Publications

Ignio is a student-driven initiative created to build a space for students, recent graduates, and all those interested in contemporary international development issues to learn through the community, share ideas through non-traditional methods, and facilitate connections within the international development studies community.

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Issue 1, Volume 1: Reflections on Ethics, Equity, and Emergency Response
Published Voices
- Are Evaluation Frameworks Keeping up with Innovative Development Financing Instruments?
  
  Eve Rozalina Staszczyszyn, (She/her), Cofounder (WellnessWorld), fifth year undergraduate student (University of Ottawa), interested in social finance and enterprise.
  
  As social impact bonds and development impact bonds welcome an opportunity for private sector investment to provide capital for social change, community interest must be prioritized in these multi sectoral contracts. Evaluation frameworks must ensure that targets and desired outcomes align profoundly with communities that impact bonds are set up to serve. Innovation is needed to combat the inefficiencies and ineffectiveness currently faced in traditional development aid, and with community-driven evaluation frameworks, impact bonds have the potential to transform the mechanism of today’s traditional aid programs.
- White Liberal Educators as a Personified Double-Consciousness
  
  Fernando Jimenez Luna (he/him), Vice President of University Affairs (SASA-AÉSA), third year undergraduate student (University of Ottawa) interested in social psychology.
  
  Through personal academic experience, I argue that the white educator visually embodies my own ‘personified’ Duboisian double consciousness. This develops through agents of socialization and the social behavioural inclinations held within the Freudian superego that teach values such as discipline, kindness, etc. I also argue this white embodiment of values and values themselves are an extension of Weber’s description of capitalist values. While educators have taught with care, this liberal ideology does not support racial liberation. The pedagogical practices of increased representation of racialized students and cultural integration may ameliorate the issue of racial disassociation with the values taught in Canadian schools.
Blog Posts
- Letter from the Director
  
  Yasmin Rajwani (she/her), Director of International Development Week (AÉDSA), Undergraduate Student (University of Ottawa).
  
  This address from the Director of International Development Week (IDW) at the University of Ottawa introduces the reflection series by providing insight on the relationship between Ignio and IDW 2021: Ethics, Equity, and Emergency Response.
- Why a Community Platform?
  
  Ignio’s Student Steering Committee
  
  When it comes to students interested in international development, international relations, and social justice, many strive to get as involved in their field as possible. Nonetheless, students and young professionals are facing a growing disconnect between a desire to be involved and listened to in their future career sector, and a colonized space of academia, professionalism, and bureaucracy. Rich and critical discussions in development often feel fleeting – quick to be ignited, but difficult to tangibly action as a student starting out in the field.
- Le double fardeau: Les causes et les effets de la division sexuelle du travail
  
  Rika Mpogazi (elle/la/sa), étudiante de premier cycle (Université d’Ottawa), Auteure (Ally Squared, TRAD Magazine, Intersection.org), Assistante de recherche (Professeure Rebecca Tiessen, WUSC/Uniterra Program).
  
  D’un côté, la mondialisation a facilité l’expansion du commerce international. De l’autre, cette division du travail mondialisée représente la source de l’inégalités mondiales. Cet article explique comment ces inégalités auraient déclenché des tendances migratoires qui illustrent le double fardeau, productif et reproductif, qui pèse sur les femmes du Sud global lorsqu’elles migrent vers le Nord.
- As Per Usual, Creative Learning Approaches are Pushed to the Side – This time in the Environmental Movement
  
  Laura Nygaard-Mendoza (she/her), fourth year undergraduate student (University of Ottawa), interested in sustainable food systems.
- Political Engagement and Accountability
  
  Prabhroop Kaur Chawla (she/her), Director of Public Engagement (GLOCAL Foundation), Masters student (NPSIA, Carleton University).
  
  This article is meant to highlight the importance of political participation, and how it can be applied in all aspects of our lives. As an International Development student, I noticed that there were some gaps in addressing the relationship between topics of development and topics of political science, besides a couple overlapping introductory political philosophy classes. Though this post discusses political participation generally, the following are some questions to consider in the context of international development to further discussion on this topic: what role does political engagement play in relation to international development-related policies in Canada? What are some challenges/areas to be worked on?
Creative Connexion
- Advocacy 101: A Guide
  
  Kristina Babiakova, Vice President of Marketing (WorldVision Ottawa Youth Council).
  
  Advocacy 101: A Guide, explores foundational themes that exist in the world of advocacy. Such themes include how to get started as an advocate, exploring “voluntourism”, humanitarian and development aid, unconscious biases, “white saviourism”, and more!
- PODCAST: IntersectionaliTEA x IDW (EN)
  
  Huwayda, Conflict Studies and Human Rights graduate (University of Ottawa) and Karina, Juris Doctor and Master of Arts Student (University of Ottawa).
  
  Episode 1: COVID-19 and Displacement – In this special three part series for International Development Week (IDW) 2021, Karina and Huwayda take listeners through the journey of the refugee during the pandemic. This episode focuses on the broader impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees.
  
  Episode 2: Seeking Refuge in a Pandemic – In episode two of IntersectionaliTEA’s collaboration with IDW 2021, Karina and Huwayda discuss topics related to ethics, equity and emergency response while refugees are fleeing during the pandemic.
  
  Episode 3: COVID Impacts on Refugees in Host Countries – In episode three of IntersectionaliTEA’s collaboration with IDW 2021, Karina and Huwayda examine the pandemic-related public health response by host countries towards refugees.
- PODCAST: IntersectionaliTEA x SDI (FR)
  
  Karina, étudiante à la maîtrise ès arts et Doctorat en droit.
  
  Épisode 1: COVID-19 et déplacement – Dans cette série en trois parties en collaboration avec la Semaine de développement international (SDI) 2021, Karina et Huwayda vous ferons découvrir le parcours du réfugié pendant la COVID-19. Cet épisode se concentre sur les impacts plus larges de la pandémie sur les réfugiés.
  
  Épisode 2: À la recherche d’un refuge dans une pandémie – Dans le deuxième épisode de la collaboration de l’IntersectionaliTEA avec la SDI 2021, Karina et Huwayda discutent de sujets liés à l’éthique, l’équité et les interventions d’urgences pendant que les réfugiés fuient durant la pandémie.
  
  Épisode 3: L’impact du COVID sur les réfugiés dans les pays d’accueil – Dans le troisième épisode de la collaboration de l’IntersectionaliTEA avec la SDI 2021, Karina et Huwayda examinent la réponse de santé publique liée à la pandémie des pays d’accueil envers les réfugiés.
Supplementary Works
- IDW 2021 Final Report
  
  IDW 2021 Executive Committee
  
  In this post-conference report, delegates and the community have the opportunity to review, engage with, and continue the conversations that took place at IDW 2021. The report highlights the conference’s key events and speakers, provides notes from panel discussions, and outlines future opportunities.
- Globalization and Indigenous Food Security
  
  Avery Martin (she/her), recent graduate, Honours Bachelors in International Development and Globalisation (French Immersion), University of Ottawa.
  
  Is Indigenous food security and a return to traditional food systems possible within capitalism and globalisation? This paper explores how capitalism is intrinsically opposed to Indigenous traditional values and cannot coexist alongside each other in order to support Indigenous food security and sovereignty.