Sarah Balcom
Biographic Data
| ID | 95655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Balcom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Balcom |
| SIGNATURE | BALCOM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6472-1144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses Working Together: An Institutional Ethnography
In Canada, different categories of nursing professionals, including registered nurses and practical nurses, often "collaborate" to provide care to patients. How their collaboration is currently conceptualized in the literature varies; and these conceptualizations are not always contextualized by the complex sociopolitical environment in which nursing professionals work. The purpose of this study was to explicate how different categories of nursin…
Risky Others: Covid-19 Reconstitutions of Risk, Governance, and Stigmatization of Bodies
This review essay considers how the risk constructions of Othered groups have been reconstituted across intersecting forms of stigma, social injustice, and discrimination during COVID-19. Through three case studies – fat irresponsible bodies, racialized contagious bodies, and food/health workers who are considered risky yet essential labour – we argue that an intersectional lens be applied to the social constructions of risk to understand the soc…
Observation and Institutional Ethnography: Helping Us to See Better
Observation is a staple data collection method, which is used in many qualitative approaches, including both traditional and institutional ethnographies. While observation is one of the most used data collection methods in traditional ethnography, less is written about its use by institutional ethnographers. Institutional ethnography is an approach to social research where the aim is to explicate how peoples' every activities are coordinated or r…
Animal Adoption as Negotiated Order: A Comparison of Open Versus Traditional Shelter Approaches
Recently, the sheltering community has begun to reevaluate its adoption policies and the attitudes that shelter workers have towards adopters. Some shelters are now implementing what have been termed "open" adoptions as a way of increasing the number of animals adopted into good homes, moving away from more "traditional," protective approaches. Based on in-depth interviews with, and observation of, the staff at two such shelters, this study exami…
Legislating a Solution to Animal Shelter Euthanasia: A Case Study of California's Controversial SB 1785
On September 22, 1998, California Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 1785 into law, dramatically affecting the entire Califomia animal sheltering community. Dubbed the "Hayden law" by the animal protection community after the bill's sponsor, it represents the state of Califomia's attempt to legislate a solution to both the companion animal overpopulation problem and the friction between the agencies trying to end it.The persistence of the bi…
Legislating a Solution to Animal Shelter Euthanasia: A Case Study of California's Controversial SB 1785
On September 22, 1998, California Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 1785 into law, dramatically affecting the entire California animal sheltering community. Dubbed the "Hayden law" by the animal protection community after the bill's sponsor, it represents the state of California's attempt to legislate a solution to both the companion animal overpopulation problem and the friction between the agencies trying to end it. The persistence of the…
Animal Adoption as Negotiated Order: A Comparison of Open Versus Traditional Shelter Approaches
Recently, the sheltering community has begun to reevaluate its adoption policies and the attitudes that shelter workers have towards adopters. Some shelters are now implementing what have been termed "open" adoptions as a way of increasing the number of animals adopted into good homes, moving away from more "traditional," protective approaches. Based on in-depth interviews with, and observation of, the staff at two such shelters, this study exami…
Observation and Institutional Ethnography: Helping Us to See Better
Observation is a staple data collection method, which is used in many qualitative approaches, including both traditional and institutional ethnographies. While observation is one of the most used data collection methods in traditional ethnography, less is written about its use by institutional ethnographers. Institutional ethnography is an approach to social research where the aim is to explicate how peoples' every activities are coordinated or r…
Legislating a Solution to Animal Shelter Euthanasia: A Case Study of California's Controversial SB 1785
On September 22, 1998, California Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 1785 into law, dramatically affecting the entire Califomia animal sheltering community. Dubbed the "Hayden law" by the animal protection community after the bill's sponsor, it represents the state of Califomia's attempt to legislate a solution to both the companion animal overpopulation problem and the friction between the agencies trying to end it.The persistence of the bi…
Legislating a Solution to Animal Shelter Euthanasia: A Case Study of California's Controversial SB 1785
On September 22, 1998, California Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 1785 into law, dramatically affecting the entire California animal sheltering community. Dubbed the "Hayden law" by the animal protection community after the bill's sponsor, it represents the state of California's attempt to legislate a solution to both the companion animal overpopulation problem and the friction between the agencies trying to end it. The persistence of the…
Animal Adoption as Negotiated Order: A Comparison of Open Versus Traditional Shelter Approaches
Recently, the sheltering community has begun to reevaluate its adoption policies and the attitudes that shelter workers have towards adopters. Some shelters are now implementing what have been termed "open" adoptions as a way of increasing the number of animals adopted into good homes, moving away from more "traditional," protective approaches. Based on in-depth interviews with, and observation of, the staff at two such shelters, this study exami…
Observation and Institutional Ethnography: Helping Us to See Better
Observation is a staple data collection method, which is used in many qualitative approaches, including both traditional and institutional ethnographies. While observation is one of the most used data collection methods in traditional ethnography, less is written about its use by institutional ethnographers. Institutional ethnography is an approach to social research where the aim is to explicate how peoples' every activities are coordinated or r…
Risky Others: Covid-19 Reconstitutions of Risk, Governance, and Stigmatization of Bodies
This review essay considers how the risk constructions of Othered groups have been reconstituted across intersecting forms of stigma, social injustice, and discrimination during COVID-19. Through three case studies – fat irresponsible bodies, racialized contagious bodies, and food/health workers who are considered risky yet essential labour – we argue that an intersectional lens be applied to the social constructions of risk to understand the soc…
Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses Working Together: An Institutional Ethnography
In Canada, different categories of nursing professionals, including registered nurses and practical nurses, often "collaborate" to provide care to patients. How their collaboration is currently conceptualized in the literature varies; and these conceptualizations are not always contextualized by the complex sociopolitical environment in which nursing professionals work. The purpose of this study was to explicate how different categories of nursin…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Data collection (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Governor (2 works)