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All work and no play ...
Gina Higgins
Mar 06, 2015
Beyond Intersectionalities of Identity or Interlocking Analyses of Difference
Ameil J. Joseph
Jun 16, 2015
Intersectional approaches are often called upon in social work education and practice to conceptualize identities (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, etc.) and forms of oppression and privilege (racism, sexism...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Taking Action on Stigma and Discrimination
Social inclusion has increasingly been positioned within research and policy as integral to addressing stigma and discrimination related to mental health and substance use. Yet there is a lack of consensus about the meaning of...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Community Climbing
Terry Quinn
Jul 09, 2015
A main purpose of this article is to draw attention to Lonergan’s discovery, functional specialization. Lonergan’s result was first presented in dense summary fashion, in a 20 page 1969 article "Functional Specialization in...
Philosophy of History, Interdisciplinary Methodology Functional specialization, division of labor, progress, human good.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
UPDATE ON THE DNE WORD-FILE DIGITIZATION PROJECT
Suzanne Power
Sep 21, 2015
An update on the progress of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word-file Digitizaton Project and listing of ELRC student assistants.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Attempting to Engage in “Ethical” Research with Homeless Youth
Sue-Ann Belle MacDonald
Feb 02, 2016
Risk pervades contemporary discourses surrounding and describing homeless youth. Deemed to be at risk and vulnerable to a range of dangers related to living on the street as well as risky due to their delinquent behaviours...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Deconstruction, Destruktion, and Dialogue
Jeff Mitscherling
Mar 23, 2016
While Derrida’s critique of Heidegger has received some attention over the past few decades, the difference between Derrida’s conception of “deconstruction” and the hermeneutic conception of Destruktion has never been clearly...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Logotherapy and the Empirical Research of Literature
Joaquin Trujillo
Mar 24, 2016
Literature is hermeneutics articulated to entertain and illuminate. It is a meaning-discovery-interpreting process. Literature, the art of thinking and language, creatively discloses the meaning of being human and deepens our...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Ethics of Affectivity and the Problem of Personhood
Frédéric Seyler
Dec 21, 2016
Michel Henry’s critique of barbarism,1 understood as a flight from life, almostimmediately raises the question of how life’s tendency to negate itself is then to beovercome. Undoubtedly, such a question refers to ethics....
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jaywalking Through Intersectionalities
Gerald A. J. de Montigny
Dec 23, 2016
Social workers, especially those who call for anti-oppressive practice, have embraced and promoted an analysis of intersectionality or the interlocking of oppression. These proponents view their work as critical, postmodern...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Doing Mad Studies
Richard A. Ingram
Dec 29, 2016
I am the person who is credited with having coined the term Mad Studies; here I explore how this new concept took shape.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“About Nothing Without Us”
Christopher B. R. Smith
Dec 29, 2016
Background: A growing body of literature demonstrates the value of autonomous organizations of people who use drugs (PUD) in education, mutual support, and policy debates. Simultaneously, over the past 10 years, Canada has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
How Can the Jazz Singer Improvise Through Vocalecosystems?
Jeri Brown
Aug 04, 2017
Knowledge of vocal improvised music, whether demonstrated by high or low obscure pitch sounds, the beating of the chest while making music sounds, vocal pitch matching or vocal animation with or without the use of technology...
Published by: The Singing Network
Public Discourses and the Intellectual Origins of Labrador Nationalism
Morgon Mills
Aug 22, 2017
Within the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Labrador has a distinct geographical and cultural identity satisfying many of the conditions of nationhood. In fact, given the ubiquity of nationalist symbolism and discourse in...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nietzsche and the Idea of God
David Leo Tracey
Mar 14, 2018
Nietzsche tells us that he is more interested in the idea of God than in God assuch. The idea of God is not a mind-independent entity; it is a human idea. Hewrites: “In former times, one sought to prove that there is no...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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