UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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Mapping Security: Writing the Trace of Nation
Get PDFI’m sitting at home, resolved to write a small reflection on leisurely movements, mapping and the (knowledge) production of Canada, probably one that will start with an anecdote out of Where is Here? (Morantz, 2002), Rick Morantz’s journalistic book about the maps that make Canada
Talking Boulders: A Conversation with Maura Doyle
Get PDFThere’s a New Boulder in Town is Toronto artist Maura Doyle’s latest installation. With the assistance of University of Toronto geologist James Brenan, Doyle mapped a walking tour of some of Toronto’s ‘erratic boulders,’ and narrates their social-geological biographies through a guidebook
Embodied Motion in the Modern Metropolis
Get PDFThe modern city – the metropolis – is a site of movement. It is a place of exchange and transfer, of people, vehicles, materials and information, which ebb and flow through its infrastructure. The increasingly mobile dynamics and the use of transient and tensile urban forms, indicate the origins of a distinctly ‘nomadic’ experience of the metropolis
Baggage
Get PDFGreat brown trunks with metal buckles, belts, train trunks, black leather and steel rivets, large round stamps: Austria, Munich, Bremen, Budapest. Piles of trunks and suitcases to the ceiling. Rooms of suitcases, bird-cages, baskets
"Damage Control," Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, July 17- August 23, 2003 [art review]
No full textThe Natural Ambiguity of Native Species
Get PDFMainstream ecological wisdom suggests that native species are essential to the preservation and promotion of ecological health or integrity: they are often deemed to be the ‘natural’, ‘authentic’ and ‘original’ occupants of particular habitats. Philosophically and pragmatically, they are generally considered crucial to biodiversity at scales ranging from the local to global. The past five years in particular have witnessed an explosion of publications and workshops expounding the virtues of native species as the rightful residents of bioregionally defined locales, to the extent that commercial chain nurseries have even caught on and showcase native species from their stock