M K Kumsa

Biographic Data

ID45140
NAMEM K Kumsa
GIVEN NAMESM K
FAMILY NAMEKumsa
SIGNATUREKUMSA M K
AFFILIATIONSWilfrid Laurier University
ORCID0000-0002-2429-7844
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS82
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Weaving Academic Home: Metaphor, Insurgent Culture, and Transnational Indigeneity

    Open AccessM K KumsaARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2022

    I use theories encoded in the metaphors and proverbs of my foremothers’ insurgent siinqee culture to tell the story of my struggles in weaving an academic home for my oxymoron transnational indigeneity. I start by positioning myself and my autoethnography. I then use basket-weaving as a metaphor to story the siinqee epistemology and methodology that guide me in the constitutive processes of making home in academia. I slip in and out of times and …

  • Narrating Colonial Silences: Racialized Social Work Educators Unsettling our Settlerhood

    Open AccessAbdelfettah Elkchirid, Anh Ngo et al.ARTICLEStudies in Social Justice2021Cited by: 2References: 14

    In this paper, three racialized social work educators unsettle our settled colonial silences as acts of self-decolonization and as a way of responding to the call to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Hailing from the uneven manifestations of global capitalism and coloniality in Morocco, Vietnam, and Ethiopia, we draw on various critical theories to interrogate our unique entanglements with the imperial project of …

  • Waiting for Gadaa: A critical exploration through transnational Siinqee feminism

    M K KumsaARTICLECritical African Studies2019Cited by: 4References: 10

    In this autoethnography I critically engage the experiences and theories of waiting for liberation, dubbed waiting for gadaa, in the Oromo diaspora by using the Africanist analytic framework of transnational siinqee feminism. I organize my stories into two parts. In the first part, I introduce the work, starting from my personal experiences of waiting and connecting the dots of the personal and political and individual and collective stories. I t…

  • Entering precarious job markets in the era of austerity measures: The perceptions of Master of Social Work students

    Karun K Karki, Monica Chi et al.ARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2018Cited by: 3

    Despite the positive outlook for social work job prospects reported by governmental and professional associations, the reality on the front line looks bleak. There are growing concerns that social work jobs have become increasingly precarious under the dominance of neoliberal policies, through which governments cut back on social services in the name of austerity. Surprisingly, we were unable to locate research exploring the perceptions of social…

  • Catching the shimmers of the social: From the Limits of Reflexivity to Methodological Creativity

    Open AccessM K Kumsa, Adrienne Chambon et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research2015Cited by: 13References: 20

    With the questioning of the neutral objective researcher, reflexivity has jumped to the forefront of qualitative research, thus positioning the embodied researcher within the research process. In its power to reveal tacit embodied social structures, reflexivity is touted as the hallmark of methodological validation while also being described as a messy process, particularly in participatory research. In this article, we use illustrative examples …

  • The response of youth to racial discrimination: Implications for resilience theory

    Neringa Kubilienė, Miu Chung Yan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth Studies2014Cited by: 4References: 20

    This paper presents a qualitative participatory study of Canadian young people who identified themselves as visible minorities and who have experienced discrimination based on their skin colour or ethnicity. Eighteen participants aged 15–24 (12 girls and 6 boys), representing four ethnic minority groups, participated in focus groups and in-depth interviews and shared their responses to racial discrimination against them. Analysis of the data from…

  • Rethinking youth violence and healing

    M K Kumsa, Kelly Ng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth Studies2013Cited by: 2References: 21

    In a world where violence and healing are posited as oppositional, critical youth studies, youth work practitioners, and human rights and social justice activists often locate themselves on the healing side of the divide, shedding light on the suffering and alleviating the pain of the violence. However, current theoretical developments prompt us to critically engage this oppositional binary constructed between violence and healing. We have come t…

  • No! I'm Not a Refugee!’ The Poetics of Be-Longing among Young Oromos in Toronto

    M K KumsaARTICLEJournal of Refugee Studies2006Cited by: 48References: 15

    This paper presents some findings from an empirical study carried out with young Oromos living in Toronto. To capture the complexities of negotiating be-longing, the paper offers dispersal–affinity—a new conceptual framework empirically grounded in an innovative methodological design. Using participants' narratives in the empirical material, the paper contests the dualism created between essentialist and constructionist perspectives. It employs d…

  • Negotiating Intimacies in a Globalized Space: Identity and Cohesion in Young Oromo Refugee Women

    Open AccessM K KumsaARTICLEAffilia2002Cited by: 6References: 7

    This article explores the paradoxical processes in how young Oromo refugee women negotiate identity and cohesion in a globalized space. It argues that these women's experiences reveal the interplay of local and global forces of identity and cohesion.The myth that contemporary migration has diversified and expanded the pool from which people choose intimate partners is challenged, and the multiple boundaries of gender, race, class, sexuality, ethn…