Introduction

At first glance, the contributions of TRU undergraduate students to this year’s peer-reviewed journal seem diverse in discipline, approach, subject matter and scope. Some papers focus on areas close to home; others are pan-Canadian; some cast their nets farther afield. The articles are, however, knit together by two threads: a common concern for those whom mainstream society has marginalized and a recognition (implicit or explicit) of the interdependence of the human and the more-than-human worlds.