Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Rather than viewing the house as self, I examine the “selved” house. In particular, I focus on the perspectives of homeowners who view themselves as supporters of the historic preservation movement (as “preservationists”). In this paper, I suggest that many owners of historic houses act based on the belief that their houses are social actors with the ability to feel and express emotions. These owners define themselves as engaged in a reciprocal relationship with their houses, one in which both parties have rights and responsibilities to each other. I argue that these actions and beliefs have consequences for the owners’ senses of self and for their negotiation of the ideology of the historic preservation movement. Data collection included (1) interviews with 20+ homeowners who had undertaken or were in the process of undertaking preservation or restoration of historic houses in which they lived or intended to live and (2) photographic documentation of these homeowners’ houses.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: When the South African government was designing its apartheid system it came to Canada to see the model presented by the "Indian" reserve system. In the 1950s the Inuit of Canada's north were relocated to ensure the maintenance of "Canadian" security in Canada's north. Throughout Canada today, First Nations communities and in particular, First Nations' women rank the lowest on all Canadian social indicators. The Arctic is melting before the eyes of the Inuit while the Canadian government wrings its hands about the future of the Northwest Passage and sovereignty. All of these examples speak to the real life and everyday impacts of Canadian actions, or inactions, with regard to its First Nation's peoples - - voices that are rarely heard or recognized in what is often a race neutral articulation of Canada's place in the world and Canada's domestic political system. The lives of First Nations peoples remind us of the narratives constructed by the Canadian government around democracy, human rights, liberal values that subsume, negate and manage alternative way of knowing and being. And when First Nations are acknowledged, their knowledge is taken as partial to serve the interest the state. And still, the stories of First Nation are not told -- at least not in mainstream Canadian foreign policy. This paper moves to challenge those silences and uses personal biographies of First Nation's peoples to share their stories, highlight the silences, reveal the construction of the other and ultimately to challenge the way in which Canadian foriegn policy naturalizes Western ways of knowing.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Most research about HIV among gay youth focuses on HIV risk behaviors. Many of the studies of gay youth are also driven by a deficit model of development. Scholars have argued that such deficit models may be contributing to their stigmatization while ignoring their resiliency (Savin-Williams, 2001). This paper focuses attention on a subset of the sexual stories told by young gay men interviewed as part of the “Sexual Stores” project. The “Sexual Stories” project was a qualitative inquiry into the lives of forty (twenty white and twenty Latino) young gay men between the ages of 18 and 24. Participants in this study were drawn using a snowball sampling procedure within each ethnic group. The interviewer employed a semi-structured interview method of data collection. The particular focus of this manuscript is to analyze how the interviews collected allow for examinations of safe sex accounts told by the young gay men. The authors illustrate, in qualitative detail, the young gay men’s experiences of sex education at school and the stories they tell about crafting their sexual lives. The text also provides recommendations for meaningful and relevant HIV prevention sex education guided by ‘gay-boy’ talk.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research in an animal shelter, in-depth interviews, and auto-ethnography, this paper articulates a model of the self that does not depend on spoken language. Interaction between people and animals reveals dimensions of self that appear among animals, namely, the self as systems of goals on the one hand and experiences on the other. The latter constitutes a "core" self consisting of agency, coherence, affectivity, and history. Conceptualizing selfhood in this way offers critical access to animals' subjective presence, which adds to interactionist research on intersubjective experience between people and animals.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements are legally required to provide a “true statement,” of drug information. This study analyzes how the FDA interprets the true statement requirement by examining 68 regulatory letters. With a few exceptions, the FDA interpreted literally the complaint categories of omission of material information, unsubstantiated comparative claims, overstatement of efficacy, and broadening of indications. Inclusion of risk information and how risk information is presented were more broadly interpreted. Implications are also discussed.