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- The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) engages in the study of work, employment and labour in the context of a constantly changing global economy.
- Lives Outside the Lines: a Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar
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Recent Submissions
Black Movement and Freedom: Questions of Cyclescapes, Cycling Planning, and Minstrelsy
(2025-04-30) Ismail, Sabat; Ali, Muna-Udbi
This paper investigates the following central question: What are the outcomes of the historical and ongoing restrictions placed upon the Black diaspora's physical movement? Related to my research question, I consider what the literature and archives have to say about Black experiences with movement and I engage with cycling-related scholarship on class and race, particularly as it relates to Black communities. I explore this in this paper to sufficiently contextualize the subject-matter I am engaging with. I argue that the historical and ongoing restrictions of the movement of the Black diaspora is subjectivity-producing and provides an alternative lens to better understanding anti-Blackness, and liberatory ways of understanding and engaging with movement. Additionally, to contribute to advancing an underexplored research topic in Black Geographies and further the growing scholarship on cycling and racism. Additionally, I explore the experiences of cycling and Black communities and conduct a research analysis on late nineteenth-century minstrel and other anti-Black imagery featuring bicycles. This paper focuses on Canada and the United States, bringing cycling and transportation research into conversation with Black studies and Black geographies. I draw on archival materials from the late 1800s to early 1900s, alongside a counter-archival and discourse analysis. My sources include journalism, transportation planning data, and academic literature in social geography, anthropology, and history—all centred on cycling in North America.
Water chemistry and sediment core data from small, shallow lakes of the Taiga Plains (Northwest Territories, Canada)
(2025) Korosi, Jennifer; Coleman, Kristen; Thienpont, Joshua; Palmer, Michael
Lake browning has been widely projected for northern lakes affected by permafrost thaw, but the inherent heterogeneity in permafrost landscapes coupled with a paucity of data for many regions makes it challenging to develop circumpolar-scale assessments. This dataset provides surface water chemistry from 35 small, shallow (0.5-3 m) lakes in discontinuous permafrost peatlands of the Taiga Plains (Northwest Territories, Canada), which were distributed across two Level IV ecoregions (Cameron Uplands, Tathlina Plain). This dataset also provides a comparison subfossil diatom assemblages between present-day (2012-2018) and ~1850 in 23 Taiga Plains lakes distributed across three Level IV ecoregions (Cameron Uplands, Tathlina Plain, South Mackenzie Plain).
‘Homing’ and the Desire for ‘Homing’: Reading/Teaching Kamila Shamshie’s Kartography Through a Migrant’s Experience
(Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2024-12) Bhattacharya, Indira Chakraborty
The first attempt that one should make while talking about Refugee Studies or Migration Studies especially while teaching to any group of migrant youngsters about any particular text is to define under which category does that particular text fall, i.e., whether the text has been written by any migrant author who pens his/her experience as a migrant, or the content of the text is about migrants and their experiences in a particular place. The texts are roughly classified by scholars as into sub-categories of Migration Literature or "Ecriture Migrante/Ecriture Immigrantes" within the discipline of Literature. In a classroom before teaching these migrant texts it is necessary to build trust between the migrant student, the institutional system and the teacher to develop a sense of inclusivity that might make the migrant student a little more comfortable about reading migrant literatures and corelate with its relevance.
A quantum Murnaghan--Nakayama rule for the flag manifold
(2024-06-08) Benedetti, Carolina; Bergeron, Nantel; Colmenarejo, Laura; Saliola, Franco; Sottile, Frank
In this paper, we give a rule for the multiplication of a Schubert class by a tautological class in the (small) quantum cohomology ring of the flag manifold. As an intermediate step, we establish a formula for the multiplication of a Schubert class by a quantum Schur polynomial indexed by a hook partition. This entails a detailed analysis of chains and intervals in the quantum Bruhat order. This analysis allows us to use results of Leung--Li and of Postnikov to reduce quantum products by hook Schur polynomials to the (known) classical product.
Multi-Method Study On Referral And Access To Heart Function Clinics
(2025-04-10) Mamataz, Taslima; Grace, Sherry
Patients with heart failure (HF) experience significant benefits from receiving comprehensive outpatient care in specialized heart failure clinics (HF clinics). These clinics have demonstrated their effectiveness in reducing frequent HF-related hospital readmissions while maintaining cost-efficiency. Unfortunately, despite established guidelines recommending the referral of HF patients to these clinics, there exists a notable discrepancy in both access and utilization of this specialized care, creating issues of low and inequitable service utilization. The underlying reasons are largely unknown and under-researched. Therefore, this doctoral dissertation aimed to advance a scholarly understanding of factors influencing the referral decisions and access to HF clinics through a multi-method study. For this purpose, three inter-linked research studies were undertaken. Firstly, qualitative interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in HF care, including policymakers, clinic providers, and patients. This initial phase established a foundational understanding of the barriers preventing optimal access to HF clinic services. Secondly, recognizing that referring providers play a pivotal role in determining patient access to HF clinics, a mixed-method design was employed, using a sequential exploratory approach to delve into their perspectives on the challenges associated with referring patients to HF clinics. Finally, a cross-sectional survey approach was adopted to compare clinic perceptions of ideal referral criteria with those of referring providers. By identifying areas of agreement between both parties, strategies for consistent application were proposed. This dissertation contributes valuable insights for HF clinics and the broader HF community. The knowledge generated has the potential, when translated into practice, to facilitate appropriate patient access to essential HF services. The findings offer guidance to policymakers, healthcare providers, and HF patients, aiming to optimize the utilization of HF clinic services, enhance the quality of care provided, and improve overall patient outcomes.