Rachel Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3634-7845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Hearing aid acquisition patterns among US Veterans who use VA health care
PURPOSE: The primary objective of this observational study was to describe the population of Veterans who did and did not receive a hearing aid following an incident hearing loss diagnosis during the 12-year study period. We also sought to measure the relationship between hearing loss severity and hearing aid acquisition and explore how this association differs according to Veterans' urban/rural residential status. Understanding associations of c…
Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables: The Fresh Street pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
This was the first pilot RCT of a place-based, household voucher approach. The newly developed system for securely printing and redeeming the vouchers worked well and is potentially scalable. Future trials should consider alternative methods of assessing the impact on households and explore more efficient ways to deliver the intervention e.g. through collaborative working with local resources such as community centres
Financing the border: Racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state
Amnesty International is a movement of 10 million people which mobilizes the humanity in everyone and campaigns for change so we can all enjoy our human rights.Our vision is of a world where those in power keep their promises, respect international law and are held to account.We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and individual donations.We believe that acti…
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy
Departing from an engagement with the "ideas school," a case is constructed for (distinctively) geographical political economies of ideation, first on their own terms and then in dialogue with three methodologically generative monographs. The power of economic ideas, the paper argues, is not located on the supply-side alone, in original texts, essentialized capacities or intrinsic qualities. These powers are realized situationally and relationall…
Constructivist economic geographies
The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship between the material and ideational dimensions of socioeconomic change, being founded on the proposition that collectively-held ideas and intersubjective beliefs do not merely reflect but also shape the political-economic world. Constructivist inquiries are concerned with the formation and rep…
Discipline all the way down: Law and capital in Shaina Potts' Judicial Territory
This commentary engages Shaina Potts' Judicial Territory as a significant methodological contribution to economic geography - one that draws crucial attention to the (often opaque) relationship between law and capitalism and provides geographers with a set of tools to penetrate it. Highlighting three key elements of Potts' approach to the study of capitalist sociospatial relations, I explore how her focus on the law makes visible actors, logics a…
Predictors of evidence-based psychotherapy initiation among veterans with co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorder
These findings support VA provision of EBP for Veterans with PTSD regardless of the presence of co-occurring SUD. Identifying characteristics that increase or reduce the likelihood of EBP initiation may provide insight into treatment pathways and subgroups warranting augmented outreach
Making and Mastering Violent Environments: Following the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Coastal Louisiana
Louisiana’s coastal wetlands have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past several decades, with the greatest harm experienced by vulnerable populations (poor and racialised residents). It was not until 2005 that the state legislature responded with a much‐lauded Master Plan tasked with integrating the construction of new flood control infrastructure with wetland restoration. Seeking to unsettle this initiative, we develop a historical…
The techfare state: Debt, discipline, and accelerated neoliberalism
In this exploratory article, we aim to open a research agenda for renewed attention to the relationship between the capitalist state and the technology ecosystem. Over the last decade, private technology companies have increasingly become enmeshed with the activities of the state in arenas such as policing, healthcare, and welfare administration. At a time when so many facets of state activity are being infiltrated by technology firms and their p…
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
Alcohol use, cigarette smoking, vaping and number of sexual partners: A cross‐sectional study of sexually active, ethnically diverse, inner city adolescents
CONTEXT: There are few UK data on the prevalence and clustering of risky behaviours in ethnically diverse adolescents. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of reported alcohol use, smoking and vaping, and explore whether these behaviours are associated with increased numbers of sexual partners. DESIGN: Questionnaire survey of 'Test n Treat' chlamydia screening trial participants. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Sexually active students attending s…
What's better than a biscuit: Gourmetization and the transformation of a Southern food staple
In this article, we applied Wendy Griswold’s concepts of cultural objects and the cultural diamond to examine how a specific food—Southern style biscuits—underwent gourmetization. We provide evidence from observations of seven well-known gourmet biscuit restaurants, as well as a content analysis of their websites, Instagram accounts, and media coverage to understand how some establishments were able to position biscuits as a new gourmet food. We …
Understanding the acceptability, barriers and facilitators for chlamydia and gonorrhoea screening in technical colleges: Qualitative process evaluation of the “Test n Treat” trial
This study offers new insights into the acceptability of college-based sexually transmitted infection screening to young, multi-ethnic students. Future studies in similar high risk, hard to reach groups should consider linking testing with education about sexually transmitted infections, offering non stigmatising incentives and engaging peer influencers
Market/Place: Exploring Spaces of Exchange
Markets are frequently hidden in plain sight. They are so ubiquitous, so much part of the woof and weave of the fabric of our everyday life, that we often fail to recognize their existence and mode
Sex workers as peer health advocates: Community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program
The peer education program proved successful in enhancing sex workers' community empowerment in one urban setting by increasing their knowledge about health issues, sharing information about and building confidence in accessing services, and expanding capacity to disseminate this knowledge to others. This 'proof of concept' built the foundation for a long-term initiative in this setting and has promise for other jurisdictions wishing to adapt sim…
Lack of Confidence in Police Creates a “Blue Ceiling” for Sex Workers' Safety
Confidence in the police is fundamental to citizens' willingness to report unlawful behaviour, share intelligence about crime, seek help when victimized, and generally comply with the law. Marginalized groups overwhelmingly report a lack of confidence that police will apply the law fairly. Although sex work research reports a wide range of negative experiences with the police, it is not known how common these experiences are because most research…
Complicating the dominant morality discourse: Mothers and fathers’ constructions of substance use during pregnancy and early parenthood
While these two main discourses brought forward by parents concerning the ideal of abstinence and the autonomy of women are not always reconcilable and are partially a reflection of the dissonance between dominant moral codes regarding motherhood and the lived experiences of people who use substances, service providers who are attuned to these competing discourses are likely to be more effective in their delivery of health and social services for…
Reenvisioning Success for Programs Supporting Pregnant Women With Problematic Substance Use
Community-based, integrated, primary care maternity programs for pregnant women affected by problematic substance use are emerging as effective models for engaging women affected by multiple health and social issues. Although addictions services have historically been evaluated by individual achievement of abstinence, new definitions of program success are required as addiction comes to be viewed as a chronic illness. We conducted a mixed-methods…
Providers' constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use substances
The research literature indicates that problematic substance use as a form of health behaviour is poorly understood, being sometimes viewed as deviance, at other times as a disease, and most often as a combination of these states. The use of substances by women who are pregnant or new parents is often conceptualised within an individualised framework. Yet drinking alcohol and using other drugs during pregnancy and early parenthood cuts across soc…
The Mother‐Citizen and the Working Girl: First‐Wave Feminist Citizenship Claims in Canada and Discursive Opportunities for Twenty‐First Century Childcare Policy
L'État providence Canadien est déséquilibré: leader mondial dans certains domaines de l'investissement social—plus particulièrement en soins de santé et enseignement supérieur—il traîne dans d'autres domaines de la dépense d'aide sociale, y compris les politiques de garde d'enfants. Nous constatons qu'aujourd'hui la résistance dans la plupart des régions du Canada à la politique de garde d'enfants universel a des racines historiques profondes. El…
Privatisation & marketisation of post-birth care: The hidden costs for new mothers
Out results show a significant portion of participants desired services that were not publically available to them during the post-birth period. Among those who reported a gap in care, the two most common barriers were: cost and unavailability of home care supports. Participants' open-ended responses revealed many positive features of the public health care system but also gaps in services, and economic barriers to receiving the care they wanted.…
Disability stigmatization as a barrier to employment equity for legally-blind Canadians
Canada has expressed a strong commitment to the rights of its citizens against discrimination, including those with disabilities. A question remains whether Canadians with disabilities are able to practice these rights. Our mixed-methods study sheds light on the situation of one important sub-group of people with disabilities – those who are legally blind. Our survey results show that the labour-force participation rate for this population is ver…
Courtesy stigma: A Hidden Health Concern Among Front-Line Service Providers to Sex Workers
Courtesy stigma, also referred to as 'stigma by association', involves public disapproval evoked as a consequence of associating with a stigmatised individual or group. While a small number of sociological studies have shown how courtesy stigma limits the social support and social opportunities available to family members of stigmatised individuals, there is a paucity of research examining courtesy stigma among the large network of people who pro…
In for the Long Haul: Knowledge Translation Between Academic and Nonprofit Organizations
Although scientists are continually refining existing knowledge and producing new evidence to improve health care and health care delivery, far too little scientific output finds its way into the tool kits of practitioners. Likewise, the questions that clinicians would like to be answered all too rarely get taken up by researchers. In this article we focus on knowledge translation challenges accompanying a longitudinal research program with nonpr…
Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This 'social determinants' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls for the mainstreaming of two very specific health determinants - sex and gender - we incorporate both into our analysis of the health gap experienced by gi…
Community-Academic Research on Hard-to-Reach Populations: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, the authors examine some of the benefits and challenges associated with conducting research on hard-to-reach/hidden populations: in this instance, sex workers. The population studied was female and male sex workers working in different sectors of the sex industry in a medium-size Canadian metropolitan area. The authors describe the need for close community-academic cooperation, given the hidden and highly stigmatized nature of th…
Courtesy stigma: A Hidden Health Concern Among Front-Line Service Providers to Sex Workers
Courtesy stigma, also referred to as 'stigma by association', involves public disapproval evoked as a consequence of associating with a stigmatised individual or group. While a small number of sociological studies have shown how courtesy stigma limits the social support and social opportunities available to family members of stigmatised individuals, there is a paucity of research examining courtesy stigma among the large network of people who pro…
Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005
Cet article compare les portraits médiatiques de personnes qui travaillent dans l'industrie du sexe avec les représentations de soi de ces travailleurs, représentations qui incluent leurs origines personnelles et leurs expériences vécues au quotidien. Notre objectif est de jauger la distance empirique entre les descriptions médiatiques et la réalité vécue de ces travailleurs puis de comprendre comment les médias contribuent à cons-truire, reprodu…
Lack of Confidence in Police Creates a “Blue Ceiling” for Sex Workers' Safety
Confidence in the police is fundamental to citizens' willingness to report unlawful behaviour, share intelligence about crime, seek help when victimized, and generally comply with the law. Marginalized groups overwhelmingly report a lack of confidence that police will apply the law fairly. Although sex work research reports a wide range of negative experiences with the police, it is not known how common these experiences are because most research…
Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas
This article examines the mutability of symbolic sanctions- or stigmas-applied to sex industry work by examining newspaper narratives in one medium-sized Canadian city over two time periods: 1870-1910 and 1980-2004. The article's purpose is first to get a sense of what the authors call the ecology of stigmas-their relation to the temporal and spatial contexts in which they are produced-and second to give needed historical context to them and the …
Providers' constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use substances
The research literature indicates that problematic substance use as a form of health behaviour is poorly understood, being sometimes viewed as deviance, at other times as a disease, and most often as a combination of these states. The use of substances by women who are pregnant or new parents is often conceptualised within an individualised framework. Yet drinking alcohol and using other drugs during pregnancy and early parenthood cuts across soc…
Disability stigmatization as a barrier to employment equity for legally-blind Canadians
Canada has expressed a strong commitment to the rights of its citizens against discrimination, including those with disabilities. A question remains whether Canadians with disabilities are able to practice these rights. Our mixed-methods study sheds light on the situation of one important sub-group of people with disabilities – those who are legally blind. Our survey results show that the labour-force participation rate for this population is ver…
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy
Departing from an engagement with the "ideas school," a case is constructed for (distinctively) geographical political economies of ideation, first on their own terms and then in dialogue with three methodologically generative monographs. The power of economic ideas, the paper argues, is not located on the supply-side alone, in original texts, essentialized capacities or intrinsic qualities. These powers are realized situationally and relationall…
Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This 'social determinants' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls for the mainstreaming of two very specific health determinants - sex and gender - we incorporate both into our analysis of the health gap experienced by gi…
The techfare state: Debt, discipline, and accelerated neoliberalism
In this exploratory article, we aim to open a research agenda for renewed attention to the relationship between the capitalist state and the technology ecosystem. Over the last decade, private technology companies have increasingly become enmeshed with the activities of the state in arenas such as policing, healthcare, and welfare administration. At a time when so many facets of state activity are being infiltrated by technology firms and their p…
Reenvisioning Success for Programs Supporting Pregnant Women With Problematic Substance Use
Community-based, integrated, primary care maternity programs for pregnant women affected by problematic substance use are emerging as effective models for engaging women affected by multiple health and social issues. Although addictions services have historically been evaluated by individual achievement of abstinence, new definitions of program success are required as addiction comes to be viewed as a chronic illness. We conducted a mixed-methods…
The Mother‐Citizen and the Working Girl: First‐Wave Feminist Citizenship Claims in Canada and Discursive Opportunities for Twenty‐First Century Childcare Policy
L'État providence Canadien est déséquilibré: leader mondial dans certains domaines de l'investissement social—plus particulièrement en soins de santé et enseignement supérieur—il traîne dans d'autres domaines de la dépense d'aide sociale, y compris les politiques de garde d'enfants. Nous constatons qu'aujourd'hui la résistance dans la plupart des régions du Canada à la politique de garde d'enfants universel a des racines historiques profondes. El…
Discipline all the way down: Law and capital in Shaina Potts' Judicial Territory
This commentary engages Shaina Potts' Judicial Territory as a significant methodological contribution to economic geography - one that draws crucial attention to the (often opaque) relationship between law and capitalism and provides geographers with a set of tools to penetrate it. Highlighting three key elements of Potts' approach to the study of capitalist sociospatial relations, I explore how her focus on the law makes visible actors, logics a…
Making and Mastering Violent Environments: Following the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Coastal Louisiana
Louisiana’s coastal wetlands have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past several decades, with the greatest harm experienced by vulnerable populations (poor and racialised residents). It was not until 2005 that the state legislature responded with a much‐lauded Master Plan tasked with integrating the construction of new flood control infrastructure with wetland restoration. Seeking to unsettle this initiative, we develop a historical…
What's better than a biscuit: Gourmetization and the transformation of a Southern food staple
In this article, we applied Wendy Griswold’s concepts of cultural objects and the cultural diamond to examine how a specific food—Southern style biscuits—underwent gourmetization. We provide evidence from observations of seven well-known gourmet biscuit restaurants, as well as a content analysis of their websites, Instagram accounts, and media coverage to understand how some establishments were able to position biscuits as a new gourmet food. We …
The Lyre, the Mire and Laughter
The Poetic Modes of Octavio Paz
The Poetic Modes of Octavio Paz
Cesar Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence
Latin American Poetry: Origins and Presence
Alfonsina Storni: From Poetess to Poet
The Politics of Poetics
Psychosocial Barriers to Female Leadership: Motivational Gravity in Ghana and Tanzania
Women continue to be underrepresented in management globally, including the so-called "develop ing" countries, where gender diversity is especially crucial to business development. From Ghana, 120 experienced employees and 83 future managers from Tanzania's University of Dar-es-Salaam, read scenarios depicting male or female achievers, and predicted what proportions of co-workers and bosses would display encouragement, discouragement, or apathy. …
Community-Academic Research on Hard-to-Reach Populations: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, the authors examine some of the benefits and challenges associated with conducting research on hard-to-reach/hidden populations: in this instance, sex workers. The population studied was female and male sex workers working in different sectors of the sex industry in a medium-size Canadian metropolitan area. The authors describe the need for close community-academic cooperation, given the hidden and highly stigmatized nature of th…
Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005
Cet article compare les portraits médiatiques de personnes qui travaillent dans l'industrie du sexe avec les représentations de soi de ces travailleurs, représentations qui incluent leurs origines personnelles et leurs expériences vécues au quotidien. Notre objectif est de jauger la distance empirique entre les descriptions médiatiques et la réalité vécue de ces travailleurs puis de comprendre comment les médias contribuent à cons-truire, reprodu…
Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas
This article examines the mutability of symbolic sanctions- or stigmas-applied to sex industry work by examining newspaper narratives in one medium-sized Canadian city over two time periods: 1870-1910 and 1980-2004. The article's purpose is first to get a sense of what the authors call the ecology of stigmas-their relation to the temporal and spatial contexts in which they are produced-and second to give needed historical context to them and the …
Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This 'social determinants' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls for the mainstreaming of two very specific health determinants - sex and gender - we incorporate both into our analysis of the health gap experienced by gi…
In for the Long Haul: Knowledge Translation Between Academic and Nonprofit Organizations
Although scientists are continually refining existing knowledge and producing new evidence to improve health care and health care delivery, far too little scientific output finds its way into the tool kits of practitioners. Likewise, the questions that clinicians would like to be answered all too rarely get taken up by researchers. In this article we focus on knowledge translation challenges accompanying a longitudinal research program with nonpr…
Privatisation & marketisation of post-birth care: The hidden costs for new mothers
Out results show a significant portion of participants desired services that were not publically available to them during the post-birth period. Among those who reported a gap in care, the two most common barriers were: cost and unavailability of home care supports. Participants' open-ended responses revealed many positive features of the public health care system but also gaps in services, and economic barriers to receiving the care they wanted.…
Disability stigmatization as a barrier to employment equity for legally-blind Canadians
Canada has expressed a strong commitment to the rights of its citizens against discrimination, including those with disabilities. A question remains whether Canadians with disabilities are able to practice these rights. Our mixed-methods study sheds light on the situation of one important sub-group of people with disabilities – those who are legally blind. Our survey results show that the labour-force participation rate for this population is ver…
Courtesy stigma: A Hidden Health Concern Among Front-Line Service Providers to Sex Workers
Courtesy stigma, also referred to as 'stigma by association', involves public disapproval evoked as a consequence of associating with a stigmatised individual or group. While a small number of sociological studies have shown how courtesy stigma limits the social support and social opportunities available to family members of stigmatised individuals, there is a paucity of research examining courtesy stigma among the large network of people who pro…
The Mother‐Citizen and the Working Girl: First‐Wave Feminist Citizenship Claims in Canada and Discursive Opportunities for Twenty‐First Century Childcare Policy
L'État providence Canadien est déséquilibré: leader mondial dans certains domaines de l'investissement social—plus particulièrement en soins de santé et enseignement supérieur—il traîne dans d'autres domaines de la dépense d'aide sociale, y compris les politiques de garde d'enfants. Nous constatons qu'aujourd'hui la résistance dans la plupart des régions du Canada à la politique de garde d'enfants universel a des racines historiques profondes. El…
Providers' constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use substances
The research literature indicates that problematic substance use as a form of health behaviour is poorly understood, being sometimes viewed as deviance, at other times as a disease, and most often as a combination of these states. The use of substances by women who are pregnant or new parents is often conceptualised within an individualised framework. Yet drinking alcohol and using other drugs during pregnancy and early parenthood cuts across soc…
Complicating the dominant morality discourse: Mothers and fathers’ constructions of substance use during pregnancy and early parenthood
While these two main discourses brought forward by parents concerning the ideal of abstinence and the autonomy of women are not always reconcilable and are partially a reflection of the dissonance between dominant moral codes regarding motherhood and the lived experiences of people who use substances, service providers who are attuned to these competing discourses are likely to be more effective in their delivery of health and social services for…
Reenvisioning Success for Programs Supporting Pregnant Women With Problematic Substance Use
Community-based, integrated, primary care maternity programs for pregnant women affected by problematic substance use are emerging as effective models for engaging women affected by multiple health and social issues. Although addictions services have historically been evaluated by individual achievement of abstinence, new definitions of program success are required as addiction comes to be viewed as a chronic illness. We conducted a mixed-methods…
Lack of Confidence in Police Creates a “Blue Ceiling” for Sex Workers' Safety
Confidence in the police is fundamental to citizens' willingness to report unlawful behaviour, share intelligence about crime, seek help when victimized, and generally comply with the law. Marginalized groups overwhelmingly report a lack of confidence that police will apply the law fairly. Although sex work research reports a wide range of negative experiences with the police, it is not known how common these experiences are because most research…
Sex workers as peer health advocates: Community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program
The peer education program proved successful in enhancing sex workers' community empowerment in one urban setting by increasing their knowledge about health issues, sharing information about and building confidence in accessing services, and expanding capacity to disseminate this knowledge to others. This 'proof of concept' built the foundation for a long-term initiative in this setting and has promise for other jurisdictions wishing to adapt sim…
Understanding the acceptability, barriers and facilitators for chlamydia and gonorrhoea screening in technical colleges: Qualitative process evaluation of the “Test n Treat” trial
This study offers new insights into the acceptability of college-based sexually transmitted infection screening to young, multi-ethnic students. Future studies in similar high risk, hard to reach groups should consider linking testing with education about sexually transmitted infections, offering non stigmatising incentives and engaging peer influencers
Market/Place: Exploring Spaces of Exchange
Markets are frequently hidden in plain sight. They are so ubiquitous, so much part of the woof and weave of the fabric of our everyday life, that we often fail to recognize their existence and mode
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
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