Viviane Josewski

Biographic Data

ID3777080
NAMEViviane Josewski
GIVEN NAMESViviane
FAMILY NAMEJosewski
SIGNATUREJOSEWSKI V
AFFILIATIONSSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Applying a Critical Policy Lens to Contracting in Indigenous Mental Health

    Open AccessJosewski, Viviane Josewski et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2023

    This article reports on the findings of a larger study that explored urban Indigenous providers' experiences with contracting in mental health and addictions care. The study was undertaken with seven Indigenous and one non-Indigenous non-profit organizations based in diverse large and mid-size cities (off reserve) in British Columbia, Canada. Indigenous and critical theoretical perspectives provided the lens for this ethnographic inquiry. In-dept…

  • Power of Connections

    Open AccessIloradanon Efimoff, Lyana Patrick et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2021

    The DUDES Club is a novel men’s health and wellness organization founded in 2010 in Vancouver, BC. Since 2017, the DUDES Club has rapidly expanded in Northern BC and, with the help of a partnership with the First Nations Health Authority, has grown to include 40 sites in British Columbia and 2 sites nationally. In this study, we analyze interviews (n = 5) and 15 focus groups (n = 101) conducted as part of a program evaluation with DUDES Club memb…

  • Violence at the Intersections of Women’s Lives in an Urban Context

    Open AccessVictoria Smye, C Varcoe et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2020Cited by: 4References: 12

    This article is based on an ethnographic study exploring Indigenous women's experiences of leaving intimate partner violence. Analysis draws attention to the contextual features of Indigenous women's lives that differentially shaped women's experiences of "leaving and/or staying" with an abusive partner. Our findings are identified and described across four intersecting thematic areas: (a) the context of state-Indigenous relations; (b) complex tr…

  • Analysing ‘cultural safety’ in mental health policy reform

    Open AccessJosewski, Viviane JosewskiARTICLECritical Public Health2011

    In response to the mental health disparities experienced by Aboriginal peoples, and related inequities regarding the accessibility to appropriate mental health care, there has been a shift in health policy to endorse 'By Indigenous for Indigenous' health care delivery models. In Canada, this has resulted in the creation of new mechanisms for Aboriginal participation in health care planning by health authorities with the goal of fostering cultural…

  • Harm reduction, methadone maintenance treatment and the root causes of health and social inequities

    Open AccessVictoria Smye, A Browne et al.ARTICLEHarm Reduction Journal2011Cited by: 11References: 10

    Using our research findings, we explore Harm Reduction and Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) using an intersectional lens to provide a more complex understanding of Harm Reduction and MMT, particularly how Harm Reduction and MMT are experienced differently by people dependent on how they are positioned. Using the lens of intersectionality, we refine the notion of Harm Reduction by specifying the conditions in which both harm and benefit arise…