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Sharing Spaces
Essays in Honour of Sherry Olson
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2020
- Category
- Educators, Social Activists
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776628585
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776628592
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $29.99
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Description
Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the human condition. Through this team work, she has made signal contributions in fields as diverse as environmental, social, urban, and women’s histories, as well as public health, demography, and geographic information systems (GIS).
In this volume, a critical assessment of her life’s work is complemented by original pieces advancing our knowledge in these remarkably diverse fields.
From the environmental impact of colonial settlement in New Zealand to racial segregation in Chicago, from the demography of the Mauricie and marriage patterns of Quebec City to the inns, gay spaces, and landladies of Montreal, this collection demonstrates the complexity of sharing space in the past and its centrality to any critical understandings of the global challenges we face in the present.
Published in English.
About the authors
Robert C. H. Sweeny is a socio-economic historian living in St John’s, Newfoundland. The chronicle of his forty-year search for an answer to “Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?” won the Governor General’s Award for Scholarly Research in 2016. His current research explores gender, property, and national identity in turn-of- the-century Montreal. In the 1990s, his experiments in digitizing historical sources of pre-industrial Montreal led to a sustained collaboration with Sherry Olson in building a historical GIS research infrastructure: Montréal, l’avenir du passé.
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Robert Lewis spent twelve years as a Parliamentary correspondent and seven years as Maclean’s editor-in-chief. He has also been the vice president of content development at Rogers Media, and he is a former chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He lives in Toronto.
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Mary Anne Poutanen teaches in the Department of History at Concordia University, in the Programme d'études sur le Québec at McGill University, and at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
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Excerpt: Sharing Spaces: Essays in Honour of Sherry Olson (edited by Robert Sweeny; contributions by Danielle Gauvreau, Peter Holland, Robert Lewis, Julia A. Podmore, Mary Anne Poutanen, Marc St-Hilaire, Hélêne Vézina & Claude Bellavance)
Sherry Olson firmly believes that we can understand and explain the world. Indeed, more than a belief it is a responsibility.
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