Daphne Winland
Biographic Data
| ID | 169692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphne Winland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphne |
| FAMILY NAME | Winland |
| SIGNATURE | WINLAND D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4562-0874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nationalism, violence and diaspora memory activism: Ukrainians and Croats in Canada
Reflections on Repair Praxis in Academic Spaces
Having conducted research and taught courses in political anthropology for several decades, particularly on nationalism, populism, and ethnonational conflict, I have initiated, facilitated and been caught up in many difficult conversations on issues including identity (politics), rights, conflict and justice with my students and colleagues. My research on the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and the Kitchener-Waterloo Mennonite Victim-Offende…
Victimhood and the transnationalization of Croatian memory politics
The biblical entreaty zakhor – Hebrew for ‘remember’ – has been central to the efforts of diaspora Jewish scholars, religious leaders, politicians and others to suture the suffering past to the present. The imperative to not only remember but also commemorate histories of suffering is ubiquitous among conflict-generated diasporas as well. For diaspora Croats, victim-centred themes regularly surface in identity narratives, focusing on memories of …
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
Between Two Wars: Generational Responses of Toronto Croats to Homeland Independence
This article explores the impact of varied migration trajectories and settlement experiences on the ways in which diaspora Croats have engaged with the homeland and with each other. The pre-migration experiences of Croats over the past century, spanning imperial and fascist periods, socialism, the Yugoslav Wars of Succession, and independence, combined with the struggles and challenges of life in Canada, have all but defined the lives of diaspora…
Why We Come Back to Diasporas: Heterogeneous Groups and the Persistent Dream of Political Action
An uneven scholarly terrain marked by shifts in meaning, emphasis, and scope typifies the current scholarship on diaspora, due in part to multiple intersections with debates on national identity, migration, citizenship, and related contemporary iterations of modernity. Diaspora has thus in some ways become a victim of its own success. The ubiquitous, sometimes clumsy and politically loaded use of the term—Tölölyan (1996, 8) has referred to it as …
Ten Years Later: The Changing Nature of Transnational Ties in Post-independence Croatia
Since the winter of 1992, when the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, proclaimed the realization of the Croats' “one thousand year old dream of independence”, Croatians all over the world have rejoiced in the birth of the new Croatian state. The crafting of a new state has not only involved Croatians within Croatia; it has inlcuded political and economic transnational involvement as well. Diaspora Croats were implicated in the Croatian na…
The Politics of desire and disdain: Croatian identity between "Home" and "Homeland
The collapse of communism in the former Yugoslavia has sparked an avalanche of personal and political questions for Croatians everywhere on the meaning of their history, traditions, and identity. This article analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships of diaspora Croatians and the focus of their desire: a free Croatia whose citizens participate in the "production" or "recovery" of the historic Croatian state. But, rather than inspiring unit…
Our Home and Native Land”? Canadian Ethnic Scholarship and the Challenge of Transnational ism
L'une des plus importantes contributions des théories modernes de la mondialisation et du transnationalisme est la remise en question des définitions traditionnelles fondées sur l'appartenance à un lieu, applicables à la communauté, à la nation et à la notion connexe de citoyenneté. Les études canadiennes dans le domaine de l'identité ethnique ont tendance à privilégier les notions limitées et fonda‐mentales d'ethnicité, au détriment du concept d…
Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America
We Are Now an Actual Nation: The Impact of National Independence on the Croatian Diaspora in Canada
The political scientist Walker Connor identifies two factors that help him distinguish between "immigrant communities" and "diasporas": 1) the degree of loyalty felt toward the adopted host nation as opposed to the ancestral homeland and 2) the extent of assimilation ("Ethnonationalism" 80). The comparative framework Connor developed to clarify the terminological confusion resulting from scholarly attempts to theorize the relationship between eth…
Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation among Hmong Refugee Women
This paper examines the role of Christian conversion on the early adjustment experience of Hmong refugee women in Ontario, Canada. This transition from a traditionally animist and preliterate past did not result in the wholesale abandonment of Hmong practices and beliefs, but rather a dynamic relationship of custom and innovation. Women in particular turned to the Hmong Christian Church (Mennonite) as a resource for empowerment (for example, thro…
The quest for Mennonite peoplehood: Ethno‐religious identity and the dilemma of definitions
La relation entre la convention et la tradition, d'une part, et l'innovation, d'autre part, est un aspect essentiel de la notion d'identité collective en tant que processus dynamique de (re)construction et de (re)présentation. Cette communication aborde dans cette optique ce que les Mennonites appellent aujourd'hui leur «crise d'identité». L'auteur insiste plus particulièrement sur l'ambiguïté et parfois le conflit qui caractérisent les tentative…
Native Scholarship: The Enigma of Self‐Definition Among Jewish and Mennonite Scholars
The perennial search for a way to bridge the gap between human experience (both past and present) and academic discourse has produced an impressive array of theoretical perspectives and research strategies. However, despite attempts to depict the relationship between the self and other, few have considered the impact of native scholarship on the construction of knowledge. This paper examines Mennonite and Jewish scholarly efforts to represent and…
The Politics of desire and disdain: Croatian identity between "Home" and "Homeland
The collapse of communism in the former Yugoslavia has sparked an avalanche of personal and political questions for Croatians everywhere on the meaning of their history, traditions, and identity. This article analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships of diaspora Croatians and the focus of their desire: a free Croatia whose citizens participate in the "production" or "recovery" of the historic Croatian state. But, rather than inspiring unit…
We Are Now an Actual Nation: The Impact of National Independence on the Croatian Diaspora in Canada
The political scientist Walker Connor identifies two factors that help him distinguish between "immigrant communities" and "diasporas": 1) the degree of loyalty felt toward the adopted host nation as opposed to the ancestral homeland and 2) the extent of assimilation ("Ethnonationalism" 80). The comparative framework Connor developed to clarify the terminological confusion resulting from scholarly attempts to theorize the relationship between eth…
Our Home and Native Land”? Canadian Ethnic Scholarship and the Challenge of Transnational ism
L'une des plus importantes contributions des théories modernes de la mondialisation et du transnationalisme est la remise en question des définitions traditionnelles fondées sur l'appartenance à un lieu, applicables à la communauté, à la nation et à la notion connexe de citoyenneté. Les études canadiennes dans le domaine de l'identité ethnique ont tendance à privilégier les notions limitées et fonda‐mentales d'ethnicité, au détriment du concept d…
Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation among Hmong Refugee Women
This paper examines the role of Christian conversion on the early adjustment experience of Hmong refugee women in Ontario, Canada. This transition from a traditionally animist and preliterate past did not result in the wholesale abandonment of Hmong practices and beliefs, but rather a dynamic relationship of custom and innovation. Women in particular turned to the Hmong Christian Church (Mennonite) as a resource for empowerment (for example, thro…
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
The quest for Mennonite peoplehood: Ethno‐religious identity and the dilemma of definitions
La relation entre la convention et la tradition, d'une part, et l'innovation, d'autre part, est un aspect essentiel de la notion d'identité collective en tant que processus dynamique de (re)construction et de (re)présentation. Cette communication aborde dans cette optique ce que les Mennonites appellent aujourd'hui leur «crise d'identité». L'auteur insiste plus particulièrement sur l'ambiguïté et parfois le conflit qui caractérisent les tentative…
Native Scholarship: The Enigma of Self‐Definition Among Jewish and Mennonite Scholars
The perennial search for a way to bridge the gap between human experience (both past and present) and academic discourse has produced an impressive array of theoretical perspectives and research strategies. However, despite attempts to depict the relationship between the self and other, few have considered the impact of native scholarship on the construction of knowledge. This paper examines Mennonite and Jewish scholarly efforts to represent and…
Native Scholarship: The Enigma of Self‐Definition Among Jewish and Mennonite Scholars
The perennial search for a way to bridge the gap between human experience (both past and present) and academic discourse has produced an impressive array of theoretical perspectives and research strategies. However, despite attempts to depict the relationship between the self and other, few have considered the impact of native scholarship on the construction of knowledge. This paper examines Mennonite and Jewish scholarly efforts to represent and…
The quest for Mennonite peoplehood: Ethno‐religious identity and the dilemma of definitions
La relation entre la convention et la tradition, d'une part, et l'innovation, d'autre part, est un aspect essentiel de la notion d'identité collective en tant que processus dynamique de (re)construction et de (re)présentation. Cette communication aborde dans cette optique ce que les Mennonites appellent aujourd'hui leur «crise d'identité». L'auteur insiste plus particulièrement sur l'ambiguïté et parfois le conflit qui caractérisent les tentative…
Christianity and Community: Conversion and Adaptation among Hmong Refugee Women
This paper examines the role of Christian conversion on the early adjustment experience of Hmong refugee women in Ontario, Canada. This transition from a traditionally animist and preliterate past did not result in the wholesale abandonment of Hmong practices and beliefs, but rather a dynamic relationship of custom and innovation. Women in particular turned to the Hmong Christian Church (Mennonite) as a resource for empowerment (for example, thro…
We Are Now an Actual Nation: The Impact of National Independence on the Croatian Diaspora in Canada
The political scientist Walker Connor identifies two factors that help him distinguish between "immigrant communities" and "diasporas": 1) the degree of loyalty felt toward the adopted host nation as opposed to the ancestral homeland and 2) the extent of assimilation ("Ethnonationalism" 80). The comparative framework Connor developed to clarify the terminological confusion resulting from scholarly attempts to theorize the relationship between eth…
Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America
Our Home and Native Land”? Canadian Ethnic Scholarship and the Challenge of Transnational ism
L'une des plus importantes contributions des théories modernes de la mondialisation et du transnationalisme est la remise en question des définitions traditionnelles fondées sur l'appartenance à un lieu, applicables à la communauté, à la nation et à la notion connexe de citoyenneté. Les études canadiennes dans le domaine de l'identité ethnique ont tendance à privilégier les notions limitées et fonda‐mentales d'ethnicité, au détriment du concept d…
The Politics of desire and disdain: Croatian identity between "Home" and "Homeland
The collapse of communism in the former Yugoslavia has sparked an avalanche of personal and political questions for Croatians everywhere on the meaning of their history, traditions, and identity. This article analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships of diaspora Croatians and the focus of their desire: a free Croatia whose citizens participate in the "production" or "recovery" of the historic Croatian state. But, rather than inspiring unit…
Ten Years Later: The Changing Nature of Transnational Ties in Post-independence Croatia
Since the winter of 1992, when the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, proclaimed the realization of the Croats' “one thousand year old dream of independence”, Croatians all over the world have rejoiced in the birth of the new Croatian state. The crafting of a new state has not only involved Croatians within Croatia; it has inlcuded political and economic transnational involvement as well. Diaspora Croats were implicated in the Croatian na…
Why We Come Back to Diasporas: Heterogeneous Groups and the Persistent Dream of Political Action
An uneven scholarly terrain marked by shifts in meaning, emphasis, and scope typifies the current scholarship on diaspora, due in part to multiple intersections with debates on national identity, migration, citizenship, and related contemporary iterations of modernity. Diaspora has thus in some ways become a victim of its own success. The ubiquitous, sometimes clumsy and politically loaded use of the term—Tölölyan (1996, 8) has referred to it as …
Between Two Wars: Generational Responses of Toronto Croats to Homeland Independence
This article explores the impact of varied migration trajectories and settlement experiences on the ways in which diaspora Croats have engaged with the homeland and with each other. The pre-migration experiences of Croats over the past century, spanning imperial and fascist periods, socialism, the Yugoslav Wars of Succession, and independence, combined with the struggles and challenges of life in Canada, have all but defined the lives of diaspora…
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
Victimhood and the transnationalization of Croatian memory politics
The biblical entreaty zakhor – Hebrew for ‘remember’ – has been central to the efforts of diaspora Jewish scholars, religious leaders, politicians and others to suture the suffering past to the present. The imperative to not only remember but also commemorate histories of suffering is ubiquitous among conflict-generated diasporas as well. For diaspora Croats, victim-centred themes regularly surface in identity narratives, focusing on memories of …
Reflections on Repair Praxis in Academic Spaces
Having conducted research and taught courses in political anthropology for several decades, particularly on nationalism, populism, and ethnonational conflict, I have initiated, facilitated and been caught up in many difficult conversations on issues including identity (politics), rights, conflict and justice with my students and colleagues. My research on the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and the Kitchener-Waterloo Mennonite Victim-Offende…
Nationalism, violence and diaspora memory activism: Ukrainians and Croats in Canada
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Diaspora (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works)