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First Foods as Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Country Foods and Breastfeeding Practices in a Manitoban First Nations Community
(Canadian Association for Food Studies / L'Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, 2018-05-23)
As a concept and in practice, Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) offers insights into the social, cultural, and environmental challenges of a deficient food system. The associated poor health outcomes of this system include ...
“Trump” - What does the name signify?; or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture.
(Cultural Politics, 2018)
This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and ...
Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry: A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál
(Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2018)
Abstract: In this study, McGillivray explores the cultural environment in which the Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál was composed and reexamines the relationship between form and content in the poem and the respective influences ...
Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation
(MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland., 2018)
A convoluted network of different water governance systems exists around the world.
Collectively, these systems provide insight into how to build sustainable regimes of water use and management. We argue that the challenge ...
Anishinaabeg Kinship Diplomacy and Animal Nations: A Critical Review of Political Leadership
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-04)
In this thesis I argue that engagement with animal nations to remake the world is an embedded practice of Anishinaabeg stories. From the perspective of my survey of the Anishinaabeg resurgence literature I conclude that ...
Critique, texte et art contemporain. Repenser l’héritage de Marshall McLuhan aujourd’hui
(University of Alberta Library, 2018-08-12)
À l’ère d’Internet, quelle signification donner encore à l’héritage culturel de Marshall McLuhan? Si la question a inspiré des penseurs français (Michel Serres, Jean Baudrillard, Régis Debray) et canadiens (Derrick de ...
Home range, habitat selection, and annual survival of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in central Canada
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-10)
The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is one of several hibernating bat species in North America affected by a fungal pathogen that causes a disease known as White-nose syndrome (WNS). As a result, little brown bat ...
Habitat quality, torpor expression and pathogen transmission in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-03)
Protection of habitat can improve survival and reproductive fitness of threatened and endangered wildlife, particularly if that habitat helps individuals maintain energy balance. Temperate bats are heterothermic and rely ...
Legacies of afforestation on prairie plant, seed bank, and nematode communities in a northern rough fescue prairie
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-08-31)
Afforestation resulting from fire suppression, modified grazing, plantation establishment and climate change poses a threat to northern prairie ecosystems. Trees alter the composition and function of plant and soil communities ...
On the Evaluation of Pattern Match Queries in Large Graph Databases
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-01)
Recently, graph databases have been received much attention in the research community due to their extensive applications in practice, such as social networks, biological networks and World Wide Web, which bring forth a ...