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Adoption as Political History [Review of Laura Briggs, Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption]
Download2012
The article reviews the book \"Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption,\" by Laura Briggs.
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2009
In this article, we use narratives of cultural identity among U.S. parents of children adopted from China to conceptually explore the ideas that underwrite socially intelligible kinship. Although these narratives address the cultural heritage of the child, we find that they also perform a kind of...
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Community Engagement in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Academic Dispositions, Institutional Dilemmas
Download2015
Dorow, Sara, Acuña, Nicole Smith
Engaged scholarship is increasingly concerned with how community engagement might be institutionalized in the contemporary university. At the same time, it must be attentive to diverse academic approaches to knowledge and to the forms of engagement associated with them. Attention to this...
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2015-01-18
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Demos: Life in Common is the theme of 2015's Banff Research in Culture research residency. During the three weeks of this residency, participants are Invited to consider critically and analytically the varied ways in which we constitute and experience collective life in...
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2016-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: Despite scientific consensus about the environmental costs of petrocarbon use and increasing political desire for energy transition, our societies remain fully dependent on fossil fuels. This research explores the ability---or inability---of contemporary culture to address...
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2013-12-18
SSHRC Awarded CG 2014: Every summer, the Institute on Culture and Society (ICS) gathers international scholars for an intensive five-day academic conference. Building on this tradition, the 2014 Institute will, for the first time in ICS history, focus its innovative research capacities on a...
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2016-10-17
Insight Grant funded in 2017. the world of the present is a 'Petroculture', where cultural, economic, ideological, legal and political relationships --locally and globally-- have been shaped by oil and its networks of power. Energy transition demands social transformation. This research is...
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2021-11-14
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: Intersectionality captures how inequality, privilege, and marginalization are formed at the confluence of gender, racialized status, class, sexuality, ability, and other social dimensions. Academics, policymakers, and the community sector have increasingly recognized the...