Dr. Giles' Publications
BOOKS
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 = 83)
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M., Giles, A. R., & Fuselli, P. (in press). Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997-2016. Injury Prevention.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (in press). Understanding the privatization of funding for sport for development in the Northwest Territories, Canada: A Foucauldian analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (in press). Sport for development for Aboriginal youth in Canada: A scoping review. Journal of Sport for Development.
Gartner-Manzon, S., & Giles, A. R. (in press). Lasting impacts of an Aboriginal youth leadership retreat? A case study of Alberta’s Future Leaders Program. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
McGuire-Adams, T., & Giles, A. R. (in press). Anishinaabekweg dibaajimowinan (stories) of decolonization through physical activity. Submitted to Sociology of Sport Journal.
Jull, J., Giles, A., Boyer, Y., Stacey, D., Minwaashin Lodge - The Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre. (2017). Building and enacting ethical research processes: The example of culturally adapting a decision making strategy. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Advance online publication. Retrieved from http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1317/1212
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
Forsyth, J., Lodge-Gagné, V., & Giles, A. R. (2017). Negotiating difference: How Aboriginal athletes in the Maritimes brokered their involvement in Canadian sport. International Journal of the History of Sport. Advance online publication. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1291504
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
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
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., Gunnel, 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 [advance online publication]. doi:10.1007/s10823-016-9307-z
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.
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, 25. doi:1043659616634170 [Epub ahead of print]
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. doi:10.1080/17430437.2014.997585
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
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Health/service providers’ perspectives
of barriers to healthy weight gain and physical activity in pregnant, urban First Nations women. Qualitative Health Research, 26(1), 5-16. doi:10.1177/1049732315576497
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). doi:10.18584/iipj.2016.7.1.1
Rovito, A., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Outside Looking In: Resisting colonial discourses of Aboriginality. Leisure Sciences, 38(1), 1-16. doi:10.1080/01490400.2015.1057661
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), 159-173. doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1067770
Aylward, E., Abu-Zahra, N., & 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. 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
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.
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.
McClelland, C., & Giles, A. R. (2014). Street-involved youths’ unstructured leisure: Activities and their social consequences. Leisure/Loisir, 38(2), 119-138.
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 and Exercise, 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=18)
Giles, A. R., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L. M. C., & Rossi, A. (in press). 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. London, UK: 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). New York, NY: Springer.
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). London, UK: Routledge.
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R., Tremblay, S. (2016). Walk to Tuk: An innovative physical activity program for Northwest Territories residents. In N. L. Vaugeois & P. Parker (Eds.), Innovative leisure practices: Cases as conduits between theory and practice. Nanaimo, Canada: World Leisure Centre of Excellence.
Giles, A. R., Brooks-Cleator, L.A., Glass, C.T.R., Darroch, F. E., & McGuire-Adams, T. (2015). Drowning prevention. In I. Pike, S. Richmond, L. Rothman, & A. Macpherson (Eds.), Canadian injury prevention resource (pp. 455-465). 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., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L. M. C., & Rossi, A. (in press). 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. London, UK: Routledge.
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, A. R., & 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.
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 = 83)
Bauer, M. E. E., Brussoni, M., Giles, A. R., & Fuselli, P. (in press). Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997-2016. Injury Prevention.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (in press). Understanding the privatization of funding for sport for development in the Northwest Territories, Canada: A Foucauldian analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.
Gardam, K., Giles, A. R., & Hayhurst, L. M. C. (in press). Sport for development for Aboriginal youth in Canada: A scoping review. Journal of Sport for Development.
Gartner-Manzon, S., & Giles, A. R. (in press). Lasting impacts of an Aboriginal youth leadership retreat? A case study of Alberta’s Future Leaders Program. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
McGuire-Adams, T., & Giles, A. R. (in press). Anishinaabekweg dibaajimowinan (stories) of decolonization through physical activity. Submitted to Sociology of Sport Journal.
Jull, J., Giles, A., Boyer, Y., Stacey, D., Minwaashin Lodge - The Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre. (2017). Building and enacting ethical research processes: The example of culturally adapting a decision making strategy. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Advance online publication. Retrieved from http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1317/1212
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
Forsyth, J., Lodge-Gagné, V., & Giles, A. R. (2017). Negotiating difference: How Aboriginal athletes in the Maritimes brokered their involvement in Canadian sport. International Journal of the History of Sport. Advance online publication. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1291504
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
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
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., Gunnel, 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 [advance online publication]. doi:10.1007/s10823-016-9307-z
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.
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, 25. doi:1043659616634170 [Epub ahead of print]
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. doi:10.1080/17430437.2014.997585
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
Darroch, F. E., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Health/service providers’ perspectives
of barriers to healthy weight gain and physical activity in pregnant, urban First Nations women. Qualitative Health Research, 26(1), 5-16. doi:10.1177/1049732315576497
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). doi:10.18584/iipj.2016.7.1.1
Rovito, A., & Giles, A. R. (2016). Outside Looking In: Resisting colonial discourses of Aboriginality. Leisure Sciences, 38(1), 1-16. doi:10.1080/01490400.2015.1057661
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), 159-173. doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1067770
Aylward, E., Abu-Zahra, N., & 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. 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
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.
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.
McClelland, C., & Giles, A. R. (2014). Street-involved youths’ unstructured leisure: Activities and their social consequences. Leisure/Loisir, 38(2), 119-138.
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 and Exercise, 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=18)
Giles, A. R., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L. M. C., & Rossi, A. (in press). 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. London, UK: 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). New York, NY: Springer.
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). London, UK: Routledge.
Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A. R., Tremblay, S. (2016). Walk to Tuk: An innovative physical activity program for Northwest Territories residents. In N. L. Vaugeois & P. Parker (Eds.), Innovative leisure practices: Cases as conduits between theory and practice. Nanaimo, Canada: World Leisure Centre of Excellence.
Giles, A. R., Brooks-Cleator, L.A., Glass, C.T.R., Darroch, F. E., & McGuire-Adams, T. (2015). Drowning prevention. In I. Pike, S. Richmond, L. Rothman, & A. Macpherson (Eds.), Canadian injury prevention resource (pp. 455-465). 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., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L. M. C., & Rossi, A. (in press). 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. London, UK: Routledge.
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, A. R., & 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.