Hector Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 197196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hector Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hector |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7174-9487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Institutionalizing grant-funded interventions: A multiple case study examining long-term investments in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM)
Immigrant Fertility in Canada 2001–2021: A Brief Report
Canada has low fertility and relies on immigration to support the labor force and population growth. However, if recent waves of immigrants have the same or lower rates of fertility than native-born Canadians, then immigration becomes a demographic revolving door rather than long-term solution for the country’s population pressures. This paper provides estimates for immigrant fertility in Canada 2001–2021, examining heterogeneity by age at migrat…
Access to Justice: Comparing Human Rights Models in British Columbia
Human rights systems in Canada face difficulties: growing caseloads, slow case processing, and a lack of access to hearings. Some Canadian jurisdictions have responded to these challenges by changing from a commission system to a direct access system. This change is made to maximize efficiency, to more quickly process complaints, and to render faster justice to all. Using British Columbia, Canada, as a test case, we assess which of these two syst…
A comparison of applicant and accepted student characteristics to research training programs with implications for recruitment and selection strategy
Introduction: Very few studies have examined the relationship between student characteristics and their acceptance to research training programs that use holistic selection. The present study addressed this question using institutional and applicant data of three NIH undergraduate training programs at California State University, Long Beach. Its first aim was to examine whether the applicants to the training programs were representative of the br…
Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys
As the world sees an increase in global migration, it is paramount to collect real-time data on migrants to facilitate their settlement in new countries. A major obstacle to capturing such information is that many migrants, such as refugees, are “hard-to-reach.” Traditional sampling methods often miss small and mobile populations and for this reason new methods are needed. Survey recruitment through Meta advertisements is one such approach. By me…
Sociology in Existential Times
Perceptions of environmental change and beliefs in the effectiveness of pro‐environmental actions
The 2020s have seen increasing environmental change and it is nearly impossible to deny that human actions are driving it. Individual‐level actions are important for mitigating environmental change and facilitating adaptation. However, there is debate over the relationship between perceptions of the risks of environmental change and taking pro‐environmental actions that can mitigate them. Few studies examine how perceptions of environmental chang…
Cultural identity development in adult forced migrants: The psychometrics of a measure in Arabic, Spanish, and Ukrainian
Trends in Indigenous fertility in Canada, 2001-2021
BACKGROUNDIndigenous peoples in Canada are among the youngest and fastest-growing populations in the country and have had higher fertility rates than non-Indigenous populations. OBJECTIVEThis paper examines how Indigenous fertility in Canada changed over two decades .It also examines how Indigenous fertility varies across different Indigenous populations and how the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fertility has changed. METHODSThe paper…
Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic emerged against the backdrop of the longer-term climate change crisis and increasing global awareness of the imperative for climate action, disrupting the post-Paris trajectory of climate policy and media coverage of climate change. We examine news media coverage from Canadian legacy newspapers and answer three questions. First, did the COVID-19 pandemic work as a critical event in its impacts on news media coverage of clima…
Perceptions of local environment change and ecological habitus
Research shows that people’s perceptions of environmental change are strong predictors of ecologically supportive behaviours and attitudes, but less is known about what causes some people to perceive environmental change more than others. This study considers whether participation in outdoor leisure activities accounts for different perceptions of the local environment. We consider how leisure activities form a broader ‘ecological habitus’ while …
Uncritical sociology: Canadian sociology at the crossroads
The Value of Normative Models for Understanding Pluralism
Contemporary debates on nationalism, ethnicity, race, identity, and citizenship are largely shaped by the trends of the twentieth century and now wrestle with new problems that do not easily fit older models. There is a need to adapt theories to understand emerging social dynamics and new sites of power. When this is done, normative models and non-dualistic understandings of identity and citizenship best account for group dynamics such as identit…
Mental Health of Newcomer Refugee and Immigrant Youth During Covid-19
In this paper, we examine how the degree of newcomer youth assimilation and acculturation, food insecurity, resilience, and social connections affect the mental health of recent refugee and immigrant youth in a mid-sized city during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for this study are based on a sample of newcomers, mostly refugees, surveyed between July and November 2020. Indicators of mental health problems include the frequency in which responde…
The power of a simple index of neighbourhood change: Challenging the perception that there is no such thing as simplicity in creating indexes
While academic research on neighbourhood change has developed over the past 30 years, its measurement is often technical and complex, hampering knowledge translation of academic research to wider audiences. Based on our research on neighbourhood change in Atlantic Canadian cities, we have developed two “simple” indexes of neighbourhood change. We document the steps to creating the simple indexes and discuss what decisions are made along the way. …
Arenas of Solitude: Social Forms and Textures of Togetherness in Hockey
Hockey and hockey arenas are often touted as pillars of Canadian identity and community. However, recent debates over inclusion in the sport question the game’s ability to facilitate social and cultural integration. This paper analyzes different forms of social interaction in hockey and hockey arenas in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In doing so, the paper identifies three social forms that hockey players and parents produce and reproduce in arenas. These…
Does municipal funding of organizations reflect communities of need? Exploring trends in Halifax, 1996-2016
Recent policy shifts and budget cuts have led to a reduction in government support for NGOs. While studies examine funding at the federal level, few analyze municipalities. Using a socio-spatial approach, we compare municipal funding and tax relief with Census data to analyze how fiscal support coincides with social needs in Halifax, Canada. Our analysis shows that funding declines while the need remains high. We contend this has implications for…
Do Polarization Narratives Apply to Politics on the Periphery? The Case of Atlantic Canada
Researchers, policymakers, and the public often claim that "extreme" political views have become increasingly commonplace and that polarization on issues of race and immigration has become a central dilemma for contemporary politics. The popular narrative of political polarization captures tensions that many are noticing and experiencing. However, there is also significant confusion around the concept, as well as gaps between popular perceptions …
Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
From the Pond to the Jumbotron: Affordances of Hockey as a Multicultural and Social Space
This paper examines how physical space shapes access to hockey arenas and participation in the game. Based on site observations and auto-ethnographic personal experience, this paper looks at how the concepts of ‘multicultural common space’ and ‘affordance’ can be used to better understand who participates in the sport and how space mediates participation in, and the imagination of, hockey and as an offshoot of Canadian identity. It uses the conce…
Mental health and economic concerns from March to May during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada: Insights from an analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys
These findings suggest that policies to mitigate economic stress, such as Canada's Emergency Response Benefit, may have eased mental health deterioration in early pandemic months through a reduction in financial hardship. Interventions to increase the economic security of the population will have far-reaching consequences in terms of improved mental health, and should be continued throughout the pandemic
Changes in health behaviours during early Covid-19 and socio-demographic disparities: A cross-sectional analysis
The cultural identity of first-generation immigrant children and youth: Insights from a meta-analysis
In a globalized world with high rates of migration, identification with one’s culture of origin and one’s new cultural environment is a key and sometimes conflicted issue. Focusing on the growing population of first-generation immigrant children and youth, this study reviewed previous literature, using meta-analysis to investigate core factors affecting identity development. A search of databases yielded 3,636 English-language articles published …
Integrating Refugee Children and Youth: A Scoping Review of English and German Literature
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees reports that more than half of the 65 million refugees and displaced people identified worldwide are under the age of 18. For this reason, researchers, practitioners and policymakers need to understand the consequences of forced migration on the integration of refugee children and youth in receiving countries. A first step to do that is to scope out the state of current research on these issues and …
Can Rust Belt or Three Cities Explain the Sociospatial Changes in Atlantic Canadian Cities
Research on American secondary cities has largely focused on so–called “rust belt” cities and has found that they tend to have economic stagnation, racialization, and urban decay in their urban cores occurring after economic crises. Most urban research on Canadian cities has, by contrast, focused on the country's largest cities, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and has found that urban cores are getting richer, less diverse, and undergoing infra…
Transnational Information Politics: NGO Human Rights Reporting, 1986-2000
What shapes the transnational activist agenda? Do non-governmental organizations with a global mandate focus on the world's most pressing problems, or is their reporting also affected by additional considerations? To address these questions, we study the determinants of country reporting by an exemplary transnational actor, Amnesty International, during 1986–2000. We find that while human rights conditions are associated with the volume of their …
Shaping the Northern Media's Human Rights Coverage, 1986—2000
What influences the Northern media's coverage of events and abuses in explicit human rights terms? Do international NGOs have an impact, and, if so, when are they most effective? This article addresses these questions with regression analysis of human rights reporting by The Economist and Newsweek from 1986 to 2000, covering 145 countries. First, it finds that these two media sources cover abuses in human rights terms more frequently when they oc…
Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities
This article is based on data from a four-year national study of racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Its main conclusion is that whether one examines representation in terms of numbers of racialized and Indigenous faculty members and their positioning within the system, their earned income as compared to white faculty, their daily life experiences within the university as workplace, or interactions with colleagues and students…
Opportunity for Whom: Political Opportunity and Critical Events in Canadian Aboriginal Mobilization, 1951-2000
Many social movement researchers question the usefulness of political opportunity as a concept. However, others argue that it can be refined by disaggregating different opportunities for actors and outcomes to understand the underlying mechanisms that influence each. This research extends this analysis by asking “political opportunity for whom?” Looking at Canadian Aboriginal mobilization, it assesses how different opportunities influence a broad…
What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute
Canada increasingly favours immigration policies based on human capital theory and economic outcomes. Consequently, while immigration is on the increase there is a downward trend in the number of "family class" entrants admitted to the country. The group most seriously affected is sponsored parents and/or grandparents who are also the most vulnerable to criticisms against family class immigration. The discussion is centered on the perceived lack …
Changes in health behaviours during early Covid-19 and socio-demographic disparities: A cross-sectional analysis
Can Rust Belt or Three Cities Explain the Sociospatial Changes in Atlantic Canadian Cities
Research on American secondary cities has largely focused on so–called “rust belt” cities and has found that they tend to have economic stagnation, racialization, and urban decay in their urban cores occurring after economic crises. Most urban research on Canadian cities has, by contrast, focused on the country's largest cities, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and has found that urban cores are getting richer, less diverse, and undergoing infra…
Social and Political Convergence on Environmental Events: The Roles of Simplicity and Visuality in the BP Oil Spill
This paper examines how and when newspapers, environmental nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and the government converge on environmental events. Using data on the 2010 BP Oil Spill from newspaper articles in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, press releases by Greenpeace and Sierra Club, press releases by BP, Halliburton, Transocean, ExxonMobil, and Shell, and press statements by the White House Press Secretary, we exami…
Assessing the tangible and intangible benefits of tourism: Perceptions of economic, social, and cultural impacts in Labrador’s Battle Harbour Historic District
Literature on rural and small island tourism critically questions the commodification of culture and landscapes, showing that replacing rural resource based industries with tourism often leads to a mummification of culture and questionable economic payoffs. Using original survey and qualitative data from three communities surrounding Labrador’s Battle Harbour Historic District, this paper explores how rural and island communities perceive the ben…
Does How You Measure Representation Matter: Assessing the Persistence of Canadian Universities' Gendered and Colour Coded Vertical Mosaic
This paper engages recent debates over equity group representation among university professors. Since at least the time of John Porter's publication of The Vertical Mosaic, the correlation between ethnicity, education, and employment success has been shown. The most troubling of Porter's research findings was the persistence of a stratified Canadian workforce and society. Using data from the 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 Canadian censuses, three que…
The cultural identity of first-generation immigrant children and youth: Insights from a meta-analysis
In a globalized world with high rates of migration, identification with one’s culture of origin and one’s new cultural environment is a key and sometimes conflicted issue. Focusing on the growing population of first-generation immigrant children and youth, this study reviewed previous literature, using meta-analysis to investigate core factors affecting identity development. A search of databases yielded 3,636 English-language articles published …
What affects perceptions of neighbourhood change
Key Messages Residents of Halifax do not perceive economic or social and cultural changes in their neighbourhoods; however, they do perceive those to the built environment. When residents of Halifax perceive changes in their neighbourhoods, they tend to be positive about them. Tabular and regression analysis show that sense of belonging increases positive perceptions of neighbourhood change and older age decreases positive views of change
From Ethnicity to Race in the Canadian Review of Sociology , 1964 to 2010
La Revue canadienne de sociologie a été un forum important pour la recherche sur l'ethnicité et la race. Grâce à une analyse des publications publiés dans la revue entre 1964 et 2010 nous constatons que l'ethnicité a reçu plus d'attention que la race, et que la majorité des publications se sert d'une approche d’économie politique et des méthodes quantitatives. Au fil du temps, nous relevons l'abandon du concept d'ethnicité et la montée de la race…
The "knucklehead" approach and what matters in terms of health for formerly incarcerated Latino men
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Howard Ramos, What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 211-234
Perceptions of local environment change and ecological habitus
Research shows that people’s perceptions of environmental change are strong predictors of ecologically supportive behaviours and attitudes, but less is known about what causes some people to perceive environmental change more than others. This study considers whether participation in outdoor leisure activities accounts for different perceptions of the local environment. We consider how leisure activities form a broader ‘ecological habitus’ while …
Sharing the same waters
Fifteen years have passed since the ground-breaking 1999 Marshall decision and the Mi'kmaq Lobster Crisis that followed which saw two months of tit-for-tat violence. In this article, we examine how relations among Mi'kmaq and Settler fishers have changed since the decision and its aftermath, and interpret intergroup relations by using Herbert Blumer's group-position theory. The article presents data collected from ethnographic observation and int…
Environmentalists' Mediawork for Jumbo Pass and the Tobeatic Wilderness, Canada: Combining Text-Centred and Activist-Centred Approaches to News Media and Social Movements
For social movements, the mass media are a key means of reaching potential supporters, engaging public and political debate and reshaping cultural interpretations of relationships with the non-human environment. We examine how outdoor sport becomes the object of environmental movement mobilization and media claims-making in conflict over the Jumbo Pass ski resort, British Columbia, and Off-Highway Vehicle use in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova…
How New Models Open Opportunities to Re-Understanding and Expanding Established Insights: Reaction and Critique of Elke Winter's Us, Them, and Others
This research note offers critical reaction to Elke Winter's Us, Them and Others in an effort to trigger debate around the issues she identifies and her model (us + others 1-n = multicultural we ≠ them 1-n ). Critiques include: a looseness and inconsistency with some key concepts and arguments, a narrow sample and timeframe of analysis, and missed opportunities to revisit past luminaries that identify underlying causal mechanisms rather than desc…
Social Research Methods, Canadian Edition
National recognition without a state: Cree nationalism within Canada
This article questions the assumption that nations either have states or seek them. In doing so, it is argued that the concept of nations and states were awkwardly joined and that increased access to and speed of communications has highlighted this. It will be argued that such change has led to the appeal of the politics of recognition and the use of flexible goals and means to achieve national agendas. The case of the James Bay Cree will be used…
Trends in Indigenous fertility in Canada, 2001-2021
BACKGROUNDIndigenous peoples in Canada are among the youngest and fastest-growing populations in the country and have had higher fertility rates than non-Indigenous populations. OBJECTIVEThis paper examines how Indigenous fertility in Canada changed over two decades .It also examines how Indigenous fertility varies across different Indigenous populations and how the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fertility has changed. METHODSThe paper…
Uncritical sociology: Canadian sociology at the crossroads
The Value of Normative Models for Understanding Pluralism
Contemporary debates on nationalism, ethnicity, race, identity, and citizenship are largely shaped by the trends of the twentieth century and now wrestle with new problems that do not easily fit older models. There is a need to adapt theories to understand emerging social dynamics and new sites of power. When this is done, normative models and non-dualistic understandings of identity and citizenship best account for group dynamics such as identit…
Do Polarization Narratives Apply to Politics on the Periphery? The Case of Atlantic Canada
Researchers, policymakers, and the public often claim that "extreme" political views have become increasingly commonplace and that polarization on issues of race and immigration has become a central dilemma for contemporary politics. The popular narrative of political polarization captures tensions that many are noticing and experiencing. However, there is also significant confusion around the concept, as well as gaps between popular perceptions …
Latino caucuses in US labour unions
El México del “otro lado”: Los inmigrantes mexicanos en los Estados Unidos
The purpose of this work is to explore the advantages and disadvantages of... Mexican immigrant workers for the economy and the political and cultural status quo of the United States. The Mexican immigrant workers pose a dilemma for the United States. On the one hand, the United States needs them for a better functioning of its economy. On the other, the Mexican immigrant workers represent a racial, cultural and political challenge to the America…
National recognition without a state: Cree nationalism within Canada
This article questions the assumption that nations either have states or seek them. In doing so, it is argued that the concept of nations and states were awkwardly joined and that increased access to and speed of communications has highlighted this. It will be argued that such change has led to the appeal of the politics of recognition and the use of flexible goals and means to achieve national agendas. The case of the James Bay Cree will be used…
Transnational Information Politics: NGO Human Rights Reporting, 1986-2000
What shapes the transnational activist agenda? Do non-governmental organizations with a global mandate focus on the world's most pressing problems, or is their reporting also affected by additional considerations? To address these questions, we study the determinants of country reporting by an exemplary transnational actor, Amnesty International, during 1986–2000. We find that while human rights conditions are associated with the volume of their …
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Yavuz, Emma Whelan, Patrick Pearce, and the CJS editors and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. Thanks also go to Selom Chapman-Nyaho who assisted with some of the data collection. The research was funded by Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Howard Ramos, What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 211-234
Social Research Methods, Canadian Edition
Shaping the Northern Media's Human Rights Coverage, 1986—2000
What influences the Northern media's coverage of events and abuses in explicit human rights terms? Do international NGOs have an impact, and, if so, when are they most effective? This article addresses these questions with regression analysis of human rights reporting by The Economist and Newsweek from 1986 to 2000, covering 145 countries. First, it finds that these two media sources cover abuses in human rights terms more frequently when they oc…
Dominique Clement, Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movement and Social Change, 1937–82
Dominique Clement, Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008, 296 pp. $32.95 paper (978-0-7748-1480-5), $85.00 hardcover (978-0-7748-1479-9) Canada's Rights Revolution is an ambitious book on the history of Canadian civil liberty and human rights advocacy over the 1937-1982 period. It grapples with a number of key issues facing social movements, including generat…
Opportunity for Whom: Political Opportunity and Critical Events in Canadian Aboriginal Mobilization, 1951-2000
Many social movement researchers question the usefulness of political opportunity as a concept. However, others argue that it can be refined by disaggregating different opportunities for actors and outcomes to understand the underlying mechanisms that influence each. This research extends this analysis by asking “political opportunity for whom?” Looking at Canadian Aboriginal mobilization, it assesses how different opportunities influence a broad…
Patrick White, Developing Research Questions: A Guide for Social Scientists
Karl-Dieter Opp, Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis
How New Models Open Opportunities to Re-Understanding and Expanding Established Insights: Reaction and Critique of Elke Winter's Us, Them, and Others
This research note offers critical reaction to Elke Winter's Us, Them and Others in an effort to trigger debate around the issues she identifies and her model (us + others 1-n = multicultural we ≠ them 1-n ). Critiques include: a looseness and inconsistency with some key concepts and arguments, a narrow sample and timeframe of analysis, and missed opportunities to revisit past luminaries that identify underlying causal mechanisms rather than desc…
The "knucklehead" approach and what matters in terms of health for formerly incarcerated Latino men
Does How You Measure Representation Matter: Assessing the Persistence of Canadian Universities' Gendered and Colour Coded Vertical Mosaic
This paper engages recent debates over equity group representation among university professors. Since at least the time of John Porter's publication of The Vertical Mosaic, the correlation between ethnicity, education, and employment success has been shown. The most troubling of Porter's research findings was the persistence of a stratified Canadian workforce and society. Using data from the 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 Canadian censuses, three que…
From Ethnicity to Race in the Canadian Review of Sociology , 1964 to 2010
La Revue canadienne de sociologie a été un forum important pour la recherche sur l'ethnicité et la race. Grâce à une analyse des publications publiés dans la revue entre 1964 et 2010 nous constatons que l'ethnicité a reçu plus d'attention que la race, et que la majorité des publications se sert d'une approche d’économie politique et des méthodes quantitatives. Au fil du temps, nous relevons l'abandon du concept d'ethnicité et la montée de la race…
What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute
Canada increasingly favours immigration policies based on human capital theory and economic outcomes. Consequently, while immigration is on the increase there is a downward trend in the number of "family class" entrants admitted to the country. The group most seriously affected is sponsored parents and/or grandparents who are also the most vulnerable to criticisms against family class immigration. The discussion is centered on the perceived lack …
Social and Political Convergence on Environmental Events: The Roles of Simplicity and Visuality in the BP Oil Spill
This paper examines how and when newspapers, environmental nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and the government converge on environmental events. Using data on the 2010 BP Oil Spill from newspaper articles in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, press releases by Greenpeace and Sierra Club, press releases by BP, Halliburton, Transocean, ExxonMobil, and Shell, and press statements by the White House Press Secretary, we exami…
Sharing the same waters
Fifteen years have passed since the ground-breaking 1999 Marshall decision and the Mi'kmaq Lobster Crisis that followed which saw two months of tit-for-tat violence. In this article, we examine how relations among Mi'kmaq and Settler fishers have changed since the decision and its aftermath, and interpret intergroup relations by using Herbert Blumer's group-position theory. The article presents data collected from ethnographic observation and int…
Environmentalists' Mediawork for Jumbo Pass and the Tobeatic Wilderness, Canada: Combining Text-Centred and Activist-Centred Approaches to News Media and Social Movements
For social movements, the mass media are a key means of reaching potential supporters, engaging public and political debate and reshaping cultural interpretations of relationships with the non-human environment. We examine how outdoor sport becomes the object of environmental movement mobilization and media claims-making in conflict over the Jumbo Pass ski resort, British Columbia, and Off-Highway Vehicle use in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova…
Mapping the Field of Environmental Justice: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation in Engo Press Advocacy
The environment is increasingly seen as a meta-injustice or master frame of the politics of the new century. If this is indeed the case, environmental concerns should transcend national and organizational boundaries and should have a discursive claims-making space of their own. Research on environmental advocacy, however, shows that many claims for environmental justice are rooted in specific locales and advocacy is often mediated through, and at…
How New Models Can Rejuvenate Established Insights: Reaction to and Critique of Elke Winter's Us, Them, and Others
Political Sociology Is Dead. Long Live Political Sociology
Assessing the tangible and intangible benefits of tourism: Perceptions of economic, social, and cultural impacts in Labrador’s Battle Harbour Historic District
Literature on rural and small island tourism critically questions the commodification of culture and landscapes, showing that replacing rural resource based industries with tourism often leads to a mummification of culture and questionable economic payoffs. Using original survey and qualitative data from three communities surrounding Labrador’s Battle Harbour Historic District, this paper explores how rural and island communities perceive the ben…
Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities
This article is based on data from a four-year national study of racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Its main conclusion is that whether one examines representation in terms of numbers of racialized and Indigenous faculty members and their positioning within the system, their earned income as compared to white faculty, their daily life experiences within the university as workplace, or interactions with colleagues and students…
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