Joshua Tobias
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Tobias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobias |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gimiigiwemin
In the Anishinaabemowen lagnuage, Gimiigiwemin is a concept that means, “we are exchanging gifts.” In the context of research, Indigenous communities often share their gifts with researchers by exposing them to local ways of knowing. Researchers can engage in exchanging gifts through sharing their skills and working towards producing research that meets community needs, such as supporting efforts to maintain health-sustaining relationships with t…
“That land means everything to us as Anishinaabe….”
Community-Based Participatory Research (Cbpr) with Indigenous Communities
The health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to grow despite an expanding body of research that attempts to address these inequalities, including increased attention from the field of health geography. Here, we draw upon a case study of our own community-based approach to health research with Anishinabe communities in northern Ontario as a means of advocating the growth of such participatory approaches. …
Hepatitis B in Ghana's upper west region
Landscapes of Economic Deprivation and Locally Distilled Liquor (Kachasu)
The paper examines how structural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi is produced through a complex interplay of economic, cultural, and political factors operating over relational places within the country as well as in the wider Southern Africa subcontinental landscape. Based on empirical work on an impoverished community in the Chibavi township of Mzuzu City in northern Malawi, and drawing on disciplinary perspectives from social psychology an…
Community-Based Participatory Research (Cbpr) with Indigenous Communities
The health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to grow despite an expanding body of research that attempts to address these inequalities, including increased attention from the field of health geography. Here, we draw upon a case study of our own community-based approach to health research with Anishinabe communities in northern Ontario as a means of advocating the growth of such participatory approaches. …
Hepatitis B in Ghana's upper west region
Landscapes of Economic Deprivation and Locally Distilled Liquor (Kachasu)
The paper examines how structural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi is produced through a complex interplay of economic, cultural, and political factors operating over relational places within the country as well as in the wider Southern Africa subcontinental landscape. Based on empirical work on an impoverished community in the Chibavi township of Mzuzu City in northern Malawi, and drawing on disciplinary perspectives from social psychology an…
Landscapes of Economic Deprivation and Locally Distilled Liquor (Kachasu)
The paper examines how structural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi is produced through a complex interplay of economic, cultural, and political factors operating over relational places within the country as well as in the wider Southern Africa subcontinental landscape. Based on empirical work on an impoverished community in the Chibavi township of Mzuzu City in northern Malawi, and drawing on disciplinary perspectives from social psychology an…
Community-Based Participatory Research (Cbpr) with Indigenous Communities
The health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to grow despite an expanding body of research that attempts to address these inequalities, including increased attention from the field of health geography. Here, we draw upon a case study of our own community-based approach to health research with Anishinabe communities in northern Ontario as a means of advocating the growth of such participatory approaches. …
Hepatitis B in Ghana's upper west region
“That land means everything to us as Anishinaabe….”
Gimiigiwemin
In the Anishinaabemowen lagnuage, Gimiigiwemin is a concept that means, “we are exchanging gifts.” In the context of research, Indigenous communities often share their gifts with researchers by exposing them to local ways of knowing. Researchers can engage in exchanging gifts through sharing their skills and working towards producing research that meets community needs, such as supporting efforts to maintain health-sustaining relationships with t…
Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Community-based participatory research (2 works)