colonialism Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/colonialism/ Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:06:58 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 The Tudor house, colonialism, white gold and toothache https://ounodesign.com/2015/10/20/the-tudor-house-colonialism-white-gold-and-toothache/ https://ounodesign.com/2015/10/20/the-tudor-house-colonialism-white-gold-and-toothache/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:06:58 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=18657

“This is why we love the Tudor period so much, because it’s the age of discovery, and there’s a sense that anything was possible.”

“Discovery”?

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Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone!

Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2015/06/21/national-aboriginal-day-wab-kinew-500-years-in-2-minutes/feed/ 0 “When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine https://ounodesign.com/2015/05/07/when-hipsters-dream-of-the-1890s-abridged-hipster-briarpatch-magazine/ https://ounodesign.com/2015/05/07/when-hipsters-dream-of-the-1890s-abridged-hipster-briarpatch-magazine/#respond Thu, 07 May 2015 21:58:19 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=18189

Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.

If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

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Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission

An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine

I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.

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