Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour, and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction.
Intentional communities for unhoused people
Across c\a\n\a\d\a, there has been a rapid expansion of tent encampments planned and built by homeless people, who either cannot access shelters, or refuse to subject themselves to the physical danger, psychological insecurity, and lack of community within them. Cities like Toronto and Vancouver have spent millions of dollars violently evicting people from these encampments, and criminalizing those who have supported them, yet people continue to camp out.