Drug wars, austerity and gentrification are interwoven social relations in many North American urban centres and are typically met with organising of varying degrees of militancy. Lo€ ıc Wacquant characterises many of these sites as highly stigmatised, associated with violence and pathology. In Toronto's downtown east end (DEE), one such stigmatised urban space, disabled activists are far from unfortunate casualties. They tend to refer to the DEE as an "urban battleground", where disabled people politicise and challenge the DEE's pathology and stigma by linking into emerging radical disability politics across the global North and by developing localised revolutionary disability consciousness. Drawing on oral stories, zines and blogs of disabled activists and workers in Toronto's DEE, this article uses Rachel Gorman's dialectic of disability/ disablement to analyse the emergence of revolutionary disability consciousness and the centrality of disabled people on the frontlines of anti-gentrification and harm reduction organising in Toronto's DEE.R esum e: Les guerres a la drogue, l'aust erit e et l'embourgeoisement font partie des relations sociales des grands centres urbains am ericains et se heurtent au militantisme communautaire a de divers degr es. Lo€ ıc Wacquant qualifie la plupart de ces sites comme des lieux stigmatis es, li es a la violence et aux dysfonctionnements graves. C'est le cas de la zone est de Toronto (DEE), o u les militants handicap es sont loin d'être des pers ecut es, mais plutôt des acteurs engag es. Ces activistes d esignent le DEE comme etant un « champs de bataille urbain » o u les personnes handicap ees mettent a l' epreuve l'id ee caricaturale d'un quartier stigmatis e et pathologique. En se connectant aux mouvements globaux du Nord global, ces militants elaborent une conscience r evolutionnaire et localis ee propre au DEE. Cette analyse se penche sur l'histoire orale, les zines, et les blogues des militants handicap es. Elle emploie la dialectique de Rachel Gorman (disability/ disablement) pour aborder l' emergence de la conscience r evolutionnaire handicap ee et la place centrale des personnes handicap ees aux premi eres lignes des mouvements anti-embourgeoisement et de r eduction des m efaits dans le DEE de Toronto.
Background and Objectives Amidst a complex policy landscape, long-term residential care (LTRC) staff must navigate directives to provide safe care while also considering resident-preferred quality of life (QoL) supports, which are sometimes at odds with policy expectations. These tensions are often examined using a deficit-based approach to policy analysis, which highlights policy gaps or demonstrates how what is written creates problems in practice. Research Design and Methods This study used an asset-based approach by scanning existing LTRC regulations in 4 Canadian jurisdictions for promising staff-related policy guidance for enhancing resident QoL. A modified objective hermeneutics method was used to determine how 63 existing policy documents might be interpreted to support Kane’s 11 QoL domains. Results Analysis revealed regulations that covered all 11 resident QoL domains, albeit with an overemphasis on safety, security, and order. Texts that mentioned other QoL domains often outlined passive or vague roles for staff. However, policy texts were found in all 4 jurisdictions that provided clear language to support staff discretion and flexibility to navigate regulatory tensions and enhance resident QoL. Discussion and Implications The existing policy landscape includes promising staff-related LTRC regulation in every jurisdiction under investigation. Newer policies tend to reflect more interpretive approaches to staff flexibility and broader QoL concepts. If interpreted through a resident QoL lens and with the right structural supports, these promising texts offer important counters to the rigidity of LTRC policy landscape and can be leveraged to broaden and enhance QoL effectively for residents in LTRC.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, all levels of Canadian government implemented austerity measures that dramatically restructured welfare, employment, and social service infrastructures. This has significantly affected how disabled people access services. We argue that this restructuring has been an impetus for new forms of disability activism and care politics in Ontario as disabled people fight for services necessary for survival. We discuss examples of politicized forms of care and resistance in Ontario, namely self-care, the Ontario Direct Funding programme, and collective forms of care. We contend that while these examples of care can be practical modes of resistance, they can all be co-opted and restructured to suit neoliberal ideologies and must therefore be continually interrogated.
Multi-sectoral, interdisciplinary health research is increasingly recognizing integrated knowledge translation (iKT) as essential. It is characterized by diverse research partnerships, and iterative knowledge engagement, translation processes and democratized knowledge production. This paper reviews the methodological complexity and decision-making of a large iKT project called Seniors - Adding Life to Years (SALTY), designed to generate evidence to improve late life in long-term care (LTC) settings across Canada. We discuss our approach to iKT by reviewing iterative processes of team development and knowledge engagement within the LTC sector. We conclude with a brief discussion of the important opportunities, challenges, and implications these processes have for LTC research, and the sector more broadly
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