Laura Macdonald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583000 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Macdonald |
| PRENOMES | Laura |
| SOBRENOME | Macdonald |
| ASSINATURA | MACDONALD L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0593-8079 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 294 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story
Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century musicals and stands as a colossus of musical and dramatic achievement. It not only helped define a generation of musical theatre lovers but is among the handful of shows that have contributed to our understanding of American musical identity at mid-century. Bringing together contemporary scholars in music, theatre, dance, literatu…
Changing the Musical’s Major
At the end of the musical Fun Home (2015), Alison Bechdel urges her girl-self to keep challenging her father’s gendered expectations, and to take the road not taken, out of the closet and beyond her parents’ lives. She has the musical’s final word, recalling “a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.” 1 At the end of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2014), Carole also soars, to the heights of the music industry as she looks out…
Is objectively measured exposure to built and natural environment associated with population-level cardiovascular disease mortality in Great Britain
Findings have clear policy implications, suggesting prioritisation of reductions in air pollution-particularly in deprived areas-while promoting walkability and tree cover to reduce health inequalities. Unexpected positive associations between 'goods' and mortality highlight that complex neighbourhood effects warrant further study
Inequalities in geographical distribution of heritage in Scotland, investigating spatial exposure to heritage sites through area-based and individual-based (GPS) measurement
Growing evidence suggests that visiting heritage, such as historic buildings, or landscapes, may enhance mental health. However, adults and children from deprived areas are less likely to visit heritage, perhaps partly due to unequal geographical availability. Few studies investigate socio-spatial inequity of heritage access nationally, and there is an absence of research exploring individual-based contact with heritage. We study both and ours is…
Inclusion of gender and labour standards in preferential trade agreements
This article analyses the causes of the incorporation of gender provisions into preferential trade agreements (PTAs), based an analysis of the reasons for the inclusion of both labour and gender provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and in the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).Drawing upon feminist and constructivist analysis, it argues for the importance of id…
Dominion over Palm and Pine
CJLACS at 50
Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking
Past engagement in physical activity and walking for pleasure are strong predictors of walking behaviour in older people, underscoring the importance of implementing and sustaining walking interventions across the lifespan to ensure continued engagement in later years and the associated health benefits. However, poor health significantly impedes walking in this demographic, emphasising the need for interventions that offer both physical assistanc…
Shifting Boundaries of Control
This article reviews the shifting practices of control along the border New York–Vermont bor-der in the United States and Quebec in Canada during and since the election of the Trump admin-istration in the United States. The authors argue that this period saw an increase in detention, deportation and securitization on both sides of the border, despite the differences in the politi-cal orientations of the Canadian and U.S. governments. Drawing on r…
Forging Labor Power in Mexico and Brazil
We can't just say, 'let's change everything back to the way it was;" Luiz Imicio Lula da Silva told Brazilian union leaders and activists in April 2022. "We want to do better and have labor norms t
Impact of built environment change on all-cause and cause-specific mortality
BACKGROUND: Public health research increasingly acknowledges the influence of built environments (BE) on health; however, it is uncertain how BE change is associated with better population health and whether BE change can help narrow health inequalities. This knowledge gap is partly due to a lack of suitable longitudinal BE data in most countries. We devised a method to quantify BE change longitudinally and explored associations with mortality. T…
Struggles over city-making
This article traces the trajectory of the making and unmaking of the Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement (PCMB), a participatory program for upgrading social infrastructure and public spaces in marginalized neighborhoods of Mexico City. The PCMB is an example of the range of upgrading programs supported by progressive local governments throughout Latin America over the past 20 years. Proposed by the city's urban popular movement as par…
The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre
Canada and Great Power Competition
Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre
Understanding Interprofessional Practice Challenges for Advancing Integrated Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Bare Broadway Bodies
Des saunas aux théâtres de Broadway, en passant par les spectacles caritatifs, les corps nus d’hommes gays sont apparus dans les musicals de façon significative à partir des années 60. Alors que Broadway commençait à représenter ouvertement des personnages gays dans des spectacles musicaux, la communauté gay a dû faire face à une longue lutte contre la crise du SIDA. La nudité a été un élément structurant des engagements communautaires et une mod…
Gender and Regionalization in North America
The literature on world regions is largely gender-blind. This article suggests ways in which the study of regionalism can incorporate gender analysis, based on the case of North America. It argues that this can be done in three ways: through an examination of the gendered impact of regional integration; through an examination of how gender concerns are, or can be, mainstreamed into regional policies; and through research on new forms of feminist-…
Canada and Great Power Competition
New architectures for migration governance
This article analyses the way in which free trade agreements may become a new form of migration governance architecture, through an examination of the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We argue that the inclusion of migrant worker rights among the labour rights covered by the labour side accord unexpectedly resulted in new forms of migrant rights advocacy and transnational cooperation to promote migrant worker rights, espec…
Seasons of Love
Having survived the gruelling gāokǎo (the national entrance exam for university education in China), some Chinese undergraduates view university as a welcome break. Feeling they have sufficiently pleased their parents, they explore the plethora of student societies on campus. The majority of C9 institutions (China's Ivy League) have musical theatre clubs, and draw members ranging from journalism to medicine students. China's 400 million millennia…
The relationship between living in urban and rural areas of Scotland and children’s physical activity and sedentary levels
Extrapolated across one-year, rural children would accumulate approximately 79 h (or just over 3 days) less sedentary time than urban children, replacing this for light intensity activity. With both outcomes having known implications for health, this finding is particularly important. Future work should prioritise exploring the patterns and context in which these differences occur to allow for more targeted intervention/policy strategies
Canada in the North America Region
The election of Donald Trump and his decision to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represented a shock to the Canadian and Mexican governments and business elites. Drawing on the New Regionalism(s) Approach (NRA), this article reviews the response of the Canadian state to the crisis in the North American regional project. I argue that this newer theoretical approach better explains the dynamics of regionalization or regi…
Contesting Gender Discrimination in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Temporary agricultural workers have come to Canada from Mexico under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) since 1974. In Canada, temporary migration programs, including the SAWP, are heavily gender segregated and racialized. In this paper we examine the ways in which unions, civil society organizations and workers themselves have engaged at multiple sites and scales to contest SAWP recruitment practices that discriminate on the basis …
Protest and Democracy
Do poorer people have poorer access to local resources and facilities? The distribution of local resources by area deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland
Generating Social Capital
Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Marc Hooghe and Dietlind Stolle, eds., New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 256 The concept of “social capital” has become a popular buzzword. Like other authors, the contributors to this volume draw on Robert Putnam's well-known definition of social capital as “generalized trust, norms of reciprocity and networks” among individual…
Do ‘environmental bads’ such as alcohol, fast food, tobacco, and gambling outlets cluster and co-locate in more deprived areas in Glasgow City, Scotland
This study utilised an innovative application of spatial cluster analysis to examine the socio-spatial patterning of outlets selling potentially health-damaging goods/services, such as alcohol, fast food, tobacco and gambling, within Glasgow City, Scotland. For all categories of outlets combined, numbers of clusters increased linearly from the least to the most income deprived areas (i.e. one cluster within the least deprived quintile to ten with…
Globalising Civil Society
Neighbourhood fast food environment and area deprivation—substitution or concentration
Anti-poverty politics in Toronto and Mexico City
Nafta, Women and Organising in Canada and Mexico
The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow city
After the International Organization for Migration
The global agricultural industry is increasingly supported by transnational migrant labour. The experience of this precarious workforce in receiving states has been the focus of intensified scrutiny by policy-makers and academics at the global and national scale. Drawing on field research we examine how the International Organization for Migration was involved in the development of a transnational labour migration corridor from Guatemala to Canad…
Citizenship at the Margins
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
Globalization and Social Movements
The article examines the responses of women's movements in Canada, the United States and Mexico to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from a comparative perspective. It argues that while some women's groups have raised important critiques of trade agreements from a feminist perspective, they have largely failed to make the gendered dimension of regionalization visible in public debate on NAFTA and have had virtually no impact on publ…
Hard times for citizenship
This article comparatively analyses the cases of Mexico and Chile to understand how women's movements contest the meaning of citizenship in various national contexts. We also assess the consequences that different movement strategies, such as ‘autonomy’ versus ‘double militancy’, have for movements' citizenship goals. To explain the different outcomes in the two cases, we focus on the nature of the democratic transition, the internal coherence of…
The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest
While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as "hig…
Political Parties and ngos in the Creation of New Trading Blocs in the Americas
The development of free trade agreements in North America has challenged the capacities of existing political organizations to play representative and responsive roles. This article evaluates the comparative roles of political parties, ngos, and the state in regional debates leading to the development of nafta. Changes following from those interactions are now reflected in ongoing negotiations over ftaa. In the latter context, the Canadian experi…
Canada in the North America Region
The election of Donald Trump and his decision to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represented a shock to the Canadian and Mexican governments and business elites. Drawing on the New Regionalism(s) Approach (NRA), this article reviews the response of the Canadian state to the crisis in the North American regional project. I argue that this newer theoretical approach better explains the dynamics of regionalization or regi…
Do obesity-promoting food environments cluster around socially disadvantaged schools in Glasgow, Scotland
Increase in the consumption of food and drinks outside the home by adolescents and young people and associations with rising levels of obesity is a significant concern worldwide and it has been suggested that the food environment around schools may be a contributory factor. As few studies have explored this issue in a UK setting, we examined whether different types of food outlets are clustered around public secondary schools in Glasgow, and whet…
Associations between proximity and density of local alcohol outlets and alcohol use among Scottish adolescents
Associations between different alcohol outcomes and outlet density measures vary between studies and may not be generalisable to adolescents. In a cross-sectional study of 979 15-year old Glaswegians, we investigated the association between alcohol outlet availability (outlet density and proximity), outlet type (on-premise vs. off-premise) and frequent (weekly) alcohol consumption. We adjusted for social background (gender, social class, family s…
Struggles over city-making
This article traces the trajectory of the making and unmaking of the Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement (PCMB), a participatory program for upgrading social infrastructure and public spaces in marginalized neighborhoods of Mexico City. The PCMB is an example of the range of upgrading programs supported by progressive local governments throughout Latin America over the past 20 years. Proposed by the city's urban popular movement as par…
Domestic transnationalism
Every year thousands of Mexicans travel to Canada to work in Canadian fields and greenhouses under the Mexico-Canada Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. While the programme is often praised, it has also been the subject of persistent criticism about its failure to meet certain human rights standards. In this article, we examine the legal strategies civil society advocates of migrant workers have adopted to promote migrant workers' rights in Can…
Health status and health behaviours in neighbourhoods
Health status has been demonstrated to vary by neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES). However, neighbourhood effects may vary between countries. In this study, neighbourhood variations in health outcomes are compared across four socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland and Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Data came from the 2001 wave of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Longitudinal Study and a 2000/2001 cross-sectional survey conducted …
Human Rights and Citizenship in Guatemala and Mexico
This article presents an overview of the cases of Guatemala and Mexico and the "strategic" use of the discourse of human rights in struggles for citizenship in the 1980s and 1990s, first by women's organizations and later by most popular actors We then provide a more general analysis of the many political and economic dynamics that have interacted to create a situation in both Guatemala and Mexico where human rights and citizenship are integrally…
Italian Migration to Australia
Gender and Regionalization in North America
The literature on world regions is largely gender-blind. This article suggests ways in which the study of regionalism can incorporate gender analysis, based on the case of North America. It argues that this can be done in three ways: through an examination of the gendered impact of regional integration; through an examination of how gender concerns are, or can be, mainstreamed into regional policies; and through research on new forms of feminist-…
New architectures for migration governance
This article analyses the way in which free trade agreements may become a new form of migration governance architecture, through an examination of the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We argue that the inclusion of migrant worker rights among the labour rights covered by the labour side accord unexpectedly resulted in new forms of migrant rights advocacy and transnational cooperation to promote migrant worker rights, espec…
Gender and Latin American Welfare Regimes
This paper investigates new directions in the evolution of Latin American welfare regimes by focusing on the extension of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies in Argentina and Mexico, particularly in the last decade. Both states have paid increased attention to ECEC policies for several reasons: the failure of first-generation structural adjustment reforms to address problems of poverty; women's increased participation in the paid l…
Italian Migration to Australia
Honduras
Honduras is one of those nations which, left to its own devices, might have lingered indefinitely in relative obscurity. Instead, by an accident of geography, it has been drawn into a web of imperialist machinations, and thrust into international headlines through its involvement in the Central American maelstrom. Yet despite the recent boom of literature on Central America, there are still few books available in English on Honduras
Globalising Civil Society
Nafta, Women and Organising in Canada and Mexico
A Mixed Blessing The NGO Boom in Latin America
It is often assumed that the growth of NGOs in Latin America reflects a strengthening of civil society. But in searching for alternative models of development, North American progressives need to question whether these NGOs are invariably the best vehicle
Unequal Partnerships
Canadian politicians and policy-makers tend to portray Canada's role in the Third World as benevolent and altruistic. Many Canadian political economists have debunked this self-congratulatory perspective, and have revealed the various ways in which Canadian corporate interests benefit from Canadian aid, trade and other policies toward the Third World
Human Rights and Citizenship in Guatemala and Mexico
This article presents an overview of the cases of Guatemala and Mexico and the "strategic" use of the discourse of human rights in struggles for citizenship in the 1980s and 1990s, first by women's organizations and later by most popular actors We then provide a more general analysis of the many political and economic dynamics that have interacted to create a situation in both Guatemala and Mexico where human rights and citizenship are integrally…
Globalization and Social Movements
The article examines the responses of women's movements in Canada, the United States and Mexico to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from a comparative perspective. It argues that while some women's groups have raised important critiques of trade agreements from a feminist perspective, they have largely failed to make the gendered dimension of regionalization visible in public debate on NAFTA and have had virtually no impact on publ…
Political Parties and ngos in the Creation of New Trading Blocs in the Americas
The development of free trade agreements in North America has challenged the capacities of existing political organizations to play representative and responsive roles. This article evaluates the comparative roles of political parties, ngos, and the state in regional debates leading to the development of nafta. Changes following from those interactions are now reflected in ongoing negotiations over ftaa. In the latter context, the Canadian experi…
Of Borders and Business
One of the most important outcomes of 11 September 2001 is the new visibility of national borders and a renewed emphasis on border security. Various business leaders, think tanks, and government representatives in Canada have responded to US demands for greater border security by calling for the elimination or reinvention of the Canada-US border. Some of the more important business groups involved are the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCC…
Generating Social Capital
Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Marc Hooghe and Dietlind Stolle, eds., New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 256 The concept of “social capital” has become a popular buzzword. Like other authors, the contributors to this volume draw on Robert Putnam's well-known definition of social capital as “generalized trust, norms of reciprocity and networks” among individual…
The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest
While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as "hig…
Hard times for citizenship
This article comparatively analyses the cases of Mexico and Chile to understand how women's movements contest the meaning of citizenship in various national contexts. We also assess the consequences that different movement strategies, such as ‘autonomy’ versus ‘double militancy’, have for movements' citizenship goals. To explain the different outcomes in the two cases, we focus on the nature of the democratic transition, the internal coherence of…
Deep Integration and Shallow Governance
This article investigates the complex position of civil society within the unfolding processes of regional governance across North America. The analysis focuses on the region's evolution and institution-building under the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as the negotiations that have accompanied more recent efforts to deepen continental integration. We argue that North American regional governance has clearly shifted from a state-cent…
Neighbourhood fast food environment and area deprivation—substitution or concentration
The Musical as Drama (review)
Do poorer people have poorer access to local resources and facilities? The distribution of local resources by area deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland
Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin Amer
Introduction
The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) organizes the biennial ACSUS Enders Symposium as a way of promoting understanding of the evolution of Canada–US relations. The symposium also honors the work of Thomas O. Enders, who served as US ambassador to Canada from 1976 to 1979, and his work in promoting the relationship between the two countries. In other years, the symposium was held in Washington DC at the Woodrow Wilson …
Health status and health behaviours in neighbourhoods
Health status has been demonstrated to vary by neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES). However, neighbourhood effects may vary between countries. In this study, neighbourhood variations in health outcomes are compared across four socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland and Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Data came from the 2001 wave of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Longitudinal Study and a 2000/2001 cross-sectional survey conducted …
The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow city
Anti-poverty politics in Toronto and Mexico City
Is proximity to a food retail store associated with diet and BMI in Glasgow, Scotland
The findings suggest that in urban settings in the UK the distribution of retail food stores may not be a major influence on diet and weight, possibly because most urban residents have reasonable access to food stores
Citizenship at the Margins
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
Keep it Wild, Keep it Local”
Environmental movements depend on mass media to reach the public and shape political decision-making. Without media access, social movements experience political marginality. In this paper, we examine whether the internet is a more open space than traditional media for activists to speak on behalf of non-human nature. Our analysis is based upon newspaper coverage and environmental organization websites that focus on the conflict over the proposed…
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