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Some of my Facebook friends might be interested in an upcoming conference organised by a fellow editor at Studies in Social Justice. The conference is titled "From Targeting in Academia to Promoting Trust and Understanding."

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I am pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of the journal Studies in Social Justice. The issue is available on-line, open-access and free of charge at https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/issue/view/248

Two MA Geography graduate students (Idris Khan, Helia Ahmadi) and one G&TS undergraduate students (Emily Mills) worked as editorial assistants on articles included in the issue.

Please find a table of contents below:

Studies in Social Justice, Volume 18, Issue 1

Special Issue: Activism, Resistance and Presence: Exploring Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies in Canada
Special Issue Editors: Chelsea Temple Jones, Abneet Atwal & Joanne Weber

Jones, C. T., Arwal, A., & Weber, J. (2024). Activism, resistance and presence: Exploring disabled children’s childhood studies in Canada (Editors’ Introduction). Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 1-13.

Nafisa, F., Wahid, K., Tanner, S., Alabssi, M., & Weber, J. (2024). Deaf to deaf (Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 14-15.

Weber, J. (2024). Making multiple deaf worlds intelligible: A posthumanist arts-based cartography of Apple Time. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 16-34.

Larcenciel, L. (2024). Tilting still thinking: A dialogue of autistic youth advocacy and nonspeaking truths (Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 35-43.

Collins, K., & McGonegal, J. (2024). Persistent narratives: Intellectual disability in Canadian children’s literature. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 44-58.

McGuire, A., Fritsch, K., & Trejos, E. (2024). Moving together towards collective access (Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 59-65.

Landry, D. (2024). A mad positive children’s book list. Studies in Social Justice, 18(4), 66-75.

Underwood, K., & Musleh, A. (2024). Children of Bill 82: Reflective histories of disability and childhood in Ontario, Canada. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 76-90.

Karmaris, M., & Davies, A. W. J. (2024). Cripping the story of overcoming: An analysis of the discourses and practices of self-regulation in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 91-102.

Moola, F. J., Moothathamby, N, Posa, S., & Naganathan, M. (2024). Portraits of iesistance: Exploring Intra-personal, social, and institutional resistances through the use of arts-based research among racialized parents of autistic children and youth. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 103-124.

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Articles

Miele, R., Root, J., Godderis, R., & Meerai, S. (2024). Towards a feminist research ethics of care: Reflections, lessons and methodological considerations for doing research during a pandemic. Studies in Social Justice, (18)1, 125-142.

Murry, A., & Patka, M. (2024). Critical consciousness is an individual difference: A test of measurement equivalence in American, Ukrainian, and Iranian universities. Studies in Social Justice, (18)1, 143-164.

Yadlin, A., & Klein-Shagrir, O. (2024). Public service media and diversity in the digital media landscape: Opportunities and limitations for social justice. Studies in Social Justice, (18)1, 165-179.

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Dispatches

Miramonti, A. (2024). Thomas Sankara: The unburied memory of an anticolonial leader. Studies in Social Justice, (18)1, 180-189.

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Creative Interventions

Bendevis, C. (2024). Weight of expectations. Studies in Social Justice, (18)1, 190-191.

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): Activism, Resistance and Presence: Exploring Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies in Canada | Studies in Social Justice The cover image is an unbroken daisy chain, a celebration of togetherness, interdependence and holding fast to community. In an ever-shifting landscape, the simplicity of the chain holds us to each other, through all cycles of growth.

Please join us tomorrow!

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Horizon Scholarship recipients on path to becoming tomorrow’s changemakers Potential. That’s what Denese Brown-Bell’s grandmother saw in her all those years ago. It’s also what Brown-Bell (MEd ’19) herself now recognizes in the many children she works with as an educator in the First Nations communities of ...

Applying to start in our Master of Arts in Geography program this Fall?

Prospective students are invited to attend this virtual Q&A session with our Graduate Program Director, Dr. Chris Fullerton.

📅 January 26, 2023
🕛 12 - 1 pm EST
📍 Online, MS Teams

https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/225476

Congratulations to MA in Geography grad, Aaron Nartey, on this new publication!

Socio-Economic Realities of Returned Immigrant Reintegration in Ghana: A Systematic Review Socio-Economic Realities of Returned Immigrant Reintegration in Ghana: A Systematic Review Aaron Nartey Issue: Vol.3 No.12 November 2022 Article 8 pp.613-635 DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20223128 | Published online 28th November 2022. © 2022 The Author(s). This

Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Kwao on the successful defense of his PhD thesis! 🎓🎉

Benjamin graduated from our Master of Arts in Geography program in 2017 and went on to continue his graduate studies in Geography at Trinity College Dublin. His research examined the poverty outcomes of the large and small-scale gold mining sectors on local people in Ghana under the supervision of Dr. Pádraig Carmody.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kwao!!



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Brock University Alumni

The Department of Geography and Tourism Studies would like to congratulate Master of Arts in Geography student, Jennica Giesbrecht,on the successful defence of her thesis titled “Intimate Deathscapes: Examining Alternative Discourses of the Dead Body and Death Care Spaces” as well as on the successful completion of all requirements for the MA in Geography.

Congratulations and thanks to Jennica's supervisory committee: Dr. Ebru Ustundag (Supervisor), Dr. David Butz (Committee Member), and Dr. Nancy Cook (Committee Member).

Many thanks as well to Jennica's External Examiner, Dr. Kate Woodthorpe (Co-Director of the Centre for Death and Society, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath), Defence Chair, Dr. Dawn Zinga, and Graduate Program Director, Dr. Christopher Fullerton.

Wishing you all the best with your future endeavours, Jennica!



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