A R Hatala
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 17295 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A R Hatala |
| NOMBRES | A R |
| APELLIDO | Hatala |
| FIRMA | HATALA A R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8063-5852 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Face as Image
This paper explores the human face as an important image, and as visual data, in the context of academic work. We explore its philosophical value through a discussion of testimony and witnessing, visual data through the interface between academia and social media in the broader world, and with a reflection of university-based ethics. We explore the example of academic publication of a participant's face as presented in peer reviewed journals, onl…
Access to land and nature as health determinants
Policies, practices, and interventions aimed at strengthening urban Indigenous young peoples' relationships to and connections with nature and the land can have a positive impact on their health and wellness. Public Health systems and healthcare providers can learn about leveraging the health benefits of human-nature relationships at individual and community levels, and this is particularly vital for those working to advance health equity among I…
Promoting health and wellness through Indigenous sacred sites, ceremony grounds, and land-based learning
This study analyzes the literature on Indigenous sacred sites within the larger topic areas of land-based education and healing, as per the guidance of Anishinaabe (a group of Indigenous Peoples from the Great Lakes and the Great Plains areas of contemporary Canada and USA) Elders and community leaders in eastern Manitoba, Canada. A scoping review was conducted to identify the size, scope, nature, and key themes of existing research in seven data…
Leveraging culturally-relevant urban social housing to address Indigenous youth homelessness and transitions out of government care
Indigenous children and youth are overrepresented in settler-colonial child protection systems globally. They experience higher rates of homelessness and housing precarity when leaving care and searching for family and a place to call home. Missing from Canadian policy and research discussions is the role social housing can play to address these realities by providing a social safety net for permanent low-barrier housing. In this article, we high…
Voices of those living with type 2 diabetes in Belize
Belize has the highest national prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) of Central and South America, and fifth direst in the world. T2D is the leading cause of death in Belize, a country facing burdens of increasing prevalence with few resources. Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties of those living with T2D in Belize. To address T2D issues in Belize, our interdisciplinary research team explored the barriers to …
Indigenous mothers’ experiences of power and control in child welfare
There are upward of 11,000 Indigenous children and families in the Manitoba Child and Family Services (CFSs). Many factors coalesce as contributors to these high rates of care, including oppressive histories of Canadian settler colonialism, governmental policies and the Indian Residential Schools, and mass apprehensions of Indigenous children through “the 60’s scoop.” Although a process of “Devolution” began in Manitoba in 1999 to address Indigen…
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize
Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context
This study contributes to the literature exploring Indigenous youths' meaning-making process and engagements with land and nature in an urban context, and highlights the need for public health and municipal agencies to consider developing more culturally safe and meaningful natural environments that can support the health, resilience, and well-being of Indigenous youth within inner-city contexts
Just because they aren't human doesn't mean they aren't alive”
Photovoice has been widely used as a participatory visual research methodology within the social sciences and health research. Given photovoice's critical and pedagogical potential, its advancement within Indigenous resilience and health research has been particularly prevalent. However, it has largely failed to problematize the concept of 'voice' to the extent of theorizing and engaging with the 'voices' of other kinds of life with consequences …
Intersectionality of Resilience
By bringing together two important areas of contemporary health research-resilience among Indigenous youth and intersectionality theory-this study advances an intersectionality of resilience framework that exposes intersecting forms of oppression within inner city urban contexts, while also critically reframing intersectionality to include strength-based perspectives of overlapping individual, social, and structural resilience-promoting processes…
Performing Pimâtisiwin
The performing arts can be a powerful means of wellness, identity exploration, and positive social representation for Indigenous young people. In this article, we outline the results of a year-long collaborative study that explored Indigenous young peoples' relationships between the performing arts, wellness, and resilience. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Cree and Métis youth about their participation in the Circle of Voices th…
Embodiment, Empathic Perception, and Spiritual Ontologies in Q'eqchi' Maya Healing
Social science research and theory suggests that perception can be viewed as an embodied process of social and cultural mediation. This embodied view of perception involves deep connections between the mind and body, as well as the larger social context. Previous research with Maya communities has outlined how aspects of subject and object, or self and other, can be bridged through forms of social connectedness with the family or community. This …
Re-imagining miyo-wicehtowin
I’m more aware of my HIV risk than anything else’
Despite decreased rates of HIV infection in Winnipeg, syphilis incidence continues to rise. Communities of men who have sex with men shoulder much of this burden of illness. This qualitative study aimed to better understand the co-evolution of HIV and syphilis in Winnipeg through a series of interviews with gay men. Eighteen individuals were recruited through advertising in sexual health centres and through subsequent snowball sampling. Thematic …
Being and Becoming a Helper
Saskatoon has nearly half of the diagnoses of HIV in Saskatchewan, Canada, with an incidence rate among Indigenous populations within inner-city contexts that is 3 times higher than national rates. Previous research does not adequately explore the relations between HIV vulnerabilities within these contexts and the experiences of illness disclosure that are informed by identity transformations, experiences of stigma, and social support. From an in…
I Have Strong Hopes for the Future
In this article, we demonstrate how concepts of time and the future inform processes of resilience among Indigenous adolescents within an urban Canadian context. This study employed a modified grounded theory methodology by conducting 38 qualitative interviews with 28 Indigenous youth (ages 15-25) over the course of 1 year. The analysis revealed complex processes of and navigations between moments of distress and strategies for resilience. The di…
Diagnostic Emplotment in Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine
Medical diagnosis is a process of illness discrimination, categorization, and identification on the basis of careful observation and is central in biomedicine and many traditional medical systems around the world. Through a detailed analysis of several illness episodes and healer interviews among Maya communities in southern Belize, we observe that the diagnostic processes of traditional Q'eqchi' healers reflect patterns of narrative 'emplotment'…
Reframing Narratives of Aboriginal Health Inequity
A large body of literature explores historical trauma or intergenerational trauma among Aboriginal communities around the globe. This literature connects contemporary forms of social suffering and health inequity to broader historical processes of colonization and the residential school systems in Canada. There are tendencies within this literature, however, to focus on individual pathology and victimization while minimizing notions of resilience…
The role of sensorial processes in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Theory and research on the healing practices of Indigenous communities around the globe have often been influenced by models of "symbolic healing" that privilege the way patients consciously interpret or derive meaning from a healing encounter. In our work with a group of Q'eqchi' Maya healers in southern Belize, these aspects of "symbolic healing" are not always present. Such empirical observations force us to reach beyond models of symbolic hea…
Narrative Structures of Maya Mental Disorders
Latent and manifest empiricism in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Towards a Biopsychosocial–Spiritual Approach in Health Psychology
The current status of the “biopsychosocial” model in health psychology is contested and arguably exists in a stage of infancy. Despite original goals, researchers have developed theoretical integrations across biopsychosocial domains only to a limited extent. In addition, the marginalization of “spirituality” in contemporary biopsychosocial health perspectives is questionable. This article addresses these issues by providing evidence that support…
Doing Resilience with “Half a Brain
Being and Becoming Maya in Chan Kom
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Using the theoretical framework developed by Martin Heidegger regarding worlds, being and style, this paper explores the social and cultural changes in the Maya village of Chan Kom in order to …
Resilience and Healing Amidst Depressive Experiences
Resilience is generally understood as a pattern of positive adaptation following significant stress, adversity, or risk, and is often examined when looking to see why some individuals fall victim to despair while others seem to thrive. Previous studies highlight the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of resilience. This article suggests these perspectives be extended by including spirituality in the current discourse on resilienc…
Re-imagining miyo-wicehtowin
I Have Strong Hopes for the Future
In this article, we demonstrate how concepts of time and the future inform processes of resilience among Indigenous adolescents within an urban Canadian context. This study employed a modified grounded theory methodology by conducting 38 qualitative interviews with 28 Indigenous youth (ages 15-25) over the course of 1 year. The analysis revealed complex processes of and navigations between moments of distress and strategies for resilience. The di…
Reframing Narratives of Aboriginal Health Inequity
A large body of literature explores historical trauma or intergenerational trauma among Aboriginal communities around the globe. This literature connects contemporary forms of social suffering and health inequity to broader historical processes of colonization and the residential school systems in Canada. There are tendencies within this literature, however, to focus on individual pathology and victimization while minimizing notions of resilience…
Just because they aren't human doesn't mean they aren't alive”
Photovoice has been widely used as a participatory visual research methodology within the social sciences and health research. Given photovoice's critical and pedagogical potential, its advancement within Indigenous resilience and health research has been particularly prevalent. However, it has largely failed to problematize the concept of 'voice' to the extent of theorizing and engaging with the 'voices' of other kinds of life with consequences …
Intersectionality of Resilience
By bringing together two important areas of contemporary health research-resilience among Indigenous youth and intersectionality theory-this study advances an intersectionality of resilience framework that exposes intersecting forms of oppression within inner city urban contexts, while also critically reframing intersectionality to include strength-based perspectives of overlapping individual, social, and structural resilience-promoting processes…
Performing Pimâtisiwin
The performing arts can be a powerful means of wellness, identity exploration, and positive social representation for Indigenous young people. In this article, we outline the results of a year-long collaborative study that explored Indigenous young peoples' relationships between the performing arts, wellness, and resilience. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Cree and Métis youth about their participation in the Circle of Voices th…
Narrative Structures of Maya Mental Disorders
The role of sensorial processes in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Theory and research on the healing practices of Indigenous communities around the globe have often been influenced by models of "symbolic healing" that privilege the way patients consciously interpret or derive meaning from a healing encounter. In our work with a group of Q'eqchi' Maya healers in southern Belize, these aspects of "symbolic healing" are not always present. Such empirical observations force us to reach beyond models of symbolic hea…
Latent and manifest empiricism in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Diagnostic Emplotment in Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine
Medical diagnosis is a process of illness discrimination, categorization, and identification on the basis of careful observation and is central in biomedicine and many traditional medical systems around the world. Through a detailed analysis of several illness episodes and healer interviews among Maya communities in southern Belize, we observe that the diagnostic processes of traditional Q'eqchi' healers reflect patterns of narrative 'emplotment'…
Embodiment, Empathic Perception, and Spiritual Ontologies in Q'eqchi' Maya Healing
Social science research and theory suggests that perception can be viewed as an embodied process of social and cultural mediation. This embodied view of perception involves deep connections between the mind and body, as well as the larger social context. Previous research with Maya communities has outlined how aspects of subject and object, or self and other, can be bridged through forms of social connectedness with the family or community. This …
Being and Becoming a Helper
Saskatoon has nearly half of the diagnoses of HIV in Saskatchewan, Canada, with an incidence rate among Indigenous populations within inner-city contexts that is 3 times higher than national rates. Previous research does not adequately explore the relations between HIV vulnerabilities within these contexts and the experiences of illness disclosure that are informed by identity transformations, experiences of stigma, and social support. From an in…
Being and Becoming Maya in Chan Kom
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Using the theoretical framework developed by Martin Heidegger regarding worlds, being and style, this paper explores the social and cultural changes in the Maya village of Chan Kom in order to …
Resilience and Healing Amidst Depressive Experiences
Resilience is generally understood as a pattern of positive adaptation following significant stress, adversity, or risk, and is often examined when looking to see why some individuals fall victim to despair while others seem to thrive. Previous studies highlight the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of resilience. This article suggests these perspectives be extended by including spirituality in the current discourse on resilienc…
The psychology of spirituality
Towards a Biopsychosocial–Spiritual Approach in Health Psychology
The current status of the “biopsychosocial” model in health psychology is contested and arguably exists in a stage of infancy. Despite original goals, researchers have developed theoretical integrations across biopsychosocial domains only to a limited extent. In addition, the marginalization of “spirituality” in contemporary biopsychosocial health perspectives is questionable. This article addresses these issues by providing evidence that support…
Doing Resilience with “Half a Brain
Being and Becoming Maya in Chan Kom
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Using the theoretical framework developed by Martin Heidegger regarding worlds, being and style, this paper explores the social and cultural changes in the Maya village of Chan Kom in order to …
Narrative Structures of Maya Mental Disorders
Latent and manifest empiricism in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Reframing Narratives of Aboriginal Health Inequity
A large body of literature explores historical trauma or intergenerational trauma among Aboriginal communities around the globe. This literature connects contemporary forms of social suffering and health inequity to broader historical processes of colonization and the residential school systems in Canada. There are tendencies within this literature, however, to focus on individual pathology and victimization while minimizing notions of resilience…
The role of sensorial processes in Q'eqchi' Maya healing
Theory and research on the healing practices of Indigenous communities around the globe have often been influenced by models of "symbolic healing" that privilege the way patients consciously interpret or derive meaning from a healing encounter. In our work with a group of Q'eqchi' Maya healers in southern Belize, these aspects of "symbolic healing" are not always present. Such empirical observations force us to reach beyond models of symbolic hea…
I Have Strong Hopes for the Future
In this article, we demonstrate how concepts of time and the future inform processes of resilience among Indigenous adolescents within an urban Canadian context. This study employed a modified grounded theory methodology by conducting 38 qualitative interviews with 28 Indigenous youth (ages 15-25) over the course of 1 year. The analysis revealed complex processes of and navigations between moments of distress and strategies for resilience. The di…
Diagnostic Emplotment in Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine
Medical diagnosis is a process of illness discrimination, categorization, and identification on the basis of careful observation and is central in biomedicine and many traditional medical systems around the world. Through a detailed analysis of several illness episodes and healer interviews among Maya communities in southern Belize, we observe that the diagnostic processes of traditional Q'eqchi' healers reflect patterns of narrative 'emplotment'…
I’m more aware of my HIV risk than anything else’
Despite decreased rates of HIV infection in Winnipeg, syphilis incidence continues to rise. Communities of men who have sex with men shoulder much of this burden of illness. This qualitative study aimed to better understand the co-evolution of HIV and syphilis in Winnipeg through a series of interviews with gay men. Eighteen individuals were recruited through advertising in sexual health centres and through subsequent snowball sampling. Thematic …
Being and Becoming a Helper
Saskatoon has nearly half of the diagnoses of HIV in Saskatchewan, Canada, with an incidence rate among Indigenous populations within inner-city contexts that is 3 times higher than national rates. Previous research does not adequately explore the relations between HIV vulnerabilities within these contexts and the experiences of illness disclosure that are informed by identity transformations, experiences of stigma, and social support. From an in…
Re-imagining miyo-wicehtowin
Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context
This study contributes to the literature exploring Indigenous youths' meaning-making process and engagements with land and nature in an urban context, and highlights the need for public health and municipal agencies to consider developing more culturally safe and meaningful natural environments that can support the health, resilience, and well-being of Indigenous youth within inner-city contexts
Just because they aren't human doesn't mean they aren't alive”
Photovoice has been widely used as a participatory visual research methodology within the social sciences and health research. Given photovoice's critical and pedagogical potential, its advancement within Indigenous resilience and health research has been particularly prevalent. However, it has largely failed to problematize the concept of 'voice' to the extent of theorizing and engaging with the 'voices' of other kinds of life with consequences …
Intersectionality of Resilience
By bringing together two important areas of contemporary health research-resilience among Indigenous youth and intersectionality theory-this study advances an intersectionality of resilience framework that exposes intersecting forms of oppression within inner city urban contexts, while also critically reframing intersectionality to include strength-based perspectives of overlapping individual, social, and structural resilience-promoting processes…
Performing Pimâtisiwin
The performing arts can be a powerful means of wellness, identity exploration, and positive social representation for Indigenous young people. In this article, we outline the results of a year-long collaborative study that explored Indigenous young peoples' relationships between the performing arts, wellness, and resilience. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Cree and Métis youth about their participation in the Circle of Voices th…
Embodiment, Empathic Perception, and Spiritual Ontologies in Q'eqchi' Maya Healing
Social science research and theory suggests that perception can be viewed as an embodied process of social and cultural mediation. This embodied view of perception involves deep connections between the mind and body, as well as the larger social context. Previous research with Maya communities has outlined how aspects of subject and object, or self and other, can be bridged through forms of social connectedness with the family or community. This …
Indigenous mothers’ experiences of power and control in child welfare
There are upward of 11,000 Indigenous children and families in the Manitoba Child and Family Services (CFSs). Many factors coalesce as contributors to these high rates of care, including oppressive histories of Canadian settler colonialism, governmental policies and the Indian Residential Schools, and mass apprehensions of Indigenous children through “the 60’s scoop.” Although a process of “Devolution” began in Manitoba in 1999 to address Indigen…
Does “Susto” Really Exist? Indigenous Knowledge and Fright Disorders Among Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize
Voices of those living with type 2 diabetes in Belize
Belize has the highest national prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) of Central and South America, and fifth direst in the world. T2D is the leading cause of death in Belize, a country facing burdens of increasing prevalence with few resources. Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties of those living with T2D in Belize. To address T2D issues in Belize, our interdisciplinary research team explored the barriers to …
Access to land and nature as health determinants
Policies, practices, and interventions aimed at strengthening urban Indigenous young peoples' relationships to and connections with nature and the land can have a positive impact on their health and wellness. Public Health systems and healthcare providers can learn about leveraging the health benefits of human-nature relationships at individual and community levels, and this is particularly vital for those working to advance health equity among I…
Promoting health and wellness through Indigenous sacred sites, ceremony grounds, and land-based learning
This study analyzes the literature on Indigenous sacred sites within the larger topic areas of land-based education and healing, as per the guidance of Anishinaabe (a group of Indigenous Peoples from the Great Lakes and the Great Plains areas of contemporary Canada and USA) Elders and community leaders in eastern Manitoba, Canada. A scoping review was conducted to identify the size, scope, nature, and key themes of existing research in seven data…
Leveraging culturally-relevant urban social housing to address Indigenous youth homelessness and transitions out of government care
Indigenous children and youth are overrepresented in settler-colonial child protection systems globally. They experience higher rates of homelessness and housing precarity when leaving care and searching for family and a place to call home. Missing from Canadian policy and research discussions is the role social housing can play to address these realities by providing a social safety net for permanent low-barrier housing. In this article, we high…
Sociology (21 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Indigenous (16 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · Maya (7 obras)