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2021-06-01

Rob Shields

Québec has a history of logement social or social housing. This is a first glance survey for anglophone readers of the French-language literature on community housing in Québec’s large cities, with a focus on Montréal.

1994-04-24

Shields, Rob

An interrogation of and dialogue with the Via 13 Editorial Collective . The objective is to go beyond the limits of the original vision of the margin and marginalia. But at the same time, it will become clear that this is an archaeological process where in digging ourselves out from under a...

2017-12-01

Rob Shields

This paper sets out to discover the intangible complement of toxic material that is felt through its effect. It begins from the qualities of the toxic and considers the historical conception of the toxin as an external substance that brings benefit and illumination but is lethal in larger doses....

2013-01-01

Rob Shields

unpublished ms. for Cultural Topologies | Social Spaces. An abridged version appeared in 'The Virtuality of Urban Culture: Blanks, Dark Moments and Blind Fields.' Cartographies of Place, M. Darroch and J. Marchessault (eds.), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2013. pp.67-84. This...

2020-12-31

Rob Shields (University of Alberta), Ge Zheng (Sichuan University)

This study considers virtuality in ink wash paintings with a focus on two late, Qing dynasty works from an album by Pan Gongshou (c. 1790). We examine the painterly devices by which a liminal, virtual, “as if” space is constructed as a “realm” or world in which the viewer is synaesthetically...

2024-01-01

Shields, Rob, Cevirme, Alperen, Hamad, Genan, Kohleal, Justine, Quecke, Emily, Soneff, Danielle

This journal is an experiment in prototyping relatively fast-turn-around, blind peer reviewed publication at the graduate student level. As the first issue of the journal, it is offered as a model for further issues. The papers collected in this inaugural issue of Dérive, An Interdisciplinary...