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Alternative Land Tenure: A Path Towards Food Sovereignty in Saskatchewan?
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-03) Beingessner, Naomi Ellen; Desmarais, Annette; Eaton, Emily; Magnan, Andre; Stewart, Michelle; McLaughlin, Darrell
In the past few years, a global food crisis has fuelled corporate investment and speculation in land and the attendant dispossession of smallholders and ecological damage, while doing little to alleviate hunger or secure livings for rural dwellers. This phenomenon is most evident in the Global South, but it is happening in Canada too. The dominant industrial agricultural model in Saskatchewan, with roots in the foundation of colonial capitalist agriculture and private ownership of land on the prairies, has resulted in a decades-long “farm crisis” as smaller farmers are forced off the land and agribusinesses consolidate and dominate production. A radically different vision of access to and control over land, as the basis of a new food system, is necessary in striving for socially and ecologically just agriculture. In this thesis, the concept of food sovereignty is used as a theoretical framework because it challenges the hegemony of global industrial agriculture and offers an alternative vision for land tenure and agrarian reform based on principles of social justice. Using data from in-depth qualitative interviews as well as critical discourse analysis of primary documents, this thesis explores alternative land tenure models proposed and practised by farmers involved in a progressive agrarian organization and participants in alternative agricultural land-ownership models in Saskatchewan. Analyzing key themes from the qualitative data using food sovereignty's principles of agrarian reform, this thesis illuminates the ideology behind the dominant global industrial agriculture system, provides historical, global, and Saskatchewan-specific context for issues of access to land, and suggests an approach that unites resistance and expands possibilities for alternatives, based on the social justice principles of food sovereignty.
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Becomings-Unsettled? (Un) Braiding Settler-Treaty Life Writing
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-03) Aamodt, Audrey Jennifer; Bazzul, Jesse; Montgomery, Kenneth; Cappello, Michael; King, Anna-Leah; Eaton, Emily; Kerr, Jeannie
Rather than viewing this abstract as a simple outline of the main ideas, the nuts and bolts, the meat and potatoes, the name of the game, and the bottom line, I consider it a story. It is another moment for practicing life writing as research. On an early December morning, a large group of Canada geese gather on Pasqua Lake in the Qu’appelle Valley, near a brief narrowing of the lake in the southwest. The lake ice is thick except for a peculiar patch of open water, an oddity for the season. Here the geese float and flap mostly at the edges together, preparing for the day ahead. Nearby some ice fishing huts perch atop the frozen surface, fires lit, rods hovering over drilled holes, awaiting a catch. We have gathered too, for a scholarly writing retreat. This abstract is one of my writing tasks. While it’s positioned first, I have left it for last, wrestling with its objectives and function. What is the story of this thesis? This thesis is an altercation with academic writing, linearity, form and format, educational research, data, multiplicities of mistakes, goodness, and settler-colonial normative narratives. It stories theory by braiding, unbraiding, folding, and unfolding problematic normative narratives in turns and tangles, in the middles of mistakes. As a collection of textural braidways, it illustrates White settler-Canadian treaty responsibilities to land, water, air, and treaty partners—both human and more-than-human kin. These responsibilities include disrupting White, settler-colonial systems of supremacy and individual settler-Canadian good intentions. Such life writing plays with how becomings- (tearful, humble, ethical, unsettled) work while risking Indigenization of education and settler-treaty life writing as research. The offered self-stories are prayerful openings for living treaties with truthfulness, reciprocity, and humility. In the afternoon, the geese take flight overhead as I walk along the shore, slipping and falling, in awe of the ice lifting at the edges while meeting the sand and rocks, green algae suspended in frozen formations. With each season, the water melts and flows and freezes again and again. Like algae, the self is suspended, both fixed and fluid, in life writing stories. Like geese, the self sometimes floats and flaps at the edges, part of a pack, and moves in lines of flight. Like fish, hunted, the self gets caught, hooked and tied to normative narratives, pulling taut-taught on the line. And the fish resist. The geese honk. The algae blooms. The self slips and falls.
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2021-2022
(University of Regina Library, 2022) Abbott, Sarah; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Bliss, Stacey; Bonner, William; Bradley, Crista; Brigham, Mark; Campbell, Ian; Campbell, Lori; Carter, Heather; Chadwick, Sydney; Chiefcalf, April; Clarke, Paul; Cliveti, Monica; Clune, Laurie; Demers, Jason; Donovan, Darcy; Eisler, Dale; Eaton, Emily; Elliott, Patricia; Enoch, Simon; French, Lindsey; Gacek, James; Gardiner, Christopher Campbell; Berard-Gardiner, Shannon; Gebhard, Amanda; Grahame, Ann; Han, Yu (Jade); Hanson, Cindy; Hart, Mel; Hu, Shuchen; Hurlbert, Margot; Isiaka, Abiodun; Jaffe, Joann; King, Alex; Koops, Sheena; Kossick, Don; Long, Timothy; Maeers, Esther; Mair, Leslea; Mathes, Carmen Faye; Munro, Emelia; Naytowhow, Joseph; Phillips, Kaetlyn; Polster, Claire; Quark, Amy; Ramsay, Christine; Ricketts, Kathryn; Rasmussen, Ken; Reul, Barbara; Rennie, Morina; Rolli (Charles Anderson); Ruddy, Evie Johnny; Russell, Gale; Sardarli, Arzu; Saul, Gerald; Sawatzky, Katie Doke; Sellers, Cora; Snider, Amy; Stadnichuk, Cheryl; Stevens, Andrew; Stratton, Florence; Swan, Ida; Tomesh, Trevor; Trussler, Michael; Vélez, Maria; Wilson, Ken
For the first time in three years, we are thrilled to be again gathering in person to celebrate the published scholarly and creative work of our University of Regina community. Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2021-22 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2022-2023
(University of Regina Library, 2023) Abrams, Kelly J.; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Battis, Jes; Bazzul, Jesse; Buchko, Denée M.; Coupal, Chelsea; Crivea, Jocelyn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Eaton, Emily; Fay, Holly; Farney, Jim; Farrell, Issac; French, Lindsey; Fuchs, Jesse; Garneau, David; Gerbeza, Tea; Germani, Ian; Gibb, Ryland; Grimard, Celeste; Harnish, Garett; Hoang Trung, Kien; Horowitz, Risa; Hurlbert, Margot; Jeffery, Bonnie; King, Anna-Leah; Knight, Lindsay; Knuttila, Murray; Kyabaggu, Ramona; Lavallie, Carrie; Lloyd, Kiegan; Lonie, Kelsey; Lundahl, Bev; Lylyk, Stephen; Marsh, Charity; McNeil, Barbara; Moat, Olivia; Moasun, Festus Yaw; Nestor, Jack J.; Novik, Nuelle; Owusu, Raymond Karikari; Panchuk, Kristie; Petry, Roger; Petry, Yvonne; Phipps, Heather; Ratt, Solomon; Ricketts, Kathryn; Riegel, Christian; Robinson, Katherine M.; Rocke, Cathy; Rollo, Mike; Safinuk, Corey; Saul, Gerald; Schroeter, Sara; Schultz, Christie; Wanda, Seidlikoski Yurach; Sirke, Kara; Sterzuk, Andrea; Stewart, Michelle; Szabados, Béla; Tremblay, Arjun; Whippler, Ryan; White, Judy; Wihak, Mark; Zimmer, Jonathon
Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2022-23 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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Feast or Family: Gendered Work and Lives in Saskatchewan's Oil Patch
(University of Regina Library, 2015-03-26) Eaton, Emily
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Reconciling the Divide: An Analysis of Farmers’ Land Strategies Within the Corporate-Environmental Food Regime
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-02) Rud, Helen Marie; Jaffe, JoAnn; Magnan, Andre; Conway, John; Eaton, Emily
After twenty-five years of contested change following the collapse of the mercantile-industrial food regime, a corporate-environmental food regime appears to be consolidating. The new food regime consists of two distinct yet complimentary paradigms: the Ecologically Integrated paradigm, and the Life Sciences Integrated paradigm. Through the use of in-depth interviews with organic and conventional farmers living in southern Saskatchewan, this thesis examines how the management strategies utilized by Saskatchewan farmers fit within the larger world food regime in relation to farmers’ self-described identities. This study also explores the heterogeneity of management strategies, and the consistency of these strategies with the ideologies held by the farmers. Giddens’ theory of structuration, Gramci’s theory of hegemonic discourse, and the idea of the reflexive producer are used to explain how farmers make decisions concerning agricultural strategies and how these decisions impact the larger social structure. An analysis of the interviews suggests that producers exist within the emerging food regime on a continuum between the Ecologically Integrated paradigm (alternative producers) and the Life Sciences Integrated paradigm (conventional producers). Most producers frequently utilize production strategies based on their access to markets and specific groups of consumers, and on their personal eco-strategies. These farmers often identify as “conventional” or “alternative” producers, while having beliefs or using agricultural methods that are associated with the opposing paradigm. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of community in the transfer of local knowledge, including potential alternative farming methods. This study also illustrates that Saskatchewan farmers face additional barriers in the potential for resistance against conventional agriculture due to the history of agriculture in western Canada, the lack of local processors, and the corporatization of land ownership.
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Territorial Stigma on the Canadian Prairies: Representations of North Central, Regina
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-03) Miller, Angela Carol; Stewart, Michelle; Jones, Nicholas; Eaton, Emily; Montgomery, Ken; Spooner, Marc
The community of North Central, located within the small prairie city of Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada, is known for high crime rates, poor socioeconomic conditions and a large concentration of Aboriginal residents. The area’s negative reputation was furthered when MacLean’s magazine named it “Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood” in 2007. The goal of this research is to offer a richer context for this "reputation" by investigating North Central as a stigmatized territory. Territorial stigma has harmful effects (i.e. negatively impacts the social, economic, physical and mental wellbeing of residents) and as such, the role of representation and stigma must be analyzed so that inequality between neighbourhoods may be addressed proactively. This research project asks: how do residents and non-residents reproduce and resist dominant representations of North Central, Regina? This question is investigated through the analysis of fifteen semi-structured interviews using NVivo qualitative research software and Attride-Stirling’s thematic network analysis. The analysis revealed three global themes: 1) North Central is a socially constructed location and concept; 2) representations in the news media and 3) interpersonal representations. This thesis reveals that both residents and non-residents of North Central acknowledge that North Central is a troubled inner-city neighbourhood but participants tend to both challenge and emphasize various aspects of North Central, sometimes reproducing dominant representations of North Central even while trying to resist them. This research provides a greater understanding of the complex social construction of dominant representations of stigmatized urban communities.
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University of Regina Community Authors 2015-2016
(2016) Bates-Hardy, Courtney; Benning, Sheri; Bundock, Chris; Chattopadhyay, Sutapa; Cronlund Anderson, Mark; Dahms, Tanya E. S.; Donovan, Darcy; Eaton, Emily; Elshakankiri, Maher; Farenick, Douglas; Fletcher, Amber J.; Kubik, Wendee; Garneau, David; Gidluck, Lynn; Gregory, David; Raymond-Seniuk, Christy; Patrick, Linda; Stephen, Tracy; Hillabold, Jean R. (pen name: Jean Roberta); Hurlbert, Margot; Diaz, Harry; Warren, James; James, Anne; Mather, Philippe; Rheault, Sylvain; McMullin, Brooks; McNeil, Barbara; Meagher, Karen; Montgomery, H. Monty; Ramsay, Christine; Robertson, Carmen; Steen, Sandra; Stonechild, Blair; Wolvengrey, Arok