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- ItemOpen AccessThe Burgeoning Field of Gender, Work & Organization: Some thoughts on the 6th Biennial International Conference of the journal Gender, Work and Organisation (GWO2010)(2012-02-06) Banerjee, PallaviIn the last twenty years, the Gender, Work, and Organization (GWO) Journal has made a significant contribution towards advancing the field of social science inquiry. As the GWO journal has grown in institutional strength, it has facilitated the organization of a biennial international interdisciplinary conference series, alongside an international workshop programme. Conference themes cover a wide variety of issues in the field of gender, work, and organization emerging from recent scholarship in the field. This report is an analysis of what the conference, and its contents, depicts about the field of gender, work, and organization in contemporary times. I present an overview of how the field has developed in the last 20 years, followed by an analysis of what the 6th biennial GWO conference suggests about where the field is, where it may be headed, and some consideration for future developments.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Consumption of Music as a Construction of Self(University of Calgary, 2020-04) Kuk, BryanThe construction of self has been a divisive topic within the realm of sociology in the past century. Theorists such as Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, as well as Pierre Bourdieu have either explicitly constructed a theory relating to the construction of self through the discussion of primary or secondary socialization, or implicitly through the theory of the habitus respectively. These theories come together similarly, that the self should be regarded as a singular entity that is determined in early socialization, and ideas that compete against the established notion of the self are readily discarded and neglected. However, with the introduction of Bayesian theory that proposes the self is produced in a multi-faceted manner, argues against the construction of the self as a rigid entity incapable of changing. In this paper, beginning with a description of Tia DeNora's research on the usage of music in everyday life, the author compares the empirical evidence that DeNora discovered in her usage of qualitative interviews with the existing theories on the self, and proposes that the self can be better described through a multi-faceted framework by reconciling with concepts such as dramaturgy posed by Erving Goffman and the cultural toolkit posed by Ann Swidler. Although the goal of the paper is to create a coherent theory on how the construction of the self is better understood, it may fall short in that regard. Hopefully, it paves the way for further research and theorization towards how the self should be interpreted as using music as corroborating evidence.
- ItemOpen AccessData-Driven Governance, Smart Urbanism and Risk-Class Inequalities: Security and Social Credit in China(2020-04) Curran, Dean; Smart, AlanThis paper contributes to the politicization of the smart urbanism and data-driven governance by making visible some of the potential inequalities emerging from these transitions through a provisional risk-class analysis. To pursue this analysis, it focuses on the case of smart urbanism and its associated process of data-driven governance in China, focusing specifically on the manner in which Chinese smart urbanism, in terms of its security measures, including widespread use of facial recognition, and the roll-out of social credit scoring, is affecting inequalities. This paper proposes risk-class analysis as a toolbox that can pose new questions in the search for what types of potential risks and inequalities emerging from smart urbanism and data-driven governance as is being rolled out in the Chinese context.
- ItemOpen AccessDoes Labor Matter? Institutions, Labor Unions and Pension Reform in France and the United States(Cambridge University Press, 2001) Béland, Daniel
- ItemOpen AccessGender and Law Through the Lens of Land, Hunger and Terror(Routledge, 2021-03-04) Banerjee, Pallavi; Nasiri, PedromIn this chapter, the authors approach the concept of gender and its relationship to the law from the perspective of 'southern theory'. Working from this standpoint, they will introduce three themes: gendered contestation over land; the gendered politics of hunger; and the social analysis of terror and queer subjectivities. In an important collection of Aboriginal writings in Australia, called Our Land is Our Life, Marcia Langton argues that in the face of colonial violence, women's system of law and older women's ties to place were crucial to community survival. Carter argues that, as such, the duties of Indigenous women as kin-persons, wives, or mothers become incomprehensible under the settler-colonial system without reference to law and legal categories. The combination of a 'southern theory' perspective with an intersectional gender analysis reveals how law shapes land rights; controls access to food for women; and configures terror, especially in the interactions of the Global South with the North.
- ItemOpen AccessGender and the Resettlement of Yazidis in Calgary: A Deep Dive in the Resettlement, Health, Carework and Education Processes(2020-11) Banerjee, Pallavi; Coakley, Annalee L.; Narula, Bindu; Saheb Javaher, Negin; Theodore, Rowena; Thraya, SophiaFeminist scholars of refugee and immigration studies have shown gender to be the organizing principle for resettlement experiences of newcomers. This chapter, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, focuses on how the gendered needs of the Yazidi refugee families in Calgary shaped their resettlement services and experiences. Based on keen observations by staff at the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society and the physicians and healthcare providers at the Mosaic Refugee Clinic in Calgary, combined with in-depth interviews conducted by University of Calgary researchers with nearly all Yazidi families in Calgary (45 families that include 241 family members) we focus on four key aspects: 1. Restructuring of the resettlement program by CCIS to meet the needs of Yazidi women and men, but mainly women; 2. Readjusting healthcare services by gender at the refugee clinic; 3. Care provisions in the families of the Yazidis that was fulfilled by women (internal and external to the families) care providers; and 4. Gendered and un-gendered educational outcomes for the children in Yazidi families. We argue that centring gender-based needs of the Yazidi community in the resettlement services have resulted in a feminist reorientation of the resettlement services and experiences of the Yazidis in Calgary.
- ItemOpen Access“If a girl’s photo gets sent around, that’s a way bigger deal than if a guy’s photo gets sent around”: Gender, sexting, and the teenage years(Taylor and Francis, 2018-12-13) Ricciardelli, Rosemary; Adorjan, MichaelYouth, particularly female teens, are encouraged to self-monitor and be responsible for their actions online in order to avoid harm from cyberbullying, ‘sexting,’ and other forms of cyber-risk. Highlighting findings from 35 focus groups with Canadian teens regarding sexting, we show the continued saliency of a gendered double-standard applied to the online distribution of nudes. Our sample of male and female teens (n=115) from urban and rural regions, aged 13-19, underscores the relatively lower ‘stakes’ involved with sexting for male teens. We explore this trend with specific reference to the salience of hegemonic masculinities and the gendered aspects of public and private spaces, both online and offline. Public exposure of nudes has potentially serious stigmatizing consequences for youth. We highlight teen experiences sending and receiving images of male penises (‘dick pics’), which is an under-researched aspect of sexting. We show the relative ubiquity of receiving ‘dick pics’ among female teens, exploring various reactions, and male motivations for doing so from male and female standpoints. Policy implications are discussed with specific reference to school-based cyber-safety programs, which our participants indicate remain highly-gendered, neglecting epistemological questions around male experiences and responsibility.
- ItemOpen AccessInstrumental and socioemotional communications in doctor-patient interactions in urban and rural clinics(BioMed Central, 2013-07-08) Desjarlais-deKlerk, Kristen; Wallace, Jean E
- ItemOpen AccessA Long Financial March: Pension Reform in China(Cambridge University Press, 2004) Béland, Daniel; Yu, Ka Man
- ItemOpen AccessMapping hospice patients’ perception and verbal communication of end-of-life needs: an exploratory mixed methods inquiry(BioMed Central, 2011-01-27) Arnold, Bruce L.
- ItemOpen AccessNationalism and social policy in Canada and Quebec(Routledge, 2005) Béland, Daniel; Lecours, André
- ItemOpen AccessNationalism, Public Policy, and Institutional Development: Social Security in Belgium(Cambridge University Press, 2005) Béland, Daniel; Lecours, André
- ItemOpen AccessA new privacy paradox? Youth agentic practices of privacy management despite 'nothing to hide' online(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2018-07-02) Adorjan, Michael; Ricciardelli, RosemaryFocus groups conducted with Canadian teenagers examining their perceptions and experiences with cyber-risk, center on various privacy strategies geared for impression management across popular social network sites. We highlight privacy concerns as a primary reason for a gravitation away from Facebook towards newer, more popular sites such as Instagram and Snapchat, as well as debates about the permeability of privacy on Snapchat in particular. The privacy paradox identifies a disjuncture between what is said about privacy and what is done in practice. It refers to declarations from youth that they are highly concerned for privacy, yet frequently disregard privacy online through ‘oversharing’ and neglecting privacy management. However, our participants, especially older teens, invoked a different mindset: that they have ‘nothing to hide’ online and therefore do not consider privacy relevant for them. Despite this mindset, the strategies we highlight suggest a new permutation of the privacy paradox, rooted in a pragmatic adaptation to the technological affordances of social network sites, and wider societal acquiescence to the debasement of privacy online.
- ItemOpen AccessParental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ understandings and responses to parental digital mediation(University of Lodz, 2022-04) Adorjan, Michael; Ricciardelli, Rosemary; Saleh, TinaResearch on parental mediation of children’s online engagements situate historically longstanding anxieties within the dynamics of present-day information communications technologies (i.e., concerns over new ‘cyber risks’ as well as opportunities). Yet, there remains a lack of emphasis on children’s own reactions to and experiences with parental strategies and responses. In the current article, we highlight research involving semi-structured focus groups (n=35) with Canadian teenagers (n=115). We highlight themes directly related to parental digital mediation, including the role of ICTs in driving addictive behaviours, social connection, differences in parental responses between sons and daughters, and differences with respect to age and birth order. Our discussions reveal qualified support for parental efforts to restrict access and use of digital technologies, but illuminate multifaceted reasons for resistance: their vital role not only for social connection, but access to crucial information and knowledge.
- ItemOpen AccessPlaying Gender: An Analysis of Femininity in the Popular Culture Phenomenon League of Legends(2019-05-11) Kuk, Bryan; Tézli, AnnetteVideo games are immensely popular in contemporary society, and it conveys explicit and implicit messages to the consumer. The author investigates the presence of gender portrayal and how the popular culture phenomenon League of Legends depict and represent women. The author analyzes its content, such as roles and appearances, to develop an understanding of its accuracies regarding femininity in the game, and to expand upon the general body of knowledge on video games. A literature review was conducted by the author analyzing the presence of gender in various forms of media (books, television etc.), and gender in video games, and how women are portrayed in them. As prior literature shows, women are underrepresented, stereotyped, and presented in a sexualized manner. The author contends that media including video games, have an impact on an individual’s identity, socializing them to imitate the content that they see in video games under the pretense that it is ‘normal’ and ‘the way it is’ in reality. As a result, the author draws on the theories posited by George Gerbner and Ann Swidler in order to explain the implications of their theories on socialization. The author then engages in a qualitative content analysis of the roles in the game, and twelve female characters or ‘champions’ in League of Legends to uncover any themes or patterns, in relation to their roles, personality traits, occupation, and appearances etc. In addition, the author briefly discusses the male characters in the game to understand if the results on the female characters were unique only to them and not the male characters. Results suggest that women were more likely to be placed in typically male-coded roles, such as leaders and protectors, but at the expense of being depicted in scantily-clad clothing and sexualized manners. Presented research reflect some of the conclusions drawn in previous studies, but opens the field of video games to more research topics regarding League of Legends as a case study. It is an evolving video game with new content added frequently, as a result, the game can be re-investigated to explore developments on gender representations of men and women.
- ItemOpen AccessRace and Ethnicity in the Lives of LGBTQ Parents and Their Children: Perspectives from and Beyond North America(Springer Nature Switzerland AG : LBGTQ-Parent Families, 2020-04-04) Brainer, Amy; Moore, Mignon R.; Banerjee, PallaviLGBTQ people of color in North America are raising children in significant numbers and are more likely than are White LGBTQ people to have children under 18 living in their homes. Emerging data point as well to significant numbers of queer parents globally, including many queer people who are raising children in the Global South and who are often left out of the discourse about LGBTQ-parent families. Rather than simply adding such families to existing models, scholars need to radically rethink the assumptions and models that we have built based on narrow samples of White, North American lesbian and gay parents. This chapter highlights theoretical insights and themes from a growing body of work on LGBTQ parenting in US communities of color and in global and transnational contexts. We explore demographic characteristics, structural inequalities, pathways to parenthood, and the rich variation in ways that heteronormative definitions of family are constructed and contested in and beyond North America. The studies we review recognize race, ethnicity, citizenship, and colonial legacies as central to the possibilities for queer family formation and to the daily lives of LGBTQ parents and their children.
- ItemOpen AccessResettling Yazidi Refugee Families in Calgary by Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS): A Home Assessment Qualitative Report 2020-21(2022-03-25) Banerjee, Pallavi; Negin, Saheb Javaher; Thraya, Sophia; Short, Tanner; Korsha, Souzan; Khandelwal, ChetnaThe following report is a summary of the results of a larger research project on the resettlement of Yazidi refugees in Calgary as part of Canada’s humanitarian response to the ISIS-led genocide in Iraq. This study is in collaboration with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society’s (CCIS) home assessment initiative. CCIS is the main agency responsible for the resettlement of Yazidi refugees in Canada. Alongside covering the main areas of Yazidi resettlement in Canada, each section of this report combines perspectives of Yazidi refugees and perspectives of CCIS practitioners with sociological insights of the research team led by Dr. Pallavi Banerjee. The overarching goal is to provide a coherent and well-rounded understanding of nuanced challenges and successes accompanying the resettlement of this group, followed by key recommendations for CCIS and Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
- ItemOpen AccessRisk society and Marxism: Beyond simple antagonism(Sage, 2015-09-10) Curran, DeanMoving beyond Beck’s explicit opposition to Marx’s understanding of society, this article proposes to explore some of the deeper commonalities between Marxism and Beck’s theory of risk society. Rather than remaining at the level of propositional claims about society, at which Marx and Beck are opposed in several important ways, this article proposes to analyze these theories in terms of their key commonalities in the problem situations they address. In particular, this article identifies how both of these theories explore the implications of the development of productive forces and the resulting humanisation of nature in the context of widespread social estrangement. This article then identifies key commonalities in the structure of the theoretical solutions that each theory employs to address their commonly held problem situation. In this way, this article rethinks the relationship between Beck and Marx, as well as suggesting alternative ways of re-appropriating classical social theory.
- ItemOpen AccessRisk, Innovation, and Democracy in the Digital Economy(Sage, 2017-06-01) Curran, DeanThe study of digital economies and the sociology of risk have, with few exceptions, a relationship of benign mutual neglect despite possible important connections between the two. This article aims to bridge the gap between these two fields using Beck’s theory of risk society to explore how the digital economy’s momentum of innovation is generating risks and limiting the scope of existing democratic decision-making via the power of the digital economy to create social faits accomplis outside of democratic control. Three specific risks emerging from the dynamics of innovation of digital economies are discussed as vignettes to illustrate these developments: (1) the remaking of interpersonal co-presence and solitary life; (2) the growing threats of AI to intensify unemployment and inequality; and (3) the impact on the environment of an ‘always on’ and ‘always upgrading’ digital communication ecosystem. With the gap between the potential and the actual use value of the digitalization of the infrastructure of life continuing to grow, this article argues that a different relationship between digital innovation and private and public spheres needs to be established to protect the effectiveness of contemporary democracy.
- ItemOpen AccessSmall area contextual effects on selfreported health: Evidence from Riverside, Calgary(BioMed Central, 2010-05-20) Godley, Jenny; Haines, Valerie A.; Hawe, Penelope; Shiell, Alan