UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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Politics of Inner Place
No full textWhat is place? A niche ... a spot... a situation in time. Identity. Beliefs. A quiltwork of designs, a web of choices, a muster of visits co ocher places, and a need to dwell in one's own.
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Reclaiming Territory Through Conservation Areas: Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii, 1851-1993
Get PDFIn 1994, after 135 years of overtures from the Haida of the north coast of Pacific Canada, the Government of British Columbia finally began negotiations with the Council of Haida Nation (CHN) for a comprehensive treaty.
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Installation Report: Re Marks on Parks
Get PDFWithin the form and structure of North American cities, parking lots physically fragment social space and are mainly characterized by their utility and relation to commodified land practices. Like other "under used" urban sites, integrating these open spaces with both the natural and social features of urban environments potentially offer desirable opportunities for modest community based redevelopment projects.
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(there's no space like home, there's no space like home, there's no space like home)
No full texti'm a culture hugger, a city hick, a suburban chick. (i've driven through algonquin park.) i'm visiting a bean-friend in cottage country. snow, ice, lake, trees, sun, birds, dean air. we walk across the singing lake, smiling at the sun, each other, the trees, until our faces hurt with pleasure. here is beauty. but cottages crowd every inch of snowmobiles soon by. electric giants hum as they march along the horizon. cars whine along the not too distant highway. this nature? is it home? what feels like nature? what feels like home?
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S(t)imulate Me: A Loose Manifesto
No full textAbandoning the concept of nature as it has stood for centuries dissolves [...
Bodies, Natures, Origins: Simians and the Biopolitics of the African "AIDS Belt"
Get PDFIn a short, prescient discussion towards the end of the first volume of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault considers the appearance of biopolitics within the domains of Western modernity. [...