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Genocide qualifies as a systematic object for social science: Zygmunt Bauman (1989)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillPrevious blog posts at the Preserved Stories website have addressed social history in the context of deindustrialization and documentary making. I’ve also shared highlights from studies addressing history and social theory in the context of postmodernity and a return to narration. As well, I’ve shared information related to military history and the relation between instrumental reason and modernity. The […]
Instrumental reason drives climate change; and war is work that soldiers do
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates A Feb. 20, 2014 CBC article is entitled: “Are we doomed? Elizabeth Kolbert explains why the world might be in the midst of a major mass extinction.” A July 24, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Spare the rod, school the child.” The article notes that a causal chain links the health of ocean […]
Port Credit Area Plan Review
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillAn email from the Lakeshore Planning Council alerted me to this review. It’s been commented that this area plan review takes an inspiring approach toward community input. Here’s a blurb from the above-noted (see link in previous sentence) website: The Port Credit review is a City initiated land use study that is part of the […]
8-80 Cities
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill8-80 Cities is doing impressive work. I want to thank David Switzer for telling me about this organization and its projects. Here’s a blurb from the 8-80 Cities website: Make a Place for People Make a Place for People is a component of our Active Places, Healthy People project and is based on the idea […]
What is history now? (2002) is edited by David Cannadine
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillJohn Vincent in 1966 wrote that the great moral idea of British liberalism was manliness. This is a topic Susan Pedersen discusses in a chapter entitled “What is political history now?” in What is history now? (2002). According to Vincent, for a nineteenth-century man one’s assignment in life was “to provide for his own family, have his own […]
Built form and storytelling
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk/by Jaan PillBelow is an outline of topics for a brief talk at Centennial College, July 27, 2012 for Professor Patrick Michalak’s class. The title for the talk is from an essay with the same title from What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs (2010), available on loan from the Toronto Public Library. I much […]