When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down life as we knew it in Canada in March 2020, and UBC shifted all teaching and meetings to online…
Yesterday morning, just back from the earliest morning dog walk, my partner said: “We interrupted the food chain in action.” Walking toward the gate, they…
The diary entries below were written for the edited collection Ecologies of Study: A Book of Secrets. In addition to the hard copy version…
On Salt Spring Island, summers often come with droughts, while other months, especially in spring and fall, can see heavy rainfall. While we hear talk…
One of the permaculture principles is to “turn problems into solutions.” The idea behind this principle is that the problem often contains the kernel of…
Recently, one of my students encouraged me to read the chapter, “Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility,”…
In my daily work, “mapping the field” is a figure of speech, a spatial metaphor in which “field” refers to a scholarly field or field…
In past years, we have had a few handfuls of strawberries from our own garden, but no yield to write home about. This was no…
I used to dream about rivers. More specifically, I used to dream that I was floating down a river. Sometimes, the water was a milky…
Although I don’t remember if it was in a history or a geography class, or perhaps both, I do distinctly recall learning in school that…