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Land-grant colleges and universities in the United States, and by extension their libraries and archives, seek to uphold a three-part mission of teaching, research, and service, while also focusing on equality of access, regardless of class. The admirability of that mission, however, is tempered by “genesis amnesia,” where, as Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron say, “societies cover up or erase the origins of policies or institutions in order to obfuscate the social constructions that underlie them.” Other former settler colonies, such as Canada, maintain similarly structured and afflicted colleges and universities. For many institutions, the terms “land-grant,” or in Canadian contexts “land-endowed” or “land-financed,” act as a veneer, covering up and at times venerating an extractive and traumatic process by which Indigenous peoples were dispossessed of their lands. In this reflective case study, we define pioneer veneration as a symptom of colonialism and describe recent efforts to challenge it within our own library and archives. Using two collections containing Indigenous knowledges but not (primarily) Indigenous belongings, we explore our attempts to challenge pioneer veneration and seek out more impactful and purposefully reparative avenues of service to Indigenous patrons and stakeholders. By specifically defining the term pioneer veneration and discussing our institution’s effort to counter it in two specific collections, we hope to expand the lens of the types of collections that can be part of decolonization work and offer some replicable examples of work that redresses white supremacy and colonialism in institutional archives.

Keywords: decolonization, bibliothèques et archives, land-grant colleges and universities, collèges et universités concédants de terres, décolonisation, libraries and archives, vénération des pionniers, pioneer veneration

This paper examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Using David James Hudson’s critique of how the diversity model overemphasizes representation over meaningful action, this paper explores how the EDI plans and policies at Canadian academic libraries facilitate the exchange of racial capital, thereby reducing racialized identities to currency. To explore pathways forward, I conducted a thematic analysis of EDI plans and policies from all Canadian academic libraries. This thematic analysis informs strategies for how people within Canadian academic institutions can move beyond the diversity model to recentre meaningful and effective equity work. The paper closes with a call towards embedded EDI practices informed by Indigenous concepts of decolonial indigenization and relationality.

Keywords: academic libraries, bibliothèques universitaires, capital humain, equity, diversity, capital racial, équité, and inclusion, human capital, diversité et inclusion, neoliberalism, néolibéralisme, racial capital

The widespread surveillance of everyday family life poses threats to parents’ and children’s right to privacy. Even though considerable research on privacy in families with young children exists, more evidence on the interplay between contextual factors and privacy issues is needed to enrich our understanding of privacy as grounded in everyday family life. To this aim, this paper conceptualises privacy as a situated and emergent phenomenon related to family cultures, socioeconomic background, technological imaginaries, and other significant markers of everyday family life. Drawing on qualitative data from a longitudinal research project with parents of children aged zero to eight, the study shows that privacy risks and threats are mostly associated with the interpersonal context; corporate and institutional surveillance are naturalised within notions of convenience or resignation to big-tech corporations. As technological and surveillance imaginaries influence such a complex web of privacy dynamics, this paper advocates for a situated and contextual approach to family privacy and surveillance in times of datafication.

Keywords: privacy, family, young children, institutional surveillance, datafication, Italy

Public attitudes toward domestic police surveillance have important implications for its political salience and regulation. An increasing number of jurisdictions have sought to regulate law enforcement surveillance, in part due to growing concerns over issues related to privacy, civil liberties, and the potential for bias (Beyea and Kebde 2021; Chivukula and Takemoto 2021; Smyth 2021). This study explores what factors help to predict and shape public attitudes toward police surveillance. Two groups of participants (n = 131 and n = 299) completed measures of authoritarianism, fear of crime, consumer surveillance technology use, and attitudes toward private-sector surveillance (such as surveillance by private companies, employers, or citizens) and police surveillance. Demographic factors (age, race/ethnicity, education level, gender, and political leaning) were also examined. Of these factors, legal authoritarianism, level of interaction with surveillance-related consumer technology, and attitudes toward private-sector surveillance were positively associated with the acceptance of police surveillance.

Keywords: Police and Policing, authoritarianism, fear of crime, surveillance attitudes, punitive

In this paper we make a two-fold contribution. We first examine the impact of agricultural subsidies on Greece, using a detailed, micro-panel dataset for four years, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Our analysis is illuminating at least two aspects of subsidies: first, it suggests that an incentive scheme for promoting a larger farm size would have a probable positive effect on agricultural value-added; second, that subsidies today produce the larger impact on future value-added for the top two percentiles of the subsidy distribution. The adjacent contribution is the presentation of a new theoretical model on subsidies where we examine the impact of land size and taxes on them. We estimate the model’s hyperparameters, using Greek data from the FADN database. Our new theoretical results, combined with the empirical analysis on the first part, suggest that agricultural subsidies are of dubious economic value, in magnitude and effect, and distort the incentives for returns-to-scale and increased working hours in Greek agriculture.

Keywords: agricultural subsidies, agricultural policy, farm size, fiscal policy, taxation, value-added

The rise in popularity of the maker movement in schools is evident around the globe, yet research, particularly in French, is still in early stages. This article provides a scoping review of maker projects in grades four through eight classrooms in elementary schools from around the globe, aiming to uncover their implementation, materials used, and outcomes on students and teachers. From 1900 initial studies, 68 scientific articles were analyzed. This article outlines the three stages of maker projects: 1) inspiration and preparation, 2) implementation and realization, and 3) presentation and recontextualization, while highlighting an equal mix of digital and physical tools within the selected papers. It also discusses the impact on students across affective, social, disciplinary, and metacognitive dimensions, as well as on teachers, including pedagogical, affective, and social outcomes. Examples of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary maker projects are highlighted, showcasing the broad scope and potential of maker education. These findings are essential for strengthening teacher education with research-informed best practices for designing and integrating maker projects in classrooms.

Keywords: digital technologies, bricoleur, maker, formation enseignante, maker, maker education, revue de la portée, scoping review, teacher education, technologies éducatives

Researchers are under increasing pressure to disseminate research more widely with non-academic audiences (efforts we call knowledge mobilization, KMb) and to articulate the value of their research beyond academia to broader society. This study surveyed SSHRC-funded education researchers to explore how universities are supporting researchers with these new demands. Overall, the study found that there are few supports available to researchers to assist them in KMb efforts. Even where supports do exist, they are not heavily accessed by researchers. Researchers spend less than 10% of their time on non-academic outreach. Researchers who do the highest levels of academic publishing also report the highest levels of non-academic dissemination. These findings suggest many opportunities to make improvements at individual and institutional levels. We recommend (a) leveraging intermediaries to improve KMb, (b) creating institutionally embedded KMb capacity, and (c) having funders take a leadership role in training and capacity-building.

This paper examines the potential of video games as a heuristic tool for engaging with history, particularly in the context of traumatic events and contested narratives. Traditionally, video games have been dismissed as trivial entertainment, unsuitable for addressing complex historical topics. However, new paradigms challenge such perceptions by exploring how ludonarratives – stories shaped by game mechanics –can facilitate transformative learning. By shifting players from passive spectators to active participants, games offer immersive experiences that can encourage critical engagement with historical events. The emotional impact of these experiences, supported by empirical studies, has the potential to promote empathy, understanding, and social change. Building on theories of resonance and transformative learning, this contribution advocates for a re-evaluation of video games’ role in historical education, emphasising their ability to provide meaningful, multi-perspective experiences that deepen our understanding of the past and its relevance to contemporary issues.

Keywords: jeu vidéo, videojuegos, gaming, ludonarratives, ludonarrations, ludonarrativas, transformative learning, aprendizaje transformativo, apprentissage transformationnel, émotions et affects, emociones y afectos, emotions and affect, resonancia, resonance, résonance

In 2003, Quipourt and Gache asked the question: is interpreting a militant act? The deaf community is a minority cultural and linguistic group in French society (Bertin); interpreters would be associated in this “microcosm” (Millet) and, as translation professionals, involved in ideological structures (Munday). What is the place of hearing interpreters today? To reflect on these questions, we organized a focus group in March 2020, bringing together ten professional interpreters from all over France. We identified several themes during the exchanges: the evolution of political positioning between the interpreters of the Réveil Sourd era and today’s interpreters, the prevailing paradox of the interpreter’s visibility and the societal responsibility of hearing interpreters.

Keywords: militant translation, traduction militante, responsability, responsabilité, éthique, ethics, visibility, visibilité, langue des signes, sign language

Many post-secondary institutions contain organizational values, which describe enduring beliefs that support strategic priorities and guide members of an organization. Relatedly, the adoption of health-promoting frameworks calls on embedding health within post-secondary institutions’ core values. The study objective was to map Canada’s post-secondary values to determine how health is integrated within value statements. Mixed methods were used to map institutional values, contextualize well-being, and identify thematic messages of health-related content contained within values. Most institutions espoused values (n = 64, 71%), yet only a small proportion of these institutions espoused health within their value statements (n = 7, 11%). Qualitative analysis revealed three thematic messages: (i) health as a descriptor for other institutional priorities, (ii) wellness broadly acknowledged or embedded within non-health values, and (iii) well-being as a core value or commitment. These novel findings suggest more institutions must embed health as a core value to demonstrate institutional commitment.

Keywords: postsecondaire, post-secondary, santé, health, bien-être, well-being, content analysis, analyse de contenu, éducation, education, changement organisationnel, organizational change