The Shoestring Initiative hosts monthly free String it Together: Finding togetherness in community on the education digi-scape webinars focused on social class on how classism shapes experiences in and understandings of higher education in Canada and around the world. The Shoestring Initiative is a grassroots solidarity movement to create communities of mentorship, belonging, support and…
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Returning to the Barnyard
ELAINE J. LABERGE Returning to the Barnyard VICTORIA, BC | FEBRUARY 2018 Published in https://humanitiesnetwork.wixsite.com/anthology/downloads How different my story could have been told if I had not entered the world into poverty; I was raised in a community that storied me by my family’s poverty; I was storied by my mother’s supposed failings and weaknesses…
Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy
http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/neoliberalisms_defeat_of_democracy/ Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy Wendy Brown. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York, Zone Books, 2015. 296pp. $29.95, hardcover. Reviewed by Jodi Dean In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. The great ideological struggles characteristic not only of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but of history as such had…
A submission to the British Columbia Poverty Reduction Strategy
Submitted by Elaine J. Laberge Doctoral student (Sociology), University of Victoria, MA, BA (250) 686-2214 elaberge@uvic.ca http://www.echoesofpoverty.com Poverty is our most devastating social failure in this greatly affluent age and land—and, the heaviest burden on our social conscience. John Kenneth Galbraith (1986) The larger picture: I draw your attention to key points…
The Caboose
January 8, 2018 Epistemology: the root word clangs, clacks, and bangs against the suffix like the strain of a train’s caboose against the rusty cars it follows. The caboose is long forgotten, perhaps unknown; yet, childhood images deeply shapes my tension-filled understandings of knowledge. With the blistering prairie sun raining down on my white skeletal…
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
“The wind of poverty blows like a cyclone with a heavy tide of hardship, melancholy, acrimony and socio-political anarchism sweeping violently along its pathway. This tide makes the pathway difficult to travel, overcome and manoeuvre. Several policy actors and researchers have made attempts to proffer determined solutions to this tenuous situation has however defy most…
New research project: “Pushing Privileged Pillars: A narrative study of university leaders’ beliefs about poverty-class students and poverty”
This doctoral research will explore university leaders’ (professors, advisors, administrators, alumni) perceptions of post-secondary students who grew up in persistent childhood poverty. Canadian higher education equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) leaders are grappling with diversity. Part of the difficulty lies with understanding leaders’ lay beliefs about poverty-class students—an under-researched area. Theoretically, those in academia understand…
EDI-based research project proposal
Pushing privileged pillars: A narrative study of university leaders’ beliefs about poverty-class students Context and Importance: This doctoral research will explore university leaders’ (professors, advisors, administrators, alumni) perceptions of post-secondary students who grew up in persistent childhood poverty. Canadian higher education equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) leaders are grappling with diversity. Part of the difficulty…
Caste in a box: Silencing higher education poverty-class EDI policies
Designed this research poster and presented it an Education department open house at the University of Alberta on March 31, 2016. The poster presentation was interactive and made visible stereotypes that academics have towards people from poverty. In order to leave their thoughts on a sticky notes, which were placed around the poster, they had…
Echoes of Poverty research results poster
echoes of poverty poster 48 x 48 no outlines (this file can be used for printing)
Cashier Confessional
Elaine Laberge Cashier Confessional Wrote this play that is an exploration of the experiences of working as a cashier for a Canadian grocery chain to make visible how corporations contribute to systemic poverty of their staff and how public opinions shape how workers are treated Characters Clara – late 30s to early 40s Mathias Alexander…
