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Papers by Kirsten E . McAllister

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts in the City of Glasgow

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2021

Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to... more Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to the #CommunicationSoWhite intervention more broadly. How are you inspired and motivated by it? How do you engage and situate yourselves with respect to it? How are things both similar and different in Canada? The title of your article, "On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite-Canadian style," suggests the specificity of the Canadian context. So, as a first question, could you to say more about that wider context and the circumstances of your piece? Faiza Hirji (FH): Should I start with the background on the ICA pre-conference? Yasmin Jiwani (YJ) & Kirsten McAllister (KM): Yeah. FH: So this piece was inspired when the ICA, the International Communication Association, put out a call for papers for a pre-conference they were doing on #CommunicationSoWhite. And, of course, as usual, the three of us have absolutely zero time, but I saw that, and I thought, "Somebody should speak about this on the Canadian side." I think there were a lot of things going on at my university and challenges I was seeing in terms of conversations around EDI [equity, diversity, inclusion] that were really sort of swirling in my mind and giving me some frustration around this area, maybe more than I would normally have because I always sort of joke that I'm usually the Pollyanna of this group, but lately it's getting harder and harder to stay that way. But anyway, I think I wrote to Yasmin-and Yasmin wrote to Kirsten-and said, "You know, I think this is really important even though I know we're all busy, does anyone want to go to Washington and present as well?" And so we ended up trying to put together a panel and then found that experience of not only presenting but also listening to the experiences that other people were having resonated with us. At some point, somebody suggested that we should write about this, and then the organizers of our panel were also working on a special issue for Communication, Culture and Critique and had followed up to say it would be great to get a piece on this Canadian perspective, [saying,] "We don't have room to publish three individual papers, but could the three of you perhaps work on a joint paper?" We had actually already been talking about the fact that that would make sense, and so we decided to try and work on that. And that whole process felt like it took forever. So that's how we got from here to there. That's just kind of the preliminary, and Kirsten and Yasmin might want to add more. KM: This was an interesting moment because Yasmin and I had attempted to set up a [caucus] for scholars working on critical race theory, anti-colonialism, and diaspora studies nine years earlier in 2011 at the CCA [Canadian Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts in the City of Glasgow

Research paper thumbnail of Virilio: Mimesis, Mourning, and Modern Technology

Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the co... more Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on "vision machines." With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into neurologically simple organisms. This article examines his use of imagery, arguing (after Keywords: Media theory; Theories of technology; The body Résumé : Dans La machine de vision (1994), Paul Virilio emploie des images puissantes pour nous avertir des conséquences de notre dépendance croissante par rapport aux « machines de vision ». Il croit que nos sens, en étant sousutilisés, s'atrophient et que nous allons nous dégrader, devenant des organismes neurologiquement simples. Cet article examine les images que Virilio utilise; il soutient (à l'exemple de

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies

Canadian Journal of Communication

Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to... more Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to the #CommunicationSoWhite intervention more broadly. How are you inspired and motivated by it? How do you engage and situate yourselves with respect to it? How are things both similar and different in Canada? The title of your article, "On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite-Canadian style," suggests the specificity of the Canadian context. So, as a first question, could you to say more about that wider context and the circumstances of your piece? Faiza Hirji (FH): Should I start with the background on the ICA pre-conference? Yasmin Jiwani (YJ) & Kirsten McAllister (KM): Yeah. FH: So this piece was inspired when the ICA, the International Communication Association, put out a call for papers for a pre-conference they were doing on #CommunicationSoWhite. And, of course, as usual, the three of us have absolutely zero time, but I saw that, and I thought, "Somebody should speak about this on the Canadian side." I think there were a lot of things going on at my university and challenges I was seeing in terms of conversations around EDI [equity, diversity, inclusion] that were really sort of swirling in my mind and giving me some frustration around this area, maybe more than I would normally have because I always sort of joke that I'm usually the Pollyanna of this group, but lately it's getting harder and harder to stay that way. But anyway, I think I wrote to Yasmin-and Yasmin wrote to Kirsten-and said, "You know, I think this is really important even though I know we're all busy, does anyone want to go to Washington and present as well?" And so we ended up trying to put together a panel and then found that experience of not only presenting but also listening to the experiences that other people were having resonated with us. At some point, somebody suggested that we should write about this, and then the organizers of our panel were also working on a special issue for Communication, Culture and Critique and had followed up to say it would be great to get a piece on this Canadian perspective, [saying,] "We don't have room to publish three individual papers, but could the three of you perhaps work on a joint paper?" We had actually already been talking about the fact that that would make sense, and so we decided to try and work on that. And that whole process felt like it took forever. So that's how we got from here to there. That's just kind of the preliminary, and Kirsten and Yasmin might want to add more. KM: This was an interesting moment because Yasmin and I had attempted to set up a [caucus] for scholars working on critical race theory, anti-colonialism, and diaspora studies nine years earlier in 2011 at the CCA [Canadian Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering political violence: the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre

Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations fo... more Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for the role they played in the creation of this dissertation:

Research paper thumbnail of “Politics of memory”

Research paper thumbnail of Family Photography and Persecuted Communities: Methodological Challenges

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

Research paper thumbnail of Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice with Roy Miki

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2012

"B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibi... more "B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibilities that elude the instrumental terms of dominant visual and discursive regimes, whether regimes of racialization, trans/nationalism or commodification. The interview focuses on the creative work of Roy Miki, who has received a Governor General Award for his poetry and has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his work in cultural politics. The interview explores Miki's changing relation to photographic imagery, especially with respect to his poetic work over the last several decades. With his experience as an activist in the Japanese Canadian movement for redress, along with the role he played in opening up literary studies and more generally the study of cultural formations in Canada to questions regarding the politics of race, Miki discusses how he has navigated spaces of erasure in language and visual regimes amidst expanding transnational commodification. McAllister and Miki constructed the resulting dialogue over a four-month period. 2 Photography and a language of displacement KM: Your recent visual collages re-envision places in Vancouver within the contemporary global landscape through the life of commodities, or to be more precise, through the ethereal world of mannequins that brings commodities to life. 3 This could be viewed as a departure from your poetic work with the written word and your concerns about "race" and the discursive constitution of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian subjects. But from our discussions about moving into the recesses of representation-into the internal workings of language and its discursive power-and making sites for creation that exceed the limits of language, whether by subverting rhythms, hanging on the resonance of a vowel or the metonymic slippage between meanings, it is clear that you have had a complex and changing relation to photographic representations over the years, starting with photographic representations of the Japanese Canadian (JC) body.

Research paper thumbnail of Captivating debris: Unearthing a world war two internment camp

Journal For Cultural Research, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Asylum in the Margins of Contemporary Britain: The Spatial Practices of Desire in Gypo

Space and Culture, 2011

... Like Alfie, George helps Carla return to her homeland. ... identifica-tion with asylum seeker... more ... Like Alfie, George helps Carla return to her homeland. ... identifica-tion with asylum seekers, and especially her desire for Tasha, does not line up with the sexual, racial, and nation-bound values and boundaries that order the lives of Margate residents (Berlant & Warner, 1998). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering political violence: the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre

Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations fo... more Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for the role they played in the creation of this dissertation:

Research paper thumbnail of Kirsten E. McAllister. Review of "The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada" by Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational spaces of exclusion in Glasgow: multi-story, photography and spatial practices

Research paper thumbnail of Narrating Japanese Canadians In and Out of the Canadian Nation: A Critique of Realist Forms of Representation

Canadian Journal of Communication, 1999

... different in order to produce equal atomized citizens with a new history free from the past. ... more ... different in order to produce equal atomized citizens with a new history free from the past. ... What is innovative about Minoru is the way in which the film uses animation to ... For example, the NAJC needed a massive mobilization of resources to narrate Japanese Canadians into the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural production and alternative political practices : dialogic cultural forms and the public sphere in the Japanese Canadian community

Research paper thumbnail of “Politics of memory”. Interview with Kirsten Emiko McAllister

Sens Public, Dec 13, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Virilio: Mimesis, Mourning, and Modern Technology

In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences... more In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on "vision machines." With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into neurologically simple organisms. This article examines his use of imagery, arguing (after Nicholsen, 1997; that he mimetically replicates cultural anxieties as well as the destructive drives he critiques. Arguing that he mourns the loss of an ideal human animal of knowledge constituted through the Greek practice of technē (Heidegger,1977), the article further questions whether his writing is symptomatic of "left melancholia" . , Paul Virilio emploie des images puissantes pour nous avertir des conséquences de notre dépendance croissante par rapport aux « machines de vision ». Il croit que nos sens, en étant sous-utilisés, s'atrophient et que nous allons nous dégrader, devenant des organismes neurologiquement simples. Cet article examine les images que Virilio utilise; il soutient (à l'exemple de que cet auteur reproduit mimétiquement des anxiétés culturelles ainsi que les pulsions destructrices mêmes qu'il critique. L'article, affirmant qu'il fait le deuil d'un animal humain idéal possédant un savoir formé au moyen de la pratique grecque du technē , soulève en outre la question de l'écriture de Virilio en tant que symptôme de « mélancolie de gauche » .

Research paper thumbnail of Interview Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice with

"B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibi... more "B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibilities that elude the instrumental terms of dominant visual and discursive regimes, whether regimes of racialization, trans/nationalism or commodification. The interview focuses on the creative work of Roy Miki, who has received a Governor General Award for his poetry and has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his work in cultural politics. The interview explores Miki's changing relation to photographic imagery, especially with respect to his poetic work over the last several decades. With his experience as an activist in the Japanese Canadian movement for redress, along with the role he played in opening up literary studies and more generally the study of cultural formations in Canada to questions regarding the politics of race, Miki discusses how he has navigated spaces of erasure in language and visual regimes amidst expanding transnational commodification. McAllister and Miki constructed the resulting dialogue over a four-month period. 2 Photography and a language of displacement KM: Your recent visual collages re-envision places in Vancouver within the contemporary global landscape through the life of commodities, or to be more precise, through the ethereal world of mannequins that brings commodities to life. 3 This could be viewed as a departure from your poetic work with the written word and your concerns about "race" and the discursive constitution of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian subjects. But from our discussions about moving into the recesses of representation-into the internal workings of language and its discursive power-and making sites for creation that exceed the limits of language, whether by subverting rhythms, hanging on the resonance of a vowel or the metonymic slippage between meanings, it is clear that you have had a complex and changing relation to photographic representations over the years, starting with photographic representations of the Japanese Canadian (JC) body.

Research paper thumbnail of Human Cargo Bridging the Geopolitical Divide at Home in Canada

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts in the City of Glasgow

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2021

Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to... more Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to the #CommunicationSoWhite intervention more broadly. How are you inspired and motivated by it? How do you engage and situate yourselves with respect to it? How are things both similar and different in Canada? The title of your article, "On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite-Canadian style," suggests the specificity of the Canadian context. So, as a first question, could you to say more about that wider context and the circumstances of your piece? Faiza Hirji (FH): Should I start with the background on the ICA pre-conference? Yasmin Jiwani (YJ) & Kirsten McAllister (KM): Yeah. FH: So this piece was inspired when the ICA, the International Communication Association, put out a call for papers for a pre-conference they were doing on #CommunicationSoWhite. And, of course, as usual, the three of us have absolutely zero time, but I saw that, and I thought, "Somebody should speak about this on the Canadian side." I think there were a lot of things going on at my university and challenges I was seeing in terms of conversations around EDI [equity, diversity, inclusion] that were really sort of swirling in my mind and giving me some frustration around this area, maybe more than I would normally have because I always sort of joke that I'm usually the Pollyanna of this group, but lately it's getting harder and harder to stay that way. But anyway, I think I wrote to Yasmin-and Yasmin wrote to Kirsten-and said, "You know, I think this is really important even though I know we're all busy, does anyone want to go to Washington and present as well?" And so we ended up trying to put together a panel and then found that experience of not only presenting but also listening to the experiences that other people were having resonated with us. At some point, somebody suggested that we should write about this, and then the organizers of our panel were also working on a special issue for Communication, Culture and Critique and had followed up to say it would be great to get a piece on this Canadian perspective, [saying,] "We don't have room to publish three individual papers, but could the three of you perhaps work on a joint paper?" We had actually already been talking about the fact that that would make sense, and so we decided to try and work on that. And that whole process felt like it took forever. So that's how we got from here to there. That's just kind of the preliminary, and Kirsten and Yasmin might want to add more. KM: This was an interesting moment because Yasmin and I had attempted to set up a [caucus] for scholars working on critical race theory, anti-colonialism, and diaspora studies nine years earlier in 2011 at the CCA [Canadian Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts in the City of Glasgow

Research paper thumbnail of Virilio: Mimesis, Mourning, and Modern Technology

Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the co... more Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on "vision machines." With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into neurologically simple organisms. This article examines his use of imagery, arguing (after Keywords: Media theory; Theories of technology; The body Résumé : Dans La machine de vision (1994), Paul Virilio emploie des images puissantes pour nous avertir des conséquences de notre dépendance croissante par rapport aux « machines de vision ». Il croit que nos sens, en étant sousutilisés, s'atrophient et que nous allons nous dégrader, devenant des organismes neurologiquement simples. Cet article examine les images que Virilio utilise; il soutient (à l'exemple de

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies

Canadian Journal of Communication

Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to... more Chris Russill (CR): I wonder if you might situate your article and collaborations with respect to the #CommunicationSoWhite intervention more broadly. How are you inspired and motivated by it? How do you engage and situate yourselves with respect to it? How are things both similar and different in Canada? The title of your article, "On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite-Canadian style," suggests the specificity of the Canadian context. So, as a first question, could you to say more about that wider context and the circumstances of your piece? Faiza Hirji (FH): Should I start with the background on the ICA pre-conference? Yasmin Jiwani (YJ) & Kirsten McAllister (KM): Yeah. FH: So this piece was inspired when the ICA, the International Communication Association, put out a call for papers for a pre-conference they were doing on #CommunicationSoWhite. And, of course, as usual, the three of us have absolutely zero time, but I saw that, and I thought, "Somebody should speak about this on the Canadian side." I think there were a lot of things going on at my university and challenges I was seeing in terms of conversations around EDI [equity, diversity, inclusion] that were really sort of swirling in my mind and giving me some frustration around this area, maybe more than I would normally have because I always sort of joke that I'm usually the Pollyanna of this group, but lately it's getting harder and harder to stay that way. But anyway, I think I wrote to Yasmin-and Yasmin wrote to Kirsten-and said, "You know, I think this is really important even though I know we're all busy, does anyone want to go to Washington and present as well?" And so we ended up trying to put together a panel and then found that experience of not only presenting but also listening to the experiences that other people were having resonated with us. At some point, somebody suggested that we should write about this, and then the organizers of our panel were also working on a special issue for Communication, Culture and Critique and had followed up to say it would be great to get a piece on this Canadian perspective, [saying,] "We don't have room to publish three individual papers, but could the three of you perhaps work on a joint paper?" We had actually already been talking about the fact that that would make sense, and so we decided to try and work on that. And that whole process felt like it took forever. So that's how we got from here to there. That's just kind of the preliminary, and Kirsten and Yasmin might want to add more. KM: This was an interesting moment because Yasmin and I had attempted to set up a [caucus] for scholars working on critical race theory, anti-colonialism, and diaspora studies nine years earlier in 2011 at the CCA [Canadian Communication

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering political violence: the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre

Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations fo... more Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for the role they played in the creation of this dissertation:

Research paper thumbnail of “Politics of memory”

Research paper thumbnail of Family Photography and Persecuted Communities: Methodological Challenges

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

Research paper thumbnail of Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice with Roy Miki

Canadian Journal of Communication, 2012

"B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibi... more "B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibilities that elude the instrumental terms of dominant visual and discursive regimes, whether regimes of racialization, trans/nationalism or commodification. The interview focuses on the creative work of Roy Miki, who has received a Governor General Award for his poetry and has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his work in cultural politics. The interview explores Miki's changing relation to photographic imagery, especially with respect to his poetic work over the last several decades. With his experience as an activist in the Japanese Canadian movement for redress, along with the role he played in opening up literary studies and more generally the study of cultural formations in Canada to questions regarding the politics of race, Miki discusses how he has navigated spaces of erasure in language and visual regimes amidst expanding transnational commodification. McAllister and Miki constructed the resulting dialogue over a four-month period. 2 Photography and a language of displacement KM: Your recent visual collages re-envision places in Vancouver within the contemporary global landscape through the life of commodities, or to be more precise, through the ethereal world of mannequins that brings commodities to life. 3 This could be viewed as a departure from your poetic work with the written word and your concerns about "race" and the discursive constitution of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian subjects. But from our discussions about moving into the recesses of representation-into the internal workings of language and its discursive power-and making sites for creation that exceed the limits of language, whether by subverting rhythms, hanging on the resonance of a vowel or the metonymic slippage between meanings, it is clear that you have had a complex and changing relation to photographic representations over the years, starting with photographic representations of the Japanese Canadian (JC) body.

Research paper thumbnail of Captivating debris: Unearthing a world war two internment camp

Journal For Cultural Research, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Asylum in the Margins of Contemporary Britain: The Spatial Practices of Desire in Gypo

Space and Culture, 2011

... Like Alfie, George helps Carla return to her homeland. ... identifica-tion with asylum seeker... more ... Like Alfie, George helps Carla return to her homeland. ... identifica-tion with asylum seekers, and especially her desire for Tasha, does not line up with the sexual, racial, and nation-bound values and boundaries that order the lives of Margate residents (Berlant & Warner, 1998). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering political violence: the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre

Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations fo... more Ow file Notre rehrence 1 would iike to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for the role they played in the creation of this dissertation:

Research paper thumbnail of Kirsten E. McAllister. Review of "The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada" by Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational spaces of exclusion in Glasgow: multi-story, photography and spatial practices

Research paper thumbnail of Narrating Japanese Canadians In and Out of the Canadian Nation: A Critique of Realist Forms of Representation

Canadian Journal of Communication, 1999

... different in order to produce equal atomized citizens with a new history free from the past. ... more ... different in order to produce equal atomized citizens with a new history free from the past. ... What is innovative about Minoru is the way in which the film uses animation to ... For example, the NAJC needed a massive mobilization of resources to narrate Japanese Canadians into the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural production and alternative political practices : dialogic cultural forms and the public sphere in the Japanese Canadian community

Research paper thumbnail of “Politics of memory”. Interview with Kirsten Emiko McAllister

Sens Public, Dec 13, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Virilio: Mimesis, Mourning, and Modern Technology

In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences... more In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on "vision machines." With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into neurologically simple organisms. This article examines his use of imagery, arguing (after Nicholsen, 1997; that he mimetically replicates cultural anxieties as well as the destructive drives he critiques. Arguing that he mourns the loss of an ideal human animal of knowledge constituted through the Greek practice of technē (Heidegger,1977), the article further questions whether his writing is symptomatic of "left melancholia" . , Paul Virilio emploie des images puissantes pour nous avertir des conséquences de notre dépendance croissante par rapport aux « machines de vision ». Il croit que nos sens, en étant sous-utilisés, s'atrophient et que nous allons nous dégrader, devenant des organismes neurologiquement simples. Cet article examine les images que Virilio utilise; il soutient (à l'exemple de que cet auteur reproduit mimétiquement des anxiétés culturelles ainsi que les pulsions destructrices mêmes qu'il critique. L'article, affirmant qu'il fait le deuil d'un animal humain idéal possédant un savoir formé au moyen de la pratique grecque du technē , soulève en outre la question de l'écriture de Virilio en tant que symptôme de « mélancolie de gauche » .

Research paper thumbnail of Interview Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice with

"B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibi... more "B etween the Photograph and the Poem" explores the capacity of creative work to generate possibilities that elude the instrumental terms of dominant visual and discursive regimes, whether regimes of racialization, trans/nationalism or commodification. The interview focuses on the creative work of Roy Miki, who has received a Governor General Award for his poetry and has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his work in cultural politics. The interview explores Miki's changing relation to photographic imagery, especially with respect to his poetic work over the last several decades. With his experience as an activist in the Japanese Canadian movement for redress, along with the role he played in opening up literary studies and more generally the study of cultural formations in Canada to questions regarding the politics of race, Miki discusses how he has navigated spaces of erasure in language and visual regimes amidst expanding transnational commodification. McAllister and Miki constructed the resulting dialogue over a four-month period. 2 Photography and a language of displacement KM: Your recent visual collages re-envision places in Vancouver within the contemporary global landscape through the life of commodities, or to be more precise, through the ethereal world of mannequins that brings commodities to life. 3 This could be viewed as a departure from your poetic work with the written word and your concerns about "race" and the discursive constitution of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian subjects. But from our discussions about moving into the recesses of representation-into the internal workings of language and its discursive power-and making sites for creation that exceed the limits of language, whether by subverting rhythms, hanging on the resonance of a vowel or the metonymic slippage between meanings, it is clear that you have had a complex and changing relation to photographic representations over the years, starting with photographic representations of the Japanese Canadian (JC) body.

Research paper thumbnail of Human Cargo Bridging the Geopolitical Divide at Home in Canada