Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (64) ◽  
pp. 252-254
Author(s):  
Cameron Butler
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Medical Mission ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

This article reviews Rafico Ruiz’s Slow Disturbance, which presents a strong analysis of the temporal dimensions of infrastructure and the resource frontier through the case of the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, an evangelical Protestant medical mission. Ruiz highlights infrastructure as ongoing relational processes that are also media productions and is especially attuned to how relationships are oriented around the repair and maintenance of infrastructure in order to create the resource frontier.

Publishing and Paternalism in the Grenfell Mission: Wilfred Grenfell’s Accounts of a Boy Patient and Doctor-Patient Relations in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1900–14

2021 ◽  
pp. e515022021
Author(s):  
John Matchim
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Case Record ◽  
Medical Mission ◽  
Medical Case ◽  
Patient Relations ◽  
Patient Consent ◽  
Doctor Patient Relations

In 1906 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, founder and head of the Grenfell medical mission of northern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador, published a short article in Putnam’s Monthly about a nine-year-old boy named Clem Richards, who had shot himself in the knee while hunting seabirds. The boy’s identity was disclosed in full, with Grenfell including his name and image as well as a detailed description of his living conditions. The “story” of the boy’s injury and recovery became a favourite of Grenfell’s, and it was modified and republished in a number of magazines and books between 1906 and 1923. This article explores the appeal that Richards’ accident held for Grenfell and argues that his dramatic mid-winter rescue of the boy helped Grenfell promote his mission and construct a public image of himself that would appeal to American readers and donors. By comparing published accounts with Richards’ medical case record, however, we also see how much Grenfell distorted the incident to heighten its drama and reader appeal. The article also considers how the mission’s dominance over northern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador enabled Grenfell to use Richards’ name and image for mission publicity with no consideration of patient consent.

The Whole Self

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Temporal Dimensions

This chapter addresses the question as to how the Christian devout life is related to contemporary holistic spirituality, taking C. G. Jung as representative of holistic spirituality’s quest to balance the binary elements of the self. By way of contrast, Christian spirituality might seem to require the hierarchical subordination of one part of the self to another, reinforcing suspicions as to its essentially heteronomous nature. Nevertheless, the devout life can be shown to be a life involving the coordination of ‘body, mind, and spirit’. Where contemporary holism emphasizes the spatial balancing of the self the devout life integrates spatial and temporal dimensions of selfhood seeking to be focused on the sacrament of the present moment as it moves forward in tranquillity and equanimity.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Alternative Responses to COVID-19: Stopping the Spread in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-245
Author(s):  
Michael G. Chislett ◽  
Paige T. Phillips ◽  
Brett Snider ◽  
Edward A. McBean ◽  
John Yawney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Alternative Responses ◽  
The Impact
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