Julia Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6953-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Enabling diagnostic excellence in the real world: Managing complexity, uncertainty and clinical responsibility
Diagnostic error is a significant category within preventable patient harm, and it takes many years of effort to develop proficiency in diagnostic reasoning. One of the key challenges medical schools must address is preparing students for the complexity, uncertainty and clinical responsibility in going from student to doctor. Recognising the importance of both cognitive and systems-related factors in diagnostic accuracy, we designed the QUID Prom…
A Timeless Place: The Ontario Cottage
As Julia Harrison’s first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison marveled at the less attractive components of cottage life: the clogged highways en route and the unrelenting investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich a…
Engaging ethnography in tourist research: An introduction
Shifting positions
This article discusses the research methodologies used to gain an understanding of what the touristic/cottage experience meant to a group of Canadians who traveled internationally on a regular basis; and a sampling Ontario second home tourists, or cottagers. Spatial, temporal and cultural constraints prevented me from engaging in traditional models of participant observation with them. The article details how I selected my subjects; how I positio…
Activity types’ and ‘discourse types’: Mediating ‘advice’ in interactions between foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in France and England
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how ‘advice’ is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of ‘activity type’) that can help achieve this aim. The paper draws on a sub-set of the data produced for the Pragmatics and Intercultural Communicati…
Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel
What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? In Being a Tourist, Harrison analyzes her conversations with a large group of upper-middle-class travellers. Why, she asks, do these people invest their resources -- financial, emotional, psychological, and physical -- in this activity? Harrison suggests that they are fuelled by several desires, including a search for intimacy and connect…
Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is the first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study in this country. It addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline: the shaping influence of Aboriginal-anthropological encounters; the challenge of compiling a history for the Canadian context; and the place of international and institutional relations. The contributors to this collection reflect on the definit…
Politics and Pragmatics in the Crosscultural Management of ‘Rapport’
This paper examines the sociopragmatic character of intercultural communication between English Language Assistants (ELAs) and their ‘mentors’ in French primary and secondary schools. With reference to Levinson's notion of ‘activity type’, it argues that judgements by mentors as to what constitutes ‘allowable contributions’ on the part of ELAs are determined by the extent to which mentors themselves have internalised French State regulations. The…
Shaping collaboration: Considering institutional culture
Laura Peers and Alison Brown in their recent book, Museums and Source Communities, suggest that collaborative relationships established between museums and source communities are contingent on three things: the nature of the source community; the political relationship between the source community and the museum; and the geographical proximity of museums to these communities (2003: 3). In this paper, I add another factor to these three: the uniqu…
What Matters: Seeing the Museum Differently
Listening for the Conversation: The First People's Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Reviewer: Julia Harrison Trent UniversityOn January 31, 2003 the First Peoples Hall (FPH) opened at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) in Hull, Quebec after over 11 years of planning and development. It offers a welcome relief to the limited, if dramatic, message of the houses, poles and monumental contemporary sculptures of the Native peoples, past and present of the Pacific Coast which greets all visitors to the Museum's Grand Hall. As m…
Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology, and Museums
Elizabeth Edwards, Oxford: Berg, 2001, 270 pages.Corinne Kratz, Los Angeles: University of California Press., 2002, 307 pages.Reviewer: Julia Harrison Trent UniversityEdwards and Kratz engage their readers in stimulating narratives that challenge each of us to reflect on every photographic image that we know to be housed or exhibited in any museum or archive anywhere. Both books insist that reader focus on what Edwards calls punctum, inexplicable…
Thinking About Tourists
This article is part of a larger project which, based on interviews with 35 Canadian upper-middle-class tourists, explores what the `touristic experience' means to these people. In this article, the author takes a preliminary look at the role of aesthetics in the process of meaning-making in which these tourists engage as part of their ongoing commitment to travel for pleasure. The author argues that the tourists' comments suggested that their ap…
Oka: Behind the Barricades: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man: My Name is Kahentiiosta: Acts of Defiance
Oka: Behind the Barricades. 1998. 312 minutes. For more information contact the National Film Board of Canada, 3155 Côte de Lisse Rd., St. Laurent, Quebec H4N 2N4. Series of four videos:Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. 1993. 120 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man. 1997. 58 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .My Name is Kahentiiosta. 1995. 30 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .Acts of Defiance. 1992. 104 m…
Museums as agencies of neocolonialism in a postmodern world
In this article I describe an attempt by a large state museum to engage a plurality of voices and to adopt a new posture of representation in its programmes and exhibitions. In the end the museum's discourse of representation of the ‘other’ fundamentally altered very little from its historical posture. I have identified three themes of the colonial heritage of the museums that I suggest encapsulate essential, but not exclusive, dimensions of thei…
Ideas of museums in the 1990s
Drawing on examples from Canada, the United States and Great Britain, and with particular reference to museums which hold anthropological collections, this article reviews the framework of much of the thinking that has gone on in museums in recent decades. Most closely it examines the argument put forward by several writers that a much greater critical and socially substantive role can be an exciting direction for museums in the final years of th…
The Spirit Sings' and the Future of Anthropology
Ideas of museums in the 1990s
Drawing on examples from Canada, the United States and Great Britain, and with particular reference to museums which hold anthropological collections, this article reviews the framework of much of the thinking that has gone on in museums in recent decades. Most closely it examines the argument put forward by several writers that a much greater critical and socially substantive role can be an exciting direction for museums in the final years of th…
The Spirit Sings' and the Future of Anthropology
Shaping collaboration: Considering institutional culture
Laura Peers and Alison Brown in their recent book, Museums and Source Communities, suggest that collaborative relationships established between museums and source communities are contingent on three things: the nature of the source community; the political relationship between the source community and the museum; and the geographical proximity of museums to these communities (2003: 3). In this paper, I add another factor to these three: the uniqu…
Engaging ethnography in tourist research: An introduction
Activity types’ and ‘discourse types’: Mediating ‘advice’ in interactions between foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in France and England
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how ‘advice’ is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of ‘activity type’) that can help achieve this aim. The paper draws on a sub-set of the data produced for the Pragmatics and Intercultural Communicati…
Shifting positions
This article discusses the research methodologies used to gain an understanding of what the touristic/cottage experience meant to a group of Canadians who traveled internationally on a regular basis; and a sampling Ontario second home tourists, or cottagers. Spatial, temporal and cultural constraints prevented me from engaging in traditional models of participant observation with them. The article details how I selected my subjects; how I positio…
Thinking About Tourists
This article is part of a larger project which, based on interviews with 35 Canadian upper-middle-class tourists, explores what the `touristic experience' means to these people. In this article, the author takes a preliminary look at the role of aesthetics in the process of meaning-making in which these tourists engage as part of their ongoing commitment to travel for pleasure. The author argues that the tourists' comments suggested that their ap…
What Matters: Seeing the Museum Differently
The Spirit Sings' and the Future of Anthropology
Ideas of museums in the 1990s
Drawing on examples from Canada, the United States and Great Britain, and with particular reference to museums which hold anthropological collections, this article reviews the framework of much of the thinking that has gone on in museums in recent decades. Most closely it examines the argument put forward by several writers that a much greater critical and socially substantive role can be an exciting direction for museums in the final years of th…
Museums as agencies of neocolonialism in a postmodern world
In this article I describe an attempt by a large state museum to engage a plurality of voices and to adopt a new posture of representation in its programmes and exhibitions. In the end the museum's discourse of representation of the ‘other’ fundamentally altered very little from its historical posture. I have identified three themes of the colonial heritage of the museums that I suggest encapsulate essential, but not exclusive, dimensions of thei…
Oka: Behind the Barricades: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man: My Name is Kahentiiosta: Acts of Defiance
Oka: Behind the Barricades. 1998. 312 minutes. For more information contact the National Film Board of Canada, 3155 Côte de Lisse Rd., St. Laurent, Quebec H4N 2N4. Series of four videos:Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. 1993. 120 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man. 1997. 58 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .My Name is Kahentiiosta. 1995. 30 minutes. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .Acts of Defiance. 1992. 104 m…
Thinking About Tourists
This article is part of a larger project which, based on interviews with 35 Canadian upper-middle-class tourists, explores what the `touristic experience' means to these people. In this article, the author takes a preliminary look at the role of aesthetics in the process of meaning-making in which these tourists engage as part of their ongoing commitment to travel for pleasure. The author argues that the tourists' comments suggested that their ap…
Listening for the Conversation: The First People's Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Reviewer: Julia Harrison Trent UniversityOn January 31, 2003 the First Peoples Hall (FPH) opened at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) in Hull, Quebec after over 11 years of planning and development. It offers a welcome relief to the limited, if dramatic, message of the houses, poles and monumental contemporary sculptures of the Native peoples, past and present of the Pacific Coast which greets all visitors to the Museum's Grand Hall. As m…
Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology, and Museums
Elizabeth Edwards, Oxford: Berg, 2001, 270 pages.Corinne Kratz, Los Angeles: University of California Press., 2002, 307 pages.Reviewer: Julia Harrison Trent UniversityEdwards and Kratz engage their readers in stimulating narratives that challenge each of us to reflect on every photographic image that we know to be housed or exhibited in any museum or archive anywhere. Both books insist that reader focus on what Edwards calls punctum, inexplicable…
Shaping collaboration: Considering institutional culture
Laura Peers and Alison Brown in their recent book, Museums and Source Communities, suggest that collaborative relationships established between museums and source communities are contingent on three things: the nature of the source community; the political relationship between the source community and the museum; and the geographical proximity of museums to these communities (2003: 3). In this paper, I add another factor to these three: the uniqu…
What Matters: Seeing the Museum Differently
Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel
What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? In Being a Tourist, Harrison analyzes her conversations with a large group of upper-middle-class travellers. Why, she asks, do these people invest their resources -- financial, emotional, psychological, and physical -- in this activity? Harrison suggests that they are fuelled by several desires, including a search for intimacy and connect…
Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is the first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study in this country. It addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline: the shaping influence of Aboriginal-anthropological encounters; the challenge of compiling a history for the Canadian context; and the place of international and institutional relations. The contributors to this collection reflect on the definit…
Politics and Pragmatics in the Crosscultural Management of ‘Rapport’
This paper examines the sociopragmatic character of intercultural communication between English Language Assistants (ELAs) and their ‘mentors’ in French primary and secondary schools. With reference to Levinson's notion of ‘activity type’, it argues that judgements by mentors as to what constitutes ‘allowable contributions’ on the part of ELAs are determined by the extent to which mentors themselves have internalised French State regulations. The…
Engaging ethnography in tourist research: An introduction
Shifting positions
This article discusses the research methodologies used to gain an understanding of what the touristic/cottage experience meant to a group of Canadians who traveled internationally on a regular basis; and a sampling Ontario second home tourists, or cottagers. Spatial, temporal and cultural constraints prevented me from engaging in traditional models of participant observation with them. The article details how I selected my subjects; how I positio…
Activity types’ and ‘discourse types’: Mediating ‘advice’ in interactions between foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in France and England
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how ‘advice’ is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of ‘activity type’) that can help achieve this aim. The paper draws on a sub-set of the data produced for the Pragmatics and Intercultural Communicati…
A Timeless Place: The Ontario Cottage
As Julia Harrison’s first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison marveled at the less attractive components of cottage life: the clogged highways en route and the unrelenting investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich a…
Enabling diagnostic excellence in the real world: Managing complexity, uncertainty and clinical responsibility
Diagnostic error is a significant category within preventable patient harm, and it takes many years of effort to develop proficiency in diagnostic reasoning. One of the key challenges medical schools must address is preparing students for the complexity, uncertainty and clinical responsibility in going from student to doctor. Recognising the importance of both cognitive and systems-related factors in diagnostic accuracy, we designed the QUID Prom…
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