Michael A Robidoux
Biographic Data
| ID | 104089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Robidoux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Robidoux |
| SIGNATURE | ROBIDOUX M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1106-4603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Role of fan engagement in the success of the Professional Women's Hockey League
Women's professional hockey in North America has historically faced financial instability, leading to the dissolution of leagues such as the National Women's Hockey League and the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) emerged in August 2023 and was marketed as a “first of its kind” women's professional league, focusing on sustainability and built on core values of inclusivity, community, and longevity. This…
Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration
The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern communities, Tribal Councils, and Political organizations (Assembly of First Nations, Nishnawbe Aski Nation) in Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and …
Community collaboration in the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Examples of How Remote First Nations in Northern Ontario Managed the Pandemic
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was believed that Indigenous peoples in Canada would be disproportionately affected due to inequities across social determinants of health as a result of the ongoing processes of colonization. High levels of overcrowding, higher burden of chronic disease, reduced access to clean drinking water, healthcare, and food security in many rural and remote First Nations across northern Canada increased vulnerabi…
The Inuit’s Offer to Canada’s Black Governor General: Food, Power, and the Deconstruction of Lévi-Strauss’ “Culinary Triangle”
This article revisits when former Canadian Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, consumed raw seal heart at an Inuit community feast. This event provides important insight about cultural meanings around food and the power relationships imbued in culinary traditions. It also provides an opportunity to investigate how food has been theorized in academic research, and how this scholarship is potentially complicit in the derisive responses directed at Je…
Wapekeka’s Covid-19 Response: A Local Response to a Global Pandemic
Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many nations and communities continue to grapple with waves of infection and social fallout from pandemic fatigue and frustration. While we are still years away from realizing the full impacts of COVID-19, reflecting on our collective responses has offered some insights into the impact that various public health policies and decisions had on nations' abilities to weather the multifaceted impacts…
Local food development in the Moose Cree First Nation: Taking steps to build local food sustainability
It has been well documented that northern Indigenous communities in Canada have disproportionately high rates of food insecurity which is contributing to chronic health conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Indigenous communities face complex challenges getting regular access to healthy food, whether through traditional food harvesting practices or through imported market food items. In response, many Indigenous communities are seeking …
Can selling traditional food increase food sovereignty for First Nations in northwestern Ontario (Canada)
The disparity between rates of food insecurity experienced in households across Canada (8.3%) and in Indigenous households specifically (nearly half) is alarming. Many previous studies have demonstrated the physical, spiritual, mental, social and emotional benefits of consuming traditional foods (primarily wild animal food sources and wild edible plants), yet many Indigenous peoples in northern Ontario feel they do not have access to enough of th…
Hoop House Gardening in the Wapekeka First Nation as an Extension of Land-Based Food Practices
Rural Indigenous communities in Canada’s North face many challenges getting regular access to nutritious foods, primarily because of the high cost of market food, restricted availability of nutritious foods, and lack of government support for nutritious food programs. The consequences of food insecurity in this context are expressed in high rates of diabetes, heart disease, and childhood obesity. Many Indigenous communities are responding to issu…
If You Don’t Want to Get Hurt, Don’t Play Hockey’: The Uneasy Efforts of Hockey Injury Prevention in Canada
Ice hockey is known for its speed, skill and aggression. This paper uses an analyses of injuries in boys’ minor leagues and primary documents to examine competing discourses that surround participant safety which give meaning to broader hockey practices. We problematize a prevailing discourse that preserves the physicality of Canadian hockey and an emerging reverse discourse that prioritizes player safety. Theoretically informed by Foucault’s con…
The Costs of Local Food Procurement in Two Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
Remote Northern Ontario First Nations communities face severe food insecurity. Prices of store foods are often unaffordable and not always in stock. Government programs have been implemented to subsidize some of the market food costs. Our objective is to illustrate the costs associated with procuring food from the land through hunting and fishing in an effort to present this as an alternate option to relying solely on store-bought foods. Northern…
Jouer, acte de construction identitaire
Si les jeux et les sports sont le theatre de visions du monde qui met en scene des constructions identitaires, nous sommes etonnes de constater le relatif > (Wendling, 2002 : 31) a leur endroit, et notamment dans la revue Ethnologies. Dans toute l'histoire de cette revue, uniquement trois articles traitent du >, i.e. l'acte de se re- et re-creer dans une activite ludique et/ou sportive. Le premier est la contribution du folkloriste canadien Delf …
The Relationship of the Burbot (Lota lota L.) to the Reintroduction of Off-the-Land Foods in the Sandy Lake First Nation Community
This article is based on a study of traditional lifestyle practices in the Sandy Lake First Nation community in northwestern Ontario, considering some of the benefits and risks of reintroducing off-the-land food sources, specifically as they relate to the burbot (Lota lota L). This article concentrates, therefore, on four avenues of exploration: (1) the "nutrition transition" in the First Nations population, (2) the meaning of a traditional diet …
Historical interpretations of first nations masculinity and its influence on Canada's sport heritage
The influence of Aboriginal culture on European colonists in Canadian history has been overshadowed by European influence and dominance. The French, in particular, were influenced by First Nations culture and technology, to the extent that French men began emulating First Nations traits, creating a distinct French subculture called les Canadiens. These French men began measuring themselves against their First Nation counterparts and competed with…
The Nonsense of Native American Sport Imagery: Reclaiming a Past that Never Was
The pejorative use of Aboriginal imagery in professional and amateur sport has been criticized by Native Americans, public activists and academics from various disciplinary backgrounds. They have campaigned successfully to convince sport organizations to rid themselves of such slanderous signification. While sensitive to these activist and academic strategies such perspectives do not seriously take into account that many First Nations peoples and…
Narratives of Race Relations in Southern Alberta: An Examination of Conflicting Sporting Practices
In March 2001 a minor hockey league in southern Alberta (Foothills Hockey) voted in favor of banning a local First Nations Hockey Association (Kainai Minor Hockey) from league play as a result of various violations committed by officials, players, and parents over the course of the season. Since that time hockey and recreation officials from Kainai have been attempting to get Kanai Minor Hockey reinstated into the league but have, up until this p…
Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey
Sport in Canada during the late 19th century was intended to promote physical excellence, emotional restraint, fair play, and discipline; yet these ideological principles were consistently undermined by the manner in which Canadians played the game of hockey. This article explores the genesis of violence in hockey by focusing on its vernacular origins and discusses the relevance of violence as an expression of Canadian national identity in terms …
What do People have to do with Sport: Folklore/Ethnology in the Kinesiology Classroom
This article discusses the challenges and strengths faced by a Folklorist teaching in a Kinesiology Department. It specifically focuses on a fieldwork assignment in a History of Sport class, where students were required to collect oral histories of sport from within their communities. The author discusses how, as a professor, he legitimized this exercise to the students, the students’ response to it, and the outcome of the research exercise. He i…
Artificial Emasculation and the Maintenance of a Masculine Identity in Professional Hockey
This article is an exploration of the construction of masculinity within professional hockey culture, and how this closed environment perpetuates an artificially secure gender identity. Despite the illusion of security provided by this male preserve, it is an inherently discriminatory group that is intolerant of difference, subsequently forcing players to either conform to existing norms, or be completely ostracized. The field research for this p…
Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey
Sport in Canada during the late 19th century was intended to promote physical excellence, emotional restraint, fair play, and discipline; yet these ideological principles were consistently undermined by the manner in which Canadians played the game of hockey. This article explores the genesis of violence in hockey by focusing on its vernacular origins and discusses the relevance of violence as an expression of Canadian national identity in terms …
Can selling traditional food increase food sovereignty for First Nations in northwestern Ontario (Canada)
The disparity between rates of food insecurity experienced in households across Canada (8.3%) and in Indigenous households specifically (nearly half) is alarming. Many previous studies have demonstrated the physical, spiritual, mental, social and emotional benefits of consuming traditional foods (primarily wild animal food sources and wild edible plants), yet many Indigenous peoples in northern Ontario feel they do not have access to enough of th…
The Costs of Local Food Procurement in Two Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
Remote Northern Ontario First Nations communities face severe food insecurity. Prices of store foods are often unaffordable and not always in stock. Government programs have been implemented to subsidize some of the market food costs. Our objective is to illustrate the costs associated with procuring food from the land through hunting and fishing in an effort to present this as an alternate option to relying solely on store-bought foods. Northern…
The Nonsense of Native American Sport Imagery: Reclaiming a Past that Never Was
The pejorative use of Aboriginal imagery in professional and amateur sport has been criticized by Native Americans, public activists and academics from various disciplinary backgrounds. They have campaigned successfully to convince sport organizations to rid themselves of such slanderous signification. While sensitive to these activist and academic strategies such perspectives do not seriously take into account that many First Nations peoples and…
Narratives of Race Relations in Southern Alberta: An Examination of Conflicting Sporting Practices
In March 2001 a minor hockey league in southern Alberta (Foothills Hockey) voted in favor of banning a local First Nations Hockey Association (Kainai Minor Hockey) from league play as a result of various violations committed by officials, players, and parents over the course of the season. Since that time hockey and recreation officials from Kainai have been attempting to get Kanai Minor Hockey reinstated into the league but have, up until this p…
If You Don’t Want to Get Hurt, Don’t Play Hockey’: The Uneasy Efforts of Hockey Injury Prevention in Canada
Ice hockey is known for its speed, skill and aggression. This paper uses an analyses of injuries in boys’ minor leagues and primary documents to examine competing discourses that surround participant safety which give meaning to broader hockey practices. We problematize a prevailing discourse that preserves the physicality of Canadian hockey and an emerging reverse discourse that prioritizes player safety. Theoretically informed by Foucault’s con…
Local food development in the Moose Cree First Nation: Taking steps to build local food sustainability
It has been well documented that northern Indigenous communities in Canada have disproportionately high rates of food insecurity which is contributing to chronic health conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Indigenous communities face complex challenges getting regular access to healthy food, whether through traditional food harvesting practices or through imported market food items. In response, many Indigenous communities are seeking …
Historical interpretations of first nations masculinity and its influence on Canada's sport heritage
The influence of Aboriginal culture on European colonists in Canadian history has been overshadowed by European influence and dominance. The French, in particular, were influenced by First Nations culture and technology, to the extent that French men began emulating First Nations traits, creating a distinct French subculture called les Canadiens. These French men began measuring themselves against their First Nation counterparts and competed with…
The Relationship of the Burbot (Lota lota L.) to the Reintroduction of Off-the-Land Foods in the Sandy Lake First Nation Community
This article is based on a study of traditional lifestyle practices in the Sandy Lake First Nation community in northwestern Ontario, considering some of the benefits and risks of reintroducing off-the-land food sources, specifically as they relate to the burbot (Lota lota L). This article concentrates, therefore, on four avenues of exploration: (1) the "nutrition transition" in the First Nations population, (2) the meaning of a traditional diet …
Artificial Emasculation and the Maintenance of a Masculine Identity in Professional Hockey
This article is an exploration of the construction of masculinity within professional hockey culture, and how this closed environment perpetuates an artificially secure gender identity. Despite the illusion of security provided by this male preserve, it is an inherently discriminatory group that is intolerant of difference, subsequently forcing players to either conform to existing norms, or be completely ostracized. The field research for this p…
What do People have to do with Sport: Folklore/Ethnology in the Kinesiology Classroom
This article discusses the challenges and strengths faced by a Folklorist teaching in a Kinesiology Department. It specifically focuses on a fieldwork assignment in a History of Sport class, where students were required to collect oral histories of sport from within their communities. The author discusses how, as a professor, he legitimized this exercise to the students, the students’ response to it, and the outcome of the research exercise. He i…
Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey
Sport in Canada during the late 19th century was intended to promote physical excellence, emotional restraint, fair play, and discipline; yet these ideological principles were consistently undermined by the manner in which Canadians played the game of hockey. This article explores the genesis of violence in hockey by focusing on its vernacular origins and discusses the relevance of violence as an expression of Canadian national identity in terms …
Narratives of Race Relations in Southern Alberta: An Examination of Conflicting Sporting Practices
In March 2001 a minor hockey league in southern Alberta (Foothills Hockey) voted in favor of banning a local First Nations Hockey Association (Kainai Minor Hockey) from league play as a result of various violations committed by officials, players, and parents over the course of the season. Since that time hockey and recreation officials from Kainai have been attempting to get Kanai Minor Hockey reinstated into the league but have, up until this p…
Historical interpretations of first nations masculinity and its influence on Canada's sport heritage
The influence of Aboriginal culture on European colonists in Canadian history has been overshadowed by European influence and dominance. The French, in particular, were influenced by First Nations culture and technology, to the extent that French men began emulating First Nations traits, creating a distinct French subculture called les Canadiens. These French men began measuring themselves against their First Nation counterparts and competed with…
The Nonsense of Native American Sport Imagery: Reclaiming a Past that Never Was
The pejorative use of Aboriginal imagery in professional and amateur sport has been criticized by Native Americans, public activists and academics from various disciplinary backgrounds. They have campaigned successfully to convince sport organizations to rid themselves of such slanderous signification. While sensitive to these activist and academic strategies such perspectives do not seriously take into account that many First Nations peoples and…
The Relationship of the Burbot (Lota lota L.) to the Reintroduction of Off-the-Land Foods in the Sandy Lake First Nation Community
This article is based on a study of traditional lifestyle practices in the Sandy Lake First Nation community in northwestern Ontario, considering some of the benefits and risks of reintroducing off-the-land food sources, specifically as they relate to the burbot (Lota lota L). This article concentrates, therefore, on four avenues of exploration: (1) the "nutrition transition" in the First Nations population, (2) the meaning of a traditional diet …
Jouer, acte de construction identitaire
Si les jeux et les sports sont le theatre de visions du monde qui met en scene des constructions identitaires, nous sommes etonnes de constater le relatif > (Wendling, 2002 : 31) a leur endroit, et notamment dans la revue Ethnologies. Dans toute l'histoire de cette revue, uniquement trois articles traitent du >, i.e. l'acte de se re- et re-creer dans une activite ludique et/ou sportive. Le premier est la contribution du folkloriste canadien Delf …
The Costs of Local Food Procurement in Two Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
Remote Northern Ontario First Nations communities face severe food insecurity. Prices of store foods are often unaffordable and not always in stock. Government programs have been implemented to subsidize some of the market food costs. Our objective is to illustrate the costs associated with procuring food from the land through hunting and fishing in an effort to present this as an alternate option to relying solely on store-bought foods. Northern…
If You Don’t Want to Get Hurt, Don’t Play Hockey’: The Uneasy Efforts of Hockey Injury Prevention in Canada
Ice hockey is known for its speed, skill and aggression. This paper uses an analyses of injuries in boys’ minor leagues and primary documents to examine competing discourses that surround participant safety which give meaning to broader hockey practices. We problematize a prevailing discourse that preserves the physicality of Canadian hockey and an emerging reverse discourse that prioritizes player safety. Theoretically informed by Foucault’s con…
Hoop House Gardening in the Wapekeka First Nation as an Extension of Land-Based Food Practices
Rural Indigenous communities in Canada’s North face many challenges getting regular access to nutritious foods, primarily because of the high cost of market food, restricted availability of nutritious foods, and lack of government support for nutritious food programs. The consequences of food insecurity in this context are expressed in high rates of diabetes, heart disease, and childhood obesity. Many Indigenous communities are responding to issu…
Local food development in the Moose Cree First Nation: Taking steps to build local food sustainability
It has been well documented that northern Indigenous communities in Canada have disproportionately high rates of food insecurity which is contributing to chronic health conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Indigenous communities face complex challenges getting regular access to healthy food, whether through traditional food harvesting practices or through imported market food items. In response, many Indigenous communities are seeking …
Can selling traditional food increase food sovereignty for First Nations in northwestern Ontario (Canada)
The disparity between rates of food insecurity experienced in households across Canada (8.3%) and in Indigenous households specifically (nearly half) is alarming. Many previous studies have demonstrated the physical, spiritual, mental, social and emotional benefits of consuming traditional foods (primarily wild animal food sources and wild edible plants), yet many Indigenous peoples in northern Ontario feel they do not have access to enough of th…
The Inuit’s Offer to Canada’s Black Governor General: Food, Power, and the Deconstruction of Lévi-Strauss’ “Culinary Triangle”
This article revisits when former Canadian Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, consumed raw seal heart at an Inuit community feast. This event provides important insight about cultural meanings around food and the power relationships imbued in culinary traditions. It also provides an opportunity to investigate how food has been theorized in academic research, and how this scholarship is potentially complicit in the derisive responses directed at Je…
Wapekeka’s Covid-19 Response: A Local Response to a Global Pandemic
Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many nations and communities continue to grapple with waves of infection and social fallout from pandemic fatigue and frustration. While we are still years away from realizing the full impacts of COVID-19, reflecting on our collective responses has offered some insights into the impact that various public health policies and decisions had on nations' abilities to weather the multifaceted impacts…
Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration
The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern communities, Tribal Councils, and Political organizations (Assembly of First Nations, Nishnawbe Aski Nation) in Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and …
Community collaboration in the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Examples of How Remote First Nations in Northern Ontario Managed the Pandemic
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was believed that Indigenous peoples in Canada would be disproportionately affected due to inequities across social determinants of health as a result of the ongoing processes of colonization. High levels of overcrowding, higher burden of chronic disease, reduced access to clean drinking water, healthcare, and food security in many rural and remote First Nations across northern Canada increased vulnerabi…
Role of fan engagement in the success of the Professional Women's Hockey League
Women's professional hockey in North America has historically faced financial instability, leading to the dissolution of leagues such as the National Women's Hockey League and the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) emerged in August 2023 and was marketed as a “first of its kind” women's professional league, focusing on sustainability and built on core values of inclusivity, community, and longevity. This…
Political science (13 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)