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Cultural Globalization at Sea: The Rise of the Modern Caribbean Cruise Industry
(2024-05-08) Lallani, Shayan S.
Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian—the largest cruise lines today—emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, advertising their packaged vacations to a growing audience of middle-class Americans interested in encountering cultural difference. This article argues that, beginning in the late 1970s and continuing into the following decade, the cultural representations that these mass-market companies leveraged drew on Eurocentric understandings of Caribbean societies, homogenizing those countries despite attempts to showcase difference. These companies also reimagined global cultures Eurocentrically in onboard themed experiences. As both a product and agent of globalization, the mass-market cruise industry selectively deployed referents in ways that increased the appeal of cruising as escapism while reducing the likelihood of cultural confusion and reassuring passengers of their comfort. Through these processes, companies produced cruise ships as metaspaces while simultaneously expanding the construction of metaspaces to ports as they gained economic and political power in the Caribbean. This process resulted in the erasure of cultural difference.
The Culinary Gender Binary in an Era of Multiculturalism: Foodwork in Toronto’s Late Postwar Italian Immigrant Community
(2018-07-18) Lallani, Shayan S.
This article uses oral histories to examine how migration affected the gender dynamics of foodwork carried out by late postwar Italian immigrants in Toronto. Culinary gender roles remained preserved as narrators journeyed to Toronto. However, by the twenty-first century when national discourse emphasized a multicultural Canada—the climax of the shift toward culinary pluralism—the narrators each embodied a range of food masculinities and femininities. They also described other motives to do partake in culinary labor that cannot be categorized by the traditional binary. A new paradigm that accounts for the experiences of migrants encountering the homogenizing forces of multiculturalism is needed.
Reimagining a Tropical Paradise: The Circulation of Imperial Ideologies in Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Cruise Guidebooks
(2025-01-31) Lallani, Shayan S.
This article argues that early-twentieth-century cruise guidebooks deployed ideologies about Caribbean spaces and cultures constructed through imperial conquest. It examines how two influential travel writers, Harry L. Foster and Eleanor Early, shaped touristic perceptions of the region and its inhabitants. Unlike shipping lines such as the United Fruit Company, which presented a tropical paradise for overworked urbanites to regain their health, these cruise guides sought to move beyond such stereotypes by emphasising the distinctiveness of Caribbean nations. However, this emphasis on difference was framed through imperial ideologies. Consequently, while Foster and Early urged cruise passengers to avoid oversimplifying the Caribbean, their narratives ultimately encouraged travellers to perceive the region and its inhabitants using ideologies forged through western conquest. In doing so, these cruise guidebooks reproduced the language of empire to reimagine the Caribbean as a leisure destination for a growing US market.
Virtual Empire: Performing Colonialism in the MMORPG Runescape
(2022-06-16) Lallani, Shayan S.
This article argues that advancement in the MMORPG Runescape is connected to virtual performances of colonial exploitation. It places in geographic and temporal context various societies represented in Runescape by historicizing in-game cultural representations. Thereafter, it is asserted that players partake in virtual iterations of colonialism to advance their accounts. Analysis is grounded in four case studies exploring the themes of exploitative archaeology, colonial cartography, imperial diplomacy, and resource extraction. Each example represents opportunities for in-game progress. In connecting the virtual advancement of user accounts to performances of colonialism, it is argued that Runescape reproduces historic colonial projects in which European powers commodified other societies to advance their own economic and cultural agendas. Through this analysis, the article seeks to develop a guiding framework for the study of MMORPGs as replicating Eurocentric colonial encounters.
The World on a Ship: Producing Cosmopolitan Dining on Mass-Market Cruises
(2019-06-20) Lallani, Shayan S.
This article analyzes how mass-market cruise lines mobilize food, laborers, and built environments to offer passengers cosmopolitanism with the purpose of maintaining a unique business model. It is argued that while companies target a growing demand for culturally immersive dining experiences, they do not seek to offer complete immersion in any one culture but cosmopolitanism through a combination of multiple themed establishments on a mobile platform. Culinary themes are installed using labor and built environments, for instance through the placement of visual and material culture in eateries. While some onboard dining experiences are themed around the cultures of nations on the ship’s itinerary, many evoke international cultures. In studying how mass-market cruise ships as mobile spaces of containment combine both international and localized dining experiences to offer the “world on a ship,” scholars of tourism can better understand how touristic companies produce cosmopolitanism at destinations.
Writing Guide for Students of History
(2024) Jones, Lori; Dekker, Jennifer
This writing guide sheds light on the questions frequently asked by the student community about the research and writing processes in history.
Guide de rédaction (Histoire)
(2023) Audet, Anika; Dekker, Jennifer; Chaplain-Corriveau, Simon-Pierre; Fianu, Kouky
Ce guide de rédaction est un outil de travail éclairant des questions fréquemment posées par la communauté étudiante sur les processus de recherche et de rédaction en histoire.
"There are enough employees in the workforce: training them is key"
(2014-04-10) Gaffield, Chad; Herbert-Copley, Brent
When it comes to the current debate on skills and employment in Canada, however, it may be the "unknown knowns" that are most important. We have oceans of reports and statistics but if their findings are not synthesized, research can't guide policy and won't tell new graduates much about the labour market of today, or how to prepare for the future. So what happened when 16 teams of researchers working across the country took a look at the existing research on skills and labour markets? Here is some of what they discovered: 1. Canada is unlikely to face a generalized shortage of skilled labour now or in the coming decades, despite an aging population and the changing skill requirements of many occupations. Our labour force continues to expand due in part to longer work lives, while important groups of workers (youth, aboriginal, persons with disabilities, skilled immigrants) are significantly "under-utilized" in the labour market. As in the past, future skills gaps are likely to be cyclical and focused on particular industries and regions.
"Educational History, the Spatial Turn, and Digital Scholarship: Reflections on the concept of educational spaces"
(2016) Gaffield, Chad
At the heart of the discipline of History is a conviction that context matters. But there seems to be less and less agreement on how to define the appropriate context for research. National history is having a particularly hard time these days as researchers focus on the changing flows of ideas and people, processes and products, across official geo-political boundaries. But micro history is similarly in trouble for having distracted researchers from the suppos- edly important historical questions or for becoming trivial in comparison to Big History (Guldi/Armitage 2014). At first glance, such developments may appear to complicate rather than clarify metaphysical and epistemological decisions especially for educational historians who have so successfully shown the central importance of mass schooling to the making of modernity. Indeed, such research during the past half-century has played an important role in the re-thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Micro histories compellingly analyzed school at- tendance patterns in the context of changing family and community life. National histories revealed how governments embraced schools as projects of state formation. Thematic studies showed how education reflected and inspired changing norms, policies and experiences of class, gender and ethnicity. Taken together, such work along with many other contributions moved educational history from the margins to the mainstream of efforts to understand the profound transformations following the Age of Revolutions.
Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (review)
(1986) Gaffield, Chad
Merging of councils may be unproductive marriage
(1992-03-25) Gaffield, Chad
Le projet de loi C-93
(1993-04) Gaffield, Chad
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 (review)
(1981) Gaffield, Chad
Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage, Motherhood, and Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 (review)
(1988) Gaffield, Chad
Growing Up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School (review)
(1985) Gaffield, Chad
Lower Canada, 1791-1840: Social Change and Nationalism (review)
(1980) Gaffield, Chad
Schooling and Society in 20th Century British Columbia (review)
(1980) Gaffield, Chad
Mechanics' Institutes (encyclopedia entry)
(1988) Gaffield, Chad
Canadian Families in Cultural Context: Hypotheses from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
(1992) Gaffield, Chad
Children’s Rights in the Canadian Context
(1978) Gaffield, Chad

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