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Living with Time
No full textThis article researches time in the early childhood education classroom. This inquiry troubles the dominance of chronological, linear time that prescribes and predicts daily routines in a goal-oriented manner in pursuit of future development. Through this project I hope to offer alternative perspectives on time beyond modernist and neoliberal abstraction and refocus on how the learning experience can be shaped by attending to the presentness of childhoods
The Midden 49(2): Historic Archaeology
No full textMorrissey Internment Camp. By Sarah Beaulieu
The Wild Horse Canyon Trail: Shifting Strategies of Colonial Settlement in the Okanagan. By Paul Ewonus and George Ewonus.
Historic Archaeology at the Royal BC Museum. By Tom Bown
St. Stephen\u27s Anglican Church and Cemetery: A History. By Angela Dyck. 
The Label ‘Refugee’ and its Impacts on Border Policies
No full textIn this paper the authors adopt a constructivist approach to explain the efforts of reborderisation following the so-called ‘Refugee Crisis’ unfolding in the European Union after a sharp influx of refugees in 2015. One of the core principles of the European Union, the freedom of movement, is heavily challenged, through the perception of security threats and economic burden that is associated with the arrival of people seeking asylum in large numbers. Through a discourse analysis centring around the label ‘refugee’, which experienced a shift in meaning, this paper aims to display the driving social force that catalysed political actions to reintroduce borders between European Union Member States as a tool to recreate the illusion of control over the influx of people. Germany and France, as pioneers of the principle of freedom of movement in Europe, serve as empirical case studies for the efforts to reinstate control through reborderisation
Seme Border, Nigeria: Safety and Collective Vulnerability
No full textThe induced border closure at Seme Border, Nigeria, on March 23, 2020 is just one among other closures carried out from 1984-2020. The closure brings to the fore issues of safety and collective vulnerability of the border communities and the existing coping mechanisms for addressing their fears. In the absence of constructive engagement with the vulnerable, the people often resorted to self-help by creating alternate routes (bush paths and waterways) thereby rendering the securitisation of border security (Border Drill) management ineffectual. In decision-making and for a successful implementation, it is important to allow for a buy-in from those affected by such policy. 
Introduction to the Special Issue: Borderlands in the Era of COVID-19
No full textThis introduction outlines the themes of the special issue (borders, borderlands, and border theory since the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns) and summarizes its contents (a research article, two dozen essays, plus photography and videography). The introduction also includes an interactive map hyperlinking the contents of the issue, and raises new lines of thought for border studies in the era of COVID-19
The Dangers of the Internet: A Study of Incels and their Online World
No full textIn recent years, since the invention of the internet, misogyny and anti-woman rhetoric has significantly evolved and changed. Several anti-woman communities have emerged online, including MRAs (Men’s Rights Advocates), the PUAs (Pickup Artists), MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) and most significantly, incels (involuntary celibates). Incels are the topic of study for this research paper, as they are an understudied online group, as well as the radical sect of the misogynistic communities. This research explores the history of incels, the ways in which the internet acts as a facilitator for incel ideology, provides a digital space for practicing misogyny, and the ways in which incels navigate the online world as a hate group. This paper reveals the role the internet plays for incels and the ways in which the digital rhetoric has translated into far-reaching and real-world violence.
Keywords
Incels, involuntary celibates, misogyny, social media, Internet, Reddit, hate-group, mass shootings, anti-woman, ideology
From Wasteland to Waterscape: Riparian Restoration of 40 Mile Landfill in Banff National Park
No full textThe restoration of heavily disturbed sites, particularly those which no longer resemble their historical analogues, remains as both a technical challenge and urgent priority for the field of ecology. Within Banff National Park, though widely considered a model of conservation, there are nonetheless many novel systems which require intervention to reach a state of ecological integrity. This paper seeks to address the range of possible restoration scenarios for a degraded riparian site and former landfill along 40 Mile Creek, adjacent to the town of Banff. The site has been subject to a host of anthropogenic and natural disturbance vectors, including upstream structural impoundment, excavation, reoccurring flooding, as well as former restorative efforts. Prior restoration has failed to flourish due to abiotic barriers such as poor overburden soils which favour ruderal species. Data was primarily gathered using techniques from a standardized Riparian Health Assessment, as well as secondarily from historical archives and Parks’ geospatial (ArcGIS) database. The site scored as ‘extremely unhealthy’ with only a few species or processes present which would be expected, reflecting a long history of interruption in normal ecological functioning. The central goal for restoration in the 2019 field season was to reconstitute representative species and ecological processes to riparian and upland ecosites. This was fulfilled through 3 objectives: bioengineering the streambank, initiating seral processes for aspen-grassland in the uplands, and managing invasive species throughout the site. Recommendations for future work includes several strategies borrowed from forest mine reclamation protocol, including creating topographic heterogeneity, promoting soil development and ecotype diversity, using optimal planting technique, natural regeneration, native materials, and adaptive management. In line with this final recommendation, future restoration efforts must take into consideration the presence of novel and interwoven systems in the Park, responding with cooperative management and experimental technique
