Lawrence D Berg

University of British Columbia, Community, Culture & Global Studies, Full Professor

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I am Professor of Critical Geography and have a longstanding interest in poststructuralist political economy, and a growing interest in studies of antiproductivism, autonomist refusal, and the surplus class.
Phone: +1-250-807-9392
Address: University of British Columbia
The UBC Institute for Community Engaged Research
Spatial Justice CoLab
A368-370, 1147 Research Road
Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1V 1V7

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Towards critical toponymies

They think you're lying about your need: the impact of appearance on Aboriginal health and social service access

The Canadian journal of native studies, 2014

AbstractAll existing research points to dramatic and disturbing differences in the health and wel... more AbstractAll existing research points to dramatic and disturbing differences in the health and well being of Aboriginal communities when compared to other Canadians. Explanations as to the causes and ongoing consequences of such differences vary, but there is nonetheless a consensus that existing social and health service delivery systems require change. Consensus about what sorts of changes are required is less well formed. In this paper, we discuss the results of a participatory research project involving urban Aboriginal service organizations, university researchers, and members of the urban Aboriginal communities of the Okanagan Valley. Our research draws on the direct voice of participants reflecting on their experiences with health and social services, and at the same time quantifies the patterns of responses to report an overall assessment by urban Aboriginal service users of the institutions and organizations they interact with. The nuanced analyses provided by community inte...

Masculinities

Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Review: Review Essay: (Post)Colonial Geographies, Eh? The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change, Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia, Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism...

Environment and Planning A, 2000

ACME : an international e-journal for critical geographies

Erkeklikleri ve coğrafyayi konumlandirmak

Hegemonic geographies and their ‘others’

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2013

This paper presents an argument for understanding the importance of emplacing knowledge productio... more This paper presents an argument for understanding the importance of emplacing knowledge production. It also argues for caution in doing so, hinting at two possible reactionary outcomes of such work: the (re)construction of competition among and between different assemblages of scholarly knowledge production and the potential for claiming innocence as a marginalized assemblage of scholarship.

Silencing of Voice: An Act of Structural Violence Urban Aboriginal Women Speak Out About Their Experiences with Health Care

International Journal of Indigenous Health, 2013

This article reports some of the preliminary findings of an ongoing participatory research study ... more This article reports some of the preliminary findings of an ongoing participatory research study exploring the provision of health and social services for urban Aboriginal communities in the Okanagan Valley. In particular, the article examines how colonial structures and systems have worked to silence Aboriginal women’s voices and how this has affected the ways in which urban Aboriginal women seek out health services. The article addresses these issues through the voices of the Aboriginal women in the study. The women’s stories reveal the many assumptions and inequities that contribute to their marginalization. They describe how their voices are often silenced when they access health services and how this can cause them to either delay seeking needed health advice or accept the status quo. The women’s stories are used to stress the importance and power of voice. This is most evident in their experiences accessing the health services offered through community-based Friendship Centres...

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