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Forever Future: A Photographic Inquiry in the Nooks and Crannies of a Western Market Economy
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Legacy Suite (Aztec Student Union 3rd Floor)
This work uses photographs to critique and question western market economies. It starts from the perspective of monopoly capitalism analysis, and looks in nooks and crannies. It concentrates on the Okanagan, western Canada, part of the territories of the Syilx Okanagan people. It looks in municipal council chambers, overseen by the monarch; in city streets, where archive photographs provide comment; beside a forest road, after campfires have burned out; in outdoor shelters, where people without housing stay the night; in public places, where Indigenous children in unmarked graves are remembered; in a cemetery, where early settlers have a modern brand. Aware that interaction with audiences reveals new meanings, the work does not represent any end-point in knowledge production. Audiences include publics interested in the economies they inhabit. The work suggests practices that will be fossilised in the forever future, unless people’s challenge leads to choice of a different development path. 
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Roger Sugden

Professor, University of British Columbia
Roger Sugden has a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick (England). He is currently Professor at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia (Canada), in syilx Okanagan Nation territory. He has previously worked at the University of Stirling (Scotland), University... Read More →
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Marcela Valania

Honorary Research Associate, University of British Columbia
Marcela Valania has a postgraduate degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). She is currently Honorary Research Associate at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia, in syilx Okanagan Nation territory... Read More →
Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Legacy Suite (Aztec Student Union 3rd Floor)
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