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Do Canadians Have to Own the Inukshuk?

Posted Sat, 02/27/2010 - 00:38 by Shirley Steinberg

I don’t want be just another kevetcher on the Olympic bandwagon, but we’ve been given so much to work with.  At first, I wanted to do a short piece, Charlie and the Inukshuk Factory.  It was to be based on my recent landings at the Vancouver Airport, only to be overwhelmed by the plastic and wooden Native simulacrum, and carwash brush-esque flag bombardment (printed with tribal symbols).  After dodging the “bring your tired, your poor and your humbled travelers to the res” themed baggage claim area, I was going to rant on about the neglected state of the urban reserve on Hastings, and Vancouver’s attempt to cover up the needs of our First Nations people.  But that sounded so bitt

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The Limits of Critical Theory

Posted Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:56 by Robert LeBlanc

 Peter McLaren writes:
  "Why shouldn't all aspects of culture be problematized?  To problematize culture does not guarantee that everything 'traditional' will be condemned or rejected... what it does mean is that we can recover from such traditional cultural texts and practices those aspects which empower and discard or transform those which don't." (McLaren, 1991)
 

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Lest we Forget, Sort of.

Posted Wed, 11/11/2009 - 15:45 by Arlo Kempf

November 11, 2009

At the park this morning with my son, five bright yellow WWII era planes flew over head in a skilful aerial display. I pointed them out to a friend of mine and his daughters, and we all watched for a moment. This was a little after 11am – right about the time designated for our prescribed Jungian moment of reflection on war, peace and memory. This piece of airborne public pedagogy drew the attention of everyone at the park. A German woman on the swing next to us joked that they were coming for her and that she better take cover. In a joke that went over poorly, my friend inquired, with interest “oh, are you a Nazi?” The woman replied with a simple and inexpressive “no.” Our little conversation was over. The planes were gone and all eyes were back on the children. Despite a little disagreement about what constitutes funny, almost everybody at the park had known what the planes were supposed to signify.

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Can I Get a Cheeseburger with my Satellite Dish? Consumerism, Colonialism, Capitalism and the Media

Posted Tue, 09/29/2009 - 20:01 by Passionate Pedagogue

The 21st Century has been earmarked by many prevalent themes, one of the most pertinent being the dominance of a consumer-driven, media ridden society.  Globalization has sprouted the birth of a pluralistic world wherein media forums everywhere have cropped up as hegemonic forces in people’s daily lives.  While we may be far from the Renaissance historically, we find ourselves in a new colonial era wherein media giants from Europe and North America have filtered their values, ways of life and systems of governance across the world’s continents.   By creating a network of media giants, who are mostly white and primarily Christian, we have transposed territorial colonization with m

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CALL for Articles: SLUMDOG RACISM? South Asians in Hollywood

Posted Mon, 02/23/2009 - 14:59 by ShirleyRuthSteinberg

So, Slumdog won the big ones....

 

Priya Parmar and I are co-editing an issue of Taboo:  The Journal of Culture and Education on South Asians in Hollywood, using Slumdog Millionaire as the start off point.

Please send me a short abstract of 100 words about your possible article.  We are putting them into peer review, but doing it rather quickly, as this issue will be out June 1, 2009.  Articles are due May 1, 2009. Articles from 3000 to 5000 words..

Any questions?  Email me at msgramsci@aol.com

 

Shirley

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