Contributors

Deema Abushaban. My name is Deema Abushaban. I am a female, Muslim Palestinian. The three most obvious parts of my identity. I was born in Ottawa and moved to Denver, Colorado, three years later. After spending seven years in Denver, we moved to Dubai, where we lived for almost twelve years before moving to Lethbridge four years ago. I am now a graduate of the education program at the University of Lethbridge, hoping to pursue a career in physical education. Being of Palestinian descent, I naturally come from a displaced family. Although I have never lived in Palestine, I proudly identify as Palestinian. If you were to ask me why, I would say it is because my paternal grandfather, who was exiled, identified as such; my maternal grandfather, who was kicked out of his home in 1948, identified as such; my father, who was imprisoned by the Israeli Defense Forces at the age of seventeen, identifies as such; my grandmother, who pressed olives, whose youngest was taken away from her at seventeen, and whose husband was exiled, identified as such; and my mother, Zeina, whose name means beautiful and radiant, and who will never be able to step on the land of her ancestors, also identifies as such. Naturally displaced. I have had the privilege of visiting Gaza, the city where most of my family resides, several times.

Carly Adams is a Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair, co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition, and professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She teaches courses on sport history, gender, and oral history. As a social historian and an advocate for oral history, she explores community, resiliency, and gender in her research, with a focus on sport and leisure experiences. In collaboration with Dr. Darren Aoki, she is currently working on the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a community-based oral history project focusing on Japanese Canadian histories in southern Alberta. She is the author of Queens of the Ice (Lorimer), editor of Sport and Recreation in Canadian History (Human Kinetics), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport History (Routledge). Her work has also appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies, International Journal of the History of Sport, and International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Dr. Adams is the editor of Sport History Review.

Darren J. Aoki is associate professor in world history and oral history at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. His research interests include twentieth-century Japan and East Asia, with a focus on the post–Second World War period. More recently, Aoki has realigned his interests in identity and narrative to exploring trans-Pacific migrations and encounter, specifically, the history of Nikkei (people of Japanese descent) in North America. Focusing on the little-heard history of postwar southern Alberta through oral history, his research privileges the voices of this area’s Nisei (second generation) residents. In 2017, the project expanded significantly through Aoki’s partnership with Dr. Carly Adams at the University of Lethbridge. Together, they lead the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a transnational initiative including collaborative partnerships with key regional ethnic and heritage stakeholders, to expand the study of Nikkei in southern Alberta and innovate the definition of what it means to “be of Japanese descent.”

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is a full professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities (University of British Columbia Press 2013). Her research areas and other published works include gender and migration and post-disaster communities. She is the editor of Feminism and Migration: Cross-cultural Engagements (Springer 2012), Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change (Routledge 2014), Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms (Emerald Press 2018), and Global Youth Migration and Gendered Modalities (Policy Press 2019). She co-founded the Support Network for Academics of Colour+ and the ReadWorld Foundation.

Rabindra Chaulagain works as an assistant professor in the sociology department at Acadia University. His research spans a broad range of social and political issues, including forced migration and refugee studies, critical border studies, race, critical theory, global post-colonialism, and Indigenous anti-colonialism. Besides his academic responsibilities, he regularly engages in volunteerism and community services.

Roxanna Balbido Epe is a PhD candidate in Cultural, Social and Political Thought. She has extensive engagements in research, development, and humanitarian works. Her interests are on gender and disaster, displacement and social protection, and governance. She is a coauthor of Child Health and Nutrition Research in Asia and the Pacific: An Assessment of Research Priorities and Institutions. She is a member of the Support Network for Academics of Colour+.

Oki, niistonakoak Ohnistayahkopi. Dustin Fox is a Blackfoot student, born and raised on the Blood Reserve, or Kainai First Nation. He has focused his undergrad research as a sociology and Indigenous studies student at the University of Lethbridge, situated in Blackfoot territory. He has focused his studies on Indigenous studies and sociology in the hope of bringing a Blackfoot perspective to the understanding of social justice on lands claimed by Canada. He believes his life experience as a Blackfoot person who was born and raised in Canada gives him a unique outlook on Canadian society, especially relative to the discourse of truth and reconciliation. He enjoys the mountains, fishing, sports, meeting new people, writing, and learning new things.

Monique Giroux holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Music, Culture, and Politics at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). Her research explores Métis cultural revival and resurgence, critically addressing how music is used to negotiate relationships between Indigenous nations and settler populations. She has undertaken ethnographic research in the Canadian Prairies, Ontario, North Dakota, and Montana, as well as extensive archival research focused on public discourse around, and settler appropriation of, Métis culture. Her publications include articles on Métis music festivals (MUSICultures), on Métis bard Pierre Falcon (Ethnologies), and on Indigenous/settler relations at old time fiddle contests (Ethnomusicology).

Caroline Hodes is an associate professor of women and gender studies at the University of Lethbridge. She has published work on settler colonialism, gender, racism, and intersectional failure in Canadian law. Her work can be read in Feminist Legal Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, the Journal of International Women’s Studies, and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, among others. Her current project, Unsettling Law’s Archive, is under contract with University of Toronto Press and is partially funded through the Community of Research Excellence Development Opportunities Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Explore Program. A strong advocate for scholarly activism and the recognition of invisible labour, she is also a co-founder of the Support Network for Academics of Colour+.

Jason Laurendeau is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, whose research takes up questions and intersections of settler colonialism, embodiment and physical culture, risk, gender, and childhood. His work has been published in venues such as the Sociology of Sport Journal; Emotion, Space & Society; Sociological Perspectives; Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health; and Communication and Sport. His current work interrogates contemporary mountain culture as part of an ongoing history of settler-colonial and racialized violence as well as Indigenous-led movements resisting and reshaping those histories.

Gülden Özcan worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. She co-edited A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment (2009) and Capitalism and Confrontation: Critical Readings (2012). She contributed to Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, Moment: Journal of Cultural Studies, Kampfplatz, and The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. Her commentaries appeared in The Bullet (Socialist Project, E-Bulletin). Her research interests include policing and social surveillance, social and political thought, and the neoliberalization process in Turkey. She has two current research projects that will remain incomplete due to her untimely death in 2022. The first focuses on policing, the commons, and the public from a historical perspective. The second project looks at the intersection of neoliberalism, national security, and the (displacement of) knowledge production and focuses on Turkish academics in exile.

The Reconciliation Lethbridge Advisory Committee is made up of seven Indigenous community members, including representatives from the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge College, the Holy Spirit Catholic School Division, Lethbridge Public School Division 51; two business sector representatives; and both the mayor and the deputy mayor of Lethbridge. Their mandate is to promote mutual understanding and support for the urban Indigenous community and the municipality’s relationship with the Blackfoot Confederacy and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. They act as an advisory committee to City Council on matters relating to reconciliation.

Migueltzinta Solís is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. He was raised between southern Mexico and northern California, in both urban and rural areas. He has worked in a range of fields, including sustainable agriculture, childcare, theater technology, and fine arts education. Migueltzinta’s interests include perversity as strategy for institutional intervention and critique, autotheoretical methodologies in queer and post-colonial studies, questions of (un)belonging to place and land, the potential for and limitations of hybrid Latinx Indigenous futurities, frontierism, the Wild West, and other colonial imaginaries. Migueltzinta holds an MFA in art from the University of Lethbridge and a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the Evergreen State College and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought.

Ibrahim Turay is a PhD candidate in the Cultural, Social and Political Thought program at the University of Lethbridge and an instructor in the School of Justice Studies at Lethbridge College. He holds a MA in criminal justice from the University of Alberta. Ibrahim worked for the Alberta Justice and Solicitor General in the Correctional Services Division for eleven years as a correctional, probation, and senior probation officer. His research interests include marginalization, related to race (racism, racial profiling); youth gangs; corrections; and (in)justice in the criminal justice system.