De Leeuw
Biographic Data
| ID | 21279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | De Leeuw |
| FAMILY NAME | De Leeuw |
| SIGNATURE | DE LEEUW |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3837-9784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 567 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Pine
No current data captures total global numbers of menopausal or menopaused women. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), however, nearly 700,000,000 women in 2021 were between the age of 45 and 60, the age bracket when many people with uteruses enter perimenopause or menopausal years. Despite clarion calls more than a decade ago by feminist geographers about destigmatizing menopause and expanding menopause geographies, as of 2025 not a …
Charting Change in Health Humanities Education
Fully left justified? Poetry’s potential for relineating cultural geography and beyond
Tell Us When You’re Uncomfortable
Grounding Wellness
Authored by a small team of settler and Indigenous researchers, all of whom are deeply involved in scholarship and activism interrogating ongoing processes of coloniality in lands now known to many as Canada, this paper critically examines "social" and grounded determinants of Indigenous mental health and wellness. After placing ourselves on the grounds from which we write, we begin by providing an overview of the social determinants of health (S…
Framing Futurities in Photovoice, Health, and Environment
Anchored in critical analysis of a photovoice project, this article interrogates intersections between (1) health as it is tethered to ideas about the “future” and (2) worries about “the environment.” The ways the concepts of future, health and environment are dealt with by project participants suggest that arts-based research methods may be at risk of being seen as non-political spaces safe for people with privilege to envision some peoples as h…
Educating Medical Students’ “Hearts and Minds”
Well-documented disparities in health status persist between Indigenous and non- Indigenous people in Canada. Medical schools have a responsibility to address underlying causes of these inequities, in part by developing future physicians’ cultural humility and their capacities in cultural safety by increasing critical anti- racism knowledge and understandings about First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. Undergraduate medical education relies he…
The potential of poets and place
Mining sick
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burd…
Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities
In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and …
Unsettling decolonizing geographies
Geographers have long reflected on our discipline's colonial history. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous geographers have discussed ways of engaging Indigenous geographies and sought new ways of opening and expanding spaces for Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in our discipline. Like many social scientists, geographers name and frame this work in different ways; of late, decolonizing concepts and practices are increasin…
Turning a new page
Despite the recent Truth and Reconciliation Report in Canada, rates of Indigenous children being apprehended by the state remain disproportionality high when compared to non-Indigenous children. Starting with a critical decolonizing methodology, this article charts connections between historic and contemporary settler-colonial state interventions into lives and places of Indigenous families. We interrogate resiliencies of false settler-state logi…
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Writing as righting
This paper is anchored in two recent and concurrent openings, openings that offer opportunities for geographers to consider new modes of engaging colonial violence. The first opening is the release, in Canada, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and calls to action. By demanding new types of settler‐subject attention to Indigenous peoples and places, it opens new spaces for extending reflection about anti‐Indigenous racism a…
Critical geographies and geography’s creative re/turn
We are two feminist geographers working as practitioners and researchers in creative geographies and the discipline’s creative re/turn. Human geographers interested in new representational and non-representational methods and methodologies are, as we explore in this article, increasingly turning to artistic and creative modes of expression, including (amongst others) literary and visual arts, in which we are both involved. For some time now, we h…
Tender grounds
Indigeneity and ontology
State of care
This is a paper about child-welfare regulations, policies, and practices as they impact Indigenous families and communities. I take as my starting point that child welfare, and geographies of Indigenous homes and families, are under-scrutinized ontologies worthy of more investigation especially by geographers interested in understanding neo settler-colonial power - and how to unsettle it. I track historical logics of state intervention into Indig…
Intimate Stories
Guided by feminist and community-based participatory methodologies and by efforts to decolonize health research practices, and undertaken with qualitative research methods (interviews, open-ended questionnaires, and analysis of arts-based expressions like storytelling, journaling, and picture-making), this research identified challenges and barriers that (predominantly Aboriginal) women in northern British Columbia faced when trying to access sex…
Troubling good intentions
We are unequivocally in favor of much, much, more space opening up for Aboriginal peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in academic (and myriad other) spaces. We are worried, however, about a current lack of published critical engagement with policies and practices that appear, superficially, to support inclusivity and diversity of Indigenous peoples in academic institutions. We argue that, principally because such policies are inheren…
Creativity and Geography
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSallie A. MarstonDr. Marston is a professor of geography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721; [[email protected]].Sarah De leeuwDr. de Leeuw is an assistant professor in the Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Col…
Alice through the looking glass
With Reserves
Health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples persist globally. Northern interior British Columbia, where many Indigenous people live on Indian 1 1. Canada's constitution recognizes unique relations with three distinct groups of peoples: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. “Indian” is a problematic misnaming of these Indigenous peoples used herein for historical accuracy only. reserves allocated in the late nineteenth century, is …
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Colonialism and the Tensioned Landscapes of Indigeneity
Unsettling decolonizing geographies
Geographers have long reflected on our discipline's colonial history. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous geographers have discussed ways of engaging Indigenous geographies and sought new ways of opening and expanding spaces for Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in our discipline. Like many social scientists, geographers name and frame this work in different ways; of late, decolonizing concepts and practices are increasin…
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Creativity and Geography
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSallie A. MarstonDr. Marston is a professor of geography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721; [[email protected]].Sarah De leeuwDr. de Leeuw is an assistant professor in the Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Col…
Critical geographies and geography’s creative re/turn
We are two feminist geographers working as practitioners and researchers in creative geographies and the discipline’s creative re/turn. Human geographers interested in new representational and non-representational methods and methodologies are, as we explore in this article, increasingly turning to artistic and creative modes of expression, including (amongst others) literary and visual arts, in which we are both involved. For some time now, we h…
Tender grounds
Indigeneity and ontology
Intimate colonialisms
The theoretical premise of this paper is that place is an unbounded material, social and cultural agent within and through which practices of colonialism were enacted in British Columbia. Specifically, the places of British Columbia's 'Indian' residential schools, and the subjects who occupied them, are conceptualized as intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas that were predicated on policies of assimilation, en…
Alice through the looking glass
State of care
This is a paper about child-welfare regulations, policies, and practices as they impact Indigenous families and communities. I take as my starting point that child welfare, and geographies of Indigenous homes and families, are under-scrutinized ontologies worthy of more investigation especially by geographers interested in understanding neo settler-colonial power - and how to unsettle it. I track historical logics of state intervention into Indig…
If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young’
Although not fully conceptualized as such by geographers, children and concepts of childhood were focal points of colonialism. Well into the twentieth century, Aboriginal peoples in Canada were discursively constructed by colonists as child-like subjects in need of colonial intervention in order that they 'grow up' into de-Indigenized Canadian citizens. Further, an important aspect of the colonial project entailed confining Aboriginal children in…
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Writing as righting
This paper is anchored in two recent and concurrent openings, openings that offer opportunities for geographers to consider new modes of engaging colonial violence. The first opening is the release, in Canada, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and calls to action. By demanding new types of settler‐subject attention to Indigenous peoples and places, it opens new spaces for extending reflection about anti‐Indigenous racism a…
With Reserves
Health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples persist globally. Northern interior British Columbia, where many Indigenous people live on Indian 1 1. Canada's constitution recognizes unique relations with three distinct groups of peoples: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. “Indian” is a problematic misnaming of these Indigenous peoples used herein for historical accuracy only. reserves allocated in the late nineteenth century, is …
Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities
In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and …
Mining sick
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burd…
A Sorry State
Hegemony is a preferred mode of governance. Because it relies more heavily on consent than on coercion, it tends to produce a more willing, and less resistant, citizenry. By its nature, hegemony depends crucially upon a widely shared, common-sensical view that elites are acting in the interests of those being governed, and this common sense underpins the legitimacy and authority of those in power. Failure to maintain such legitimacy can produce m…
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Framing Futurities in Photovoice, Health, and Environment
Anchored in critical analysis of a photovoice project, this article interrogates intersections between (1) health as it is tethered to ideas about the “future” and (2) worries about “the environment.” The ways the concepts of future, health and environment are dealt with by project participants suggest that arts-based research methods may be at risk of being seen as non-political spaces safe for people with privilege to envision some peoples as h…
Session Jumping at the AAG
Double Dutch
Intimate colonialisms
The theoretical premise of this paper is that place is an unbounded material, social and cultural agent within and through which practices of colonialism were enacted in British Columbia. Specifically, the places of British Columbia's 'Indian' residential schools, and the subjects who occupied them, are conceptualized as intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas that were predicated on policies of assimilation, en…
Session Jumping at the AAG
Deviant Constructions
If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young’
Although not fully conceptualized as such by geographers, children and concepts of childhood were focal points of colonialism. Well into the twentieth century, Aboriginal peoples in Canada were discursively constructed by colonists as child-like subjects in need of colonial intervention in order that they 'grow up' into de-Indigenized Canadian citizens. Further, an important aspect of the colonial project entailed confining Aboriginal children in…
Colonialism and the Tensioned Landscapes of Indigeneity
A Sorry State
Hegemony is a preferred mode of governance. Because it relies more heavily on consent than on coercion, it tends to produce a more willing, and less resistant, citizenry. By its nature, hegemony depends crucially upon a widely shared, common-sensical view that elites are acting in the interests of those being governed, and this common sense underpins the legitimacy and authority of those in power. Failure to maintain such legitimacy can produce m…
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Alice through the looking glass
With Reserves
Health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples persist globally. Northern interior British Columbia, where many Indigenous people live on Indian 1 1. Canada's constitution recognizes unique relations with three distinct groups of peoples: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. “Indian” is a problematic misnaming of these Indigenous peoples used herein for historical accuracy only. reserves allocated in the late nineteenth century, is …
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Intimate Stories
Guided by feminist and community-based participatory methodologies and by efforts to decolonize health research practices, and undertaken with qualitative research methods (interviews, open-ended questionnaires, and analysis of arts-based expressions like storytelling, journaling, and picture-making), this research identified challenges and barriers that (predominantly Aboriginal) women in northern British Columbia faced when trying to access sex…
Troubling good intentions
We are unequivocally in favor of much, much, more space opening up for Aboriginal peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in academic (and myriad other) spaces. We are worried, however, about a current lack of published critical engagement with policies and practices that appear, superficially, to support inclusivity and diversity of Indigenous peoples in academic institutions. We argue that, principally because such policies are inheren…
Creativity and Geography
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSallie A. MarstonDr. Marston is a professor of geography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721; [[email protected]].Sarah De leeuwDr. de Leeuw is an assistant professor in the Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Col…
Indigeneity and ontology
State of care
This is a paper about child-welfare regulations, policies, and practices as they impact Indigenous families and communities. I take as my starting point that child welfare, and geographies of Indigenous homes and families, are under-scrutinized ontologies worthy of more investigation especially by geographers interested in understanding neo settler-colonial power - and how to unsettle it. I track historical logics of state intervention into Indig…
Tender grounds
Turning a new page
Despite the recent Truth and Reconciliation Report in Canada, rates of Indigenous children being apprehended by the state remain disproportionality high when compared to non-Indigenous children. Starting with a critical decolonizing methodology, this article charts connections between historic and contemporary settler-colonial state interventions into lives and places of Indigenous families. We interrogate resiliencies of false settler-state logi…
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Writing as righting
This paper is anchored in two recent and concurrent openings, openings that offer opportunities for geographers to consider new modes of engaging colonial violence. The first opening is the release, in Canada, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and calls to action. By demanding new types of settler‐subject attention to Indigenous peoples and places, it opens new spaces for extending reflection about anti‐Indigenous racism a…
Critical geographies and geography’s creative re/turn
We are two feminist geographers working as practitioners and researchers in creative geographies and the discipline’s creative re/turn. Human geographers interested in new representational and non-representational methods and methodologies are, as we explore in this article, increasingly turning to artistic and creative modes of expression, including (amongst others) literary and visual arts, in which we are both involved. For some time now, we h…
Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities
In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and …
Unsettling decolonizing geographies
Geographers have long reflected on our discipline's colonial history. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous geographers have discussed ways of engaging Indigenous geographies and sought new ways of opening and expanding spaces for Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in our discipline. Like many social scientists, geographers name and frame this work in different ways; of late, decolonizing concepts and practices are increasin…
Educating Medical Students’ “Hearts and Minds”
Well-documented disparities in health status persist between Indigenous and non- Indigenous people in Canada. Medical schools have a responsibility to address underlying causes of these inequities, in part by developing future physicians’ cultural humility and their capacities in cultural safety by increasing critical anti- racism knowledge and understandings about First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. Undergraduate medical education relies he…
The potential of poets and place
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (19 works) · Colonialism (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (14 works) · Indigenous (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (9 works)