[ August 16, 2012; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Date: Thursday Aug 16, 2012

Time: 6:30–9:00 pm

Alternative Media Centers at Summits and Spectacles

Committee

Chair: Zoë Druick
Senior Supervisor: Zoë Druick
Supervisor: Enda Brophy

Abstract

This project is a comparison of alternative media centers (AMCs) set up as part of the 2010 anti-Olympic convergence in Vancouver and the anti-G-20 protests in Toronto in the same year. It is made up of two parts: a video [...]

[ August 14, 2012; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Date: Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012

Time: 10am–12pm

From Arterial Integration to Segregated Lanes: A 1988–2011 Case Study of Cycling Routes in Vancouver, British Columbia

Committee

Chair: Fiona Jeffries
Senior Supervisor: Zoë Druick
Supervisor: Peter Chow-White
Examiner: Kay Teschke (Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health)

Abstract

After more than two decades of cycling transportation planning, Vancouver’s first segregated bike lanes represent a new, and perhaps temporary stability in [...]

[ August 13, 2012; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Date: Monday, August 13, 2012

Time: 10am-1pm

Nerds! Cultural Practices and Community-Making in a Subcultural Scene

Committee

Chair: Alison Beale
Senior Supervisor: Gary McCarron
Supervisor: Shane Gunster
Supervisor: Stuart Poyntz
Internal Examiner: Cindy Patton ( Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture & Health, Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
External Examiner: Bart Beaty (Professor, Department of English, University of Calgary)

Abstract

For thirty-five years or so, the press has periodically announced the “revenge [...]