Papers by Audrey Kobayashi
Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2018
As equity issues permeate higher education and continue to have an adverse effect on diversity an... more As equity issues permeate higher education and continue to have an adverse effect on diversity and representation in the professoriate, The Equity Myth is a timely reminder that there is much work to be done. This book seeks to address the idea that universities and post-secondary institutions are enlightened spaces for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Challenging this presumption, this book discusses equity through the experiences of racialized and Indigenous faculty members at many of the major universities across Canada. This work calls for action, for to deny racism in higher-education institutions is to uphold inequitable practices. Although the university as a whole is its locus of study, this book has implications for racism, equity, and representation within academic libraries in particular. The authors evaluate issues such as equity, representation, policy, and administration through the lens of critical race theory, Whiteness studies and Indigenous studies. Through their research, the authors use lived experiences to illustrate how racialized and Indigenous faculty members are represented, perceived, and have struggled to be acknowledged for the excess labour and emotional labour that is required of them. Featuring quantitative data collected from post-secondary institutions in Canada and internationally, as well as qualitative data from Canadian faculty members, this title contributes evidence and experiences to the ongoing debate that equity is not being achieved within the academy. The authors, many of whom identify as people of colour, supply a wealth of experience in conducting research in higher-education settings. This book demonstrates that racialized and Indigenous faculty members are severely underrepresented in many departments and face systemic barriers compared to their colleagues. Unconscious bias, differences in expectations, and a pervasive culture of whiteness inhibit achieving true equity in academia. While chapter 1 is an introduction to the methodological approaches and positionality of the authors, chapters 2 through 4 describe the current landscape of equity and representation in higher education. Chapter 2 seeks to compare the number and the departmental distribution of racialized and Indigenous faculty
Background on the Policy Briefing Report Process Established by the President of the Royal Societ... more Background on the Policy Briefing Report Process Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19. The Task Force established a series of Working Groups to rapidly develop Policy Briefings, with the objective of supporting policy makers with evidence to inform their decisions.
Public Art Encounters, 2017
The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities, 2015
Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, 2004
Questions of ethics, values, justice, and the moral principles according to which we engage in ge... more Questions of ethics, values, justice, and the moral principles according to which we engage in geographical scholarship, have always been a part of geography, but for the past two decades—and perhaps even more significantly, since the events of September 11, 2001—they have become a central part of the lexicon of American and international geographical scholarship. The Values, Justice and Ethics Specialty Group (VJESG) was formed in 1997 to respond to a felt need for geographers to focus on both the ethical issues that inform our academic work, and the ways in which that work is connected to larger societal issues. The concerns of the group have been less with a particular range of topics or approaches than with the ethical questions that cut across the entire discipline, on the assumption that such questions are bounded neither by subject matter nor by theoretical constraints. The group was formed at a time when questions of whether geographers should be concerned about the moral, e...
Population, Space and Place, 2013
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRANT GEOGRAPHIES: ISSUES AND DEBATES AUD... more PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRANT GEOGRAPHIES: ISSUES AND DEBATES AUDREY KOBAYASHI, WEI LI, AND CARLOS TEIXEIRA PART I: THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND SUBURBS 1. Going Local: Canadian and American Immigration Policy in the New Century HELGA LEITNER AND VALERIE PRESTON 2. Immigration Trends in the United States and Canada: A Historical Perspective DIRK HOERDER AND SCOTT WALKER PART II: THE IMPRINT OF IMMIGRATION IN NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND SUBURBS 3. Immigration and Urban and Suburban Settlements ROBERT A. MURDIE AND EMILY SKOP 4. The Spatial Segregation and Socio-economic Inequality of Immigrant Groups JOE DARDEN AND ERIC FONG 5. Immigrants, Refugees, and Housing THOMAS CARTER AND DOMENIC VITIELLO 6. Economic Experiences of Immigrants LUCIA LO AND WEI LI 7. How Gender Matters to Immigration and Settlement in Canadian and US Cities DAMARIS ROSE AND BRIAN RAY 8. Immigration, Health, and Health Care LU WANG, ELIZABETH CHACKO, AND LINDSAY WITHERS 9. Immigrant Political Incorporation in American and Canadian Cities ELS DE GRAAUW AND CAROLINE ANDREW PART III: IMMIGRANT GROUPS IN NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND SUBURBS 10. Contemporary Asian Immigrants in the United States and Canada SHUGUANG WANG AND QINGFANG WANG 11. Contemporary Profiles of Black Immigrants in the United States and Canada THOMAS BOSWELL AND BRIAN RAY 12. Latin American Immigrants: Parallel and Diverging Geographies LUISA VERONIS AND HEATHER SMITH 13. Crossing the 49th Parallel: American Immigrants in Canada and Canadians in the US SUSAN HARDWICK AND HEATHER SMITH CONCLUSION: A REVIEW AND SOME SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS JAMES ALLEN AND CARLOS TEIXEIRA GLOSSARY INDEX
The AAG Review of Books, 2013
The AAG Review of Books, 2013
Employment equity policy in the province of British Columbia has undergone a corrosive, back door... more Employment equity policy in the province of British Columbia has undergone a corrosive, back door backlash, compared to Ontario's more classic, or front door, backlash under a similar neoliberal government shift. Using interviews and policy analysis, we document the process. Understanding local variations in the backlash phenomenon is important to strategies to combat oppression and systemic discrimination. RÉSUMÉ La politique sur l'équité en matière d'emploi de la Colombie Britannique a passé par un contre-coup de derrière corrosif, comparée à la politique plus classique de l'Ontario, ou le contre-coup de devant sous un changement de régime néolibéral similaire. En nous servant d'entrevues et d'analyse de politique, nous documentons ce processus. Comprendre les variations locales du phénomène de contre-coup est important aux stratégies pour combattre l'oppression et la discrimination systémique. BACKLASH Employment equity policies are designed to ...
International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 2017
AWG Publishing, Mar 16, 2011
International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 2017
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Papers by Audrey Kobayashi