Category: space
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Metis Collector©
I’ve been working on this project for the last few months. As I move through England and Scotland, I can’t help but feel that I carry with me all the generations of my very diverse family with me. And I feel, very strongly, that in some ways I’m here to ‘speak back to Empire’, or…
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‘Revitalization’ as colonialism
You know what? I have a bone to pick. Revitalization. Regeneration. Gentrification. These are rather mild and innocuous terms for what is, really, just a palatable way to express extant colonialism and oppression in a country built on the exploitation and theft of Indigenous lands. My family, on my Dad’s side, has been continuously pushed…
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Cities are our Camps — a Metis perspective on urbanity and resurgence
I’ve been thinking a lot about urban/rural splits. My Master’s is in Rural Sociology, so I spent a lot of time thinking about the relationships between urban and rural spaces (and I worked in the Western Arctic, so I also thought about forced settlement and rural versus ‘remote’ spaces). I’ve also spent a lot of…
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You call it Rossdale, we call it …[home]
I’ve been promising Mike and Scott at The Charrette a piece on Rossdale for a few months now. But PhD life being what it is, I’ve struggled to get to it as I try to meet multiple competing deadlines. But I woke up early this morning to a story by David Staples on a proposal…
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Decolonizing the City
I have been away from Edmonton since December 12th. In that time a lot has happened back home. I left Alberta just as Idle No More was gaining traction, and over the holidays I watched videos of round dance flash mobs in West Edmonton Mall, Kingsway Mall, Churchill Square and elsewhere with tears in my…
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Movement
“I’m looking for a soft place to land/the forest floor/the palms of your hands” – Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur (2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vV1J3cQnj0 I have been looking for a soft place to land for a while now; the road can be rough and sometimes I don’t know if I’m going to find a friendly home at the end…
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decolonizing the body
I want to return to a topic I first broached on this blog last year, one that I have been engaging with for a very long time: body image and eating disorders. A friend recently shared this thought during a conversation about recovering from an eating disorder: “When you deny yourself food [in whatever form…
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Building and destruction
A colleague of mine is researching demolition. His work is really compelling, and thinking about his research has prompted me to return to some thoughts I shared on this blog in 2011. I’ve written before contrasting the degree to which buildings are torn down and replaced in Edmonton with the experiences of Scotland (and London)…
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self-revitalization
My neighbourhood is pretty humble. It isn’t flashy, it doesn’t have aspirations of grandeur. It is comprised mostly of single-family dwellings, many of them post-war CMHC type houses. It is close to some major transit lines, a regional mall, has two schools, an arena, a strip mall with a food store and restaurant and framing…
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Beyond Bricks and Mortar — poster
Here is the event poster for our keynote and workshop on Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness. Feel free to circulate widely. The event is FREE and open to the public. You must register, however, to ensure we have enough space to accommodate participants. Beyond Bricks and Mortar poster Poster designed by Karen Campos.
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