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Women in Weed: Gender, Race, and Class in the Cannabis Industry
No full textThe legitimate cannabis industry is in its developmental stages across North America, leading some to claim that this industry will be a "blue skies market for women" where they will have unfettered opportunities to take on influential and entrepreneurial roles. This discourse, however, ignores the reality that the cannabis industry is just as shaped by gender and intersectional inequalities as other more established industries. Drawing on interviews with five women leaders from various cannabis sectors in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, I explore how gender, racialization, and class operate in this increasingly corporatized sector and how white, heteronormative femininity has been used to normalize cannabis consumptio
Dean Moyar, ed., "The Oxford Handbook of Hegel."
No full textReview of Dean Moyar, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Hegel. Oxford University Press 2017. 828 pp. 
Sheep and Shepherd: The Ambivalent Gender Politics of Thomas Hardy’s "Far from the Madding Crowd"
No full textMasculinity in Collapse: Shell Shock in Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway" and Rebecca West’s "The Return of the Soldier"
No full text“Language on Holiday:” Wittgenstein and the Language-Reality Gap in Historical Narratives
No full textThe role of language in historical representations is a crucial issue. Empiricist and realist understandings of historical studies were vastly complicated by new theories of language developed in the last century and a half. Important works by Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault, among others, threw into doubt the ability of language to correspond to reality. This posed major problems for the ability of the historical discipline to represent the reality of the past. Various modernist theorists have challenged the conclusions of postmodernist linguistic and historical theories, arguing that they leave the possibility for knowledge about the reality of the past in serious doubt because of a gap they open up between the language used to describe the past and the reality of the past itself. Frank Ankersmit provides a key re-envisioning of the nature of language in the historical discipline to attempt to accommodate this change in the understanding of the nature of the relationship of language to reality. This paper will use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later language theory to interrogate Ankersmit’s historical theories as well as criticisms directed towards Ankersmit’s and other postmodernist theories. I argue that a revised conception of the nature of language based on Wittgenstein’s language theory, while it disagrees with elements of Ankersmit’s theory, does enable the postmodern historian to answer crucial modernist critiques
