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Raoul Moati, "Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity." Trans. Daniel Wyche.
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From Rigid Regency Sicilia to Musical Bohemia: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company\u27s The Winter\u27s Tale
No full textA review of The Winter\u27s Tale at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (March 2019)
Las Cholas de Bolivia: The Uphill Battle Against Racism, Sexism and Commodification in Contemporary Bolivia
No full textCholas, Indigenous Bolivian marketplace women recognized for their distinct traditional dress, have seen the commodification of their image both domestically and internationally. Their long colourful skirts, polleras, have been used by others as a way to censor, label, stereotype and exploit their position in a hierarchical society. Foreigners travel thousands of miles to consume what they hope to be an authentic representation of the chola identity. The creation of cholita wrestling has allowed some upward mobility for a small number of individual chola women, yet it perpetuates the foreign consumption of the Indigenous female body. Throughout their history of marginalization, these women have fought for recognition and equality within Bolivia. This essay will examine how the definition of what it means to be chola in Bolivia is ever-changing as they face one hurdle after another
Conscription, Communal Life, and Conflict: The Soldatka as a reluctant social disruptor in Alison K. Smith’s “Authority in a Serf Village”
No full textBetween 1705 and 1825, two million Russian peasants were recruited to spend their remaining lifetime in the Imperial army. Once a soldier left the village he was unlikely to be heard from again, but a soldier’s wife, a soldatka, was also thrust into an unenviable role: a single woman with no prospects of remarriage could scarcely be lower in the village social order. This study follows the aftermath of an 1819 recruitment levy in the village of Chmutovo, Kostroma Province using archival correspondence translated and presented in Alison K. Smith’s “Authority in a Serf Village: Peasants, Managers, and the Role of Writing in Early Nineteenth Century Russia.” This microhistory illustrates the larger themes of gender, authority, patronage, and communal responsibility which might emerge in any discussion of Imperial Russian social history. However, it is the unique voice of the soldatka - who Beatrice Farnsworth called “The quintessential outsider in a community based on married couples,” - and the shifting attitudes of others towards her that reveal unexpected dynamics in village life
Martyr or Murderer: Mewa Singh and the Assassination of William C. Hopkinson
No full textThis paper investigates the role of subjectivity in historical writing by highlighting the ambiguities, lacunae, and incommensurable accounts found in the archival records of a case from early twentieth-century British Columbia: the assassination of immigration agent William C. Hopkinson by Sikh Vancouverite Mewa Singh in the aftermath of the Komagata Maru incident of 1914. Emerging from within a period of extreme anti-Asian agitation in British Columbia, the archival documents surrounding Hopkinson’s assassination are racially charged and bifurcated along the lines of the concurrent antagonism between the Sikh community and government officials in Vancouver. Through these documents, Mewa Singh can be cast as either a cold-blooded murderer or a martyr standing up for the dignity of his community. As an exercise in critical reflexivity, this paper holds open a space for the ambiguity of the past and argues for the social significance of historians as self-aware storytellers and meaning-makers
Forging the Crown Jewel: The Creation of Stanley Park
No full textStanley Park is a well-loved park just past the downtown core of Vancouver. Like all parks, Stanley Park had to be created by many people across generations. Stanley Park opened in 1888 after years of planning. During this planning stage, the government retroactively established provenance for the park and began unsettling its many residents. Over the decades, authorities relocated residents in the peninsula; removed skeletons from burial grounds; turned the park into a tinder-box through sloppy roadwork; and removed numerous flora and fauna to fit Stanley Park within a specific image of the Pacific Northwestern locale. Most recently, authorities placed freestanding poles from other nations in the park to manufacture an Indigenous presence that fit within a specific visage. Employing the research of local historians Sean Kheraj and Jean Barman among other academics, this paper will recount and analyse the development of Stanley Park. Particular attention is dedicated to the ways in which municipal and federal governments removed and remade Indigeneity in the park. It is clear through this research that the constructed nature of Stanley Park undermines the overall image presented to locals and tourists
A Detailed look at scrubby and woodland Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) and Douglas-Fir (Pseudo-tsuga Menziensii) ecosystems, invasive species, and removal of Daphne laureola in an urban park under development in View Royal, British Columbia
No full textThe research and data presented in this report documents the current ecology, tree distriburiton & health, invasive species colonization, and monitoring & removal of Daphne laureola at an urban park in View Royal, sounther Vancouver Island, BC. This project was made possible by Valentin Schaefer and the REstoration of Natural Systems Progam at the University of Victoria and is submitted for the course ER390. The intent is that the document be useful in the monitoring and inventory of the site for future work and reinforces the fact that we need to realize the recommendation of regular invasive species removal in View Royal and throughout the city of Victoria. The management plan for the iste was developed by Amanda Evans in 2011, submitted to the city of View Royal by GOERT, and outlines a well-designed rigorous restoration plan. After five years it appears the park has gone by the wayside with regards to restoration. Invasive specied run rampant and have choked out native vegetation throughout the park, and continue to spread, everyday. This park contains threatened Garry Oak and Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystems and rare species only found therein. In order to conservit we as a city and its citizens must act now
PATHWAYS FROM PAIN TO RESILIENCE
No full textAbraham Maslow was among the first to hypothesize that most emotional and behavioral problems stem from unmet needs. Now, a large body of research on brain science, trauma, and resilience validates this concept. Humans experience emotional pain when their needs are frustrated. The most basic biosocial needs are for attachment, achievement, autonomy, and altruism. When these needs are met, children thrive. When they are not met, children experience pain-based emotions, thinking, and behavior. This article explores research and practical strategies for responding to the needs beneath pain-based behavior instead of reacting to problems