Dr. Giles' Publications
BOOKS
Rich, K., Smith, R., & Giles, A. R. (2024). Participatory research in sport and
physical activity. Routledge.
Forsyth, J., Giles, A. R. (Eds.). (2013). Aboriginal peoples and sport in Canada: Historical foundations and contemporary issues. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Castleden, H., Danby, R., Giles, A. R., & Pinnard, J. P. (Eds.) (2005). New northern lights: Graduate work in Circumpolar Studies at the University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press
JOURNAL ARTICLES (underline indicates student(s) as co-authors) (n = 151) (last updated Aug 2024)
Forde, S., Giles, A. R., Stewart-Withers, R., Rynne, S., Hapeta, J., Hayhurst, L. M. C.,
Henhawk, D. (in press). Sport for reconciliation? Federal sport policy in settler-colonial states. International Indigenous Policy Journal.
Khudadad, U., Karbakhsh, M., Yau, A., Rajabali, F., Zheng, A., Giles, A. R., & Pike, I. (2024).
Home injuries in British Columbia: Pattern across the deprivation
spectrum. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2024.2378124
Smith, S. V. M., Giles, A. R., & Darroch, F. E. (in press). Pregnancy, parenthood, and elite
athletics: “There’s a lot of work still yet to be done.” Sociology of Sport Journal.
Stewart-Withers, R., Hapeta, J., Rynne, S., Giles, A. R. (2024). Tino
rangatiratanga – Indigenous (Maori) sovereignty and the messy realities of reconciliation efforts at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Event Management.
Winters, M., Fuller, D., Cloutier, M-S, Harris, M.A., Howard, A., Kestens, Y., Kirk, S.F.L,
Macpherson, A., Moore, S.A., Rothman, L., Shareck, M., Tomasone, J., Laberee, K., Poirier-Stephens, Z., Sones, M., Ayton, D., Batomen, B., Bell, S., Collins, P.A., Diab, E., Giles, A., Hagel, B.E., Harris, M.S., Harris, P., Lachapelle, U., Manaugh, K., Mitra, R., Muhajarine, N., Muller Myrdahl, T., Pettit, C.J., Pike, I., Skouteris, H., Wachsmuth, D., Whitehurst, D.G.T. & Beck, B. (in press). Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: Protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities. BMJ Open. bmjopen-2024-085850.R1.
Holmes, A., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2024). “I keep forgetting them”: Lacrosse,
Indigenous women and girls, and reconciliation in Canada. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 59(1), 3-21.
McRae, N., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2024). Safe sport for whom?: Are National Sport
Organizations addressing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action for sport through safe sport policies? International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 1(aop),1 -19.
Smith, S. V. M., Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2024). Fatherhood in elite athletics: Sacrifice,
selfishness, and gaining “dad strength.” The Journal of Men’s Studies, 32(1), 152-177.
Bell, L., Giles, A. R., & Hapeta, J. (2023). Reconciliation within the National Rugby League:
Where art and sport intersect. Sport and Social Issues, 26(9), 1549-1566
Carpenter, J., & Giles, A. R. (2023). Similarities and differences in male and female
First Nations hockey players’ experiences of moving away from their home communities to play elite hockey in the Canadian mainstream context. Sport in Society, 1(aop), 1-20.
Darroch, F.E., Smith, S., Sheppard-Perkins, M., Giles, A.R., & Wykes, D. (2023). Exploring
the stress of Olympic postponement due to COVID-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant track athletes. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5, 1001127.
Fabian, T., & Giles, A. R. (2023). Reviving culture and reclaiming youth: Representations of
traditional Indigenous games in mainstream Canadian and Indigenous media. Journal of
Sport for Development, 11(1).
Fabian, T., Rynne, S., Hapeta, J., & Giles, A. R. (2023). The pedagogization of
traditional Indigenous games in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education,1(aop), 1-7.
Frazer, H., Giles, A. R. (2023). Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools
in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis. Submitted to the International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 82(1), 2276983.
Forde, S., Giles, A. R., Nachman, J., Fabian, T., Giancarlo, A., Hayhurst, L. M., C., & Henhawk,
D. (2023). Conceptualizing sport for reconciliation in settler states. Journal for Sport for Development, 11(1).
Hamer, J., & Giles, A. R. (2023). Dominant discourses at play: How children’s soccer
coaches of mixed-sex programs in Ontario, Canada, understand sex and gender. International Sport Coaching Journal, 11(1), 20-30.
Moreau-Johson, F., Quirion, J., & Giles, A. R. (2023). Mentoring faculty: Impact,
gender, and dyads vs. groups: Lessons learned over time. Mentoring and Tutoring, 31(4), 532-551.
Schmanda, L., Giles. A. R., Martin, C., & Liddell, M. (2023). Very similar to having a pimp”:
Community advisory board members’ experiences in health-related community-based participatory research. Aporia: The Nursing Journal, 15(1).
Scott, T., Smith, S., Darroch, F.E., & Giles, A.R. (2023). Selling vs supporting motherhood: How corporate sponsors frame the parenting experiences of elite and Olympic athletes. Communication & Sport, 11(6), 1181-1202.
Webb, J., Darroch, F. E., Giles, A. R., & Olliffe, J. (2023). Making moves: Involved fathers’
experiences of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside family walking program. Qualitative
Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, 15(4), 532-546.
Millington, R., Giles, A.R., Hayhurst, L., & van Luijk, N. (2022). Sport for sustainability? The extractives industry, sport for development and the triple bottom line. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 46(3), 293-317
Bauer, M. E. E., Giles, A. R., & Brussoni, M. (2022). “Everyone’s daddy is trained to kill
people”: Military mothers’ feelings of responsibility for their children’s safety during outdoor risky play. Journal of Leisure Research.
Darroch, F.E., Schneeberg, A., Brodie, R., Ferraro, Z., Wykes, D., Hira, S., Giles, A. R., Adamo,
K., & Stellingwerff, T. (2022). Impact of pregnancy in elite to world- class runners on training and performance outcomes. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Haggar, A., & Giles, A. R. (2022). An intersectional analysis of the recruitment and
participation of second-generation African Canadian adolescent girls in a community basketball program in Ottawa, Canada. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal.
Lynch, M., & Giles, A. R. (2022). Using diffusion of innovations theory to
evaluate a heathy corner store pilot program. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition.
McCullogh, E., Richmond, S., & Giles, A. R., et al. (2022). Using the social determinants
of health to understand the barriers and facilitators to built environment change decision-
making in five Canadian municipalities. Journal of Transportation and Health.
McCullogh, E., Macpherson, A., Hagel, B., Giles, A. R., Fuselli, P., Pike, I., Torres, J.,
Richmond, S. (in press). Road safety, health equity, and the built environment: Perspectives of transport and injury prevention professionals in five Canadian municipalities. BMJ Public Health.
Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L., Giles, A. R., Stewart-Withers, R., & Henhawk, D. (2022)
Indigenous youth (non-)participation in Euro-Canadian sport: Applying theories of
refusal. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Webb, J. M., Giles, A. G., & Darroch, F. D. (2022). Absent and problematic: The
Representation of fathers in the program policies of organizations that provide family-
centred services in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 32(6), 1643-1654.
Denzin, S., & Giles, A. R. (2022). Employment with the Northwest Territories Aquatics
Program: A significant life event? International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education
Latino, S., Giles, A. R., Rynne, S., & Hayhurst, L. M (2022). Extractives companies’ social
media portrayals of their funding of sport for development in Indigenous communities in Canada and Australia. Communication and Sport https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795211069578
Roberts, C., Darroch, F., Giles, A., & van Bruggen, R. (2022). You’re carrying so many people’s
stories: Vicarious trauma among fly-in fly-out mental health service providers in Canada. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 17(1), 2040089. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2022.2040089.
Rumford-Rogers, H., Giles, A. R., & Scobie, W. (2022). Christian summer camps for Indigenous
youth: A settler colonial analysis. Leisure/Loisir. https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2022.2054457
van Luijk, N., Giles, A.R., Millington, R., & Hayhurst, L. (2021). The extractives industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada? Annals of Leisure Research, 24(1), 72-91.
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M., & Giles, A R. (2021). Rural mothers’ perspectives on keeping their children safe during outdoor play: “It’s hard to raise a child in a small community”. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2021.1902827
Bauer, M. E. E., Giles, A. R., & Brussoni, M. (2021). “As long as there’s no mortal risk”: The perspectives of combat arms members on children’s outdoor risky play. Qualitative Research in Sports, Exercise & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.2019097
Bauer, M. E. E., Giles, A. R., & Brussoni, M. (2021). “I’ve seen what evil men do”: Military mothering and children’s outdoor risky play. Leisure Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2021.1920521
Bauer, M. E. E., & Giles, A. R. (2021). Militarized masculinities in the home: “I’m not your army
buddy – I’m your wife”. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2021.2017724
Contini, N., Giles, A. R., Giesbrecht, G., & Raddi, T. (2021). The adaptation of the Beyond Cold Water Bootcamp Course for Inuvialuit communities in Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health.
Rajwani, Y., Giles, A. R., Forde, S. (2021). Canadian National Sport Organizations’ responses to
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and settler silence. Submitted to Sociology of Sport Journal.
Ollier, M., Giles, A. R., Etter, M., Ruttan, J., Elanik, N., Goose, R., & Ipana, E. (2020).
Promoting a culturally safe evaluation of an on-the-land wellness program in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Arctic, 73(3), 312-325
Quinton, J., Giles, A. R., Rich. K. (2021). Missing masculinities: The need for gender
transformative approaches in water safety promotion for men. Health Promotion Journal of Australia.https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.490
Roberts, C., Darroch, F. E., Giles, A. R., & van Bruggen, R. (2021). Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C-OVID-19: Adaptations for fly-in and fly-out mental health providers during COVID-19. International Journal of Circumpolar Health.
Giles, A. R., & Oncescu, J. (2021). Single women’s leisure during the coronavirus pandemic.
Leisure Sciences, 43(1-2), 204-210.
Quinton, J., Giles, A. R., Rich. K. (2021). Missing masculinities: The need for gender transformative approaches in water safety promotion for men. Health Promotion Journal of Australia.https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.490
Giles, A. R., & Oncescu, J. (2021). Single women’s leisure during the coronavirus pandemic. Leisure Sciences, 43(1-2), 204-210.
Ollier, M., Giles, A. R., Etter, M., Ruttan, J., Elanik, N., Goose, R., & Ipana, E. (2020). Promoting a culturally safe evaluation of an on-the-land wellness program in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Arctic, 73(3), 312-325
Millington, R., Hayhurst, L., Giles, A.R., & Rynne, S. (in press). ‘Back in the day, you just opened your mine and on you went’: Extractives industry perspectives on sport for development in Indigenous communities in Canada." Journal of Sport Management, 34(6), 521-532.
van Luijk, N., Giles, A.R., Millington, R., & Hayhurst, L. (2021). The extractives industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada? Annals of Leisure Research, 24(1), 72-91.
van Luijk, N., Giles, A., Frigault, J., Millington, R., & Hayhurst, L. (2020). ‘It's like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in a small northern Alberta community. Leisure/Loisir. https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2020.1745670
Bauer, M. E. E., Giles, A. R., Marianayagam, J., & Toth, K. (2020). Kids Don’t Float… and their parents don’t either: Using a family-centered approach in Alaska’s Kids Don’t Float program. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 12(9).
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M., & Giles, A. R. (2020). Categorizing mothers’ and fathers’ conceptualizations of children’s serious play-related injuries: “You won’t grow a finger back”. Child: Care, Health and Development, 1-7. http://doi:10.1111/cch.12761
Bauer, M. E. E., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Where are all the gay fathers?: Reflections on recruiting gay fathers in leisure research. Leisure Studies, 1-9. http://doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1684979
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M., & Giles, A. R. (2020). Categorizing mothers’ and fathers’ conceptualizations of children’s serious play-related injuries: “You won’t grow a finger back”. Child: Care, Health and Development, 1-7. http://doi:10.1111/cch.12761
Brooks-Cleator, L., Giles, A. R. (2020). A postcolonial discourse analysis of community stakeholders’ perspectives on supporting urban Indigenous older adults to age well in Ottawa, Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 11, 1-22. doi:10.18584/iipj.2020.11.1.9443
Crozier, M., & Giles, A. R. (2018). Culturally and geographically adapted boating safety interventions in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 38(2), 43-64.
Crozier, M., & Giles, A. R. (2020). Promising practices for boating safety initiatives that target Indigenous peoples in New Zealand, Australia, the United States of America, and Canada. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 12(4), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.25035/ijare.12.04.08
Frigault, J., & Giles, A. R. (2020). Culturally safe falls prevention programs for Inuvialuit Elders in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada: Considerations for development and implementation. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadianne du vieillissement. 39(2), 329-329. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980819000308
Giles, A. R., Bauer, M. E., Jull, J. (2020). Equity as the Fourth “E” in the “3 E’s” Approach to injury prevention. Injury Prevention, 26(1), 82-84. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043407
Glass, C. T. R., & Giles, A. R. (2020). Community-based risk messaging: Examples
from boating safety in Inuvik. Health Promotion International, 35(3), 555-561. https:/doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz042
Lawford, K., Giles, A. R., & Bourgeault, I. (2019). This policy sucks and it's stupid:" Mapping maternity care for First Nations women on reserves in Manitoba, Canada. Health Care for Women International, 40(12), 1302-1335. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2019.1639706
van Luijk, N., Giles, A. R., Frigault, J., Millington, R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2020). ‘It's like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort McKay, Alberta. Leisure/Loisir, 44(1), 77-104. https://doi.org/101080/14927713.2020.1745670
Bauer, M. E. E., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Exploring single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives of masculinity and the influence they have on their understandings of their 4-12 year old children’s outdoor risky play. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 27(1), 108-125.
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M. Giles, A. R., & Fuselli, P. (2019). Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997-2016. Injury Prevention, 25(2), 104-109. doi: 10/1126/ injuryprev-2017-042442
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Community-level factors that contribute to First Nations and Inuit older adults feeling supported to age well in a Canadian city. Journal of Aging Studies, 48, 50-59.
Darroch, F. E., Giles, A. R., Hillsburg, H., & McGettigan-Dumas, R. (2019). Running from responsibility: Athletic governing bodies, corporate sponsors, and the failure to support pregnant and postpartum elite female distance runners. Sport in Society, 22(12), 2141-2160.
Frigault, J., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Understanding fall risk factors for Inuvialuit Elders in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic, 72(1), 13-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic67856
Glass, C. T. R., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Risk factors for boating incidents in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 10(4), 1-16. doi: 10.25035/ijare.10.04.02
Lynch, M., Brooks-Cleator, L., Giles, A. R., & Rumford, M. H. (2019). “RIP
KFC”: Public perceptions of a fast-food restaurant closure. Ecology of Food and
Nutrition, 58(2), 120-141.
Millington, R., Giles, A. R., Hayhurst, L. M. C., van Luijk, N., & McSweeny, M. (2019)
‘Calling out’ corporate redwashing: The extractives industry, corporate social responsibility and sport for development in Indigenous communities in Canada. Sport and Social Issues,1-19. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F17430437.2019.1567494
Bauer, M. E. E., & Giles, A. R. (2018). Single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives on their 4-12 year-old children’s outdoor risky play behaviour and "good” fathering. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(5), 704-719. doi:https://doi-org.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/10.1080/2159676X.2018.1550665
Bauer, M. E. E., & Giles, A. R. (2018). The need for Inuit parents' perspectives on
outdoor risky play. Polar Record, 54(3), 237-240. doi:10.1017/S0032247418000360
Brooks-Cleator, L., Phillips, B., & Giles, A. R. (2018). Culturally Safe Health Initiatives for
Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A Scoping Review. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 50(4), 202-213.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., Rynne, St., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2018). A
comparison of Indigenous sport for development policy directives in Canada and
Australia. aboriginal policy studies, 7(2), 29-46. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5663/aps.v7i2.
Gartner-Manzon, S., & Giles, A. R. (2018). Lasting impacts of an Aboriginal youth leadership retreat? A case study of Alberta’s Future Leaders Program. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 18(4), 338-352. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2018.1470937
Giles, A. R., Bauer, M. E. E., Darroch, F. E. (2018). Risky statement?: A critique of the Position
Statement on Active Outdoor Play. World Leisure Journal, 61(1), 58-66.
McGuire-Adams, T., & Giles, A. R. (2018). Anishinaabekweg diabaajimowinan (stories) of
decolonization through physical activity. Sociology of Sport Journal, 35(3), 207-215.
Lawford, K.M., Giles, A.R., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2018). Health Canada’s evacuation policy for
pregnant First Nations women in Manitoba: Resignation, resilience, and resistance. Women and Birth, 31(6), 479-488.
Jull, J., Giles, A., Boyer, Y., Stacey, D., Minwaashin Lodge - The Aboriginal Women’s Support
Centre. (2018). Building and enacting ethical research processes: The example of culturally adapting a decision making strategy. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 17(3), 671-686.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2017). Understanding the
privatization of funding for sport for development in the Northwest Territories, Canada:
A Foucauldian analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 3, 541-555. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2017.1310742
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2017). Sport for
development for Aboriginal youth in Canada: A scoping review. Journal of Sport for Development, 5(8),30-40.
Jull, J., Giles, A. R., & Graham, I. D. (2017). Community-based participatory research and
integrated knowledge translation: Advancing the co-creation of knowledge. Implementation Science, 12, 1-9.
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2017). Conception of a resource: Development
of a physical activity and healthy living resource with/for pregnant urban Aboriginal
women in Ottawa, Canada. Qualitative Research in Sport, Health, and
Physical Activity, 9(2), 157-169. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2016.1246471
Darroch, F. E., Giles, A. R., & McGettigan-Dumas, R. (2016). Elite female distance runners and advice during pregnancy: Sources, content, and trust. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 24(2), 170-176. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2015-0040
Forsyth, J., Lodge-Gagné, V., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Negotiating difference: How
Aboriginal athletes in the Maritimes brokered their involvement in Canadian sport. International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(16), 1943-1962.
Giles, A. R., Phillips, B., Darroch, F. E., McGettigan-Dumas, R. (2016). Breastfeeding and
elite female distance runners: A qualitative study. Journal of Human Lactation, 32(4), 627-632. doi:10.1177/0890334416661507
Golob, M., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Leisure-oriented entrepreneurship in
Canada: Sites for non-European immigrants’ civic engagement. Journal of
Multicultural Discourses, 12(1), 27-41.
Lawford, K., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Kivalliq Inuit Centre boarding home and the
provision of prenatal education. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 75, 32213.
Ockenden, H., Gunnell, K., Giles, A. R., Nerenberg, K., Goldfield, G., Manyanga, T., Adamo,
K. (2016). Development and preliminary validation of a comprehensive questionnaire to assess women’s knowledge and perception of the current weight gain guidelines during pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(12), 1187-1205. doi:10.3390/ijerph13121187
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Culturally relevant physical activity through Elders in Motion: Physical activity programming for older Aboriginal adults in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 31(4), 449-470.
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Physical activity for older Aboriginal adults: A call for cultural safety. PHEnex Journal, 7(3), 1-14. Retrieved from http://ojs.acadiau.ca/index.php/phenex/article/view/1615/1339
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Physical activity policy for older adults in the Northwest Territories, Canada: Gaps and opportunities for gains. Arctic, 69(2), 169-176. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4564
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2016). A discourse analysis of urban Aboriginal women’s
description of pregnancy-related weight gain and physical activity. Women and Birth,
29(1), e23-32.
Darroch, F.E., Giles, A. R., Sanderson, P., Brooks-Cleator, L. A., Joseph, D., & Nosker, R.
(2016). The USA does CAIR about cultural safety: Examining cultural safety within Canadian and USA contexts. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Advance online publication. doi:1043659616634170
Gardam, K., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Media representations of policies
concerning education access and their roles in seven First Nations students’ deaths in northern Ontario. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 7(1) http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol7/iss1/1
Hayhurst, L. M., Giles, A. R., & Wright, J. (2016). Biopedagogies and Indigenous
knowledge: Examining sport for development and peace for Indigenous urban young women in Canada and Australia. Sport, Education, & Society, 21(4), 549-569.
Manzon-Gartner, S., & Giles, A. R. (2016). A case study of the lasting impacts of
employment in a development through sport, recreation, and the arts program for
Aboriginal youth. Sport in Society, 19(2).
Rovito, A., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Outside Looking In: Resisting colonial discourses of
Aboriginality. Leisure Sciences, 38(1).
Aylward, E., Abu-Zahra, & Giles, A. R. (2015). Mobility and Nunavut Inuit youth: Lessons
from Northern Youth Abroad. Journal of Youth Studies, 18(5).
Hayhurst, L. M. C., Giles, A. R., & Radforth, W. (2015). “I want to come here to prove
them wrong”: Examining a sport, gender and development program for urban Indigenous young women in Vancouver, Canada. Sport in Society, 18(5), 553-568.
doi:10.1080/17430437.2014.997585
Giles, A. R., Hognestad, S., & Brooks-Cleator, L. A. (2015). The need for cultural safety in
injury prevention. Public Health Nursing, 32(5), 543-549.
Jull, J., Giles, A. R., Minwaashin Lodge The Aboriginal Women's Support Centre, Boyer , Y.,
& Stacey, D. (2015). Cultural adaptation of a shared decision-making tool with Aboriginal women: A qualitative study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 15(1). doi:10.1186/s12911-015-0129-7
Jull, J., Minwasshin Lodge, Stacey, D., Boyer, Y., & Giles, A. R. (2015). Health decision making with Aboriginal women: A qualitative study identifying needs, supports, and barriers to shared decision-making. AlterNative, 11(4), 401-416.
McClelland, C., & Giles, A. R. (2015). Health Matters: The social impacts of
street-involved youths’ participation in a structured leisure program. Leisure
Studies. doi:10.1080/02614367.2014.994549
Forsyth, J., Giles, A. R., & Lodge-Gagne, V. (2014). Pride and prejudice: How Aboriginal
women have experienced Canadian sport. In (G. Demers, L. Greaves, S. Kirby, & M. Lay (Eds.), Playing it forward: 50 years of women and sport in Canada (pp. 210 – 328). Ottawa, Canada: Feminist History Society.
McClelland, C., & Giles, A. R. (2014). Street-involved youths’ unstructured leisure:
Activities and their social consequences. Leisure/Loisir, 38(2), 119-138.
Rich, K., & Giles, A. R. (2015). Managing diversity to provide culturally safe sport
programming: A case study of the Canadian Red Cross’ Swim Program. Journal of Sport
Management, 29(3), 305-317.
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2015). Health/service providers’ perspectives
of barriers to healthy weight gain and physical activity in pregnant, urban First Nations women. Qualitative Health Research. pii: 1049732315576497 (eprint).
Golob, M. I., & Giles, A. R. (2015). Multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and immigrant
minorities’ involvement in the formation and operation of leisure-oriented ventures.
Leisure Studies, 34(1), 98-113.
Darroch, F. E. & Giles, A.R. (2014). Decolonizing health research: Community-based
participatory research and postcolonial feminist theory. Canadian Journal of Action Research, 15(3), 22-36.
Ensign, P., Giles, A. R., & Oncescu, J. (2014). Natural resource development in northern
Canada. Journal of Rural Community Development, 9(1), 112-133.
Giles, A. R., Stadig, G. S., Darroch, F. E., Lynch, M., Doucette Issaluk, M., & the
Municipality of Pangnirtung. (2014). Using a public health approach to understand “skipping” snowmobiles in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada. International Journal of Aquatics Research and Education, 8, 351 – 367.
Giles, A. R. (2014). Commentary: Making the case for increased funding for social
sciences and humanities research in northern Canada. Polar Record, 2, 215 – 218.
Giles, A. R., Brooks Cleator, L., McGuire-Adams, T., & Darroch, F. (2014). Drowning in
the social determinants of health: Understanding policy’s role in high rates of drowning in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Aboriginal Policy Studies, 3(1-2), 198-213.
Giles, A. R., & Darroch, F. E. (2014). The need for culturally safe physical activity
promotion and programs. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 105(4): e317-e319
Oncescu, J., & Giles, A. R. (2014). Community revitalization: The impact of a rural school’s
closure on individuals without school-aged children. Journal of Rural Community Development, 9(3), 295–318.
Rich, K., & Giles, A. R. (2014). Examining whiteness and Eurocanadian discourses in the
Canadian Red Cross’ Swimming and Water Safety Program. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 38(5) 465–485.
Aylward, E. A., Giles, A. R., & Abu-Zahra, N. (2013). Nunavut Inuit youth and leadership:
Perspectives from the Northern Youth Abroad Program. Inuit Studies, 37(2), 161-179.
Brooks, L. A., Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Policy (mis)alignment: Addressing
Type 2 diabetes in First Nations communities in Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal 4(2), 1-19.
Coleby, J., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Discourses at work in media reports on Right To Play’s
“Promoting Life-Skills in Aboriginal Youth” program. Journal of Sport for Development, 1(2), 1-14.
Giles, A. R., Strachan, S. M., Doucette, M. M., Stadig, G. S., & the Municipality of Pangnirtung.
(2013). Using the vulnerability approach to understand aquatic-based risk and adaptation due to climate change in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Arctic, 66(2), 207 – 217.
Golob, M. I., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Challenging and transforming power relations within
community-based participatory research: A Foucauldian analysis. Qualitative Research
in Sport, Exercise, and Health, 5(3), 356-372.
Hayhurst, L. M. C., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Private and moral authority, self-determination, and
the “domestic transfer objective:” Sport for development and peace in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Sociology of Sport Journal, 30(3), 504-519.
Lynch, M., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Let them eat organic cake: Discourses in sustainable
food initiatives. Food, Culture & Society, 16(3), 479-493.
Oncescu, J., & Giles, A. R. (2013). A rural school’s closure: Impacts on volunteers’ gender
roles. Rural Society, 23(1), 2-19.
Rich, K., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Contextually appropriate aquatic programming in Canada’s
North: The Shallow Water Pool Lifeguard Certification. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 33(1).
Baker, A. C., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Cultural safety: A framework for interactions between
Aboriginal patients and Canadian family medicine practitioners. Journal of Aboriginal Health, 9(1), 15-22
Bertrand, J. A., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Healthy Learners in Schools Program: New Brunswick’s
comprehensive school health approach. PHENex: Physical and Health Education Academic Journal, 4(2), 1-10.
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Weighing expectations: A post-colonial feminist critique
of exercise recommendations during pregnancy. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 10(3), 301-311.
Golob, M. I., Giles, A. R., Rich, K. (2012). Identifying promising practices for enhancing the
relevance and effectiveness of water safety education for ethnic and cultural minorities. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 6, 39-55.
Jull, J., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Health equity, Aboriginal peoples and occupational
therapy: Will we choose to act? Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(2), 70-76
Jull, J., Stacey, D., Giles, A. R., Boyer, Y., & Minwaashin Lodge (2012). Shared decision-
making and health for First Nations, Métis and Inuit women: A study protocol. BMC
Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12(146), 1-9.
Lawford, K., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Marginalization and coercion: Canada’s evacuation policy
for pregnant First Nations women who live on reserves in rural and remote regions. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 10(3), 327-340.
Lawford, K., & Giles, A. R. (2012). The routine evacuation of pregnant First Nations women
living on-reserve in rural and remote Canada: A First Nations feminist analysis. AlterNative, 8(3), 329-342.
Oncescu, J., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Changing relationships: The impact of a rural school closure
on families with school-aged children. Leisure/Loisir, 36(2), 107-126.
Rousell, D., & Giles, A. R. (2012). Leadership, power and racism: Lifeguards’ influences on
Aboriginal people’s experiences at a Northern Canadian aquatic facility. Leisure Studies,
4(31), 409-428.
Apostolis, N., & Giles, A. R. (2011). Portrayals of women golfers in the 2008 issues of Golf
Digest. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28(2), 226-238.
Dorken, S., & Giles, A. R. (2011). From ribbon to wrist shot: An autoethnography of (a)typical
feminine/ist sport development. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 20(1), 13-22.
Golob, M., & Giles, A. R. (2011). Canadian multicultural citizenship: Constraints on
immigrants’ leisure pursuits. World Leisure Journal, 53(4), 312-321. doi:10.1080/04419057.2011.630788
Irving, H., & Giles, A. R. (2011). Dance, dance revolution?: Responding to dominant discourses
in contemporary integrated dance. Leisure/Loisir, 35(4), 371-389.
Irving, H. (2011), & Giles, A. R. (2011). Examining the child’s impact on single mothers’ leisure. Leisure Studies, 30(3), 365-373.
Nicholls, S., Giles, A. R., & Sethna, C. (2011). Perpetuating the ‘lack of evidence’ discourse in
sport for development: Privileged voices, unheard stories and subjugated knowledge. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 46, 249-264.
Rousell, D., & Giles, A. R. (2011). Displacing authoritarian leadership in K’atlodeeche/Hay
River Reserve, Northwest Territories. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 31(1), 51-71.
Bertrand, J., & Giles, A. R. (2010). New Brunswick’s Community School approach: A
form of Comprehensive School Health? PHENex: Physical and Health Education Academic Journal, 2(2), 1-11.
Giles, A. R. &, Castleden, H. & Baker, A. C. (2010). “We listen to our Elders. You live
longer that way”: Examining aquatic risk communication and water safety practices in Canada’s North. Health and Place, 16, 1-9.
Giles, A. R., Strachan, S. M., Stadig, G. S., & Baker, A. C. (2010). “Don’t be scared,
you don’t have to wear a lifejacket”: Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to understand lifejacket usage in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Polar Record, 46, 328-335.
Giles, A. R., & Castleden, H. (2008). Community co-authorship in academic publishing: A
commentary. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 31(1), 208-213.
Baker, A. C., & Giles, A. R. (2008). Pedagogy of the front float: A reflection on
dialogue, aquatics programming and research in Taloyoak, Nunavut. Arctic, 61(3), 233-
242.
Giles, A. R. (2008). Beyond ‘add women and stir’: Politics, feminist development, and Dene
games. Leisure/Loisir, 32(2), 489-512.
Giles, S. M., & Giles, A. R. (2008). “Industrious, submissive, and free of diseases”: 156
years of medicine in Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 13(3), 111-130.
Rose, A., & Giles, A. R. (2007). Alberta’s Future Leaders Program: A case study of
Aboriginal youth and community development. Canadian Journal of Native Studies,
XXVII(2), 425-450.
Giles, A. R., Baker, A. C., & Rousell, D. D. (2007). Diving beneath the surface: The NWT
Aquatics Program and implications for Aboriginal health. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 5(1), 25-49.
Giles, A. R., & Forsyth, J. (2007). On common ground: Power, knowledge, and practice
in the study of Aboriginal sport and recreation. Journal of Sport and Leisure, 1(1), 1-20.
Giles, A. R., & Williams, DJ. (2007). Are we afraid of our selves?: Self-narrative research in
leisure. World Leisure Journal, 49(4), 189-198.
Nicholls, S. &, Giles, A. R. (2007). Sport as a tool for HIV/AIDS education: A potential
catalyst for change. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 5(1), 51-85.
Giles, A. R. (2005). A Foucaultian approach to menstrual practices in the Dehcho, Northwest
Territories, Canada. Arctic Anthropology, 24(2), 9-21.
Giles, A. R. (2005). The acculturation matrix and the politics of difference: Women and Dene
games. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, XXV(1), 341-358.
Giles, A. R. (2004). Kevlar, Crisco, and menstruation: “Tradition” and Dene Games. Sociology
of Sport Journal, 21(1), 18-35.
Giles, A. R. (2002). Sport Nunavut’s gender equity policy: Reality, rhetoric, and relevance.
Canadian Woman Studies Journal, 22(3), 95-99.
Giles, A. R. (2001). (An)Other in the (un)making: Participation in sporting opportunities for
Aboriginal peoples in Canada. AVANTE, 7(2), 84-91.
BOOK CHAPTERS (underline indicates student(s) as co-authors) (n=30)
Bennie, A., Hapeta, J., Henhawk, D., & Giles, A. R. (in press). Addressing the needs of
Indigenous children?: Coach education programs in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia. In M. Toms & R. Jeanes, Handbook of coaching children in sport. Taylor & Francis.
Darroch, F.E., Smith, S., Giles, A.R., & Hillsburg, H. (2024). Jogging towards responsibility:
Athletic governing bodies, corporate sponsors, and calls to action to support pregnant and parenting elite distance runners. In S. Ortiz (Ed.), Emergent sociological issues in family and sport. Emerald Publishing.
Giles, A. R., Oncescu, J., Smith, Ritondo, T., Peterson, B. (2024). Secondary traumatic stress
and community-based participatory research in sport and physical activity. In K. Rich, R. Smith, & A. R. Giles (Eds.), Participatory research in sport and physical activity. Routledge.
Giles, A. R., Stewart-Withers, R., Hapeta, J., & Rynne, S. (2024) Analysing
data in community-based research with Indigenous communities: Indigenous and settler
researchers’ perspectives on “unlocking” the next level. In K. Rich, R. Smith, & A. R. Giles (Eds.), Participatory research in sport and physical activity. Routledge
Khudadad, U., Peterson, B., Ritondo, T., & Giles, A. R. (2024). Challenging
practices: Community members’ participation in data analysis and authorship. In K. Rich, R. Smith, & A. R. Giles (Eds.), Participatory research in sport and physical activity. Routledge.
Giles, A. R., Gardam, K., Millington, R., Rynne, S., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (2022). The
extractives industry, Indigenous communities, and the use of sport, recreation and cultural programs in catastrophic environments In J. Black & J. Cherrington, Physical activity and sporting practices in catastrophic environments (pp. 54-70). Routledge.
van Luijk, N., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2020). Extractive industries and sport for
development: How is Right To Play promoting environmental sustainability in Indigenous communities? In B. Wilson & B. Millington (Eds.), Sport and the future: Politics and preferred futures (pp. 47-67). Emerald.
Giles, A. R., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L. M. C., Rossi, A. (2019). Sport for development and
Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Australia. In S.C. Darnell, R. Giulianotti, D. Howe, &
H. Collison Routledge handbook on sport for development and peace (pp. 453-463). Routledge.
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A.R. (2019). Missing voices in ageing well frameworks: A
postcolonial critique. In I. Apostolova & M. Lanoix (Eds.), Ageing in an ageing society: Critical reflections (pp. 185-202). Sheffield, United Kingdom: Equinox.
Paraschak, C., Golob, M. Forsyth, J., & Giles, A. R. (2019). Physical culture, sport, ethnicity and race in Canada. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.). Sport and physical culture in Canadian society (pp. 90-115). Pearson.
Rynne, S. B., Rossi, T., Giles, A. R., & Currey, C. (2019). Becoming an agent of change: Key
strategies for the development of coaches in Indigenous sport for development contexts. In B. Callary & B. Gearity (Eds.), Coach education and development in sport: Instructional strategies (pp. 26-271). Routledge.
Giles, A. R., Brooks-Cleator, L. A., Glass, C. T. R. (2017). Barriers to sustainable health
promotion and injury prevention in the Northwest Territories, Canada. In G. Fondahl & G. Wilson (Eds.), Northern sustainabilities (pp. 151-162). Springer.
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R., Tremblay, S. (2016). Walk to Tuk. In N. Vaugeois & P. Parker (Eds.), Innovative leisure practices: Cases as conduits between theory and practice (pp. 83-93). World Leisure.
Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A. R., & Wright, J. (2016). The benefits and challenges of girl-
focused Indigenous sport for development programs in Australia and Canada. L.M.C. Hayhurst, T. Kay & M. Chawansky (Eds.), Beyond sport for development and peace: Transnational perspectives on theory, policy and practice (pp. 111-127). Routledge.
Giles, A. R., Brooks-Cleator, L.A., Glass, C.T.R., Darroch, F. E., & McGuire-Adams, T. (2015).
Drowning prevention. In Parachute Canada (Ed.), Canadian injury prevention resource. Toronto, Canada: Parachute Canada.
Giles, A. R., McGuire-Adams, T., & Darroch, F. E. (2014). A checklist of skills, knowledge, and
considerations for university-based researchers and Indigenous communities . In N. Gros-Louis McHugh, K. Gentelet, & S. Basile (Eds.), Toolbox of principles for research in indigenous contexts: Ethics, respect, equity, reciprocity, collaboration and culture. Val d’Or, Canada: First Nations of Québec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission, Centre de recherche en droit public de l’université de Montréal, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
Galipeau, M., & Giles, A. R. (2014). An examination of cross-cultural mentorship in
Alberta’s Future Leaders Program. In K. Young & C. Okada (Eds.), Research in the
sociology of sport (pp, 147-170). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Giles, A. R. (2013). It takes several northern communities to raise a reflexive and effective sport researcher. In R. Schinke & R. Lidor (Eds.), Stories of sport for peace. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science
Rovito, A., & Giles, A. R. (2013). Youth development through recreation: Eurocentric influences and Aboriginal self-determination. In C. Hallinan & B. Judd (Eds.), Native games: Indigenous peoples and sports in the post-colonial world (pp. 183-203). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Ensign, P.C., Giles, A. R, & Reed, M.G. (2011). National (labour) migration. In D. Carson, R. Rasmussen, P. C. Ensign, L. Huskey, & A. Taylor (Eds.), Demography at the edge: Remote human populations in developed nations (pp. 189-212). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Forsyth, J., Giles, A. R., Lodge-Gagné, V. (2013). Pride and prejudice: How Aboriginal women have experienced Canadian sport. In Demers, G., Greaves, L., Kirby, S., Lay, M. (Eds.), Playing it forward: 50 years of women and sport in Canada (pp. 201-213). Toronto, ON: Feminist History Society.
Giles, A. R. (2013). “Developing” women’s and girls’ participation in Dene games at the Arctic Winter Games. In V.J. Freysinger, K. A. Henderson, K.A., S. M. Shaw, S.M., & M. D. Bialeschki, Leisure, women, and gender (pp. 479-490. State College, PA: Venture Publishing.
Giles, A. R. (2013). Women’s and girls’ participation in Dene games in the Northwest Territories. In J. Forsyth & A. R. Giles, Red and white: Aboriginal sport in Canada (pp. 145-159). Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Giles, A. R., & Lynch, M. (2012). Postcolonial and feminist critiques of sport for development. In R. Schinke (Ed.), Development through sport (pp. 89-104). Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.
Giles, A. R. (2010). Menstruation and Dene physical practices. In D. Holmes & Trudy Ridge (Eds.), Abjectly boundless: Boundaries, bodies, and health work (pp. 33-48). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Giles, A. R. & Baker, A. C. (2007). Culture, colonialism, and competition: Youth sport culture in Canada's North. In M. Donnelly & M. Giardina (Eds.), Youth cultures & sport: Identity, power, and politics (pp. 161-173). London: Routledge.
Giles, A. R. (2005). Letting stories loose in the world. In, H. Castleden, R. Danby, A. Giles, & J. P. Pinnard (Eds), New northern lights: Graduate work in Circumpolar Studies at the University of Alberta (pp. 88-104). Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press.