Abstract
Dorothy Smith (1990) encourages us to write our own lives as they are situated in “conceptual practices of power.” In this spirit, I begin this essay by describing a personal experience that influenced a trajectory in my research career. While formally initiated by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant in 2000, its inspiration occurred years earlier.
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Levine-Rasky, C. (2015). The Parents of Baywoods. In: Lund, D.E., Carr, P.R. (eds) Revisiting The Great White North?. Transgressions, vol 105. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-869-5_19
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