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    The role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public Health: findings from an international survey
    (Informa UK Limited, 2025-12-07) Bahr, Elisabeth; Munson, Sammi; Wright, Tarah; Minkoff, Marla; Shaheed, Ameer; Brinza, Tessa; Moula, Zoe; Garrett, Ian; Bilodeau, Chantal; Sajnani, Nisha
    Background Climate change poses significant and escalating threats to public health globally, affecting physical and mental health through direct impacts such as extreme weather events and indirect pathways including food insecurity and displacement. Despite growing recognition of culture and the arts as potential resources for health promotion and climate action, the specific role of the arts in addressing climate-related health impacts remains under-explored and suboptimally integrated into public health and environmental policy frameworks. Objective To investigate the role of the arts in addressing the health impacts of climate change from the perspective of experts working at the intersections of arts, health, and climate action. Methods A cross-sectional survey study using snowball sampling recruited participants with self-identified expertise at the intersections of arts, health, and climate change. The survey instrument collected qualitative data on perceived roles of arts-based interventions in this domain and barriers to their implementation. Responses were analyzed using thematic analysis to identify key themes and patterns. Results Seventy-nine participants (N = 79) from diverse geographic regions globally completed the survey. Analysis revealed four meaningful roles that the arts can play in addressing climate-related health impacts: (1) bringing people together to build community and solidarity; (2) raising awareness and communicating complex information; (3) solving problems collectively; and (4) providing space for emotional processing and healing. Four primary barriers to expanding arts-based work were identified: (1) funding limitations; (2) other resource constraints; (3) collaboration challenges; and (4) lack of recognition and legitimacy. Conclusions The arts offer multiple pathways for addressing the health impacts of climate change, though structural barriers limit their implementation and scale. Findings have implications for policymakers, climate scientists, artists, and healthcare professionals seeking to integrate arts-based approaches into climate-health interventions and adaptation strategies.
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    Information Sheet 17: Arts-based methodologies: Exploring Asian-Canadian youth identities and experiences
    (York University, 2021-05) Khanlou, Nazilla; Nunes, Fernando; Davidson, Deborah; Seto Nielsen, Lisa; Alamdar, Negar; Vazquez, Luz Maria
    Youth from Asian backgrounds in Canada represent a heterogenous group of young people. May is recognized as the Asian Heritage Month (Government of Canada, 2021). According to Statistics Canada (2016) between 2006 and 2011, of all newcomers to Canada, 13.1% were born in the Philippines, 10.5% were Chinese-born, and 10.4% were Indian-born. Today, Canada is one of the world’s most ethno-culturally diverse countries with ethnic minorities representing 19.1% of the total population. The South Asian population is the largest ethnic group in the country, accounting for 25% of the visible minority population and 4.8% of the total population. Asian-Canadian youth have resiliencies and at the same time encounter barriers to their inclusion in Canadian society (Khanlou et al, 2018). The challenges they face may include language barriers; balancing different and gendered family, cultural and religious expectations; and experiences of discrimination and racism. Innovative methods are needed to better understand youth’s lived experiences, such as in relation to their identities and integration to Canadian society. Arts-based research encompasses approaches that use artistic forms and expressions to understand personal experiences. Arts-based approaches are considered relevant to explore and communicate youth’s experiences with, for example, racism and marginalization (Clover, 2011; Halverson, 2010).
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    Information Sheet 18: Health inequities experienced by people with developmental disabilities
    (York University, 2022-12) Khanlou, Nazilla; Khan, Attia; Vazquez, Luz Maria; Nunes, Fernando; Felice, Sandra; Gateri, Helen; Srivastava, Rani; McMillan, Shirley; Francis Xavier, Josephine M
    Developmental disabilities (DDs) are chronic conditions that begin in childhood and are likely to be life-long impacting the ability to live independently as an adult (CDC, 2017). DDs may include Autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and cerebral palsy, among others. Young persons with DDs experience increased difficulties in accessing quality health care as they transition from pediatric to adult healthcare services. Young persons with DDs have complex health care needs. As they grow older, they are more likely than their peers without disabilities to develop chronic health conditions (Thomas et al., 2011). During emerging adulthood (period from adolescence to young adulthood) these individuals are at increasing risk of developing health problems. During this period, they and their families face increased economic, social, health and mental health related challenges. Studies from various countries, including Canada, found that people with DDs are poorly supported by healthcare systems and services (Fisher, 2004; Krahn et al., 2006; Scheepers et al., 2005; Sullivan et al., 2011). Although nurses are strategically positioned to provide care to individuals with DDs, they are not fully equipped with the skills, awareness, supports, and education for this active care role. The major challenges nurses face in providing good care to this population include time constraints, communication challenges and insufficient education and training (Khanlou et al., 2019)
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    “All You Have to Do is Publicly Execute a Few Women Who Have Lied”: Mapping Online Misogyny and Feminist Digital Counterprotest in the Post-pandemic Landscape
    (Women's Studies in Communication (Taylor & Francis), 2026-01-05) MacDonald, Shana; Wiens, Brianna Ivy; Ruest, Nick; Padda, Karmvir
    This paper examines the intensification and mainstreaming of online misogyny in the volatile post-pandemic digital landscape and the affective labor of feminist and queer counter-response. We argue that the concurrent exhaustion of women and gender minorities, disproportionately burdened with care labour, and the radicalization of men into alt-right manosphere discourse during the pandemic exacerbated existing gendered power dynamics, forming the groundwork for contemporary conservative political strategies, including those outlined in Project 2025 and advanced during Donald Trump’s second presidential term. Anchored by three pivotal case studies—Elon Musk’s incendiary tweet to Taylor Swift, pastor Joel Webbon’s sermon advocating the execution of women reporting sexual violence, and Harrison Butker’s commencement speech—we trace how misogynist logics circulate across platforms and are amplified by manosphere podcasts, including Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. Employing a mixed-methods approach that integrates computational text analysis of 11,000 manosphere podcast episodes with close readings of memes and hashtags, we show how misogynist discourse is laundered into common sense while reinforcing patriarchal gender hierarchies. At the same time we analyze feminist and queer digital counter-protests, including viral Man vs Bear discourse, activist memes, and Equal Rights Amendment advocacy, that reframe misogynist rhetoric through humor, critique, and care-driven resistance. Our findings situate these dynamics within the broader context of post-pandemic sociopolitical shifts, including the Dobbs decision, Trump’s ongoing rhetoric, and tech bro culture, arguing that networked misogyny now functions as mobilizing force for reactionary politics, while feminist and queer counter-narratives reclaim digital spaces as battlefields for equity.
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    Geopolitical Framings of Subalterity in Education III: Context of Displacement
    (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2021-12) Basu, Ranu
    This paper presents geopolitical framings of subalterity in education as an analytical framework to explore these questions by focusing on the spatial dialectics of peace, settlement, and welfare-state practices. I will argue that the project of education particularly as it relates to violence and displacement cannot be analysed in the absence of the geopolitics of imperial hegemony compounded by the logics of the neoliberal state. As the state reflects ‘the variety of geopolitical ways of viewing the world’–the institution of state-funded schools could also be assumed to reflect contrasting ‘geopolitical visions’ as they relate to the ‘geopolitical subject’. Hence, this paper attempts to understand how the provision of education, particularly as it relates to the question of forced displacement–beyond its literary component but as a radical strategy of transnational consciousness building–needs to be further analysed by examining the role of state-funded schools as sites for broader praxis and civic engagement.