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1993-03-01
This paper was first presented in an early version at the Carleton conference, ‘Exploring Contemporary Discourse Analysis’, Ottawa, 1993 and at the ‘Cultural Studies in Canada’ Conference, University of Toronto. My thanks to Penny Ironstone, Jill Scott, A.N. Packwood and conference participants...
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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...
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2014-06-06
What is place to philosophy, what is place to thought? The linkage of philosophy and place suggests the question, 'Is this a matter of the philosophy of place or the place of philosophy?' Is it 'philosophy in places' or 'what is place in philosophy?' Place, even in an unexamined sense of the...
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2013-07-01
Boundaries and boundary-drawing, a classic geopolitical and urban practice, finds itself in a state of crisis. Boundary-marking as both an administrative and cultural exercise is more fraught in contemporary politics. Boundaries as interfaces and social situations challenge the definition and...
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2022-04-01
North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local history is shallow, rarely extending back before the agricultural tenants of the last century. A number...
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2020-09-01
Decolonizing Suburban Research1 Rob Shields, Human Geography EAS and Sociology, University of Alberta. North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local...