made by Theresa Heath (SSHRC Grants Crafter from 2004 to 2012). We all wish Theresa the best in her new position at ICEHR.