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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2013/02/12/recent-op-ed/" title="“Outdated mining rules trump privacy in B.C.”"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/02/gold-rush-canada-postage-stamp-showing-a-miner-panning-for-gold-as-part-of-the-centenary-of-british-columbia-150x150.jpg" alt="“Outdated mining rules trump privacy in B.C.”" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

“Outdated mining rules trump privacy in B.C.”

By lbarrick on February 12, 2013

Dawn Hoogeveen’s Op-Ed “Outdated mining rules trump privacy in B.C.” was published in the January 31, 2013 Times Colonist. Read the full Op-Ed here.

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2013/02/12/new-publication/" title="“Apocalypse Meow”"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/02/dozer-the-tortoise-at-cinemazoo-150x150.jpg" alt="“Apocalypse Meow”" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

“Apocalypse Meow”

By lbarrick on February 12, 2013

Rosemary Collard’s article “Apocalypse Meow” was recently published in Capitalism Nature Socialism 24(1), 35-41. Read the full article here.  

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2013/02/11/recent-publication/" title="“Delimiting democracy: witnessing along the US–Mexico borderlands”"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/02/Juanita_intervention-walls-150x150.jpg" alt="“Delimiting democracy: witnessing along the US–Mexico borderlands”" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

“Delimiting democracy: witnessing along the US–Mexico borderlands”

By lbarrick on February 11, 2013

Dr. Juanita Sundberg’s intervention “Delimiting democracy: witnessing along the US–Mexico borderlands” has gone to press in the collection Till, K.E., et al., “Interventions in the political geographies of walls,” Political Geography (2013). Dr. Sundberg’s contribution examines the implications for democracy of wall building at the US border with Mexico. See more in the full collection. […]

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2013/01/01/decolonizing-cascadia/" title="Decolonizing Cascadia?"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/02/Cascadia-Logo-Final-Color-150x150.png" alt="Decolonizing Cascadia?" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

Decolonizing Cascadia?

By lbarrick on January 1, 2013

In November 2012, the UBC Geography Department hosted the Decolonizing Cascadia? Rethinking Critical Geographies 7th Annual Mini-Conference. Among the diverse critical geography papers presented throughout the weekend were Paige Patchin’s “Three Scenes of Everyday Imperialism” and Leigh Barrick’s “Porous Boundaries and Rugged Terrain: Nature the Production of the U.S. Northern Border.” Sarah Brown, Rosemary Collard […]

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/09/07/borderlands-team-meeting/" title="Borderlands Team Meeting"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/09/Arizona-2012-077-150x150.jpg" alt="Borderlands Team Meeting" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

Borderlands Team Meeting

By lbarrick on September 7, 2012

Juanita and Leigh participated in the August 2012 Sierra Club Borderlands Team meeting based out of Tucson, Arizona. Team trips to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area revealed the impacts of Homeland Security infrastructure on borderlands wildlife corridors, ecosystems and communities. Of particular concern were the yearly rains […]

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/06/29/taking-animals-apart/" title="“Taking animals apart”"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/06/DSC_0110-150x150.jpg" alt="“Taking animals apart”" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

“Taking animals apart”

By rosemary on June 29, 2012

Last month at the Taking Animals Apart conference at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Rosemary workshopped her paper, “Putting animals back together / taking commodities apart”, for journal submission. The paper is based on participant-observation research she conducted at ARCAS Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in northern Guatemala. Each year ARCAS receives 200-700 animals: cardboard boxes stuffed with baby […]

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/05/17/fronteras-y-puentes-conference-3/" title="Fronteras y Puentes Conference"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/05/texas-019-150x150.jpg" alt="Fronteras y Puentes Conference" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

Fronteras y Puentes Conference

By lbarrick on May 17, 2012

A section of the United States border fence in the Rio Grande Valley visited during the conference. Photo: Leigh Barrick

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/05/17/fronteras-y-puentes-conference-2/" title="Fronteras y Puentes Conference"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/05/conf-poster-150x150.jpg" alt="Fronteras y Puentes Conference" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

Fronteras y Puentes Conference

By lbarrick on May 17, 2012

Juanita Sundberg, Alex Pysklywec and Leigh Barrick gave presentations at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 6th Annual Research Conference at the University of Texas-Pan American.The conference was held at the Edinburg, Texas campus from April 12-13, 2012. See the summary of one panel written by Dr. Gary Mounce for the Rio Grande Guardian. […]

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<a href="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2012/05/17/fronteras-y-puentes-conference/" title="Fronteras y Puentes Conference"><img src="https://imperialencounters.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/05/leigh-and-rocio-150x150.jpg" alt="Fronteras y Puentes Conference" class="thumbnail thumbnail " /></a>

Fronteras y Puentes Conference

By lbarrick on May 17, 2012

Leigh with Dr. Rocio Magaña at the University of Texas-Pan American. Photo: Juanita Sundberg

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Fronteras y Puentes Conference

By lbarrick on May 17, 2012

Leigh and Alex with students from the University of Texas-Pan American. Photo: Juanita Sundberg

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