Fiona Moola
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 165503 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fiona Moola |
| NOMBRES | Fiona |
| APELLIDO | Moola |
| FIRMA | MOOLA F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9803-8514 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Biocultural families and leaders
This study leverages an Indigenous-led call for connectivity research in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, as an opportunity to show the power of ‘connectivity science’ to serve Indigenous Peoples’ environmental priorities. In line with the directive of Elders Murdena and Albert Marshall to deactivate and replace inappropriate metaphors for conservation practice, we innovate and demonstrate a biocultural families and leaders approach to select…
“Blackness, Blood, and Borders
The lives, selves, and social worlds of racialized disabled children and their parents have been hidden and silenced under the weight of grand metanarratives about the white disabled child. In this way, the centrality of the white disabled Eurocentric child is a symbolic violence that has erased the lives of other children, especially Black children and their families. In this qualitative interpretive study, we utilized a theoretically informed a…
Engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities in global policy development for the conservation and sustainable use of wild food plants
Wild Food Plants (WFPs) are edible species that grow without cultivation in forests, grasslands, field margins, and other natural and semi-natural spaces. They play a central role in the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LCs) and have significant nutritional and nutraceutical value. Despite the importance of Indigenous knowledge and local practices in the stewardship of WFPs, IP&LCs have largely been under-r…
When minority language persistence is not enough
Local ecological knowledge is an essential element of the Alpine biocultural diversity and is often linked to minority languages. However, its continuity does not necessarily correspond to the persistence of these languages. This study investigates how knowledge of wild plants (and mushrooms) is transmitted and transformed among three minority-language communities in the Italian Alps: Cimbrian, Mòcheno, and Ladin speakers. Ethnobotanical data wer…
Mish, Bogs, and Berries
Heathlands are a significant land cover type across the circumpolar boreal biome. A growing body of knowledge has developed around the ecology of heathland ecosystems, but little work has been done to document their cultural significance to Indigenous Peoples. In this study, we integrate plot-based vegetation surveys, a desktop review of Indigenous Mi’kmaq ethnobotany, and interviews with Miawpukek First Nation community members to understand Ind…
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
Exploring assisted dying policies for mature minors
Different policy approaches are associated with assisted dying (including/excluding mature minors). • The Dutch and Belgian approach was parliamentary; Canada was primarily judiciary. • Patient suffering emphasized for Dutch/Belgian context, contrasting human rights in Canada. • Assisted dying eligibility is consistently competence-focused—Canada only applies to adults. • Canada lacks strong social consensus on MAID for mature minors. Medical Ass…
The potential for Indigenous-led conservation in urbanized landscapes in Canada
Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are an important pathway and governance system for area-based conservation led by Indigenous Peoples. While IPCAs have been established across rural and northern regions of Canada, they have received little attention in urbanized landscapes, even though all of Canada’s urban areas coincide with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis territory (and thereby underlying Indigenous jurisdiction) and the majori…
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective part II
In part 1 of our review of the biocultural conservation literature - conducted in 2019 - we utilized a rapid appraisal approach to determine that while the biocultural perspective was born within the action-oriented and Indigenous People and Local Community (IPLC)-Centered Declaration of Belém, the subsequent scientific discussion remained largely in a conceptual holding pattern. In Part 2, we reengage the literature later in time - mid-2021 - an…
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice
Decolonial conservation
Extractive capitalism has long been the driving force of settler colonialism in Canada, and continues to threaten the sovereignty, lands and waters of Indigenous nations across the country. While ostensibly counterposed to extractivism, state-led conservation has similarly served to alienate Indigenous peoples from their territories, often for capitalist gain. Recognizing the inadequacy of the colonial-capitalist conservation paradigm to redress …
Forging friendships
Historically, the ‘ivory tower’ has been guarded in its approach to educating students with disabilities. Further, these students’ physical activity experiences have been greatly neglected in the existing scholarship. Drawing on the phenomenological research tradition and affective theories – which offer unique opportunities to foreground the body and emotions in knowledge – in this study, I explored the experience and phenomena of physical activ…
Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance
Substantial increases in the pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation will be required to abate the ongoing loss of global biodiversity and simultaneous ecological degradation. Concurrently, the need for conservation to respect inherent human rights, including the rights and title of Indigenous Peoples, is increasingly recognized. Here, we describe the often overlooked role that resurgent Indigenous-led governance could have in driving rapi…
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center
Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health and here we build upon that work by examining the associations between comprehensive greenspace metrics and health. We focused on a large urban population center (Toronto, Canada) and related the two domains by combining high-resolution satellite imagery and individual tree data from Toronto with questionnaire-based self-reports of general health perception, cardio-metabolic conditio…
The Heartbeat of Hamilton
Traditionally, children's 'voices' have been underrepresented in the field of cultural geography. Rather, 'adultist views' dominate. In this article, we describe the methodological process of undertaking a comprehensive, participatory action visual methodologies project known as the Hamilton Photovoice Project (HPP) with children from low socioeconomic status neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We also discuss the lessons that we have lea…
Supporting participation in physical education at school in youth with type 1 diabetes
It is not clear how best to support youth with type 1 diabetes to participate in physical education (PE) at school. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of facilitators and barriers to PE in youth with type 1 diabetes and to determine how schools can help these individuals to be physically active. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with youth with type 1 diabetes aged 7–9 ( n = 8) and 12–14 ( n = 8) years with type 1 diabetes,…
Toward an understanding of children’s perceptions of their transport geographies
The Perceptions of Caregivers Toward Physical Activity and Health in Youth with Congenital Heart Disease
Medical advances have reduced mortality in youth with congenital heart disease (CHD). Although physical activity is associated with enhanced quality of life, most patients are inactive. By addressing medical and psychological barriers, previous literature has reproduced discourses of individualism which position cardiac youth as personally responsible for physical inactivity. Few sociological investigations have sought to address the influence of…
Toward an understanding of children’s perceptions of their transport geographies
Decolonial conservation
Extractive capitalism has long been the driving force of settler colonialism in Canada, and continues to threaten the sovereignty, lands and waters of Indigenous nations across the country. While ostensibly counterposed to extractivism, state-led conservation has similarly served to alienate Indigenous peoples from their territories, often for capitalist gain. Recognizing the inadequacy of the colonial-capitalist conservation paradigm to redress …
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
The Heartbeat of Hamilton
Traditionally, children's 'voices' have been underrepresented in the field of cultural geography. Rather, 'adultist views' dominate. In this article, we describe the methodological process of undertaking a comprehensive, participatory action visual methodologies project known as the Hamilton Photovoice Project (HPP) with children from low socioeconomic status neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We also discuss the lessons that we have lea…
The Perceptions of Caregivers Toward Physical Activity and Health in Youth with Congenital Heart Disease
Medical advances have reduced mortality in youth with congenital heart disease (CHD). Although physical activity is associated with enhanced quality of life, most patients are inactive. By addressing medical and psychological barriers, previous literature has reproduced discourses of individualism which position cardiac youth as personally responsible for physical inactivity. Few sociological investigations have sought to address the influence of…
Supporting participation in physical education at school in youth with type 1 diabetes
It is not clear how best to support youth with type 1 diabetes to participate in physical education (PE) at school. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of facilitators and barriers to PE in youth with type 1 diabetes and to determine how schools can help these individuals to be physically active. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with youth with type 1 diabetes aged 7–9 ( n = 8) and 12–14 ( n = 8) years with type 1 diabetes,…
Toward an understanding of children’s perceptions of their transport geographies
The Perceptions of Caregivers Toward Physical Activity and Health in Youth with Congenital Heart Disease
Medical advances have reduced mortality in youth with congenital heart disease (CHD). Although physical activity is associated with enhanced quality of life, most patients are inactive. By addressing medical and psychological barriers, previous literature has reproduced discourses of individualism which position cardiac youth as personally responsible for physical inactivity. Few sociological investigations have sought to address the influence of…
Supporting participation in physical education at school in youth with type 1 diabetes
It is not clear how best to support youth with type 1 diabetes to participate in physical education (PE) at school. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of facilitators and barriers to PE in youth with type 1 diabetes and to determine how schools can help these individuals to be physically active. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with youth with type 1 diabetes aged 7–9 ( n = 8) and 12–14 ( n = 8) years with type 1 diabetes,…
Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center
Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health and here we build upon that work by examining the associations between comprehensive greenspace metrics and health. We focused on a large urban population center (Toronto, Canada) and related the two domains by combining high-resolution satellite imagery and individual tree data from Toronto with questionnaire-based self-reports of general health perception, cardio-metabolic conditio…
The Heartbeat of Hamilton
Traditionally, children's 'voices' have been underrepresented in the field of cultural geography. Rather, 'adultist views' dominate. In this article, we describe the methodological process of undertaking a comprehensive, participatory action visual methodologies project known as the Hamilton Photovoice Project (HPP) with children from low socioeconomic status neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We also discuss the lessons that we have lea…
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance
Substantial increases in the pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation will be required to abate the ongoing loss of global biodiversity and simultaneous ecological degradation. Concurrently, the need for conservation to respect inherent human rights, including the rights and title of Indigenous Peoples, is increasingly recognized. Here, we describe the often overlooked role that resurgent Indigenous-led governance could have in driving rapi…
Forging friendships
Historically, the ‘ivory tower’ has been guarded in its approach to educating students with disabilities. Further, these students’ physical activity experiences have been greatly neglected in the existing scholarship. Drawing on the phenomenological research tradition and affective theories – which offer unique opportunities to foreground the body and emotions in knowledge – in this study, I explored the experience and phenomena of physical activ…
Decolonial conservation
Extractive capitalism has long been the driving force of settler colonialism in Canada, and continues to threaten the sovereignty, lands and waters of Indigenous nations across the country. While ostensibly counterposed to extractivism, state-led conservation has similarly served to alienate Indigenous peoples from their territories, often for capitalist gain. Recognizing the inadequacy of the colonial-capitalist conservation paradigm to redress …
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective part II
In part 1 of our review of the biocultural conservation literature - conducted in 2019 - we utilized a rapid appraisal approach to determine that while the biocultural perspective was born within the action-oriented and Indigenous People and Local Community (IPLC)-Centered Declaration of Belém, the subsequent scientific discussion remained largely in a conceptual holding pattern. In Part 2, we reengage the literature later in time - mid-2021 - an…
Exploring assisted dying policies for mature minors
Different policy approaches are associated with assisted dying (including/excluding mature minors). • The Dutch and Belgian approach was parliamentary; Canada was primarily judiciary. • Patient suffering emphasized for Dutch/Belgian context, contrasting human rights in Canada. • Assisted dying eligibility is consistently competence-focused—Canada only applies to adults. • Canada lacks strong social consensus on MAID for mature minors. Medical Ass…
The potential for Indigenous-led conservation in urbanized landscapes in Canada
Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are an important pathway and governance system for area-based conservation led by Indigenous Peoples. While IPCAs have been established across rural and northern regions of Canada, they have received little attention in urbanized landscapes, even though all of Canada’s urban areas coincide with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis territory (and thereby underlying Indigenous jurisdiction) and the majori…
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
Biocultural families and leaders
This study leverages an Indigenous-led call for connectivity research in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, as an opportunity to show the power of ‘connectivity science’ to serve Indigenous Peoples’ environmental priorities. In line with the directive of Elders Murdena and Albert Marshall to deactivate and replace inappropriate metaphors for conservation practice, we innovate and demonstrate a biocultural families and leaders approach to select…
“Blackness, Blood, and Borders
The lives, selves, and social worlds of racialized disabled children and their parents have been hidden and silenced under the weight of grand metanarratives about the white disabled child. In this way, the centrality of the white disabled Eurocentric child is a symbolic violence that has erased the lives of other children, especially Black children and their families. In this qualitative interpretive study, we utilized a theoretically informed a…
Engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities in global policy development for the conservation and sustainable use of wild food plants
Wild Food Plants (WFPs) are edible species that grow without cultivation in forests, grasslands, field margins, and other natural and semi-natural spaces. They play a central role in the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LCs) and have significant nutritional and nutraceutical value. Despite the importance of Indigenous knowledge and local practices in the stewardship of WFPs, IP&LCs have largely been under-r…
When minority language persistence is not enough
Local ecological knowledge is an essential element of the Alpine biocultural diversity and is often linked to minority languages. However, its continuity does not necessarily correspond to the persistence of these languages. This study investigates how knowledge of wild plants (and mushrooms) is transmitted and transformed among three minority-language communities in the Italian Alps: Cimbrian, Mòcheno, and Ladin speakers. Ethnobotanical data wer…
Mish, Bogs, and Berries
Heathlands are a significant land cover type across the circumpolar boreal biome. A growing body of knowledge has developed around the ecology of heathland ecosystems, but little work has been done to document their cultural significance to Indigenous Peoples. In this study, we integrate plot-based vegetation surveys, a desktop review of Indigenous Mi’kmaq ethnobotany, and interviews with Miawpukek First Nation community members to understand Ind…
Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Indigenous (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (4 obras) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)