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Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada\u2019s Toughest Neighbourhood (V\u00e9hicule Press)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kathy Dobson<\/a>, PhD candidate in Communication, celebrates the release of her second book this spring.<\/p>\n

Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada\u2019s Toughest Neighbourhood<\/em> <\/a>(V\u00e9hicule Press, May 2018) is the sequel to Dobson\u2019s first book, With a Closed Fist: Growing up in Canada\u2019s Toughest Neighbourhood<\/em>, which drew on her experiences growing up in Point St. Charles\u2014a Montreal neighbourhood largely overlooked by local city and government officials, and once described in a National Film Board documentary as the \u201cToughest Neighbourhood in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dobson\u2019s doctoral research at Carleton\u2014for which she has received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship<\/a>, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and Ontario Graduate Scholarship\u2014examines how welfare fraud detection programs are used to support misleading media narratives about \u2018welfare cheats.\u2019<\/p>\n

Describe your upcoming book, Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada’s Toughest Neighbourhood.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the first book, With a Closed Fist: Growing up in Canada\u2019s Toughest Neighbourhood<\/em>, I shared the story about a group of militant mothers back in the 60s in Montreal who were fighting for social justice in an inner city neighbourhood. These women didn\u2019t hesitate to use guerrilla style tactics to achieve their goals. My mom was one of those mothers\u2014a single mother on social assistance\u2014trying to raise me and my five sisters while regularly getting arrested by the Montreal riot squad for leading sit-ins at the local welfare office, public school board, and camping out on the mayor\u2019s front lawn.<\/p>\n

For this second book, I want to show how growing up in poverty often carries a legacy that can continue to impact you in ways you may never have expected, even once you have \u2018escaped\u2019 poverty.<\/p>\n

Have you returned to Point St. Charles recently? What was that experience like?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I still have plenty of family and friends living in the Point, so yes, I like to visit as often as possible. I lived on so many streets in the Point that whenever I do visit it often feels like I\u2019m stepping back in time\u2014I have memories scattered throughout it so it\u2019s always a meaningful experience when I go back. The neighbourhood is gentrifying, so things have changed quite a bit and in some ways it\u2019s more difficult for the people living there. Condos and new shops have opened, but the socioeconomic reality for plenty of long-term Point families still hasn’t quite caught up.<\/p>\n

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Kathy Dobson, PhD candidate<\/p><\/div>\n

How do you straddle your dual identities as academic and author? Or do you perhaps not see them as separate?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I think working on my PhD here at Carleton has helped me become a more focused writer, as well as provided me a better framework and ability to describe the frustration and oppression faced by those living in poverty. My research has given me the \u2018language\u2019 to express what I previously had only felt anger over. I think working on my PhD has also helped me become more effective in conveying certain nuances in my writing.<\/p>\n

What stage are you at in your doctoral degree?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently in my 4th year of my PhD and I\u2019m truly loving the journey. It\u2019s an amazing program and the faculty are all wonderful. I\u2019ve always put a lot of background research into my work, and that\u2019s obviously a skill that\u2019s emphasized in a PhD program. A huge reason why I started off with this journey was I hoped it would make me a better journalist and researcher. What I didn\u2019t anticipate was how much I would learn about my area of research and learn to love doing research. It\u2019s such a privilege to be able to do this work under the guidance and support of some incredible mentors, including Sheryl Hamilton, Josh Greenberg, Irena Knezevic, and Merlyna Lim.<\/p>\n

Any ongoing\/upcoming projects on your plate?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m a full-time PhD student, the journalist in me in still very interested in covering certain stories whenever I can. I\u2019ve been working on a couple that have taken me to Mexico several times over the past year and in early May I\u2019ll be going back again, this time to interview someone who is an expert on poverty in Mexico. His work has obvious overlap with my own research, but the journalist in me is also very interested to talk to him about how he sees the bigger picture in terms of failures, potential success, and things that stand in the way. I\u2019m also working on a story based in Mexico that involves President Donald Trump in ways that I suspect won\u2019t surprise anyone.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also working with a movie producer right now, Judith Cogan-Andrews, to develop my first book into a film script. I\u2019ll admit it\u2019s actually been more difficult than I would have thought\u2014initially I think I imagined the process was just a matter of \u2018translating\u2019 the book into a script\u2014but as I\u2019ve been working with Judith, I\u2019ve learned that scriptwriting is basically a different language. Which makes sense of course, as every writing genre has it\u2019s own \u2018rules\u2019 that need to be mastered. It\u2019s exciting to think about the book possibly being brought to life in a movie, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathy Dobson, PhD candidate in Communication, celebrates the release of her second book this spring. 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