Julia Emberley, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Literature, human rights and the changing representation of indigenous youth
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$95,440
Testimony, transnational dialogue, and the cultural production of childhood
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$70,000
Making and unmaking the Aboriginal child: from 19th-century British ethnography and psychopathology to contemporary children's television programming
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$65,330

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Literature, human rights and the changing representation of indigenous youth

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Emberley, Julia V.C.

Keywords: indigenous literatures; human rights; youth; leadership; colonial discourse; representation; indigenous epistemologies

$95,440

Testimony, transnational dialogue, and the cultural production of childhood

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Emberley, Julia V.C.

Keywords: testimonial studies; children's rights; nationalism and transnationalism; media; memorial installations; storytelling; indigenous children and youth

$70,000

Making and unmaking the Aboriginal child: from 19th-century British ethnography and psychopathology to contemporary children's television programming

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Emberley, Julia V.C.

Keywords: cultural practices; colonial studies; decolonization; discourse analysis; representational media; race and gender studies

$65,330

Global Queries: Sexualities, Globalities, Postcolonialities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Emberley, Julia V.C.

Keywords: sexuality; gender; human rights; globalization; interdisciplinarity; cultural studies; health; international development; race

$20,000

Colonial violence, gender and everyday life: practices, representations, and resistances

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Emberley, Julia

Keywords: women's and gender studies; representational violence; everyday life; colonial and postcolonial contexts; the Bourgeois family; masculinity studies; cultural and literary theory; aboriginal women; Canadian studies; interdisciplinarity; women's writing

$55,113

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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