All publications by Heather E. Young-Leslie, unless otherwise indicated (see Wordwright tab for pdf versions of some publications).

• Chinese Canadians’ experiences of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism: Implications for identity, negative emotion, and anti-racism incident reporting. NM Lou, KA Noels, S Kurl, YSD Zhang, H Young-Leslie.  Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 2022 (My contribution 20%).
  
  
• “Responsible” or “Strange?” Differences in Face Mask Attitudes and Use Between Chinese and Non-East Asian Canadians During COVID-19’s First Wave. Zhang YSD, Noels KA, Young-Leslie H, Lou NM. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022 (My contribution 30%).

• COVID discrimination experience: Chinese Canadians’ social identities moderate the effect of personal and group discrimination on well-being. Nigel Mantou Lou, Kimberley A. Noels, Sachi Kurl, Ying Shan Doris Zhang, and Heather Young-Leslie. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 2023 Apr;29(2):132-144 (Accepted Nov 30,2021; my contribution 20%).

• Public Health Messages About Face Masks Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of and Impacts on Canadians. Zhang YSD, Young Leslie H, Sharafaddin-Zadeh Y, Noels K, Lou NM. Journal of Community Health 2021-02-20 (My contribution 35%).

• Tongan Constructions of Happiness and Satisfaction. Happiness Across Cultures; Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures. Vol 6 of the Science Across Cultures: History and Practice Series, Helaine Seline and Gareth Davey, eds. Springer Press. pp 181-194, 2012.  First author with Sean E. Moore (My contribution 70%).

• Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers and Environmentalism, Nature+Culture 3 (2):183-205 2008. Co-authored with Jamon Halvaksz (My contribution 60%).

• Tonga (Political Report re: The ‘Peaceable Coup’). In: Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, The Contemporary Pacific 19(1) 262-276. Jan 2007.

• A Fishy Romance: Chiefly Power and the Geopolitics of Desire. The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 2 (2007), pp. 365-408 (44 pages) (original subtitle: ‘Ecography and the Geopolitics of Desire’ changed by the press)

• Sea Turtle Wars; Culture, War and Sea Turtles in the Republic of Marshall Islands.  SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin #21 – October 2007. Regina Woodrom, Julie Kroeker, Heather Young Leslie and Suzanne Finney.

• Introduction: Pacific Textiles, Pacific Cultures: Hybridity and Pragmatic Creativity
  Heather E. Young Leslie and Ping-Ann Addo. Pacific Arts, n.s. Vol 3-5, 2007. Special double issue in honour of Jehanne Tielhet-Fisk (my contribution: 50%).

• “….Like a Mat Being Woven”. Pacific Arts, n.s. Vol 3-5:115-127, 2007

• Hybrid Textiles: Pragmatic Creativity and Authentic Innovations in Pacific Cloth. Special Issue of Pacific Arts, n.s. vol 3-5,  in honor of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, edited by Ping-Ann Addo, Heather E. Young-Leslie and Phyllis Herda (My contribution 45%).

• Bons Baisers De Samoa: Les Bonites De Hina et Le Tu’iha’angana De Tonga. Bulletin De La Société Des Études Océaniennes 304. Par Heather E. Young-Leslie, traduit de Sylvie Maurer et Serge Dunis, 2005.

• Tongan Doctors and Critical Medical Ethnography. Anthropological Forum 15(3):277-286 Special Issue: Critical Ethnography, edited by Laurence Carucci and Michèle Dominy, 2005

• Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in the Kingdom of Tonga. By Sean E. Moore, Heather E. Young-Leslie and Carrie A Lavis, in: Social Indicators Research 70(3);287-311, 2005.

• Pushing Children Up: Maternal Obligation, Modernity, and Medicine in the Tongan Ethnoscape. In Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands, edited by Victoria Lockwood, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall Publishers, pp 390-413, 2004.

• Kau Faito’o: Traditional Healers of Tonga. Review of Film by Melinda Ostroff. The Contemporary Pacific 16(1) :219-223, 2004

• Producing What in the Transition? Health Messaging and Cultural Constructions of Health in Tonga. Pacific Health Dialog 9(2):296-302, 2002.

• Women of the New Millennium: Tongan Women Determine their Development Direction. By Clare Bleakely and Heather E. Young-Leslie (a “silent”, posthumous co-authorship). The Contemporary Pacific 14(1):134-147, 2002

• Understanding Differences and Similarities. By Heather E. Young-Leslie and Mike Evans. In Ethnographic Essays in Cultural Anthropology; A Problem Based Approach. Morrison, R. Bruce and C. Roderick Wilson (eds). Itasca, F.E. Peacock Publishers, 2001 [Now available from Wadsworth Press, CA]

• Fosterage in Oceania. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, Eds. New York N.Y. Routledge, 2000.

• Considering the Impact of Gender in Tongan Whaling: A Framework for Evaluation and Suggestions for Maximizing Benefits to Women. Issues in Indigenous Whaling: Tonga, World Council of Whalers. M. Freeman, Editor, 1999.

• 1999 Inventing Health: Tradition, Textiles and Maternal Obligation in the Kingdom of Tonga. Doctoral dissertation, 407 pages, York University.

• The Anthropologist, The Mother And The Cross-Cultured Child: Lessons in The Relativity Of Cultural Relativity. In: Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall, and Jocelyn Armstrong Eds., Honolulu, University of Hawai`i Press, 1998. DOI:10.1515/9780824844585-005 

• Flexibility and Preparation: Keys to Good Fieldwork. In Instead of Full Stops. Susan Sellers, Ed. London U.K., The Women’s Press, 1996.