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Shane Johnson is a longshoreman and the son of Dean Johnson (who also worked as a longshoreman in New Westminster and eventually at Westshore before he retired) and husband of Faith Johnson, also a…

Through our work, the IPinCH Project seeks to explore the rights, values, and responsibilities of material culture, cultural knowledge, and the practice of heritage research. To further this goal,…

Michael Johnson is a retired commercial fisherman who has lived in Burnaby and New Westminster his whole life, and had his boat tied up in the Annieville Channel in North Delta. His father was also a…

Series of interviews with retired longshoreman Dean Johnson, conducted between 18 July 2013 and 6 March 2015Johnson was born and raised in New Westminster. He got his first longshoring work in Prince…

How can processes of commodification be both harmful and beneficial to people around the world? What tools and strategies can Indigenous communities and scholars use to deal with commodification…

Faith Johnson is a longshoreman and the daughter-in-law of Dean Johnson (who also worked as a longshoreman in New Westminster and eventually at Westshore before he retired) and wife of Shane Johnson…

Doug Kelly has worked a variety of jobs with the City of New Westminster, from a labourer, to a clerk, to a meter reader, and even the manager of the City Market. He describes the Market in detail,…

This paper explores how scholars continuing within, or expanding on, Goffmanian tradition have, to varying degrees, given grit to the praxis and study of (new?) social movements today. Particular…

Scholarship in feminism, anticolonialism, Disability and Mad studies, have repositioned storytelling as instructive to the present and to the ethics of care. Emplotted with time and space, like the…

The Ngaut Ngaut rock shelter was the first “scientifically” excavated site in Australia in 1929, but it has much deeper meanings for local Indigenous people. In conjunction with the other River…

Chris Jensen is a Port Captain for Seaspan and has been with the company since 1978. He was introduced to the waterfront at an early age because his father was also a tugboat captain for Seaspan.…

As genetic research is increasingly applied to new areas of study, including in archaeological and heritage contexts, a range of questions arise concerning the social, ethical, legal, and political…

This interview is with Bobby Labinsky. Bobby Labinsky [deceased] was a retired longshoreman who first started working in 1954, and became a member in 1958. His father was Leo Labinsky, who helped…

Points de vue is an interdisciplinary performance integrating solo dance improvisation with contextual and processual information about the activity which is unfolding. The center of this research-…

Greystone Books Ltd., based in Vancouver, publishes many translated works. This report is intended to examine the benefits of publishing translated works and compare that to publishing original…

There is a consensus that Information Systems and Technology (IS+T) needsto become a partner of the business by understanding its needs and expectations and offering solutions that create value. At…

Imaginary Standard Distance features video footage of a public telephone structure in Paris and the patrons who use it. The work’s open-ended narratives are influenced by the shifting light of its…

Imaginary Standard Distance features video footage of a public telephone structure in Paris and the patrons who use it. The work’s open-ended narratives are influenced by the shifting light of its…

Imaginary Standard Distance features video footage of a public telephone structure in Paris and the patrons who use it. The work’s open-ended narratives are influenced by the shifting light of its…

Many have heralded the death of quality content and mourn the demise of paid roles for traditional writers and publishers in the digital age. But in fact, a new model for marketing is opening up new…