Heather A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 179663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy
This volume brings together world-class scholars to explore international studies pedagogy. The first section focuses on worldviews and teaching worlds. Chapters in this section expose readers to different worldviews and methods that enable a more diverse set of considerations when thinking about the international and demonstrate a set of pedagogical practices that center and value non-Western perspectives. Beyond simply enabling broader literatu…
Debunking the Myth of Canada as a Non-Colonial Power
This article proposes that the understanding of Canada as a non-colonial power articulated by federal leaders representing Canada to the world is based on a myth. Foundational to contemporary understandings of the state, this myth is founded on a reproduction of a specific form of historical amnesia. When taken at face value, this myth-making both enables and promotes a false image of Canada, one which erases the persistent reinforcement of a dom…
Risk Factors for Postpartum Emergency Department Visits in an Urban Population
Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Develop Geospatial Models Toward Improving Community Health for Disadvantaged Hispanic Populations in Charlotte, NC
Unlearning: A messy and complex journey with Canadian Foreign Policy
Adopting a narrative approach, I describe how doing research on the Highway of Tears, which exposed me to Indigenous method and theory, required of me an unlearning of core assumptions about who I was as a scholar. In addition, the ongoing process of unlearning has only reinforced my view that we must be mindful about the ways in which the field of Canadian Foreign Policy (CFP) has the potential to construct images of Canada that marginalize fran…
Receptivity's Construction in Public Schools: A Component of Immigrant Integration in an Emerging Gateway
The Status of Women in Canadian Foreign Policy Analysis
What is the status of women scholars who study Canadian foreign policy (CFP)? Our study, the first of its kind to concentrate on the Canadian situation, addresses this question by studying publications and authorship. We assess the status of women in CFP since 1945 using the Canadian Foreign Relations Index, supplemented by studies on women in the academy. We show that the number of publications by women is substantially lower than those of men, …
Still notable: Reassessing theoretical "exceptions" in Canadian foreign policy literature
This article revisits our 1993 field analysis of the theoretical condition of Canadian foreign policy (CFP) literature, which was in turn a response to Maureen Molot's 1990 argument that said literature had "been captured by its own preoccupations and ha[d], therefore, remained highly descriptive." In our analysis, we found the field to be marked by promising yet exceptional and arrested theoretical openings and a lack of cumulation, broadly unde…
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy: Critical Feminist Engagements
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
A trans-disciplinary approach to the evaluation of social determinants of health in a hispanic population
The results of this study will demonstrate the importance of several novel approaches to ameliorating health disparities, including the use of CBPR, the effectiveness of community-based interventions to influence health outcomes by leveraging social networks, and the importance of primary care access in ameliorating health disparities
Evaluating Primary Care Delivery Systems for an Uninsured Hispanic Immigrant Population
Hispanic populations experience disparities in health outcomes and health care. Using participatory methods, we evaluated 4 systems of primary care delivery for an uninsured Hispanic population. Best practices were determined that could be translated back to the partner clinics and the community. The assessment included patient service areas, provider discussion groups, patient surveys, calculation of travel distances, and costs. The following be…
Canadian Studies Considered: Response to “A Model Environmental Nation? Canada as a Case Study for Informing US Environmental Policy”
The Inuit Circumpolar Council in an Era of Global and Local Change
For over 30 years, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has represented and promoted the interests of Inuit peoples across the circumpolar north. This transnational organization has championed a number of political, cultural, and environmental causes that are important to the Inuit, and raised the profile of Arctic and Inuit issues in multilateral forums such as the Arctic Council and the United Nations. In the words of Poul Krarup, the editor of …
The Practice, Purpose, and Perils of List-Making: A Response to John Kirton's “10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy
In spring 2009 issue of International Journal, John Kirton published his of important books on Canadian foreign He framed his as a response to what he believes to be one remaining unanswered question about field: Is Canadian foreign policy really a self-contained field with an intellectually coherent, progressive research tradition, defined by seminal books of creative inspiration and continuing relevance at its core?1 Although Kirton suggests th…
Choosing Not to See: Canada, Climate Change, and the Arctic
In August 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated: takes responsibility for environmental protection and enforcement in Arctic This magnificent and unspoiled ecological region is one for which will demonstrate stewardship on behalf of country, and indeed, all of humanity.1Our Arctic waters. Our country. We take responsibility and we are the stewards. Constructions of ownership and acts of boundarydrawing are deeply embedded in this st…
Political Parties and Canadian Climate Change Policy
Climate change arose on the international agenda in the late 1980s. It was a period of international greening and Canada joined the climate change bandwagon. Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was even lauded as an international leader on the issue. In 2002 Canada, under the leadership of Jean Chretien, ratified the Kyoto protocol, in spite ofthe absence ofthe United States from the agreement and in the face of provincial opposition. Whil…
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
Planning, policy and polarisation in Vancouver's downtown eastside
Widely known as Vancouver's ‘skid road’ the Downtown Eastside struggles with the pressures of socio‐spatial polarisation. While the neighbourhood has experienced deepening poverty, widening disadvantage, the entrenchment of an open air drug market, epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and rising crime rates, it has also undergone extensive residential and commercial revitalisation. This paper explores, qualitatively, the City of Vancouver's policy and pla…
Caution warranted: Niche diplomacy assessed
This article offers a critique of niche diplomacy using critical theory. The critique is based on the presumption that all policy is informed by a set of ethical and philosophical assumptions. Smith suggests that careful consideration of niche diplomacy is particularly necessary because it comes with a political agenda that legitimizes the narrowing of Canadian foreign policy in such a way that the credibility of foreign policy initiatives could …
(Re) Defining Traditions: Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
Promises Made, Promises Broken: Questioning Canada's Commitments to Climate Change
INTRODUCTIONDuring the autumn of 1997, the environment was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers in a way not seen since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A vigorous and very public debate over the position Canada should take at the international negotiations for a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was carried out amongst feuding departments and their min…
Environmental Politics and Institutional Change
The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change
Part 1 Theory: the problem of international regime formation the proposed model. Part 2 Ozone layer depletion: science economics equity. Part 3 Global warming: science economics equity
The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
Part 1 The global context: global environmental politics from Stockholm to Rio the Third World and environmental politics the link between global inequality and environmental degradation. Part 2 The Third World and environmental regime formation: the Third World at the bargaining table hazardous waste trade biodiversity and technology transfer atmosphere and climate. Part 3 Conflict or cooperation in global environmental politics: the future of g…
Notable Exceptions? New and Arrested Directions in Canadian Foreign Policy Literature
The literature on Canadian Foreign Policy has often been characterized as overly descriptive and theoretically weak. This type of characterization, advanced most recently by Maureen Molot, is no longer wholly accurate. By reviewing several relatively recent contributions and debates in this literature, it is demonstrated that in pockets, the subfield has advanced substantially in theoretical sophistication. Nevertheless, it continues to manifest …
The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change
Part 1 Theory: the problem of international regime formation the proposed model. Part 2 Ozone layer depletion: science economics equity. Part 3 Global warming: science economics equity
Planning, policy and polarisation in Vancouver's downtown eastside
Widely known as Vancouver's ‘skid road’ the Downtown Eastside struggles with the pressures of socio‐spatial polarisation. While the neighbourhood has experienced deepening poverty, widening disadvantage, the entrenchment of an open air drug market, epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and rising crime rates, it has also undergone extensive residential and commercial revitalisation. This paper explores, qualitatively, the City of Vancouver's policy and pla…
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy: Critical Feminist Engagements
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
Still notable: Reassessing theoretical "exceptions" in Canadian foreign policy literature
This article revisits our 1993 field analysis of the theoretical condition of Canadian foreign policy (CFP) literature, which was in turn a response to Maureen Molot's 1990 argument that said literature had "been captured by its own preoccupations and ha[d], therefore, remained highly descriptive." In our analysis, we found the field to be marked by promising yet exceptional and arrested theoretical openings and a lack of cumulation, broadly unde…
Choosing Not to See: Canada, Climate Change, and the Arctic
In August 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated: takes responsibility for environmental protection and enforcement in Arctic This magnificent and unspoiled ecological region is one for which will demonstrate stewardship on behalf of country, and indeed, all of humanity.1Our Arctic waters. Our country. We take responsibility and we are the stewards. Constructions of ownership and acts of boundarydrawing are deeply embedded in this st…
Political Parties and Canadian Climate Change Policy
Climate change arose on the international agenda in the late 1980s. It was a period of international greening and Canada joined the climate change bandwagon. Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was even lauded as an international leader on the issue. In 2002 Canada, under the leadership of Jean Chretien, ratified the Kyoto protocol, in spite ofthe absence ofthe United States from the agreement and in the face of provincial opposition. Whil…
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
Receptivity's Construction in Public Schools: A Component of Immigrant Integration in an Emerging Gateway
The Inuit Circumpolar Council in an Era of Global and Local Change
For over 30 years, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has represented and promoted the interests of Inuit peoples across the circumpolar north. This transnational organization has championed a number of political, cultural, and environmental causes that are important to the Inuit, and raised the profile of Arctic and Inuit issues in multilateral forums such as the Arctic Council and the United Nations. In the words of Poul Krarup, the editor of …
Promises Made, Promises Broken: Questioning Canada's Commitments to Climate Change
INTRODUCTIONDuring the autumn of 1997, the environment was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers in a way not seen since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A vigorous and very public debate over the position Canada should take at the international negotiations for a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was carried out amongst feuding departments and their min…
Unlearning: A messy and complex journey with Canadian Foreign Policy
Adopting a narrative approach, I describe how doing research on the Highway of Tears, which exposed me to Indigenous method and theory, required of me an unlearning of core assumptions about who I was as a scholar. In addition, the ongoing process of unlearning has only reinforced my view that we must be mindful about the ways in which the field of Canadian Foreign Policy (CFP) has the potential to construct images of Canada that marginalize fran…
The Practice, Purpose, and Perils of List-Making: A Response to John Kirton's “10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy
In spring 2009 issue of International Journal, John Kirton published his of important books on Canadian foreign He framed his as a response to what he believes to be one remaining unanswered question about field: Is Canadian foreign policy really a self-contained field with an intellectually coherent, progressive research tradition, defined by seminal books of creative inspiration and continuing relevance at its core?1 Although Kirton suggests th…
Notable Exceptions? New and Arrested Directions in Canadian Foreign Policy Literature
The literature on Canadian Foreign Policy has often been characterized as overly descriptive and theoretically weak. This type of characterization, advanced most recently by Maureen Molot, is no longer wholly accurate. By reviewing several relatively recent contributions and debates in this literature, it is demonstrated that in pockets, the subfield has advanced substantially in theoretical sophistication. Nevertheless, it continues to manifest …
The Status of Women in Canadian Foreign Policy Analysis
What is the status of women scholars who study Canadian foreign policy (CFP)? Our study, the first of its kind to concentrate on the Canadian situation, addresses this question by studying publications and authorship. We assess the status of women in CFP since 1945 using the Canadian Foreign Relations Index, supplemented by studies on women in the academy. We show that the number of publications by women is substantially lower than those of men, …
Notable Exceptions? New and Arrested Directions in Canadian Foreign Policy Literature
The literature on Canadian Foreign Policy has often been characterized as overly descriptive and theoretically weak. This type of characterization, advanced most recently by Maureen Molot, is no longer wholly accurate. By reviewing several relatively recent contributions and debates in this literature, it is demonstrated that in pockets, the subfield has advanced substantially in theoretical sophistication. Nevertheless, it continues to manifest …
The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change
Part 1 Theory: the problem of international regime formation the proposed model. Part 2 Ozone layer depletion: science economics equity. Part 3 Global warming: science economics equity
The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
Part 1 The global context: global environmental politics from Stockholm to Rio the Third World and environmental politics the link between global inequality and environmental degradation. Part 2 The Third World and environmental regime formation: the Third World at the bargaining table hazardous waste trade biodiversity and technology transfer atmosphere and climate. Part 3 Conflict or cooperation in global environmental politics: the future of g…
Environmental Politics and Institutional Change
Caution warranted: Niche diplomacy assessed
This article offers a critique of niche diplomacy using critical theory. The critique is based on the presumption that all policy is informed by a set of ethical and philosophical assumptions. Smith suggests that careful consideration of niche diplomacy is particularly necessary because it comes with a political agenda that legitimizes the narrowing of Canadian foreign policy in such a way that the credibility of foreign policy initiatives could …
(Re) Defining Traditions: Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
Promises Made, Promises Broken: Questioning Canada's Commitments to Climate Change
INTRODUCTIONDuring the autumn of 1997, the environment was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers in a way not seen since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A vigorous and very public debate over the position Canada should take at the international negotiations for a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was carried out amongst feuding departments and their min…
Planning, policy and polarisation in Vancouver's downtown eastside
Widely known as Vancouver's ‘skid road’ the Downtown Eastside struggles with the pressures of socio‐spatial polarisation. While the neighbourhood has experienced deepening poverty, widening disadvantage, the entrenchment of an open air drug market, epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and rising crime rates, it has also undergone extensive residential and commercial revitalisation. This paper explores, qualitatively, the City of Vancouver's policy and pla…
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
Political Parties and Canadian Climate Change Policy
Climate change arose on the international agenda in the late 1980s. It was a period of international greening and Canada joined the climate change bandwagon. Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was even lauded as an international leader on the issue. In 2002 Canada, under the leadership of Jean Chretien, ratified the Kyoto protocol, in spite ofthe absence ofthe United States from the agreement and in the face of provincial opposition. Whil…
The Practice, Purpose, and Perils of List-Making: A Response to John Kirton's “10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy
In spring 2009 issue of International Journal, John Kirton published his of important books on Canadian foreign He framed his as a response to what he believes to be one remaining unanswered question about field: Is Canadian foreign policy really a self-contained field with an intellectually coherent, progressive research tradition, defined by seminal books of creative inspiration and continuing relevance at its core?1 Although Kirton suggests th…
Choosing Not to See: Canada, Climate Change, and the Arctic
In August 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated: takes responsibility for environmental protection and enforcement in Arctic This magnificent and unspoiled ecological region is one for which will demonstrate stewardship on behalf of country, and indeed, all of humanity.1Our Arctic waters. Our country. We take responsibility and we are the stewards. Constructions of ownership and acts of boundarydrawing are deeply embedded in this st…
Canadian Studies Considered: Response to “A Model Environmental Nation? Canada as a Case Study for Informing US Environmental Policy”
The Inuit Circumpolar Council in an Era of Global and Local Change
For over 30 years, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has represented and promoted the interests of Inuit peoples across the circumpolar north. This transnational organization has championed a number of political, cultural, and environmental causes that are important to the Inuit, and raised the profile of Arctic and Inuit issues in multilateral forums such as the Arctic Council and the United Nations. In the words of Poul Krarup, the editor of …
A trans-disciplinary approach to the evaluation of social determinants of health in a hispanic population
The results of this study will demonstrate the importance of several novel approaches to ameliorating health disparities, including the use of CBPR, the effectiveness of community-based interventions to influence health outcomes by leveraging social networks, and the importance of primary care access in ameliorating health disparities
Evaluating Primary Care Delivery Systems for an Uninsured Hispanic Immigrant Population
Hispanic populations experience disparities in health outcomes and health care. Using participatory methods, we evaluated 4 systems of primary care delivery for an uninsured Hispanic population. Best practices were determined that could be translated back to the partner clinics and the community. The assessment included patient service areas, provider discussion groups, patient surveys, calculation of travel distances, and costs. The following be…
Innovating International Relations Pedagogy: Critical Feminist Engagements
But excitement about ideas [is] not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one anothe
Still notable: Reassessing theoretical "exceptions" in Canadian foreign policy literature
This article revisits our 1993 field analysis of the theoretical condition of Canadian foreign policy (CFP) literature, which was in turn a response to Maureen Molot's 1990 argument that said literature had "been captured by its own preoccupations and ha[d], therefore, remained highly descriptive." In our analysis, we found the field to be marked by promising yet exceptional and arrested theoretical openings and a lack of cumulation, broadly unde…
The Status of Women in Canadian Foreign Policy Analysis
What is the status of women scholars who study Canadian foreign policy (CFP)? Our study, the first of its kind to concentrate on the Canadian situation, addresses this question by studying publications and authorship. We assess the status of women in CFP since 1945 using the Canadian Foreign Relations Index, supplemented by studies on women in the academy. We show that the number of publications by women is substantially lower than those of men, …
Unlearning: A messy and complex journey with Canadian Foreign Policy
Adopting a narrative approach, I describe how doing research on the Highway of Tears, which exposed me to Indigenous method and theory, required of me an unlearning of core assumptions about who I was as a scholar. In addition, the ongoing process of unlearning has only reinforced my view that we must be mindful about the ways in which the field of Canadian Foreign Policy (CFP) has the potential to construct images of Canada that marginalize fran…
Receptivity's Construction in Public Schools: A Component of Immigrant Integration in an Emerging Gateway
Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Develop Geospatial Models Toward Improving Community Health for Disadvantaged Hispanic Populations in Charlotte, NC
Risk Factors for Postpartum Emergency Department Visits in an Urban Population
Debunking the Myth of Canada as a Non-Colonial Power
This article proposes that the understanding of Canada as a non-colonial power articulated by federal leaders representing Canada to the world is based on a myth. Foundational to contemporary understandings of the state, this myth is founded on a reproduction of a specific form of historical amnesia. When taken at face value, this myth-making both enables and promotes a false image of Canada, one which erases the persistent reinforcement of a dom…
The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy
This volume brings together world-class scholars to explore international studies pedagogy. The first section focuses on worldviews and teaching worlds. Chapters in this section expose readers to different worldviews and methods that enable a more diverse set of considerations when thinking about the international and demonstrate a set of pedagogical practices that center and value non-Western perspectives. Beyond simply enabling broader literatu…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Foreign policy (7 works) · Canadian Identity and History (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)