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West Coast LINE 59 | Citizenship and Cultural Belonging

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Cover Artist David Khang

West Coast Line 59 vol 42.3, Fall 2008

Citizenship and Cultural Belonging

Special Issue edited by Sophie McCall and David Chariandy

  • David Chariandy & Sophie McCall | Introduction: Citizenship and Cultural Belonging
  • Tracy Kulba | Citizen Crusaders: Social Hygiene and the Production of the Female Citizen in
  • Post-World War One Canada
  • David Khang | A Wrong Place (Greening the dmz)
  • Katja Sarkowsky | Nesei Negotiations: Citizenship and the Nation in Japanese Canadian Writing
  • Roy Miki | Raw Data
  • Alessandra Capperdoni | Feminist Progenies-Unlawful Citizenship: Reproduction, Technology and the Spectres of the Nation in Margaret Atwood and Larissa Lai
  • Sam McKegney | Tenuous Tolerance: The Politics of Inconvenience From Kanehsatake to Caledonia
  • Erín Moure | Beacons
  • People’s Hist ory of Canada/Kanada Poster Project (2007) | a collaboration between No One Is
  • Illegal-Vancouver and grassroots artists
  • Armand Garnet Ruffo | Celebrating Canada’s Centennial (from Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into
  • Thunderbird)
  • Sharron Proulx-Turner | her voice like downpour on cement
  • Deborah L Madsen | 100 ‘Mo No Boy’: The Negative Rhetoric of Nation in the work of Wayson Choy
  • Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber | Super Citizens (2005)
  • Lariss a Lai | Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital
  • Jamelie Hassan & Tyson Haller | Still from documentary film, Sister Speak to Me-A Tribute to Zahra Kazemi (2003)
  • Sonnet L’Abbé | Love Amid the Angloculture
  • Beverley Curran | Citizenship, Interrupted: The Dialogic Interpreter in Obasan
  • Gillian Roberts | “The Greatest Hotel on Earth”: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Circulation of Canadian Literature
  • Trish Salah | water borders white money

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West Coast LINE 58 | Active Geographies

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WCL 58 42.1 (Spring 2008)

Active Geographies: Women and Struggle on the Left Coast

Special Issue Edited by Jo-Ann Lee & Rita Wong



  • Jo-Ann Lee & Rita Wong | Introduction: A Germ of an Idea Blossoms
  • Michelle Sylliboy | changes occur for those who look
  • Dorothy Christian | Remapping Activism (transcript of talk given on August 28, 2004)
  • Harsha Walia | Resisting Displacement, North & South: Indigenous & Immigrant Struggles
  • Cecilia Diocson | Reonceptualizing the Women’s Movement: Vancouver, August 2004
  • Lily Yuriko | Ganbatte!
  • Fiona Jeffries | Tomorrow Begins Today: Cartographies of Anti-Fear, Lexicons of Refusal Amidst the New Enclosures
  • MISCELLANEOUS Productions | Photography from e-race by Chris Randle
  • Marilyn Dumont | Not Just a Platform for my Dance
  • Mary Chan’s story | An interview with Mary Chan
  • Bessie Lee’s story | An interview with Bessie Lee
  • Darlene Marzari | Presentation: at Women Warriors’ Workshop
  • Cindy Chan Piper | Accidental Activist (presentation at Women Warriors’ Workshop)
  • Michiko Midge Ayukawa | Early Japanese Women in the Strathcona Area: Their Contributions to the Community, Their Strengths and Their Legacy
  • Margaret Mitchell | Women in Community Development
  • Jaimie Robson & Maya Ersan | Our Community Story
  • Joanne Arnott | Time-Wise/Waving Across the Way
  • Meredith Quartermain | Walk for Beans
  • Song Written by a Fujianese Migrant Woman while incarcerated in the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women
  • and on hunger strike in November 1999

  • Tania Willard | A portrait of Nellie Red Owl

  • Rice Girls | The 2000 Refugee Olympics
  • Harsha Walia | Colonialism, Capitalism & the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada
  • SKY Lee | Sweatshop
  • Jenn Lo | Emergency
  • Jen Lam | On the Island of Falling Apart
  • Xiaoping Li | No Stranger to the Scene: A Brief Look at Activism Among Asian Canadian Women
  • Shirley Bear | Flight
  • Joanne Arnott | On Apron Flapping
  • Tania willard |  Liberty Leading the People
  • Lee Maracle | Goodbye, Snauq
  • Kirsten Em iko McAllister | Between Generations: Landscapes of Memory
  • Donna Lee | Still from the film Broken Families
  • Larissa Lai | The Identity of the Body Has Not Yet Been Confirmed
  • Hui Ling Lin | Putting Identities in Question: A Brief Introduction of Queer Asian Filmmakers in Vancouver
  • Cecily Nicholson | Day Shifts: Working With the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
  • Connie Fife | A New World Poem


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December 8th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

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West Coast Line 57 | MIKI

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Cindy Mochizuki Cover


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December 8th, 2008 at 6:33 am

West Coast LINE 56

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WCL 56 41.4 (Spring 2008)

RACHEL ZOLF | Travailing Gerry Shikatani’s Protean Poetics

JUDITH COPITHORNE | Graphic Interventions

LAWRENCE ARONSEN AND JULIAN BENEDICT | Liberating Higher Education: The Vancouver Free University, 1969-1974

IVAN DRURY | Chainlink’d

HILARY SMITH | Naming Ceremony

STEPHEN COLLIS | Dear Common: Picture Vancouver

MEGAN LAU | Woodwards: Photographic Archives Building Social Memory of the
Downtown Eastside

DON BOURNE | Resistance To Neoliberalism In Laura Elrick’s Fantasies In Permeable Structures

NEALE BARNHOLDEN | Future Generations: Shirley Bear and The Making Of A New Place

RANDY LEE CUTLER | Documenta 12, Kassel 2007

CHINMOY BANERJEE | Thinking Through Tragi-comedy In Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Eklavya: The Royal Guard

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