Camilo jose vergara biography of alberta
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Detroit Is No Dry Bones
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Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Ecology, Settler Colonialism, and the Environments of the American Midwest: The Science and Politics of Ecological Restoration since 1950
Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Hoyt, Andrew Mitchell, Thesis advisor (ths): Bocking, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Rutherford, Stephanie, Degree committee member (dgc): Martin, Laura J, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Colonization has transformed the landscapes of the American Midwest and compromised the region's resources and ecologies. In response, governments, environmental scientists, and Indigenous nations have undertaken myriad efforts over the past century to restore Midwestern environments. Yet the appropriate goals and techniques for this work have been deeply contested. This thesis… more
Prepared for the Next War? U.S. Attachés Reports, Military Innovation and the Spanish Civil War
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Arnold, Sabrina Laura, Thesis advisor (ths): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee mem
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(Review) Camilo Jose Vergara, Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age
Liev Cherry
2018
Once a city of two million people, and the centre of US car manufacture, Detroit's fortunes have been in steady decline since the mid twentieth century, when the industry that built it began to downsize and relocate production away from the United States. Decades of disinvestment and racial division left a city with central neighbourhoods sparsely populated and crumbling, while resources and services were concentrated in wealthier suburbs. In recent years, the city's landscape has come to be emblematic of post-industrial decline, urban blight and civic abandonment. My research adopts a mixed-methods ethnographic approach to argue that this framing of the city is in fact a deeply ideological one, with constructions of Detroit as empty and chaotic serving to lay the groundwork for a large-scale project of recolonisation, which draws simultaneously on discourses of greening and redemption. Narratives of abandonment and the re-emergence of urban 'nature' work together to reclaim the city in the interests of a mobile elite whose 'white flight', widely cited as the source of Detroit&#