Circles for Reconciliation was created to build relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples as part of the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Two facilitators lead 5 non-Indigenous and 5 Indigenous peoples in a 90-minute meeting that occur biweekly 10 times total. Circles for Reconciliation believes in having equal representation of voices and small group numbers to achieve salient and trusting relationships.

It is often believed that use of secondary data relieves the researcher from the burden of applying for ethical approval – and sometimes, from thinking about ethics altogether. But the whole process of research involves ethical considerations, whether or not any primary data collection is involved. This starts from the initial design of the study, which should aim at the public good (and at the very least should do no harm) and continues until communication of results, which should ensure transparency, publicness and replicability. More specifically, what ethical issues will the data collection and analysis stages involve, when secondary data are used?

Secondary data are usually defined as those that were collected as part of a different research, with purposes other than those of the present study. They may be official statistical data (census for example, but also, increasingly, administrative data), data gathered by commercial operators (time series of stock…

An Overview of Community Development Initiatives Engaging Indigenous People in Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.

Community Development marks a foundationally novel approach to improving Indigenous communities. These diverse and locally-led activities provide a way for dynamic groups to assert ownership of their community through participation.
This approach changes the word Indigenous to mean “us”, instead of “them”. Indigenous community members can start asking “what are we doing”, instead of “what have they done to us”. This approach also leads people to begin to seek answers to profound questions at home, instead of relying on a formal needs assessment or counsel from some far-off bureaucratic organization. This paper does not devalue the great efforts that societies are making to help Indigenous people. The current state of Indigenous health and social problems impel everyone to action. The hope is that Indigenous communities will begin to access the tremendous…

Bruno Latour

The unforeseen coincidence between a general confinement and the period of Lent is still quite welcome for those who have been asked, out of solidarity, to do nothing and to remain at a distance from the battle front. This obligatory fast, this secular and republican Ramadan can be a good opportunity for them to reflect on what is important and what is derisory. . . . It is as though the intervention of the virus could serve as a dress rehearsal for the next crisis, the one in which the reorientation of living conditions is going to be posed as a challenge to all of us, as will all the details of daily existence that we will have to learn to sort out carefully. I am advancing the hypothesis, as have many others, that the health crisis prepares, induces, incites us to prepare for climate change. This hypothesis…

Achille Mbembe

Translated by Carolyn Shread

Already some people are talking about “post-Covid-19.” And why should they not? Even if, for most of us, especially those in parts of the world where health care systems have been devastated by years of organized neglect, the worst is yet to come. With no hospital beds, no respirators, no mass testing, no masks nor disinfectants nor arrangements for placing those who are infected in quarantine, unfortunately, many will not pass through the eye of the needle.

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It is one thing to worry about the death of others in a distant land and quite another to suddenly become aware of one’s own putrescence, to be forced to live intimately with one’s own death, contemplating it as a real possibility. Such is, for many, the terror triggered by confinement: having to finally answer for one’s own life, to one’s own name.

We must…