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Some Other Field Recordings by Alan Lomax
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002) -
The Songs of the People for Me’: The Victorian Rediscovery of Lancashire Vernacular Song
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006) -
A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel’s Logic of Life
(The Owl of Minerva, 2009)In this paper I will argue that Hegel’s account of the category of life in the Science of Logic provides ontological grounds for the recognition of living species along with their various ecosystems as the proper objects ... -
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Artistry, Expertise, and Professionalism in Mediation and the Role of Higher Education
(2009-05-12)This paper examines what it takes to be a good mediator. It suggests that mediators should strive for artistry in their work which is the result of “reflection in action”. The paper then surveys the fields of knowledge ... -
Starting Over: A. L. Lloyd and the Search for a New Folk Music, 1945-49
(Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, 2000)In a previous article in this Journal (1997), the author has outlined Lloyd's early involvement with folk music during the decade 1934-1944 and analyzed the significance of The Singing Englishman. Here he continues the ... -
Stephen Harper as killer robot
(English Studies in Canada, 2017)In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ... -
Subjectivity and the Labour Process: A Case Study in the Food and Beverage Industry
(Work, Employment, and Society, 1996)This is what happens when an aspiring sociologist takes a job as a bartender. -
Teaching & Research: Learning's Twin Poles
(2nd Canadian Summit on the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2006)One reason I wanted to be here today is because I have a nagging concern about the drive to incorporate research more explicitly into teaching. It’s reminiscent of the drive for "quality" education in schools, which ... -
The Teaching Imaginary: Collective Identity in a Post-Prefixed Age
(Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002)Every society up to now has attempted to give an answer to a few fundamental questions: Who are we as a collectivity? What are we for one another? Where and in what are we? What do we want; what do we desire; what are ... -
Techno, Frankenstein and copyright
(Cambridge Journals, Cambridge University Press, 2007)This essay argues that the widespread but not widely recognised adaptation of Frankenstein in contemporary dance music problematises the ‘technological’ constitution of modern copyright law as an instrument wielded by ... -
Time for a Change? The Alberta Historical Resources Act
(Legacy Magazine, 2000-01)The Alberta Historical Resources Act was a product of several well-attended hearings during 1970-71, chaired by Richard G. Forbis, a leading archaeologist and professor at the University of Calgary. Intended to preserve ... -
Time to Move Webwards
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Transatlantic Troubadours: Pete Seeger, John Hasted and the English Folk Song Revival
(The Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, 1999) -
The Truth Is That Which Runs After the Truth
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Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ... -
Two Seminal New Books: The English Traditional Ballad & Rainbow Quest
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The University, Accountability, and Market Discipline in the Late 1990s
(Electronic Journal of Sociology, 1998)The academy, like many public and private institutions before it, has been colonised by the discourses of consumerism, efficiency, and market discipline. By now it is a familiar trend and, as many countries have experienced ... -
Untranslatable Texts and Literary Problems
(Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2021-03-01)Over the past decade, debates about the role of translations in studies focused on Comparative Literature have grown. Questions of self-translation and untranslatable texts have also been added to this discourse. The aim ...