So far this summer I have spent a lot of time traveling, as well as many, many hours dealing with technical and bureaucratic headaches associated with a new IT system at my university. It has been challenging not just to find time to write meaningful and interesting blog posts here, but also to get research … Continue reading Research update
Tag: Canada
On becoming Canadian
We arrive 10 minutes before the appointed 1:00 pm deadline on my invitation letter. It reads less as an invitation and more as a list of instructions, but represents the final step on my road to Canadian citizenship. The large waiting room is already packed, families in nice clothes, children laughing and running around, those … Continue reading On becoming Canadian
Research reports available
A quick post while I hammer away at a post on Trump and borders, actual research papers for publication, and, most recently and frustratingly, a bunch of IKEA furniture. I have written here before about my general research focus on the state as a workplace and the geography of expertise in the state, and the … Continue reading Research reports available
Windsor 5: imperial monuments 2
I offered in my last post an account of an implement of war, an old Russian cannon, recast as a monument to the British empire's military power and to Canada's contribution to it. This presentation of the physical spoils of war as a celebration of national glory and imperial reach was common in the 19th … Continue reading Windsor 5: imperial monuments 2
Windsor 4: imperial monuments 1
I promised in my last post to write something soon on two monuments that I recently discovered along the Windsor waterfront, and which demonstrate two moments of Canadians' participation in the long history of imperialism. One, a Russian cannon, is perhaps less a monument than a military prize, shipped from Crimea and displayed at what … Continue reading Windsor 4: imperial monuments 1
Commuting
For close to eight years, I have lived in between two cities, commuting almost weekly between Toronto and Windsor. I have not intended this blog to be a confessional, so I won't get into why I have done this, except to say that the choice to take up residence in Toronto while working in Windsor, … Continue reading Commuting
Canada’s race problem
Last weekend, a court in Battleford, a small city of around 4000 people in north-central Saskatchewan, found Gerald Stanley not guilty of the murder of Colten Boushie. Stanley, a white farmer, stood accused of second-degree murder in shooting Boushie, a 22-year-old member of the Red Pheasant First Nation, after Boushie and some of his friends … Continue reading Canada’s race problem
