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The Greatest and Deepest Quarry of Emotions Ever Known: The Holocaust Memorial Project
Get PDFThis paper details our design proposal for a monument dedicated to the memorialization of the Holocaust in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as submitted for HIST 4461
Defining Desire, Dispelling Defiance: Heteronormative Language in English Language Learner’s Dictionaries
Get PDFMonolingual learner’s dictionaries (MLDs) strive to use accessible, comprehensive and ostensibly objective language to communicate ideas to those with intermediate to advanced language proficiency. However, it will be argued that MLDs of the English language are not objective, but rather ideological documents in which discursive authority stems from the production of knowledge. In their representations of sex, gender and sexual desires and identities, MLDs venerate reproductive heterosexuality as the correct, normal and ‘natural’ mode of human expression while erasing queer realities and possibilities. As a result, queer English language learners are marginalised as imperfect citizens and are compelled to embody heterosexual culture in both language and behaviour in order to achieve increased legitimacy within the English-speaking nation-state
Letter from the Editor
No full textA letter from the Editor outlining the objectives of the BSUJ and introducing the papers for this special inaugural issue
Edward III and the Hundred Years War
Get PDFDuring the reign of Edward III of England what became described as the Hundred Years War began in 1337. For the next foutry years Edward III make specific decissions that allowed his country to stay in the war and kept money coming into the country. Through the strategic use of taxes, international loans and personal involvement in politics England emerged out of Edward III reign with a distinct move towards state building. The government saw numerous changes during the fourty year reign of Edward III and the most important for the development of state building was the awareness of the commons that they had a unique role in parliament
Derrida\u27s Secret and Symptom: A Certain Impossible Possibility of Writing the Event
Get PDFIn this paper, I will attempt to conceptualize the event through Derrida’s late lecture “A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event,” which he presented “spontaneously” at the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal on April 1st 1997. Furthermore, I will analyze how a certain conception of the event emerges out of the conversations between Derrida, J.L. Austin, and John Searle, especially considering the essay that “started” the much-discussed debate between Derrida and the Anglo-American speech act theorists; namely, through a reading of Austin’s How to Do Things With Words. Derrida’s “concepts” of iterability and the perverformative will be mobilized to think through the ways the event, if it can be written that it exists, is undoubtedly beyond the categories of the performative and constative; however, recourse to the many impossible-possible aporias that populate Derrida’s late texts such as the decision, forgiveness, and invention will be necessary to understand this difficult position. The symptom and the secret, then, will be related to the event through an interrogation of “verticality” while analyzing the event’s capacity to disrupt established modalities of temporality
Warehouse Waywards: Inquiry into Identity
No full textThe photograph on this cover depics people enjoying an atlernative gathering in a non \u27normative\u27 community. In non-research, informal settings, most people from these communties have expressed to this this photographer that these people gather with an unstated understanding that there are varying backgrounds, educations, beliefs, political views, sexualities and interests in the space. The common link between these people is in the gathering to express freedom to be themselves. The bodies are blurred in the photograph to (1) depict the idea that in this culture, these people are not defined by solid lines (e.g., Harms, 2013), and to (2) represent that their identities are not typically represented in normative institutions (e.g., education, health care, justice, laws, policy, religion etc.; e.g., Tilsen & Nylund (2010)
Abraham Lincoln: Gradual Emancipator
Get PDFIn American historical memory, Abraham Lincoln has become a character of nearly mythical proportions, sometimes even referred to as \u27The Great Emancipator\u27. This characterization depicts Lincoln as having sought the abolition of slavery from the outset of his political career. However, this paper shall examine the speeches, letters, and actions of Lincoln, arguing that he was in fact a \u27Gradual Emancipator\u27, cautiously seeking only the phased abolition of slavery
An Examination of Women\u27s Rights in Medieval England
No full textThis paper explores the rights and perceptions of women within Medieval England. It dicusses the laws that limited women personally and then examines the supposed legal freedoms they possessed in comparison to other countries of that time period. Ultimately this paper concluded that even though the intent behind the law code pertaining to women was protection, it ultimately resulted in injustice and supported a system of patriarchy
‘Blood, it’s in you to be Governed\u27
No full textThe author of this paper investigates how blood has been constructed as a gendered and heteronormative cultural product, explored through the use of critical analysis of historical and contemporary uses of blood. Heteronormativity and the fallacy of discrete sexes are then defined and explored to give context to the argument. It is found that through gendering under the two-sex model of opposing male and female sexes, blood is heteronormative. A case study of Canadian Blood Services was used to show how governance is enacted based upon the limitation of a heteronormative construction. This argument is bolstered in a theoretical discussion of the nation-state and the creation of the archetypical citizen, part of which is a compulsory heterosexuality
Acknowledgements-- BSUJ Issue 1; Volume 1
No full textList of acknowledgements, inclusing the BSUJ Committee, Editorial Board, Review Board, and Advisory Board