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The Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-inclusive Education in Canada's K-12 Schools: Final Report
(Manitoba Teachers’ Society, 2015)
This report presents the results of the online survey phase of the “Every Teacher Project” on Canadian K-12 educators’ perceptions and experiences of “LGBTQ-inclusive” education, including curriculum, policies, and practices ...
Foreword: Companions on the Edge of Iceland
(Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)
The recent publication of Wayward Heroes, translated by Philip Roughton, marks a significant event for world literature, the first direct translation from Icelandic to English of Halldór Laxness’s masterpiece novel Gerpla. ...
Class Struggle and Displacement: Slavoj Žižek and Film Theory
(Cultural Politics, 2009)
In the following,largue against cognitivist film scholars, such as David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, for the relevance of Slavoj Žižek in the field of film criticism and theory. I argue that Žižek's work presents a wholly ...
Avant-propos: Compagnons à la lisière de l'Islande
(Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)
La récente publication de Wayward Heroes, traduite par Philip Roughton, constitue un événement marquant pour la littérature mondiale. Il s’agit de la première traduction directe de l’islandais à anglais du roman Gerpla de ...
Inventaire national des interventions des commissions scholaires pout soutenir le bien-être des élèves LGBTQ: Rapport Final
(Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, Université de la Colombie-Britannique, 2016)
L’Inventaire national a été entrepris afin d’élaborer un tableau détaillé des formes et de l’étendue des interventions de système scolaire dans le but de soutenir le bien-être des élèves homosexuels et lesbiens, bisexuels, ...
Icelandic Culture and Concepts of the Æsir in Manitoba
(CSS Publications (Centre for Scandinavian Studies), 2017)
The Icelandic community in Manitoba continually translates its cultural heritage into a Canadian context, a process that began in 1875 at the time of initial Icelandic settlement in the Interlake region. Like other settler ...
Freedom and Alienation; Or, Humanism of the Non-All
(2022)
Today, the popular concept of the Anthropocene, used to denote the human geological age, puts to question the centrality of human subjectivity as an ethical agency. Critical posthumanism, in this context, demands the ...
Language ideology of bilingual education policies for ethno-linguistic minorities in South Korea
(The Korean Educational Administration Society, 2016-12)
Drawing from the national and regional governments’ bilingual education policy documents for the languages of
ethno-linguistic minorities, we investigated the intersections between bilingual education in the languages of ...
Debt: The Sublimated Object of Capital
(Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014)
In psychoanalysis, a ‘sublime object’ is one that signifies the transformation of a condition of impossibility into one of possibility. On the one hand, it represents a moment of internalized prohibition that transforms ...
Dialectical Materialism and the 'Feminine Sublime'
(Subjectivity, 2012)
Drawing primarily on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacanian reading of Kant and Hegel, but also taking up arguments made by Joan Copjec and Fredric Jameson, this article asserts a conception of the ‘feminine sublime’ in accordance with ...