Celebrating King’s Scholarly Publications of 2018-2019 March 29, 2019
Table of Contents Congratulations from Dr. Sauro Camiletti, Interim Principal and Academic Dean
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Dr. Stephanie Bangarth - Department of History 5 Dr. Rachel Birnbaum - School of Social Work and Department of 6-7 Interdisciplinary Programs (Childhood and Social Institutions) Craig Sigurdson - Department of Interdisciplinary Programs (Childhood and Social Institutions) Dr. Tara Bruno - Department of Sociology Dr. Rick Csiernik - School of Social Work
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Dr. Madeline Burghardt - Department of Interdisciplinary Programs (Disability Studies)
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Dr. Sam Frankel - Department of Interdisciplinary Programs (Childhood and Social Institutions)
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Dr. Sam Frankel - Department of Interdisciplinary Programs (Childhood and Social Institutions) Dr. Sally McNamee - Department of Interdisciplinary Programs (Childhood and Social Institutions)
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Dr. Andrea Lawlor - Department of Political Science
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Dr. Srividya Natarajan - The Write Place
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Dr. Thomas Kwasi Tieku - Department of Political Science
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Dr. Matthew Yeager - Department of Sociology
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Congratulations from the Interim Principal and Academic Dean On behalf of King’s University College, I convey my sincere thanks and gratitude to the authors of these fine monographs being celebrated at this year’s Book Launch. Monographs encapsulate years of primary research and thoughtful reflection that together have produced original scholarship. The authors of these works have come to the table of peers to engage in present and future conversation; to provide clarity and perspective; to create an intellectual space for research and development; and to share with the world the fruits of their labour. We live in an information age like no other in our experience. At no time has the need to filter, organize and synthesize information been more important. The authors of these monographs have done precisely that task for the rest of us. They have woven together the threads of the tapestry, made the important connections, found meaning in those connections and expressed it all in elegant prose. They have shown why making sense of the world around us matters and why the educational enterprise that has produced these authors is not only relevant but indispensable. It is little wonder then that the labours and creative efforts of the authors of these monographs should be recognized and their contributions to the academy and society applauded and celebrated.
Sauro Camiletti, PhD Interim Principal and Academic Dean
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Dr. Stephanie Bangarth Lexier, R., Bangarth, S. D., & Weier, J. (2018). Party of Conscience: The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Between the Lines. ISBN: 9781771133920
Surveying the field of political history in Canada, one might assume that the politics of the nation have been shaped solely by the Liberal and Conservative parties. Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF and NDP in Canadian politics. This collection remedies this imbalance with a critical examination of the place of social democracy in Canadian history and politics.
Dr. Stephanie Bangarth is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at King’s. Her main research and teaching areas include Canadian human rights history, refugee and immigration history, social movements, and comparative Canadian-American history, among others. She is the author of one book, one edited collection, and numerous chapters and journal articles. She is affiliated with the Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations at Western University and has supervised many MA and PhD students. She values service and undertakes various roles at King’s, in Canadian, and in international high profile organizations.
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Dr. Rachel Birnbaum and Craig Sigurdson Birnbaum, R., & Sigurdson, C. W. (2018). Managing Ethical and Legal Dilemmas: Critical Thinking in Social Work Practice. Toronto, Ontario: Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780779884018 Social workers and mental health professionals must develop skills to balance their roles as “human service” workers and actors in the legal system. Yet until they experience real-world situations, few have an opportunity to apply legal and ethical reasoning to the kinds of dilemmas faced in daily practice. Without legal training, it can be difficult to understand one’s legal roles and obligations. Managing Ethical and Legal Dilemmas examines specific problem areas involving children, families, agencies, legislation, and policy-making– brought to life by case studies and vignettes. You’ll develop the skills to apply ethical and legal decisionmaking to the kinds of situations you’ll encounter in practice.
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Dr. Rachel Birnbaum is a cross-appointed Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at King’s. Her primary areas of teaching focus on children and families, ethics and the law, and research methods. Dr. Birnbaum has extensive clinical practice and research experience in working with children and families of separation and divorce. She has presented and published both nationally and internationally on the intersection between law and social work.
Craig Sigurdson is a lecturer in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at King’s. He started working as a Correctional Officer at age 18 in a maximum security institution. He transferred to the London Psychiatric Hospital, where he worked for 10 years and was also the Senior Officer-InCharge at Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI). Since 2002, Sigurdson has worked at the Crown Attorney’s Office. He has appeared on both trial and appellate matters, encompassing the full spectrum of offences, from mischief to murder, including the prosecution of dangerous offenders. Craig is Course Director for the Mental Health summer school course for Crowns, which is mandatory training for prosecutors appearing before the Ontario Review Board.
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Dr. Tara Bruno and Dr. Rick Csiernik Bruno, T. L., & Csiernik, R. (2018). The Drug Paradox: An Introduction to the Sociology of Psychoactive Substances in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Scholars. ISBN: 9781773380520
Why are some drugs considered socially acceptable while others are demonized? What makes these definitions so widespread? Who benefits from these conceptualizations? The Drug Paradox examines both the empirically founded and the socially constructed facets of drugs and drug use, highlighting the incongruous aspects of laws, policies, and programming that aim to address behaviours around drugs. The authors explore this paradox, arguing that Canada’s punitive approach to addressing drug use continues to exist alongside harm-reduction strategies and that these competing approaches ultimately impede Canada’s ability to deal effectively with substance misuse.
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Dr. Tara Bruno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at King’s. Dr. Bruno’s research interests span several areas including drug policy, drugs in the media, drug education, individual drug experiences, family relations, and high-risk youth. Her current research focuses broadly on at-risk youth, substance use and mental health, and examining ways that young people are resilient to negative experiences and surroundings. She is particularly interested in better understanding of how communities can support and encourage resilience in youth through empowerment and active engagement.
Dr. Rick Csiernik is a Professor in the School of Social Work at King’s. He has authored 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and presented at over 200 conferences, workshops and seminars. He is a past recipient of the King’s University College Award for Excellence in Teaching. His previous books include Substance Use and Abuse: Everything Matters, Just Say Know: A Counselor’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives (with Dr. William Rowe), Practicing Social Work Research: Case Studies for Learning (with Dr. Rachel Birnbaum) and Homelessness, Housing and the Experiences of Mental Health Consumer-Survivors: Finding TruthsCreating Change (with Dr. Cheryl Forchuk and Dr. Elsabeth Jensen).
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Dr. Madeline Burghardt Burghardt, M. C. (2018). Broken: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability. Montreal, Québec: McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN: 9780773554832
Beginning with a thorough history of the rise of institutions as a system to manage difference, Broken provides an overview of the development of institutions in Ontario and examines the socio-political conditions leading to families’ decisions to institutionalize their children. The second half of the book draws from people’s direct, lived experiences, and gathers poignant accounts of institutionalization’s cascading effects on family relationships and understandings of disability, ranging from stories of personal loss and confusion to family breakage. Broken exposes the consequences of policy based on sociopolitical constructions of disability and difference, and of the fundamentally unjust premise of institutionalization.
Dr. Madeline Burghardt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at King’s. She obtained her doctorate in Critical Disability Studies at York University. Her book Broken is based on her doctoral research.
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Dr. Sam Frankel Frankel, S. (2018). Giving Children a Voice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Promoting Child-Centred Practice. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley. ISBN: 9781784505783 How do you ensure that children’s voices and ideas are heard and valued in relation to the settings that form part of their everyday lives? Presenting an easy to adopt step-by-step framework, this book argues in favour of children’s potential to advocate for themselves, in contrast to the current model in which adults take full control and advocate on the child’s behalf. By honouring and harnessing the involvement and contributions of children, social workers and education professionals will be able to improve their daily practice and positively transform key spaces within society to create environments where children experience a sense of belonging and purpose, full of potential benefits for both adults and children. Practical at its core, the book has wide applications, from examining the place of children in legal matters, such as divorce, through to the child’s engagement in decisions about their education. International case studies reveal how the model works in practice and encourages children’s voices and their participation. Dr. Sam Frankel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at King’s. He is also Creative Director of EquippingKids, a UK organization that seeks to work alongside schools to promote the value of children’s voices within learning. He is interested in connecting theory and practice in order to further understanding of the way children come to navigate their everyday lives.
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Dr. Sam Frankel and Dr. Sally McNamee Frankel, S., & McNamee, S. (2019). Contextualizing Childhoods: Growing up in Europe and North America. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9783319949260
This edited collection draws together a variety of contexts of contemporary childhoods, linking thinking from Canada with spaces in the UK and Sweden. The contributors explore the discourses that shape those childhoods and how this then impacts the way that children come to experience their everyday lives. The aim of the book is not to reflect the entirety of childhood experience but to draw on particular expertise that shines a light into partial, yet significant areas of children’s lives, with the contributions engaging with a range of voices and perspectives. As a result, the collection advocates the need for childhood studies to zoom out from a predisposition to isolate the child, which has been seen as a necessary part of conceptualizing childhood. As a result, the book focuses on a ‘context’ for childhoods through a consideration of both structure and agency, and through this seeks to recognize the interconnected nature of the arenas within which children live their everyday lives. A range of themes are covered, including the education system, identity within the home, suicide in communities, and younger children’s ‘political’ engagement and sense of belonging. Dr. Sally McNamee is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at King’s. She has been writing about and researching childhood since the late 1990s. Her research focuses on the ways in which childhood is constructed.
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Dr. Andrea Lawlor Marland, A., Giasson, T., & Lawlor, A. (Eds.). (2018). Political Elites in Canada: Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press. ISBN: 9780774837934
Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian political power brokers and how they are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, and the rise and fall of political influencers permeate national headlines. In many areas, traditional elites are losing authority over prevailing social, economic, and political structures owing to the rise of populist sentiments and technological changes that help facilitate a more egalitarian approach to information sharing. Communication between and among power brokers and citizens is having dramatic implications for political institutions and governance.
Dr. Andrea Lawlor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at King’s. Her research interests include Canadian public policy, law and elections. Her work covers a range of policy areas including immigration, personal finance and media. Professor Lawlor’s work can be found in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Social Policy and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others.
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Dr. Srividya Natarajan Natarajan, S. (2018). The Undoing Dance. New Delhi, India: Juggernaut Books. ISBN: 9386228890
This historical novel, based on archival research, is told largely from the perspective of three female characters. Kalyani, in her forties, comes from a line of famous courtesans: the devadasis, once celebrated as artists and shunned as ‘prostitutes’ in modern post-colonial India. In exchange for a comfortable life as the wife of a wealthy arts promoter, Kalyani has to keep her origins hidden and abandon her mother, Rajayi. When a dancer from the city sets out to record Rajayi’s dance repertoire on film, taking with her Kalyani’s daughter, Hema, the carefully wrapped-up past threatens to unravel.
Dr. Srividya Natarajan is the Writing Program Coordinator at King’s. She is also a bharatanatyam dancer, dance instructor, writer, illustrator, and academic. A student of Kittappa Pillai and Shyamala Mohan, and trained in Carnatic vocal music by T. Brinda, she has performed the vintage, rigorous yet lyrical Tanjavur style for many decades. As Guest Artist-in-Residence at InDance, Toronto, she has performed roles in Poornima, The King’s Salon, and Gold, among other productions. She has also written and performed solo and collaborative pieces (Friend of Mine, Road to Tanjore). Her novel titled The Undoing Dance, based on her PhD research about South Indian classical dance and its performers was published in December 2018.
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Dr. Thomas Kwasi Tieku Coleman, K. P., & Tieku, T. K. (2018). African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner. ISBN: 9781626376960
What impact have African actors had on perceptions of and responses to current international security challenges? Are there international peace and security norms with African roots? How can actors that lack the power and financial resources of Western states help to shape prevailing conceptions of appropriate behaviour in international politics? Addressing these questions, the authors of African Actors in International Security identify and explore the diverse pathways by which African governments, IGOs, NGOs, and individuals can and do influence the normative structure of contemporary international relations.
Dr. Thomas Kwasi Tieku is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at King’s. He is the former Director of African Studies at the University of Toronto where he won the Excellence of Teaching Award. He has also coordinated the Social Justice and Peace Studies program and served as the Carnegie Fellow at the University of Ghana in 2017. He has authored, co-authored or co-edited four books and over 26 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has served as a consultant to a number of organizations and governments, including the World Bank Group, the UN, African Union, Centre for International Governance Innovations, and Government of Canada.
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Dr. Matthew Yeager Osborne, T. M., & Yeager, M. G. (2018). Reforming American Prisons: A Memoir of My Time at Sing Sing Prison. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 9781495506703
This book is former Sing Sing Prison Warden Thomas Mott Osborne’s story of his two-year (1914-1916) tenure as warden. This story has remained unpublished until its recent discovery among the Osborne papers at Syracuse University. Thomas Mott Osborne was a unique Warden of the Progressive Era who instituted inmate self-governance as an alternative style of rehabilitation. It also chronicles his battles with the leaders of the New York correctional system that cost him his position in 1916. Thomas Mott Osborne’s tale is a fascinating look into the American correctional system and points towards new ways of penal reformation. This book includes three black and white photos.
Dr. Matthew G. Yeager is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at King’s. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in criminology from the School of Criminology, U.C. Berkeley, in 1972. He has a master’s degree in criminal justice from the State University of New York at Albany (1975), and a PhD in sociology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2006). Dr. Yeager specializes in dangerous offenders, convict criminology, critical criminology, crimes of the powerful, and organized crime.
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Congratulations from the King’s community.
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