Roots and Relations

Banner for the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. On the left, an illustrated basket-shaped design decorated with flowers, leaves, and beadwork motifs in red, yellow, blue, and black. On the right, black text reads “A permanent section in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation” above the large title “Roots and Relations.” Below, script-style text says “Celebrating Good Medicine in Evaluation.” The background is a light yellow.

About Roots and Relations

Roots and Relations (R&R) has been publishing Indigenous contributions since 2023. The purpose of R&R is to honour our lineage, grow our kinship and sustain our intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in and through evaluation. R&R will work to sacredly hold traditional knowledge, celebrate and make visible culture and language utilization, protect and assert sovereignty, provide space for Indigenous voices and celebrate Indigenous wisdom and innovations in and through the lens of evaluation.

The vision for R&R is that it will:

  • Develop and sustain a welcoming and safe space for any Indigenous led contributions to be considered, discussed, reviewed, and published in order to keep evaluation decolonized and with an Indigenous focus (p. 353, Bowman, Dodge Francis, and Tyndall, 2015).
  • Establish a place of Indigenous branded scholarship where Indigenous contributors can offer a diverse offering of published evaluation work that is not limited only to text submissions.
  • Utilize a blended model for the editorial process that incorporates a traditional Indigenous framework and review process for the purposes of curious inquiry, holistic human development, engaged learning, and kinship supports on the pathway to future publication.
  • Inclusion of intergenerational relationships (youth or young adults through Elders) so the origins and purposes of RR remains rooted in traditional knowledge and language, cultural protocols and practices, nation-to-nation (Bowman, 2019) and inclusion of Tribal/First Nation sovereignty, and Indigenous ethics as a sustainable, regenerative, and celebratory pathway for publishing representative Indigenous scholarship.

We accept submissions on a rolling basis. Please download our Evergreen Call for Proposals here or request a copy from cjpe@evaluationcanada.ca.

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