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Dean, David. "Museums as sites for historical understanding, peace, and social justice: Views from Canada." Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 19, no. 4 (2013): 325–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034599.
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Chen, Ashley, Sarah Fiander, Justin Piché, and Kevin Walby. "Captive and Captor Representations at Canadian Penal History Museums." Qualitative Sociology Review 12, no. 4 (October 31, 2016): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.12.4.02.
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This article examines representations of prisoners and prison staff from 45 penal tourism sites across Canada. Drawing from literature on representations of criminal justice, we demonstrate that the objects, signs, and symbolism in these heritage sites are curated in ways that can create separation between penal spectators and prisoners. Positive representations of prison staff stand in contrast to depictions of prisoners who are often demonized in museum displays through emphasis placed on narratives, relics, and images of danger and violence. Arguing that these depictions generate conditions for the support and justification of punitive practices including incarceration, we conclude by reflecting on what our findings add to social science literature on representations of captives and captors.
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Anderson, Stephanie B. "Museums, Decolonization and Indigenous Artists as First Cultural Responders at the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights." Museum and Society 17, no. 2 (July 17, 2019): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v17i2.2806.
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is part of a global movement of human-rights–driven museums that commemorate atrocity-related events through exhibitions aimed to communicate a national social consciousness. However, museums in Canada are increasingly understood to contribute to the perpetuation of settler colonial memory regimes as dominant narratives of national identity. Through the analysis of theexhibit ‘Aborigina lWomen and the Right to Safety and Justice’, this article explores how museums in represent difficult knowledge and act as sites of decolonization, while suggesting how shared authority and nuanced Indigenous art forms might play a role in both. It posits that if museums in settler colonial societies are to evolve beyond the pretext of detached host, they must not only acknowledge past atrocities and injustices against Indigenous peoples, but also consistently examine the colonial logics and inventions that permeate colonizing and decolonizing exhibitions.
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Potter, Amy E. "“A Pledge of Allegiance to the South”." Public Historian 44, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 110–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.3.110.
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Research examining representations of the institution of slavery at historic house museums in the United States has overwhelmingly privileged southern plantation museums. Increasingly, however, there is a call to resist the urge to center discussions of enslavement only in the South and to expand our understandings of how slavery permeated all aspects of US society. Utilizing interviews, narrative mapping, and visitor surveys, this study seeks to show how two house museums in Kansas City, Missouri, are commemorating enslavement. This research is part of the larger initiative of Tourism RESET (Race, Ethnicity and Social Equity in Tourism).
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Ostrowska-Tryzno, Anna, and Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka. "Cultural tourism, museums and COVID-19 pandemic impact." Sport i Turystyka. Środkowoeuropejskie Czasopismo Naukowe 5, no. 1 (2022): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/sit.2022.01.07.
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This paper presents some aspects of COVID-19 impact on cultural tourism and on the museum sector. Museums are closely linked to cultural and heritage tourism, considered a significant attraction.The tourism sector is among the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural tourism is not an exception. In 2020 around 95% museums around the world were closed – according to government sanitary regulations. The aim of the research was to identify the impact of COVID-19 disease on cultural tourism (measured by a number of visitors in the most popular museums in 2019 and 2020) and museums’ adaptation to the sanitary restrictions during the pandemic time. For a few decades museums have tried to enhance their digital activities such as online educational programmes, online collection display, online exhibitions, live events, learning programs, brochures, podcasts, social media and virtual tours. These activities and various projects became especially important during the lockdown caused by the pandemic outbreak, as many museums continued their missions during the pandemic. Some museums have reopened (with strict limitations defined by sanitary restrictions), but many institutions remain closed. It shows how crucial IT innovations are. The paper concludes with some reflections on museums’ offer during the pandemic time and cultural tourism prospects in the post-pandemic time.
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Shermatova, Shabnam. "National Human Rights Museums: An Engine for Social or Economic Growth? A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Museums in Canada, the US and Russia." Museum International 69, no. 3-4 (July 2017): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muse.12174.
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Hine, Amelia, and Fabien Medvecky. "Unfinished Science in Museums: a push for critical science literacy." Journal of Science Communication 14, no. 02 (May 14, 2015): A04. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.14020204.
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Communication of scientific knowledge has been caught up in a pedagogical struggle between science literacy ideologies. The backseat role taken by the teaching of the philosophical and sociological aspects of science has come under fire by those calling for a broader view of science to be made public under the umbrella term “critical science literacy”. In this paper, we argue that the lack of unfinished science in museums — science still in the making or still being debated — is a paradigm case where the richer, fuller view of science is being denied air by the presentation of science as a finished, objective set of facts. We argue that unfinished science offers us the opportunity to present the full complexity of science, including its social and philosophical aspects, and thus enabling the “critical” of critical science literacy.
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Bernier, Hélène, and Mathieu Viau-Courville. "Curating Action: Rethinking Ethnographic Collections and the Role/Place of Performing Arts in the Museum." Museum and Society 14, no. 2 (June 9, 2017): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v14i2.641.
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Dance involves a set of movements that embody social memory. Such forms of intangible heritage have presented emerging challenges for curatorship. This paper draws from the experience of the Musées de la civilisation (Quebec City, Canada) to address ideas of collecting and curating in the performing arts. By presenting the travelling exhibition Rebel Bodies, an international collaborative project that highlights contemporary dance and movement as universal modes of creativity and expression, the paper reflects on the social role of the museum in sustaining creativity within the community as well as on the use of ethnographic material to collectively (through museums and artists) curate the intangible. In treating notions of natural, virtuoso, urban, multi, political, and atypical bodies, this exhibition brings together performers and creative artists as well as industries in the museum setting. Such interplays, it is argued, encourage the sustainable participation of artistic communities/industries and further highlight museums as dynamic loci for the promotion of social change.Keywords: performing arts, intangible cultural heritage, museum, dance, performance, participation, reenactment, artists
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Garcia Carrizosa, Helena, Kieron Sheehy, Jonathan Rix, Jane Seale, and Simon Hayhoe. "Designing technologies for museums: accessibility and participation issues." Journal of Enabling Technologies 14, no. 1 (April 15, 2020): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jet-08-2019-0038.
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Purpose This paper aims to report the findings of a systematized literature review focusing on participatory research and accessibly in the context of assistive technologies, developed for use within museums by people with sensory impairments or a learning disability. The extent and nature of participatory research that occurs within the creation of technologies to facilitate accessible museum experiences is uncertain, and this is therefore a focus of this paper. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a systematized literature review and subsequent thematic analysis. Findings A screening of 294 research papers produced 8 papers for analysis in detail. A thematic analysis identified that the concept of accessibly has nuanced meanings, underpinned by social values; the attractiveness of a technology is important in supporting real-life usability; and that the conceptualization of participation should extend beyond the end users. Social implications The argument is made that increasing the participation of people with sensory impairments and learning disabilities in the research process will benefit the design of technologies that facilitate accessibility for these groups. Originality/value An original notion of participation has emerged from this review. It includes the participation and goals of disabled people but has expanded the concept to encompass museum personnel and indeed the physical and social spaces of the museums and heritage sites themselves. This constructs a broad of participation, with different aspects being reflected across the review’s research papers.
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Message, Kylie. "Museums and the Citizenship of Hate." Museum Worlds 10, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2022.100102.
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This article asks if and how national museums today, which have in recent decades adopted a remit for social rights activism, have an obligation to engage with a broad spectrum of political participation and expression, including contemporary forms of far-right extremism and white grievance politics. How can museums engage with and respond meaningfully to the upsurge in acts of violence perpetrated in the name of structural, collective, and personal ideologies based on hate, xenophobia, and racism? Responding to these questions requires museums to move beyond acts of symbolic national commemoration and grapple with the human expressions and experiences of hate. Drawing on current museum scholarship and practice that is increasingly open to embracing research into studies of emotion and affect, as well as activism and its shifting narratives, the article concludes that the task of curatorial activism should be focused on effecting processes of structural—internal, institutional—change. Furthermore, this process can lead to the understanding that our forms of being human are not just related to our interpersonal interactions in the private sphere but also influence all aspects of civic and institutional life—including the ones that raise difficult questions or unpalatable truths about who we are, individually, and as citizens of the worlds to which we contribute.
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Stephenson, Robert L., Melanie Wiber, Stacey Paul, Eric Angel, Ashleen Benson, Anthony Charles, Omer Chouinard, et al. "Integrating diverse objectives for sustainable fisheries in Canada." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76, no. 3 (March 2019): 480–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0345.
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An interdisciplinary team of academics and representatives of fishing fleets and government collaborated to study the emerging requirements for sustainability in Canada’s fisheries. Fisheries assessment and management has focused on biological productivity with insufficient consideration of social (including cultural), economic, and institutional (governance) aspects. Further, there has been little discussion or formal evaluation of the effectiveness of fisheries management. The team of over 50 people (i) identified a comprehensive set of management objectives for a sustainable fishery system based on Canadian policy statements, (ii) combined objectives into an operational framework with relevant performance indicators for use in management planning, and (iii) undertook case studies that investigated some social, economic, and governance aspects in greater detail. The resulting framework extends the suite of widely accepted ecological aspects (productivity and trophic structure, biodiversity, and habitat–ecosystem integrity) to include comparable economic (viability and prosperity, sustainable livelihoods, distribution of access and benefits, regional–community benefits), social (health and well-being, sustainable communities, ethical fisheries), and institutional (legal obligations, good governance structure, effective decision-making) aspects of sustainability. This work provides a practical framework for implementation of a comprehensive approach to sustainability in Canadian fisheries. The project also demonstrates the value of co-construction of collaborative research and co-production of knowledge that combines and builds on the strengths of academics, industry, and government.
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Shashaev, A. K., N. N. Kurmanalina, A. T. Selkebayeva, A. N. Konkabayeva, and V. S. Zikirbayeva. "THE DIRECTION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUSEUM BUSINESS OF PUBLIC FUNDS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY." edu.e-history.kz 31, no. 3 (October 20, 2022): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.51943/2710-3994_2022_31_3_321-332.
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The article examines the social aspects of the formation and cultural and educational activities of museums of Kazakhstan at the beginning of the twentieth century on the basis of archival materials. Socio-economic and political changes that took place in the 20s of the Soviet period had a significant impact on the culture and education of Kazakhstan, the elimination of illiteracy, there was a need to develop cultural and educational direction. A special Central Asian Committee for Museums and the Protection of Ancient Monuments has been established for the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and a society of local historians has been organized in the republic. The article describes how the research society of Kazakhstan has established the organization of libraries, museums and archival affairs, has made every effort to make them a place for the promotion of knowledge and culture among the population.
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Crooke, Elizabeth. "The Construction of Meanings in Museums." Archaeological Dialogues 7, no. 2 (December 2000): 130–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800001689.
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The museum is a construct; the collections and the physical building are enclosed by a structure, invisible to the eye, which is created by the context in which the museum is being viewed. The nature of that structure will depend on the viewer; he or she will make his or her own meanings. Reinhard Bernbeck, in his paperThe exhibition of architecture and the architecture of an exhibition, has investigated how the Pergamon Museum can simultaneously mean different things to different people, according to their cultural perspective. What is at the core of this is the political and social nature of museums, and one of the most dominant aspects of this is the demonstration of power. This determines how the museum collects, interprets and displays both the objects and itself, and is related to both Bernbeck's colonial and postmodern readings of the museum, as well has his discussion of ‘pragmatist’ and ‘purist’ approaches to museums in general. Though his paper is based on a case study of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the issues he raised are applicable to museums elsewhere. In this response to his paper, I am going to look at what this demonstration of power reflects about what museums mean and how they function and relate Bernbeck's evaluation to museum development I am most familiar with, that in Ireland.
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Tleubayev, S. B., S. G. Belous, N. N. Kurmanalina, and A. N. Konkabayeva. "ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS AND NATIONAL INTELLIGENTIA ON THE ORGANIZATION OF MUSEUM BUSINESS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY." edu.e-history.kz 31, no. 3 (October 20, 2022): 294–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.51943/2710-3994_2022_31_3_294-305.
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Based on archival sources, the article examines the formation of museums in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 20th century, the social aspects of their cultural and educational activities, the role of the national intelligentsia in the design of museum work. Socio-economic and political changes that took place in the 1920s of the Soviet period had a significant impact on the culture and education of Kazakhstan, the elimination of illiteracy, there was a need to develop cultural and educational direction. Aspecial Central Asian Committee for Museums and the Protection of Ancient Monuments has been established for the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and a society of local historians has been organized in the republic.The article describes how the research society of Kazakhstan has established the organization of libraries, museums and archival affairs, has made every effort to make them a place for the promotion of knowledge and culture among the population.
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Wright, James R., Samuel J. M. M. Alberti, Christopher Lyons, and Richard S. Fraser. "Maude Abbott and the Origin and Mysterious Disappearance of the Canadian Medical War Museum." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 142, no. 10 (May 7, 2018): 1292–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2017-0425-hp.
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Context.— In the early 1900s, it was common practice to retain, prepare, and display instructive pathologic specimens to teach pathology to medical trainees and practitioners; these collections were called medical museums. Maude Abbott, MD, established her reputation by developing expertise in all aspects of medical museum work. She was a founder of the International Association of Medical Museums (later renamed the International Academy of Pathology) and became an internationally renowned expert on congenital heart disease. Her involvement in the Canadian Medical War Museum (CMWM) is less well known. Objective.— To explore Abbott's role in the development of the CMWM during and after World War I and to trace its history. Design.— Available primary and secondary historical sources were reviewed. Results.— Instructive pathologic specimens derived from Canadian soldiers dying during World War I were shipped to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, which served as a clearinghouse for museum specimens from Dominion forces. The Canadian specimens were repatriated to Canada, prepared by Abbott, and displayed at several medical meetings. Abbott, because she was a woman, could not enlist and so she reported to a series of enlisted physicians with no expertise in museology. Plans for a permanent CMWM building in Ottawa eventually failed and Abbott maintained the collection at McGill (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) until her death in 1940. We trace the CMWM after her death. Conclusions.— Sadly, after Abbott had meticulously prepared these precious teaching specimens so that their previous owners' ultimate sacrifice would continue to help their military brethren, the relics were bureaucratically lost.
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Shao, Jun, Qinlin Ying, Shujin Shu, Alastair M. Morrison, and Elizabeth Booth. "Museum Tourism 2.0: Experiences and Satisfaction with Shopping at the National Gallery in London." Sustainability 11, no. 24 (December 11, 2019): 7108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11247108.
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The tourist shopping experience is the sum of the satisfaction or dissatisfaction from the individual attributes of purchased products and services. With the popularity of the Internet and travel review websites, more people choose to upload their tour experiences on their favorite social media platforms, which can influence another’s travel planning and choices. However, there have been few investigations of social media reviews of tourist shopping experiences and especially of satisfaction with museum tourism shopping. This research analyzed the user-generated reviews of the National Gallery (NG) in London written in the English language on TripAdvisor to learn more about tourist shopping experience in museums. The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model was used to discover the underlying themes of online reviews and keywords related to these shopping experiences. Sentiment analysis based on a purpose-developed dictionary was conducted to explore the dissatisfying aspects of tourist shopping experiences. The results provide a framework for museums to improve shopping experiences and enhance their future development.
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Benti, Behailu Shiferaw, and Georg Stadtmann. "B|Orders in Motion in the Video Game Industry: An Analysis Based on Animal Crossing: New Horizons." Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 2022 (May 14, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4452900.
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In 2020, the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons was listed among the top ten in terms of revenue. This success can be highlighted by looking at interconnectedness between the game—existing in the virtual world—and various aspects of life existing in the real world. To do so, we analyze the game by relying on an interdisciplinary framework of border studies. This framework expresses that the three states of borders (durability, permeability, and liminality) can be interpreted not only in a geographical sense but also in terms of a temporal dimension as well as a cultural dimension. Considering cultural (fashion and museums), political, and economical aspects of life, we highlight how this game blurs the borders between the real and virtual world. Furthermore, our findings assert that not only borders but also orders can change over time (B|Orders are in motion).
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Clover, Darlene E. "Adult education for social and environmental change in contemporary public art galleries and museums in Canada, Scotland and England." International Journal of Lifelong Education 34, no. 3 (January 14, 2015): 300–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2014.993731.
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Budge, Kylie. "Visitors in immersive museum spaces and Instagram: self, place-making, and play." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 3 n. 3 | 2018 | FULL ISSUE (December 31, 2018): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v3i3.534.
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Visitors to museums are increasingly drawn to posting images online that document and reflect their experience. Instagram, as a social media platform, has a proliferating presence in this context. Do different kinds of public spaces within the museum motivate people to share particular types of posts? What kind of posts do visitors generate from digitally immersive spaces with an interactive focus? These questions were unpacked through an exploration of data generated from a digitally immersive, interactive public space – the Immersion Room at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Findings indicate that constructs of self, place-making, and play constitute critical components of what occurs, and these aspects are amplified in immersive spaces leaving digital traces within social media. I argue that the intersection of immersive digital environments and visual social media platforms such as Instagram offer a moment to play with and subtlety reconstruct the self with place being a significant contextual frame for this activity. Implications extend and challenge perceptions and the role of both museums as public spaces and the ways in which visual forms of social media intersect with spaces and the people who use them.
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Roger, Kerstin Stieber, Javier Mignone, and Susan Kirkland. "Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Aging: A Thematic Review." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 32, no. 3 (August 13, 2013): 298–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980813000330.
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RÉSUMÉIl manque de recherche spécifique qui décrit les aspects sociaux du vieillissement avec le virus de l’immunodéficience humaine/syndrome d’immunodéficience acquise (VIH/SIDA) au Canada, malgré une augmentation globale de la population viellissante et l’augmentation du nombre de ceux qui vieillissent avec le VIH/SIDA. Une revue systématique de la littérature été menée en se focalisant sélectivement sur les aspects sociaux aux personnes âgées vivant avec le VIH/SIDA. Les thèmes principaux qui se dégagent dans la littérature sont l’âgisme et la stigmatisation, le sexe, la santé mentale et les soutiens sociales. On présente des recommandations sur la recherche à l’avenir, les modèles théoriques, et le programmatisation.
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Drover, Glenn. "Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science 39, no. 4 (December 2006): 983–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423906449969.
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Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada, Isla Carmichael, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 219.Isla Carmichael has been writing about union pensions for a decade. Over the past ten years, she has examined different aspects of union-based pension funds and labour-sponsored investment, including fiduciary responsibility, the role of union pension trustees, social accounting, collateral benefits and economically targeted investment. In this book, she brings together these, and other, arguments to make a case for the greater involvement of unions in directing and investing pension funds, not only to provide benefits to union members but also to shape economic growth and community development. Her analysis is comprehensive and her argument is persuasive.
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Baker, Dana Lee. "Defining autism in Canada: Unfolding the public aspects of neurological disability." Social Science Journal 44, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 687–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2007.10.010.
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Wang, Siyi. "Museum as a Sensory Space: A Discussion of Communication Effect of Multi-Senses in Taizhou Museum." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (April 10, 2020): 3061. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12073061.
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Museums are much more than repositories of cultural relics to be preserved for the future. They are centers of learning, community centers, social hubs—even places of healing and contemplation. The museum experience is a multilayered journey that is proprioceptive, sensory, aesthetic and social. In this context, this study takes the case of the ‘People at the Seashore’ multisensory area in the folk exhibition of Taizhou Museum, applies three data collection techniques (questionnaire, in-depth interview and observation) to assess various types of experiences (object, cognitive, social and introspective) and effects (visceral, cognitive and emotional) in the museum, and analyzes the practical effect and relative merits of the multisensory approaches used in this exhibition through the lens of communication effect. Accordingly, multi-senses acquire creative significances upon the attractive and holding power of museum exhibitions, specifically the emotional relevance and resonances. Thus, museums should be more concerned with the connection and complex interaction between senses and experience, meanwhile be active with visual, auditory, olfactory, taste and proprioceptive experiences and engage in the potential impact on visitors from cognitive and emotional aspects, which is an important trend for the museum’s future development and also the vision of this study.
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Leyton‐Brown, David. "Social and Legal Aspects of Doctoral Training in Canada: Criteria and Consequences of Admission." Higher Education in Europe 33, no. 1 (April 2008): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03797720802228241.
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Lerario, Antonella. "Languages and Context Issues of ICTs for a New Role of Museums in the COVID-19 Era." Heritage 4, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 3065–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4040171.
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The rapid spread of the COVID pandemic is deeply changing people’s lives and upsetting consolidated models and lifestyles. The social distancing measures for the reduction of contagion have been heavily affecting people’s daily experiences, such as for example the public’s relationship with cultural resources. Museums, in particular, are paying the highest price for that, forced to find new forms for heritage fruition, thus representing an emblematic case. Taking its steps from the analysis of the pandemic’s effects on global museum heritage and of museums’ response, the article focuses then on ICTs’ role as communication languages between heritage and its audiences in the solutions adopted, and on their suitability to the changed context. Finally, reflections on structural and contextual aspects of the dialogue between cultural resources and their public, beyond strictly technological matters, are proposed, to highlight the real extent of the challenges facing the museum sector.
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Vikmane, Elina, and Anda Laķe. "Critical Review of Sustainability Priorities in the Heritage Sector: Evidence from Latvia’s Most Visited Museums." European Integration Studies 1, no. 15 (September 16, 2021): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.1.15.28886.
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A vibrant debate about the role and participation of museums in urbanisation, industrialisation, human rights protection, technological progress, climate change and other global challenges has persisted in the field of museums ever since the boom of theoretical museology, which coincided with the development of the sustainable development concept. However, often culture is considered a part of social sustainability pillar, covering manifestations such as equity, participation, social justice etc. (Murphy, 2012; Vallace et al., 2011; Cuthill, 2010) or ignoring cultural aspects altogether (Chiu, 2004). Many voices have called to promote culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development as a necessary foundation, condition or groundwork through which understandings of social, economic, and environmental sustainability may appear (Soini & Birkeland, 2014; Hawkes, 2001). Although the potential of cultural heritage institutions such as museums towards sustainable development is outlined in relevant literature, there has been no radical shift in museum practice (Ross, 2004; Simon, 2010; Nomikou, 2015). The paper aims to propose the first-ever critical review of sustainable development priorities in Latvia’s most popular museums with a view to finding out their strategic priorities and using these findings to identify today’s specific thematic development lines relevant to the museum sector within the sustainable development framework and to apply this bottom-up principle to propose potential ways to improve the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – with specific pointers and thematic building blocks for the broad umbrella concept of sustainable development. Research objectives include (1) conducting a critical review of relevant literature to identify the role of cultural heritage within the evolution of the sustainable development concept (2) identifying the themes of sustainable development that have been communicated as strategic priorities to stakeholders by the country’s nine most visited museums and (3) using research findings to illuminate and pinpoint a specific array of themes pursuant to the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – for the system to serve as a more comprehensive and targeted tool for fostering sustainabledevelopment in the heritage sector and beyond. Qualitative content analysis has been chosen to analyse museum development strategies and their collection, research, and communication policies, that is, the museum strategic documents to be submitted by the museums seeking to receive state recognition. The study covers Latvia’s nine most popular museums, whose joint annual share of visits amounts to 50% of the country’s total rate (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2018). The study reveals substantial diversity in how Latvia’s most popular museums approach sustainable development goals while also exposing a few significant downsides. According to the findings, museum priorities include (1) heritage preservation, efforts to strengthen national identity, and information and communication technology sustainability in the context of cultural sustainability, (2) financial sustainability as well as tourism- multiplication and image-building in the context of economic sustainability, (3) eco-cultural resilience and improvements in the infrastructure for better energy efficiency as well as a degree of progress towards more sustainable transportation solutions in the context of environmental sustainability and (4) physical, intellectual, socio-economic and emotional accessibility and a focus on boosting social capital in the context of social sustainability. Adjustment of accreditation requirements to meet the sustainable development priorities, at least identified within the study, should, in the long run, raise awareness within the field, enable museums to target their efforts at addressing their downsides and finding possibilities for growth in the context of sustainable development as well as foster sustainable development in the larger field of cultural heritage sites and institutions, which, unlike its kindred sector of museums, exists outside the scope of restrictions associated with accreditation. Such adjustments will help achieve a broader input from the heritage sector towards sustainable development goals.
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Bilski, Emily D. "The Lives of Objects beyond Ownership." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 46, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 300–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2021-0018.
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Abstract Provenance history sheds light on the relationship between works of art and the social, political, and economic conditions of their biographies. Engaging with the provenance of objects establishes a cultural conversation across time and space with previous owners. For artworks in museums, the public has now entered into that conversation. Museums, as custodians of art and educators of the public, can play a significant role in going beyond the question of ownership to get to the heart of what provenance reveals about the meanings of art: the ways people bring art into their lives, and the ways that objects are loved and studied. This essay delves into these human aspects of provenance, which are too often absent from museum displays, and argues in favor of making this information more visible to the public. Finally, works by contemporary artists Hans Haacke and Maria Eichhorn are discussed as examples of projects that successfully expose complicated object histories and provenance within museum installations.
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Monza, F., R. Ciliberti, R. D’Anastasio, and M. Licata. "Museums and human remains: Ethical issues in curating and displaying." Éthique & Santé 16, no. 3 (September 2019): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.etiqe.2019.06.006.
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Woon, Yuen-Fong. "Some Adjustment Aspects of Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese Families in Victoria, Canada." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 17, no. 3 (October 1, 1986): 349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.17.3.349.
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Koval, Olga V. "Legal and Social Aspects of the Belarusian Economic Emigration to Canada in the 1920s-30s." RUDN Journal of Russian History 21, no. 3 (August 31, 2022): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2022-21-3-417-431.
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The author examines the main features for the formation of the Belarusian economic emigration to Canada. The intensity of the emigration from 1921 to 1939 was analyzed, when the territory of Western Belarus was a part of Poland. The historical base of the research was the unpublished documents of the Belarusian, Ukrainian and Polish archives. The article presents the structure of state emigration bodies that were involved in organizing and controlling the recruitment of emigrants, their employment and the process of re-emigration. It describes the features of the Canadian legislation for the scale of the Belarusian emigration and the legal adaptation of emigrants. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Canadian railway companies “Canadian National Railways” and “Canadian Pacific Railways” in the selection of emigrants and their employment in agriculture and industry. The author argue that the Polish authorities stimulated the emigration of the Belarusian population for the polonization of Western Belarus. The problematic socio-psychological adaptation of the Belarusian emigrants, because Belarusians in Canada weakly expressed the national identity, is described. The author concludes that the international cooperation had an important role in forming the diaspora’s and national identity, especially the international contacts with the representatives of other peoples and the participation in common political organizations and projects.
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Menezes, Débora Teixeira dos Santos e., Diego Vaz Bevilaqua, and Douglas Falcão Silva. "Travelling science centers and museums: paths to citizenship and engagement under the eye of professionals." ACTIO: Docência em Ciências 6, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3895/actio.v6n2.14272.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate travelling activities by Brazilian science centers and museums from a 2020 survey sample. The study is justified as it tries to amplify access to science for a diverse and representative spontaneous audience. The theoretical framework and analysis covers the perspective of science communication, social inclusion and citizenship. Data gathering was performed in two stages with the participation of professionals who work at these institutions. During the first stage, a questionnaire was used and in the second stage interviews were held. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and WHO guidelines with respect to social distancing, both steps were held online. Response analysis used a descriptive statistic and qualitative/quantitative analysis of the content in accordance with the Bardin method (2009). 27 participants were taken as the sample cut who indicated the travelling activities in both the closed and open questions in the questionnaire. Eight participants mentioned the itinerancy spontaneously in the interviews. The results were separated by subject: professional profile, participants’ geographic distribution, targeted audience residence; the qualitative/quantitative analysis of the reports and other aspects of the survey. In general, a diversified approach to the travelling activities was reported, as well as the importance of establishing partnerships that provide access to new members of the public and afford a contextualization of the experience provided by the museums. The main reasons for the aforesaid absence were related to the institutions exogenous aspects. Furthermore, when the activities were part of a long-term commitment, it was possible to observe the construction of a legacy that could break through structural social inequalities. Further studies are necessary to access the level of satisfaction in relation to the experiences provided from the point of view of the public who participated in these activities. However, the results have shown the importance of rethinking a public policy plan for the long-term that provides science communication activities in a consistent continual way, and which is capable of augmenting the impact of these present travelling activities.
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Pampalon, R., D. Hamel, P. Gamache, and G. Raymond. "A deprivation index for health planning in Canada." Chronic Diseases in Canada 29, no. 4 (October 2009): 178–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.29.4.05.
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Administrative databases in the Canadian health sector do not contain socio-economic information. To facilitate the monitoring of social inequalities for health planning, this study proposes a material and social deprivation index for Canada. After explaining the concept of deprivation, we describe the methodological aspects of the index and apply it to the example of premature mortality (i.e. death before the age of 75). We illustrate variations in deprivation and the links between deprivation and mortality nationwide and in different geographic areas including the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver; other CMAs; average-size cities, referred to as census agglomerations (CAs); small towns and rural communities; and five regions of Canada, namely Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and British Columbia. Material and social deprivation and their links to mortality vary considerably by geographic area. We comment on the results as well as the limitations of the index and its advantages for health planning.
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Lutz, John. "Technology in Canada Through the Lens of Labour History." Scientia Canadensis 15, no. 1 (July 6, 2009): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/800316ar.
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ABSTRACT This is an extended review essay which examines contributions of recent labour history to the history of Canadian technology. It argues that three recent books: Heron's Working in Steel, Sager's Seafaring Labour, and Parr's Gender of Breadwinners have bridged the longstanding gap between the two sub-disciplines. The review suggests some future directions for a more 'complete' history of technology which incorporates both the social and technical aspects of production.
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Malinova, O. Yu. "SIGNS OF THE TIME: MEMORY ABOUT MASS POLITICS OF THE 1990s IN THE EXPOSITIONS OF RUSSIAN MUSEUMS." Вестник Пермского университета. История, no. 3(58) (2022): 138–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2022-3-138-151.
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The article explores framing of collective memory about the 1990s in two Russian museums of political history. It provides a comparative analysis of the expositions of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (SCMCHR) in Moscow and the Museum of Boris Yeltsin (MBY) in Yeltsin Center in Ekaterinburg, with a focus on material objects representing the mass politics. The comparative analysis of material objects presented in the two museums is supplemented by the observations derived from memoirs of “the ordinary” people. It helps to reconstruct the stories that might be triggered by the objects at display, and to reveal some lacunas and inconsistencies in the expositions. The expositions of SCMCHR and MBY are evidently different, which is determined by their missions and narratives. SCMCHR presents a broader spectrum of political and social perspectives and pays more attention to the negative aspects of the 1990s. The exposition of MBY is focused on the figure of Russia’s first president, who is presented as the leader who brought people freedom. This allows the authors of the exhibition to provide less space for the voices of “ordinary people” and emphasizes positive aspects of the 1990s. In spite of the differences, both expositions provide multidimensional stories that go beyond the stereotypes exploited in political discourses. They illustrate not only the economic difficulties and political turbulences of the 1990s, but also the mass support for the expected changes and new opportunities for social activities. This is particularly true for the case of mass politics, as both expositions provide evidence of political freedoms incomparable to that in Putin’s Russia.
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de Semir, Vladimir. "Master in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication." Journal of Science Communication 08, no. 01 (March 20, 2009): C02. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.08010302.
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Public communication of sciences is of strategic relevance in the transition from the industrial society to the knowledge society. The Master’s Course in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain) responds to this economic, social and cultural need. The result: professionals who clearly understand the key aspects of the transmission of scientific knowledge to society through the different essential communication channels in multiple organizations as, among others, mass media, institutional and public relations and museums. This initiative collaborates also to build informed and educated citizens, who understand, accompany and are able to participate in the necessary and unavoidable adaptation to this new society.
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Davies, Sarah Rachael, Suzanne Franks, Joseph Roche, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Rebecca Wells, and Fabiana Zollo. "The landscape of European science communication." Journal of Science Communication 20, no. 03 (May 10, 2021): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.20030201.
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European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of European science communication, including science journalism, teaching and training in science communication, social media activity, and science in museums. This article draws together themes that collectively emerge from this research to present an overview of key issues in science communication across Europe. We discuss four central dynamics — fragmentation within research and practice; a landscape in transition; the importance of format and context; and the dominance of critical and dialogic approaches as best practice — and illustrate these with empirical material from across our datasets. In closing we reflect upon the implications of this summary of European science communication.
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Mihaescu, Cristina, Cristina Ponepal, Monica Marilena Tantu, Gheorghita Brinzea, Nicolae Brinzea, Liliana Cristina Soare, and Alina Paunescu. "ASPECTS REGARDING THE ATTACK OF SOME BIODETERIOGENS ON SOME CULT OBJECTS FROM ARGES COUNTY." Current Trends in Natural Sciences 11, no. 22 (December 31, 2022): 172–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.47068/ctns.2022.v11i22.020.
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Cultural heritage has a cultural significance, which refers to the aesthetic value of the heritage asset, the historical or social value of monuments for past, present or future generations. In conservation areas where there are open environment conditions, there are ecological producers (autotrophic bacteria, algae, lichens and higher plants). In terms of trophic relationships and the main food chain, the presence in the conservation environment of collections from archives, libraries and museums of excessive food resources for biodeteriogenic pests determines the possibility of the absence of producers, which is why most populations settled in the environment conservation of movable cultural heritage goods are consumers (egs insects) and destroyers (bacteria and fungi). In the present study, various fragments of cultural heritage goods taken from cemeteries, churches, for the purpose of analyzing biological patinas and establishing the etiopathogenic complex were subjected to analysis. Fungi of the genera Alternaria, Penicilium, Aspergillus, etc., various bryophytes, lichens and blue-green algae have been identified.
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Novikova, Alla V. "«Stigma» in museological discourse." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 1 (46) (March 2021): 100–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2021-1-100-105.
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The main purpose of the research is to trace the way of integration of the social concept of «stigma» in museology, to identify new directions of development of the theoretical aspects of this science from the point of view of the socio-cultural potential of the museum in overcoming stigmatization. The article provides a brief retrospective analysis of the history of the development of the museum’s social functions. The characteristic studies of domestic museum schools are revealed, and some dissertation works devoted to the problems of socialization of visitors in the museum are considered. The article analyzes the modern Russian museum experience in overcoming the stigma, and identifies the most vulnerable social groups in Russia with which museums actively interact. The author draws attention to the foreign museum experience of reducing social tension. In conclusion, the article defines the prospects for the development of theoretical research and practices of overcoming stigma by museum means.
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Kahl, Jonathan D. W., and Julia G. Cerón. "Faculty-Led Study Abroad in Atmospheric Science Education." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95, no. 2 (February 1, 2014): 283–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-13-00051.1.
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For several years the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Atmospheric Science group has offered the faculty-led study abroad program Mexico: Air Pollution and Ancient Cultures. In this course, open to both atmospheric science majors and nonmajors as well as to students attending other colleges and universities, participating students learn about the corrosive effects of acid deposition on the limestone surfaces of Mesoamerican archaeological sites. The course content includes not only the science aspects of acid rain and environmental corrosion, but also aspects of Mesoamerican history and anthropology, as well as personal reflection on a variety of social science topics via journaling. The academic content is delivered via lectures and laboratories, guided tours of museums and archaeological sites, visits to Mexican universities, and hands-on measurements and analysis. Postprogram surveys indicate that participating students consider the program to be quite valuable in terms of both academic and personal growth.
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Pennisi, Lisa, N. Qwynne Lackey, and Stephen M. Holland. "Can an Immersion Exhibit Inspire Connection to Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behavior?" Journal of Interpretation Research 22, no. 2 (November 2017): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109258721702200204.
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Nature centers, museums, zoos, and other exhibit-based institutions need to sustain or increase visitation for economic viability. To generate visitor interest, exhibits have become more interactive, with immersion exhibits becoming increasingly popular. Visitor research has traditionally focused on learning or social aspects of the visitor experience rather than psychological dimensions related to attitudes, values, and behaviors. Yet nature-focused institutions increasingly support broad-based issues, such as encouraging connection to nature and environmentally responsible behavior. This paper explores how an immersion exhibit without personal interpretation, impacts connectedness to nature, intentions for environmentally responsible behaviors, and other aspects of visitor experiences. Short visits to a free-flying butterfly exhibit were found to augment visitors’ connectedness to nature and environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. Visitors also described how they appreciated the intensely beautiful surroundings, were awe-struck, felt a great deal of peace and relaxation, and felt oneness with nature.
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Kannike, Anu, and Ester Bardone. "Kitchen as a material and lived space." Ethnologia Fennica 44 (December 31, 2017): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.23991/ef.v44i0.59702.
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Kitchen has been one of the most intensively lived spaces at home, yet, its furnishings have often vanished, especially in the 20th-21st centuries. Cooking tools and utensils have been part of museum displays dedicated to historical food culture but the complex materiality of the kitchen related to multiple practices going beyond food production and consumption has rarely attracted curatorial interest. This article examines comparatively how Estonian museums represent and interpret the materiality of kitchens and kitchen culture. Relying on ethnographic sources the analysis considers the aspects related to material culture as well as museum studies: how kitchen materiality and kitchen practices were represented according to curatorial concepts and how kitchen related objects were interpreted and displayed. The primary materials for the study come from four permanent and temporary exhibitions from 2015‒2016 explicitly dedicated to kitchens and cooking. Exhibiting the lived dimension of kitchens was a challenge for all museums, requiring special participatory actions for collecting stories and things. In all cases, the social life of things was evoked, either sheding light on the general and typical of particular periods, or emphasizing the individual choices and subjective experiences through the biographical approach.
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BROWNE, ALISTER. "Mental Health Acts in Canada." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19, no. 3 (May 28, 2010): 290–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096318011000006x.
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There are 12 different Mental Health Acts (MHAs) in Canada, all of which provide for the involuntary confinement of the mentally disordered to protect both them from themselves and others from them. The Acts differ in many ways, but three issues stand out above all: (1) involuntary admission criteria, (2) the right to refuse treatment, and (3) who has the authority to authorize treatment. I first describe how the MHAs differ on these issues. I then take up the methodological question of how to select or construct a MHA from the many, all of which have something to be said for them. Finally, I apply this test to the three main issues in dispute and identify which solutions would be in an ideal MHA. My aim in this last is not to settle the issues but to engage with them and so deepen our understanding of what is at stake.
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Kaposy, Chris. "Improving Abortion Access in Canada." Health Care Analysis 18, no. 1 (September 27, 2008): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10728-008-0101-0.
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Felenchak, Yuliia, and Orysia Khendrikson. "Peculiarities of museum industry development in the Lviv region: background formation and modern status." INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, no. 5-6 (August 2019): 119–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37332/2309-1533.2019.5-6.16.
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Purpose. The main purpose of the article is to explore the historical background and features of the development of modern museum institutions in the Lviv region in the light of contemporary public inquiries. Methodology of research. Methods of scientific literature analysis were used to study the historical aspects of the formation of a network of museum institutions, to outline the preconditions for transformational changes in the activity of museum institutions in the Lviv region. Methods of statistical information processing and cartographic methods were applied to analyze the dynamics of indicators of the network of museum institutions in the studied region and to visualize the results of the research, in particular the creation of a map of the territorial location of museum institutions in the region. Findings. The article considers the historical prerequisites and peculiarities of forming a network of museums in Lviv region. The basic approaches to the definition of the term "museum", which are used in modern science, are analyzed. The reasons for the transformational changes in the activity of museum institutions, related to the expansion of their functions, which are conditioned by the requirements of modern society, are considered. The main indicators of the activity of museum institutions of Lviv region during a certain period are investigated. The profile structure of museums of the region, features of activity of departmental museums are considered. A map was developed that visually reflects the spread of museums within the oblast in the context of administrative regions. The main problems and directions of improvement of work of museum institutions of the region are outlined. Originality. The research of the national network of museum institutions, taking into account the specifics of contemporary social requirements, was further developed. The decisive role of museum institutions in shaping the national cultural environment was emphasized. Practical value. The results of the survey can be used in the activities of tourism enterprises of Ukraine and its regions, state authorities and local self-government. Theoretical and methodological generalizations may form the basis for further research in this area. Key words: museum; museum institution; departmental museum; public museum; profile structure of museums; museum expositions; museum staff.
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Torrie, Carmen, Sharon Yanicki, Monique Sedgwick, and Lisa Howard. "Social justice in pandemic immunization policy: We’re all in this together." Nursing Ethics 28, no. 6 (February 1, 2021): 924–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733020983395.
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Policy decisions regarding immunization during a pandemic are informed by the ethical understandings of policy makers. With the possibility that a vaccine might soon be available to mitigate the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers can consider learnings from past pandemic immunization campaigns. This critical analysis of three policy decisions made in Alberta, Canada, during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic demonstrates the predominance of distributive justice principles and the problems that this created for vulnerable groups. Vulnerable groups identified in Alberta include rural and First Nations populations. We propose a social justice approach as a viable alternative to inform pandemic immunization policy and invite debate.
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Xinyin Chen and Hennis Chi-Hang Tse. "Social and psychological adjustment of Chinese Canadian children." International Journal of Behavioral Development 34, no. 4 (April 1, 2010): 330–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025409337546.
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This study examined social and psychological adjustment of immigrant and Canadian-born Chinese children in Canada. Participants included a sample of elementary school children (N = 356, M age = 11 years). Data on social functioning, peer relationships, school-related social competence, perceived self-worth, and loneliness were collected from peer assessments, teacher ratings, and self-reports. The results indicated that immigrant and Canadian-born Chinese children had different experiences of social and psychological adjustment in the school. Among aspects of acculturation, English proficiency and participation in Chinese cultural activities were positively associated with social competence and negatively associated with adjustment problems, particularly in immigrant Chinese children. These results indicate the involvement of contextual factors in children’s social functioning and psychological well-being.
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TUDOR, Irina Valentina, Cristina POPÎRLAN, and Mircea Ovidiu MITUCĂ. "Smart Travelling or the Impact of IT in Tourism." Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism 11, no. 4 (June 30, 2020): 985. http://dx.doi.org/10.14505//jemt.v11.4(44).24.
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In this modern and blooming age of technology, tourism along with many other aspects of life are highly impacted by IT industry, especially the social media aspect, where everything is judged and interpreted. It is way simpler nowadays to find reviews online, with pictures included, about everything tourism-related such as places, museums, hotels, restaurants, even the locals.
The impact of online information and personal opinions of people about destinations can be very influencing for different types of possible tourists in choosing their vacation or week-end getaway especially now in the growing age of social media, where users share every aspect of their lives, travelling included.
We take a look at the various ramifications that computer science has over tourism in general and how it can be of use to the traveler of the 21st century via its many ways of digital interconnection.
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Filinson, Rachel. "Ethnic aging in Canada and the United States: A comparison of social policy." Journal of Aging Studies 6, no. 3 (September 1992): 273–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0890-4065(92)90005-q.
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Wister, Andrew V. "E. Moore and M.W. Rosenberg. Growing Old in Canada: Demographic and Geographic Perspectives. Scarborough, ON: Nelson & Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1997." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 17, no. 2 (1998): 234–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800009284.
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RÉSUMÉGrowing Old in Canada (vieillir au Canada), par Eric Moore et Mark Rosenberg, avec la participation de Donald McGuinness, est une des séries de monographies produites par Statistique Canada dans le cadre du Programme analytique du recensement de 1991. Cette monographie particulière, Growing Old in Canada, combine les approches démographiques et géographiques dans l'étude du vieillissement individuel et collectif. En effet, les auteurs présentent d'abondantes données sur divers aspects du vieillissement, allant de compositions d'âges de 65 ans et plus à 80 ans et plus, en passant par l'état de santé et l'utilisation des services. Plus de 120 graphiques et tableaux résument les données puisées principalement aux recensements de 1991 et de 1986, lesquelles sont complétées par les données provenant des Enquêtes sur la santé et les limitations d'activités (ESLA) de 1986 et de 1991. Le thème principal sous-jacent de la monographie est le degré élevé de diversité et d'hétérogénéité de la population canadienne à mesure qu'elle vieillit. Chercheurs, étudiants, praticiens, fonctionnaires publics et profanes trouveront qu'il s'agit là d'une ressource indispensable. De plus, cette étude fournit des informations précieuses sur les principaux aspects démographiques, sociaux et économiques de notre société vieillissante, lesquelles sont nécessaires en vue du développement, de l'instauration et de la réforme des politiques sociales au Canada à l'aube d'un nouveau siècle. Moore et Rosenberg ont démontré comment l'analyse innovatrice et sophistiquée des données secondaires recueillies par Statistique Canada peut concerner les questions du vieillissement et de la santé de la population, un sujet qui prend de l'importance.
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Quick, Sarah. "The Social Poetics of the Red River Jig in Alberta and Beyond." Ethnologies 30, no. 1 (September 19, 2008): 77–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/018836ar.
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Abstract The Red River Jig is a fiddle tune and a dance form that have particular resonance for First Nations and Métis peoples in Northern and Western Canada. Here I follow the dance form’s practice across diverse settings in time and space. This article is a part of a larger project in which I am analyzing the nexus of Métis identity, performance, and heritage; using Michael Herzfeld’s concept of “social poetics” (2005) to gauge the Red River Jig not only as a representative form of Métis heritage, but as a performative form that emerges in social interaction. Here I first chronicle its performance through time and then describe its form and manners of learning this form in contemporary contexts in Alberta and Western Canada more generally. Finally, I examine the Red River Jig, or aspects of the Red River Jig, emerging in other dance forms as well as other performative circumstances beyond the categorical boundaries of music and dance to consider the social poetics of the Red River Jig within greater spheres of practice.