Browsing by Author "Smart, Josephine"

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    A philosophy of pragmatism: Canadian instructors' take on taekwon-do
    (2000) Czarnecki, Marzena Adriana; Smart, Josephine
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    Changes of guanxi in eastern Chinese villages since 1949
    (2010) Pang, Lijun; Smart, Josephine
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    Coping in Cardenas, Cuba: the meaning of a 'special period'
    (2002) Fisher, Catherine; Smart, Josephine
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    Experiences of aboriginal HIV/AIDS programs in Calgary: the great teacher of compassion
    (2002) Romero Vivas, Isabel Laura; Smart, Josephine
    This is a qualitative study of how the urban Aboriginal population in Calgary, Alberta, Canada faces HIV/AIDS. It strives to understand how a global disease is translated within a particular historical and social context. Contemporary Native people face many social challenges, a consequence of colonisation, Residential Schools and historical and on-going racism. HIV/ AIDS Aboriginal prevention agencies try to combine Western and Native perspectives, but they privilege the western one, since they are planned, implemented and funded by non- Aboriginal initiatives. According to Native people, HIV/ AIDS is the Great Teacher of Compassion that "is here to teach the people how to live again as partners, families and communities". A "culturally appropriate" prevention model would acknowledge history and follow a wholistic health approach, involving body, mind, emotions and spirit. It would involve Aboriginals at all stages of the program, since HIV/AIDS is closely related to identity processes, self-esteem, Treaty rights and re-gaining self-control.
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    Formalization as confinement in colonial Hong Kong
    (2016-08) Smart, Alan; Smart, Josephine
    The nature of informal economies is structured by conflict between governmental strategies of confinement, to places, times, and how things are done, and the transgression of these confines by informal actors in pursuit of survival or advantage. We examine the influential development program of formalization in the context of these conflicts. Informality can be formalized in two ways, by eradication and by regularization. Building on our past ethnographic research on informality, we use released confidential Hong Kong colonial government documents to explore the informal discussions among policy makers about how to respond to informal practices, and how their understanding of street vendors influences their chose of confinement strategies. While insisting on eradication for squatters, various forms of regularization were attempted for street vendors.
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    Immigrant entrepreneurship and transcultural dynamics – A study of Chinese businesses in the grocery and restaurant sectors in contemporary Panama and Belize
    (2015-05) Smart, Josephine; Smart, Alan
    This paper focuses on Chinese dominance in the grocery and restaurant sectors in Panama and Belize. Drawing on data collected in 2015 and 2013 respectively, we examine emerging and expanding economic and social linkages between China and Central America. Rapid expansion of Chinese ownership in the grocery retail sector in Panama and Belize provides a focus to explore the conditions, practices and specific entanglements of transnational social, cultural, policy and economic links that shape the economic and social integration of recent Chinese immigrants in these two countries, and its impact on local people and society. First, we are interested in whether the scale of a Chinese enterprise operating across cultural boundaries influences business practices. Second, we are interested in how kinship networks, regional ties and dialectical origins affect migration decisions, and how these processes contribute to social, economic and political integration of Chinese immigrants in the host countries.
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    Mexican migrant workers: Are they the image of a global village?
    (1999) Gardner, Keri J.; Smart, Josephine
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