J Sorenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Sorenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorenson |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1695-4186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Inclusive Approaches by VAW Shelters: Respecting Women's Choice to be Together With Companion Animals
Women often delay moving to VAW shelters if their companion animals’ safety is not ensured. Yet, few shelters accommodate them together. The purpose of this study is to explore what may help to promote services for women with companion animals facing violence, through learning from professionals who already provide support. Our email survey with VAW shelters in Ontario, Canada identified services and potential interviewees. Nine semi-structured t…
Moral Panic over Fake Service Animals
We use Stanley Cohen's moral panic framework to examine concerns about fake service animals and to illuminate processes of intersectionality that shape our social relations and systems. Applying Critical Animal Studies and Critical Disability Theory, we examine media reports about fake service animals in North America to explore how these anxieties constitute a moral panic, the interests at work, and underlying ideology that motivates outrage abo…
Dog's Best Friend?: Rethinking Canid-Human Relations
Confusing Cosmopolitanism
Spatializing Animal Oppression
The Animal Rights Struggle: An Essay in Historical Sociology
Human Consequences of Animal Exploitation: Needs for Redefining Social Welfare
This paper addresses an area which has not been given serious consideration in social welfare and social work literature, the instrumental use of nonhuman animals, in particular as food, and argues that the welfare of humans and other animals are intertwined. The paper examines the consequences of animal exploitation for humans in terms of health, well-being, environmental damage, and exploitation of vulnerable human groups. The paper concludes t…
Constructing terrorists: Propaganda about animal rights
Confusion and misrepresentation plague discourse on ‘terrorism’. The term is misapplied to actions far removed from violent mass-casualty attacks or peacetime equivalents of war crimes. This article examines how the term is misapplied to non-violent actions of animal rights groups to undermine opposition to animal exploitation industries
Culture of Prejudice: Arguments in Critical Social Science
Contesting the putative "even-handedness" of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically. The principal theme of the book is that social science is at its best, and most exciting, when it confronts and refutes "cultures of prejudice"-intricate systems of beliefs and attitudes that sustain many forms of social op…
Some Strange Things Happening in our Country: Opposing Proposed Changes in Anti-Cruelty Laws in Canada
Ideologies are most efficient when they operate invisibly to naturalize power relations, yet even the most successful hegemonies are not seamless. Contradictions in our attitudes towards animals are exposed by welfare measures such as anti-cruelty laws. This article examines opposition to proposed amendments to Canada's anti-cruelty legislation. Directed at individual acts of violence, anti-cruelty amendments proposed in Bill C-15B posed no chall…
Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora
Phantom Wars and Cyberwars: Abyssinian Fundamentalism and Catastrophe in Eritrea
Learning to be Oromo: Nationalist Discourse in the Diaspora
Processes of migration, diaspora and exile offer diverse and complex environments for the renegotiation of social identities. Immigrants and refugees must not only adapt to the material circumstances of uprooting but must also confront, maintain or recreate a sense of self, often in contexts which are vastly different and fraught with constraints, in which they are removed from their familiar social networks and in which their previous identities…
The Transparency of Evil
African Refugees: Development Aid and Repatriation
This is a collection of 12 papers on aspects of the refugee problem in Africa. first brief section provides the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees. The second section considers the lack of resources that contribute to refugee production and inadequate relief aid. Since relatively few African refugees are able to avail themselves of one permanent solution to their plight--resettlement abroad--the third section discusses the two ot…
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for Indentity in the Horn of Africa
Refugees From Revolution: U.S. Policy and Third-World Migration
This is an ambitious and useful
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa
In Imagining Ethiopia, Sorenson examines Western mass media images of Ethiopia, placing them in the context of a larger discourse on the Third World. Sorenson shows how our image of Ethiopia has been developed by reporters and photographers who blamed the famine on African backwardness and ignored its historical and political causes, which include a colonial history, militarization, and the circumstances of Africa's integration into the world mar…
SHULAMIT Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research
Refugee Communities
History and identity in the horn of Africa
Development after Disaster: A Conference on the Horn of Africa, University of Manitoba, 29–30 May 1992
Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas
Diaspora 2:2 1992 Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas John Sorenson Centre for Refugee Studies, York University 1. Introduction Exile is experienced as a separation from one's true place in the world, from that place which provides rootedness and meaning. To become an exile is to be uprooted, set adrift, disconnected. Yet this is not simply to inhabit a dead zone of …
Mass Media and Discourse on Famine in the Horn of Africa
Mass media coverage of famine in the Horn of Africa is examined. Analysis reveals imposition of a narrative structure through the use of standard rhetorical techniques to construct famine as an ideological parable. This parable demonstrates the abuse of western charity by treacherous Third World regimes allied with the Soviet Union. Media reports are related to other discursive constructions of Africa which offer a similar narrative structure
Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Application to direct mail
This investigation examined the potential for the direct mail communication channel to combat the persuasiveness of political attack messages. Inoculation, inoculation‐plus‐reinforcement, and refutation messages were administered to potential voters in a midwestern metropolitan area during the 1988 presidential campaign. The results support the prediction that the use of inoculation via direct mail communication confers resistance to the influenc…
Mass Media and Discourse on Famine in the Horn of Africa
Mass media coverage of famine in the Horn of Africa is examined. Analysis reveals imposition of a narrative structure through the use of standard rhetorical techniques to construct famine as an ideological parable. This parable demonstrates the abuse of western charity by treacherous Third World regimes allied with the Soviet Union. Media reports are related to other discursive constructions of Africa which offer a similar narrative structure
Discourses on Eritrean Nationalism and Identity
Since Italy's defeat in World Ward II, Ethiopia has pressed its claim to Eritrea. Following an abortive federation imposed by the United Nations in 1950, Haile Selassie annexed the former Italian colony in 1962, and for the last three decades Eritreans have fought for their independence
Constructing terrorists: Propaganda about animal rights
Confusion and misrepresentation plague discourse on ‘terrorism’. The term is misapplied to actions far removed from violent mass-casualty attacks or peacetime equivalents of war crimes. This article examines how the term is misapplied to non-violent actions of animal rights groups to undermine opposition to animal exploitation industries
Learning to be Oromo: Nationalist Discourse in the Diaspora
Processes of migration, diaspora and exile offer diverse and complex environments for the renegotiation of social identities. Immigrants and refugees must not only adapt to the material circumstances of uprooting but must also confront, maintain or recreate a sense of self, often in contexts which are vastly different and fraught with constraints, in which they are removed from their familiar social networks and in which their previous identities…
The Animal Rights Struggle: An Essay in Historical Sociology
Opposition, Exile and Identity: The Eritrean Case
Journal Article Opposition, Exile and Identity: The Eritrean Case Get access JOHN SORENSON JOHN SORENSON Centre for Refugee Studies, York UniversityOntario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 298–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/3.4.298 Published: 01 October 1990 Article history Received: 01 April 1990 Published: 01 October 1990 Revision receiv…
Some Strange Things Happening in our Country: Opposing Proposed Changes in Anti-Cruelty Laws in Canada
Ideologies are most efficient when they operate invisibly to naturalize power relations, yet even the most successful hegemonies are not seamless. Contradictions in our attitudes towards animals are exposed by welfare measures such as anti-cruelty laws. This article examines opposition to proposed amendments to Canada's anti-cruelty legislation. Directed at individual acts of violence, anti-cruelty amendments proposed in Bill C-15B posed no chall…
African Refugees: Development Aid and Repatriation
This is a collection of 12 papers on aspects of the refugee problem in Africa. first brief section provides the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees. The second section considers the lack of resources that contribute to refugee production and inadequate relief aid. Since relatively few African refugees are able to avail themselves of one permanent solution to their plight--resettlement abroad--the third section discusses the two ot…
Inclusive Approaches by VAW Shelters: Respecting Women's Choice to be Together With Companion Animals
Women often delay moving to VAW shelters if their companion animals’ safety is not ensured. Yet, few shelters accommodate them together. The purpose of this study is to explore what may help to promote services for women with companion animals facing violence, through learning from professionals who already provide support. Our email survey with VAW shelters in Ontario, Canada identified services and potential interviewees. Nine semi-structured t…
Moral Panic over Fake Service Animals
We use Stanley Cohen's moral panic framework to examine concerns about fake service animals and to illuminate processes of intersectionality that shape our social relations and systems. Applying Critical Animal Studies and Critical Disability Theory, we examine media reports about fake service animals in North America to explore how these anxieties constitute a moral panic, the interests at work, and underlying ideology that motivates outrage abo…
Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas
Diaspora 2:2 1992 Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas John Sorenson Centre for Refugee Studies, York University 1. Introduction Exile is experienced as a separation from one's true place in the world, from that place which provides rootedness and meaning. To become an exile is to be uprooted, set adrift, disconnected. Yet this is not simply to inhabit a dead zone of …
Opposition, Exile and Identity: The Eritrean Case
Journal Article Opposition, Exile and Identity: The Eritrean Case Get access JOHN SORENSON JOHN SORENSON Centre for Refugee Studies, York UniversityOntario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 298–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/3.4.298 Published: 01 October 1990 Article history Received: 01 April 1990 Published: 01 October 1990 Revision receiv…
Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Application to direct mail
This investigation examined the potential for the direct mail communication channel to combat the persuasiveness of political attack messages. Inoculation, inoculation‐plus‐reinforcement, and refutation messages were administered to potential voters in a midwestern metropolitan area during the 1988 presidential campaign. The results support the prediction that the use of inoculation via direct mail communication confers resistance to the influenc…
Mass Media and Discourse on Famine in the Horn of Africa
Mass media coverage of famine in the Horn of Africa is examined. Analysis reveals imposition of a narrative structure through the use of standard rhetorical techniques to construct famine as an ideological parable. This parable demonstrates the abuse of western charity by treacherous Third World regimes allied with the Soviet Union. Media reports are related to other discursive constructions of Africa which offer a similar narrative structure
Ethiopia's Refugees
Discourses on Eritrean Nationalism and Identity
Since Italy's defeat in World Ward II, Ethiopia has pressed its claim to Eritrea. Following an abortive federation imposed by the United Nations in 1950, Haile Selassie annexed the former Italian colony in 1962, and for the last three decades Eritreans have fought for their independence
History and identity in the horn of Africa
Development after Disaster: A Conference on the Horn of Africa, University of Manitoba, 29–30 May 1992
Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas
Diaspora 2:2 1992 Essence and Contingency in the Construction of Nationhood: Transformations of Identity in Ethiopia and Its Diasporas John Sorenson Centre for Refugee Studies, York University 1. Introduction Exile is experienced as a separation from one's true place in the world, from that place which provides rootedness and meaning. To become an exile is to be uprooted, set adrift, disconnected. Yet this is not simply to inhabit a dead zone of …
SHULAMIT Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research
Refugee Communities
Refugees From Revolution: U.S. Policy and Third-World Migration
This is an ambitious and useful
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa
In Imagining Ethiopia, Sorenson examines Western mass media images of Ethiopia, placing them in the context of a larger discourse on the Third World. Sorenson shows how our image of Ethiopia has been developed by reporters and photographers who blamed the famine on African backwardness and ignored its historical and political causes, which include a colonial history, militarization, and the circumstances of Africa's integration into the world mar…
The Transparency of Evil
African Refugees: Development Aid and Repatriation
This is a collection of 12 papers on aspects of the refugee problem in Africa. first brief section provides the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees. The second section considers the lack of resources that contribute to refugee production and inadequate relief aid. Since relatively few African refugees are able to avail themselves of one permanent solution to their plight--resettlement abroad--the third section discusses the two ot…
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa
Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for Indentity in the Horn of Africa
Learning to be Oromo: Nationalist Discourse in the Diaspora
Processes of migration, diaspora and exile offer diverse and complex environments for the renegotiation of social identities. Immigrants and refugees must not only adapt to the material circumstances of uprooting but must also confront, maintain or recreate a sense of self, often in contexts which are vastly different and fraught with constraints, in which they are removed from their familiar social networks and in which their previous identities…
Phantom Wars and Cyberwars: Abyssinian Fundamentalism and Catastrophe in Eritrea
Culture of Prejudice: Arguments in Critical Social Science
Contesting the putative "even-handedness" of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically. The principal theme of the book is that social science is at its best, and most exciting, when it confronts and refutes "cultures of prejudice"-intricate systems of beliefs and attitudes that sustain many forms of social op…
Some Strange Things Happening in our Country: Opposing Proposed Changes in Anti-Cruelty Laws in Canada
Ideologies are most efficient when they operate invisibly to naturalize power relations, yet even the most successful hegemonies are not seamless. Contradictions in our attitudes towards animals are exposed by welfare measures such as anti-cruelty laws. This article examines opposition to proposed amendments to Canada's anti-cruelty legislation. Directed at individual acts of violence, anti-cruelty amendments proposed in Bill C-15B posed no chall…
Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora
Constructing terrorists: Propaganda about animal rights
Confusion and misrepresentation plague discourse on ‘terrorism’. The term is misapplied to actions far removed from violent mass-casualty attacks or peacetime equivalents of war crimes. This article examines how the term is misapplied to non-violent actions of animal rights groups to undermine opposition to animal exploitation industries
Human Consequences of Animal Exploitation: Needs for Redefining Social Welfare
This paper addresses an area which has not been given serious consideration in social welfare and social work literature, the instrumental use of nonhuman animals, in particular as food, and argues that the welfare of humans and other animals are intertwined. The paper examines the consequences of animal exploitation for humans in terms of health, well-being, environmental damage, and exploitation of vulnerable human groups. The paper concludes t…
Confusing Cosmopolitanism
Spatializing Animal Oppression
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