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On the Public Spaces of Resistance: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and the Material Conditions for Critique
DownloadFall 2018
In this dissertation I adopt a broad phenomenological perspective in order to develop in outline a ‘new materialism’ that facilitates the thinking of public space as a condition for political resistance. The project is motivated by recent movements such as Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo...
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Fall 2010
How are homeless individuals, who have no access to private space yet still have the same needs of dwelling as the rest of us, regarded when they exercise their right to dwell? This question guided my research of Edmonton’s Tent City, which emerged during the summer of 2007. Interviews with...