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How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art? The reader REALTY moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions. The pandemic’s effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity. Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder. REALTY is a lo

Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.

Leah Decter and Tania Willard approach the complexities of stolen land by focusing on one of today’s most pressing questions in “Canada”: how settlers, newcomers, and their descendants can engage in ethical guesting, that which is “relational, respectful, and reciprocal.”

This collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions of capital.

Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and Pécuchet is now considered to be one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces. In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my...--Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and Pécuchet is now conside

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Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada. Using visual, poetic, and theoretical language, the contributors approach reconciliation as a problematic narrative about Indigenous-settler relations, but also as a site where conversations about a just future must occur. The result of a

Exhibition catalogue from the four exhibitions associated with the Beginning with the Seventies project at the Belkin: GLUT (12 January-8 April 2018), Radial Change (22 June-12 August 2018), Collective Acts (4 September-2 December 2018) and Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always (11 January-7 April 2019), edited by Lorna Brown, Greg Gibson and Jana Tyner.

This article draws on the work of Raymond Williams to argue that under covid-19 the dominant ‘ways of seeing’ the countryside and the city in Britain are working to obscure the structural violence ...

White Space - Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley; White Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.

Nathaniel M. Lewis, Betsy Donald, A New Rubric for 'Creative City' Potential in Canada's Smaller Cities, Urban Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 29-54

Why did thousands of nineteenth-century artists leave the established urban centers of culture to live and work in the countryside? By 1900, there were over eighty rural artists’ communities across northern and central Europe. This is the first book

Re-issue book: Out of print book Being Together: A Manual For Living (2021) on group experiments in Ndiritu's practice, told through the stories of former participants, can be read here as a free PDF. Being Together: A Manual For Living...

This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect ...

From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space.

How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism

In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all.

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Suburban Escape presents the work of more than fifty renowned artists who use painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to examine the changes that suburbia has wrought on the physical, political, and social environments of California. The generic blandness of tract-home architecture, the negative and positive environmental impacts of suburban land-use patterns, and suburbs? ever-changing cultural and ethnic demographics become fuel for the artistic imaginations of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams, Jeff Brouws and Fandra Chang, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, Joel Sternfeld and Lewis Baltz, Laurie Brown and Larry Sultan, Richard Misrach and Camilo José Vergara, and dozens more.

On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.”...

Listen to this episode from Capital/isms on Spotify. We are in a housing crisis, and yet are surrounded by land - how did we get here? How did we get from living in tribes, and off the land, to purchasing land and living in cities? Jamie and Jenna explore the linchpin of the enclosure movement in our current capitalistic world.  Let us know what you thought of this episode and others by leaving us a voicemail.  Contact us directly: capital.isms23@gmail.com Resources & Further Reading Considerations How Did Enclosure Movement Change Agriculture? The Enclosure Movement Valuing Protected Public Lands CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America Canada needs to triple the amount of protected land and water to tackle 'nature emergency': report https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-age-of-insecurity?_pos=1&_sid=7e4ae45b7&_ss=r  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jamieandjenna/message