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One only needs to look at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) logo, with its abstract outline of the CMHR building, to see the way in which the museum's architecture has come to stand for the CMHR's immaterial meanings and content. The CMHR's architecture becomes a material intersection of discourses of cosmopolitanism, human rights, and national identity, but as this article argues, the reliance on a dominant hope narrative reinscribes problematic generalizations that do not challenge visitors to think critically about these discourses. How does the CMHR architectural structure respond to and represent "difficult knowledge" associated with the contents of the museum? The author utilizes Deborah Britzman's pedagogical theories of difficult knowledge, along with discourses of cosmopolitanism, human rights, and transnational "iconic" architecture, to argue that the CMHR architecture, in itself, falls short of addressing feelings of ambivalence that are so difficult to explore and tolerate through its symbolic narratives of hope, enlightenment, and progress.

This study reviews and synthesizes the literature on Indigenous women who are pregnant/early parenting and using substances in Canada to understand the scope and state of knowledge to inform research with the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg in Manitoba and the development of a pilot Indigenous doula program. A scoping review was performed searching ten relevant databases, including one for gray literature. We analyzed 56 articles/documents. Themes include: (1) cyclical repercussions of state removal of Indigenous children from their families; (2) compounding barriers and inequities; (3) prevalence and different types of substance use; and (4) intervention strategies. Recommendations for future research are identified and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]