This article is based on a plenary held during the Child & Youth Care in Action VI Conference: Moving Through Trails and Trials Toward Community Wellness, held in Victoria, British Columbia in April 2019. It explores how we can re-imagine child and youth care practice with African Canadian youth. This emerging paradigm aligns with child […]
There is the continued belief that children do not see race and that they are racially innocent. This belief is evidenced in early childhood environments and influences the practices of the instructors in these settings. However, research continues to show that children do see and react to varying markers of race. This research project focused […]
[Sarah Ahmed], in her discussion of how documents get taken up as signs of good performance and as expressions of "commitment," found that those responsible for compliance in the institution often "perform an image of themselves as doing a good job" (2007: 594). She refers to this as "doing the document" instead of "doing the […]
In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes that scholars currently navigate. We do this by revisiting one of the earliest articles on mentoring from a feminist perspective, and reflecting on the extent to which mentorship requirements have changed as the number and composition of […]
This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well as to recent feminist debates on the impact that relationships of power between researchers and their informants have on the rigor of the findings of qualitative research. Drawing upon my own experiences whilst conducting interviews […]
To celebrate Antipode’s 50th anniversary, we’ve brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at varying career stages who all, in some way, have some kind of affinity with Antipode’s radical geographical project. The entries in this volume are diverse, eclectic, and to an extent random, however they all speak to our […]
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction […]