Status Updates From Stan Douglas: Every Buildin...

Oleksijczuk: While images function as reservoirs of signs that lend themselves to an indefinite plurality of meanings, they function as sites of negotiation between the different groups or individuals who use them to affirm their identity.

There HAS to be a clearer way to say that I read that nightmare of a sentence like 87 times. Academia sucks butts.

Smith and Derksen: " The Privy Council Office has formed the most Canadian of research forms, a Task Force"

I CACKLED. This jab is niche but it is my niche!

Sommers and Blomley, "The Worst Block in Vancouver"; referencing Neil Smith's comparison of gentrification to colonisation - "the myth of the new urban frontier" - but none of the history or analysis of this piece has yet to mention Indigenous people or refer to the Land as occupied. Feels like a huge omission from the thesis' consideration. There's still a few pages to go tho!