John Steckley
Biographic Data
| ID | 684857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Steckley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Steckley |
| SIGNATURE | STECKLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4247-1367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Untangling Food Sovereignty and Security on the Ground
In this paper, we explore the multiscalar discursive and governance barriers to food sovereignty in the context of Haiti. We draw from key informant interviews (n=15) with leaders of peasant and women's organizations, Haitian and international NGO representatives, and community and national-level government officials. Through these interviews, we begin by interrogating the concept of food sovereignty, exploring the different groups that take up t…
Completely Free”
Canadian nightcrawler ( Lumbricus terrestris ) worms, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater anglers, are hand‐picked from Ontario dairy farmers’ fields by an immigrant labour force working in the middle of the night with limited equipment. Though no picker enjoys the arduous activity of picking worms, they do express feelings of “freedom” and “autonomy” in the job. Such expressions are surprising coming from mostly non‐English‐sp…
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity
Gender, Food Security, and Social Determinants of Health in Haiti
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, gender equity and food security are key priorities for the Haitian state, bilateral organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Yet there is very little research on the gendered dimensions of food insecurity in Haiti, specifically the nexus between gender, food security, and health. Literature on these themes tends to be divided by discipline: literature in the health sciences and nutr…
E-volunteering as international experiential learning
Experiential learning is a priority for Canadian universities, with many broadening international experiential learning options. But opportunities are not always inclusive. Low-income, visible minority groups and students with disabilities are less likely to take up travel-based experiential learning. At the same time, students are cognizant of the carbon footprints associated with aviation travel and are critical of traditional sending models. I…
Nightcrawler commodities
Each year, 500 to 700 million dew worms are sold from thousands of gas stations, convenience stores, big box retailers, making this particular species, Lumbricus terrestris, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater fisherman across North America. In fishing parlance, these effective bait worms are referred to as "Canadian Nightcrawlers," not because they are native to the region (they are not) or because they cannot be found elsewhe…
En Ascensione Domini
Context This text was written in Wendat by Belgian Jesuit Father Philippe Pierson (1642-1688), who came to North America in 1666. From 1673 to 1683, he lived and worked with the Wyandot community in what is now the city of St. Ignace near the tip of the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. It is the first part (Potier 1920:539) of a four-page text incorporated into the voluminous collection of copying, editing, and writing of a…
Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
In 1911-1912, anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later, this book continues Barbeau's work
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
Huron Carol
The Huron Carol was written in the Wendat or Huron language in the early 1640s by Jesuit Father Jean de Brébeuf. It tells the story of the birth of Jesus. Over time it became a part of the religious culture of the Wendat people. The interpretation of the Huron Carol became less true to the language and culture of the people from the translations first of Father Etienne Thomas de Villeneuve Girault in the late eighteenth century and Huron Paul Tsa…
The Warrior and the Lineage
This article attempts to take a new approach towards understanding the interaction between missionaries and Amerindians. Rather than relying on the usual sources written in European languages for a non-Native audience, the author depends primarily on two works written in Huron by French Jesuits during the seventeenth century. Analysis focuses on the Jesuits' use of two Iroquoian cultural models, the warrior and matrilineal lineage complexes, and …
The Victorian Periodical Press
The centrality of the Victorian periodical press to almost every aspect of Victorian studies has long been acknowledged by scholars of the period. So far no general or systematic study of that press has been undertaken. The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings is a collection of original essays, each of which examines an important aspect of the history of the periodical press. It includes studies of the organization and production …
The Warrior and the Lineage
This article attempts to take a new approach towards understanding the interaction between missionaries and Amerindians. Rather than relying on the usual sources written in European languages for a non-Native audience, the author depends primarily on two works written in Huron by French Jesuits during the seventeenth century. Analysis focuses on the Jesuits' use of two Iroquoian cultural models, the warrior and matrilineal lineage complexes, and …
Nightcrawler commodities
Each year, 500 to 700 million dew worms are sold from thousands of gas stations, convenience stores, big box retailers, making this particular species, Lumbricus terrestris, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater fisherman across North America. In fishing parlance, these effective bait worms are referred to as "Canadian Nightcrawlers," not because they are native to the region (they are not) or because they cannot be found elsewhe…
Completely Free”
Canadian nightcrawler ( Lumbricus terrestris ) worms, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater anglers, are hand‐picked from Ontario dairy farmers’ fields by an immigrant labour force working in the middle of the night with limited equipment. Though no picker enjoys the arduous activity of picking worms, they do express feelings of “freedom” and “autonomy” in the job. Such expressions are surprising coming from mostly non‐English‐sp…
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
The Victorian Periodical Press
The centrality of the Victorian periodical press to almost every aspect of Victorian studies has long been acknowledged by scholars of the period. So far no general or systematic study of that press has been undertaken. The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings is a collection of original essays, each of which examines an important aspect of the history of the periodical press. It includes studies of the organization and production …
The Warrior and the Lineage
This article attempts to take a new approach towards understanding the interaction between missionaries and Amerindians. Rather than relying on the usual sources written in European languages for a non-Native audience, the author depends primarily on two works written in Huron by French Jesuits during the seventeenth century. Analysis focuses on the Jesuits' use of two Iroquoian cultural models, the warrior and matrilineal lineage complexes, and …
Huron Carol
The Huron Carol was written in the Wendat or Huron language in the early 1640s by Jesuit Father Jean de Brébeuf. It tells the story of the birth of Jesus. Over time it became a part of the religious culture of the Wendat people. The interpretation of the Huron Carol became less true to the language and culture of the people from the translations first of Father Etienne Thomas de Villeneuve Girault in the late eighteenth century and Huron Paul Tsa…
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
In 1911-1912, anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later, this book continues Barbeau's work
Gender, Food Security, and Social Determinants of Health in Haiti
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, gender equity and food security are key priorities for the Haitian state, bilateral organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Yet there is very little research on the gendered dimensions of food insecurity in Haiti, specifically the nexus between gender, food security, and health. Literature on these themes tends to be divided by discipline: literature in the health sciences and nutr…
E-volunteering as international experiential learning
Experiential learning is a priority for Canadian universities, with many broadening international experiential learning options. But opportunities are not always inclusive. Low-income, visible minority groups and students with disabilities are less likely to take up travel-based experiential learning. At the same time, students are cognizant of the carbon footprints associated with aviation travel and are critical of traditional sending models. I…
Nightcrawler commodities
Each year, 500 to 700 million dew worms are sold from thousands of gas stations, convenience stores, big box retailers, making this particular species, Lumbricus terrestris, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater fisherman across North America. In fishing parlance, these effective bait worms are referred to as "Canadian Nightcrawlers," not because they are native to the region (they are not) or because they cannot be found elsewhe…
En Ascensione Domini
Context This text was written in Wendat by Belgian Jesuit Father Philippe Pierson (1642-1688), who came to North America in 1666. From 1673 to 1683, he lived and worked with the Wyandot community in what is now the city of St. Ignace near the tip of the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. It is the first part (Potier 1920:539) of a four-page text incorporated into the voluminous collection of copying, editing, and writing of a…
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity
Completely Free”
Canadian nightcrawler ( Lumbricus terrestris ) worms, the most popular live bait for recreational freshwater anglers, are hand‐picked from Ontario dairy farmers’ fields by an immigrant labour force working in the middle of the night with limited equipment. Though no picker enjoys the arduous activity of picking worms, they do express feelings of “freedom” and “autonomy” in the job. Such expressions are surprising coming from mostly non‐English‐sp…
Untangling Food Sovereignty and Security on the Ground
In this paper, we explore the multiscalar discursive and governance barriers to food sovereignty in the context of Haiti. We draw from key informant interviews (n=15) with leaders of peasant and women's organizations, Haitian and international NGO representatives, and community and national-level government officials. Through these interviews, we begin by interrogating the concept of food sovereignty, exploring the different groups that take up t…
Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 works)