1. Books

2. Articles

3. Book Chapters

4. Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Newsletter Pieces

5. Scholarly Papers

1. Books

Frances Widdowson (ed), Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives (Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021)

Review of Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives by Rhoda Hassmann

Frances Widdowson, Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2019)

Peer Review Report of Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency.  The reviewer states the following: “We need more work like this, and the University of Ottawa Press would be doing the scholarly community a service (even if the community wails) by publishing this book”.

Ian Mosby (Ryerson University) encourages other academics to go to Widdowson’s publishers and state the following: “publish this racist nonsense again and we’ll stop publishing with or doing peer reviews for you”.

Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) asserts that “no one takes [Separate but Unequal] seriously in our field (the worst insult for an academic – irrelevance)”.

Petition calls for MRU professor to be fired, over controversial “racist” comments

Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard (eds), Aboriginal Education in Canada: Searching for Solutions (Edmonton: Brush Education, 2013)

Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008)

A comment by Danielle Lorenz, a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and the Knowledge Mobilization Editor for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, is an indication of the current scholarly treatment of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry.  Lorenz argues that Widdowson and Howard should not be cited, even when discussing their work, as she “wouldn’t want their citation #’s to increase for them being garbage humans”.

2. Articles

The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent – And No Jokes

The Perils of Challenging Trans Activism at Mount Royal University

When Satire Becomes “Harassment” and Mount Royal University

Relative Truths and Rent-Seeking: Revisiting “Billy Remembers” with reason and evidence

Indigenization Has Poisoned Mount Royal University’s Academic Environment

Why Mount Royal University Authoritarians Focus on the “Impact” of Speech

Critical thinking is not denialism

Exclusionary Inclusivity

 

Billy Remembers*

*A great deal of the research for “Billy Remembers” was undertaken by Nina Green.

Widdowson’s piece “Billy Remembers” was in response to misinformation provided by people like MRU President, Dr. Tim Rahilly.  On June 10, 2021, Rahilly posted a video that included comments about “the heartbreaking discovery of the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School”.

3. Book Chapters

Rodney A. Clifton and Mark DeWolf (eds), From Truth Comes Reconciliation: An Assessment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021)

Chapter Three: The Political Economy of Truth and Reconciliation
Chapter Four: Capturing “Rents” with the Creation of a Victim/Perpetrator Dichotomy

Political Scientist Alan Cairns’ response to Widdowson’s original article (upon which the two chapters were based)

4. Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Newsletter Pieces (www.SAFS.ca)

All Eyes on the Arbitration of the #FrancesWiddowsonCase (September 2022)

Protecting Disputation: What is to be Done? (April 2022)

When Wokeism and the Corporate University Intersect (January 2022)

The Residential Schools and Unmarked Graves: Why is Open Inquiry Perilous? (September 2021)

How Reified Postmodernism is Killing the Mount Royal Faculty Association (April 2021)

The Residential Schools and Mount Royal University: Thou Shalt Not Challenge the Narrative of “Genocide” (January 2021)

Lessons from the Wendy Mesley Case: Please Don’t Feed the #RaceHustling Crocodiles! (September 2020)

The Politicization of Faculty Associations: What are the Implications for Open Inquiry? (April 2020)

The Mark Hecht Case: Was the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) “Loyalty Oath” Violated? (January 2020)

Faculty Opposition to the Chicago Principles in Alberta: The Hidden Agenda of Repressive Tolerance (September 2019)

Indigenizing Mount Royal’s Curricula: The Threat to Academic Freedom, Freedom of Inquiry, and Academic Standards (April 2019)

Let’s Call the SJWs What they Actually are: Politically Correct Totalitarians (January 2019)

What’s Wrong With Official Indigenous Territorial Acknowledgements? (September 2018)

Freedom of Expression and Making the Campus a Safe Space: Raising Questions About “Violent Speech”, “Privilege” and “Transforming” the University (April 2018)

“Islamophobia” and Mount Royal University: Disrespectful Criticism of Islam Will Not Be Tolerated (January 2018)

Why the Idea of Cultural Appropriation Should be Challenged (September 2017)

Criticize Religion, Not People (April 2017)

False Ideas Should be Discussed, Challenged, and Refuted (January 2017)

Indigenization Advocacy and the Academic University: Legitimizing Wishful Thinking, Superstition and Demagoguery (September 2016)

“Indigenizing the University”: Improving Education or Inveigling Condescension? (January 2016)

5. Scholarly Papers

Indigenous Content Syllabus Materials and Political Science: What are the Implications of Indigenizing and Decolonizing Introductory Courses?

The Political Economy of “Truth and Reconciliation”: Neotribal Rentierism and the Creation of the Victim/Perpetrator Dichotomy

The Political Economy of Neotribal Rentierism: A Historical and Material Theory of Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Relations in Canada

Separate but Unequal: Exploring the Implications of Parallelist Ideology on the Political Economy of Aboriginal Peoples

“Decolonizing Political Theory”: Exploring the Implications of Advocacy for Political Science

Diversity and Critical Thinking in Political Science

Studying Indigenous Politics in Canada: Assessing Political Science’s Understanding of Traditional Aboriginal Governance (with Ezra Voth and Miranda Anderson)

Aboriginal Rights and Our Common Future: The Perils of Endorsing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Development, Postmodernism and Aboriginal Policy: What are We Afraid Of? (with Albert Howard)

Native Studies and Canadian Political Science: The Implications of “Decolonizing the Discipline”

The Political Economy of Aboriginal “Customary Law”

Aboriginal Rights and Canadian Environmental Policy: Enhancing Sustainability or a Justification of Deregulation?

The Inherent Right of Unethical Governance

Aboriginal “Traditional Knowledge” and Canadian Public Policy: Ten Years of Listening to the Silence (with Albert Howard)

The Political Economy of Nunavut: Internal Colony or Rentier Territory?

Inventing Nationhood: The Political Economy of Aboriginal Claims to Self-Determination in the Context of Quebec Sovereignty

Separate but Unequal: The Political Economy of Aboriginal Dependency