40 research outputs found
Coming Out of Chaos: Community Archives, Oral History, and Networks of Archival Support
No full textComing Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story (COoC) is a multi-year, oral history and archival research project produced by Karen Jamieson Dance, under the creative direction of Dance Archivist and Creative Director, Emma Metcalfe Hurst. COoC tracks the emergence of contemporary dance in Vancouver, British Columbia, highlighting local connections to Simon Fraser University and international connections to New York City, from the 1960s to the present day.
The project takes the form of an interactive, multimedia website (www.kjdchaos.ca) that includes: seventeen oral history interviews with local dancers, choreographers, dance administrators, dance historians, dance critics, and performance scholars; a historical timeline of contemporary dance in Vancouver; four curated virtual exhibitions of personal and organizational archives; and four “chapters” that tell the story leading up to, during, and after the seminal collaborative work Coming Out of Chaos (1982). This project explores the work's resonance in Vancouver contemporary dance through new writing based on historical research, audio clips from the oral history interviews, and archival photographs, film, and textual documents.
This lightning talk highlights oral history and archival projects as a tool for community engagement and outreach. It will also touch on themes of community archives (“for the community, by the community”), access, preservation, and networks of archival support (distributing professional knowledge and archival labour, such as digitization) within the non-profit arts sector. The talk also shares the project development process and the decision behind creating a website as the final project product
DIY: Zine-Making in LAMS, for LAMS
No full textZines are easy and affordable to make and distribute. While there has been scholarship on acquiring and preserving zines in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMS), less has been studied about LAMS workers making zines in these contexts. With a return to campus after the COVID-19 pandemic, zines proved to be a fun way to engage and inform patrons about the library, promote services and resources, and build community. The authors are asking research questions, including: Why make zines? How are other information professionals in LAMS making zines to promote services and resources, and support research, teaching, and learning in these contexts? What are the benefits and challenges of zine-making in these contexts? The poster features two case studies of zine-making in art libraries, as well as suggestions for zine-making topics in LAMS. This poster also promotes a larger survey on zine-making in LAMS conducted by Emma Metcalfe Hurst. Survey respondents will be invited to share digital copies of their zines which will be made available on a public website to help LIS workers get started with zine-making, inspire ideas, and connect LIS zinesters. Viewers are invited to take the survey at ARLIS using a QR code on the poster
Activism art & archives recollective : Vancouver independent archives week
No full textAn interview with Project Coordinator, Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Archives Manager, Dan Pon, from Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week. Featured in the November 2018 edition of UBC’s Discorder Magazine.Non UBCUnreviewedOthe
Apparition Room. Western Front, Vancouver, BC. January 14 – April 1, 2023. Curated by Lee Plested. Scenography by Nile Koetting
No full textApparition Room. Western Front, Vancouver, BC.
No full textApparition Room. Western Front, Vancouver, BC. January 14 – April 1, 2023. Curated by Lee Plested. Scenography by Nile Koettin
Apparition Room. Western Front, Vancouver, BC.
No full textApparition Room. Western Front, Vancouver, BC. January 14 – April 1, 2023. Curated by Lee Plested. Scenography by Nile Koettin
Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India
No full textWinner of Coomaraswamy Prize 1998.
In this path-breaking and entertaining study, the author concentrates on the problem of what to wear rather than describing what is worn. She demonstrates how different individuals and groups have used clothes to assert power, challenge authority, define or conceal identity, and instigate or prevent social change at various levels of Indian society from the village to the nation. Three main issues are addressed: questions of national identity as seen through the clothing controversies of the Indian elite in the late colonial period; questions of local identity as experienced by women in rural Gujarat; and the recent development of urban fashion trends which reappropriate regional styles. Emma Tarlo demonstrates the complexity of interaction between these different levels of sartorial change. Thus she combines ethnographic analysis of Gandhi's loincloth and village embroidery with a rich depiction of the importance of clothing in India. The work is amply illustrated with over 100 photographs, advertisements and cartoons
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No full textAdapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
