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brian_gettler

@brian_gettler@mas.to

Settler historian. Prof, University of Toronto, member of the Montreal History Group (https://ghm.uqam.ca/) and Associate Editor, Canadian Historical Review.

Thinking about Indigenous peoples, capitalism, the state, and colonialism, especially the fiduciary and fiscal varieties. 🎶 and 🚴 too. Posts in English. En français itou. #histodons #CdnHist #HistQC #19thcentury | tfr

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brian_gettler, to random
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We've never owned a car and this week finally got around to ripping up the parking pad in front of the house. Soon it'll be a garden!

Our neighbours, despite at least talking a good game re: the climate crisis, think we're nuts. "You're throwing away equity!!" I don't buy liberal individualist explanations for the problems we face, but this sort of attitude, held by just about everyone we've spoken with, really won't help get us to the collective solutions we need.

brian_gettler, to history French
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Ce soir ! Conférence organisée par le Groupe d'histoire de Montréal, à 17h à l'UQÀM (A-6290) et en ligne :

Jonathan Fortin, « Vieille fille et vieux garçon? Le célibat laïc au Québec, 1880 – 1939 »
@histodons

https://ghm.uqam.ca/activites/les-jeudis-dhistoire/

brian_gettler, to random
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hosted by @loewe

A stray thought of our kids has brought to mind one of the more idiosyncratic, turn-of-the-century indie albums I know of. Do yourself a favor and look up more of Haden's work and join the fan club "Friends of P." 😉

Petra Haden, "I Can See for Miles" (2005)

https://youtu.be/Oc6IqwM0Z_U?si=YdTQpsuCU3DKh5Az

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Thunder and lightning
Very, very frightening
in
in February.

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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In light of massive public expenditure on the maintenance of infrastructure necessary for personal automobiles, not to mention the climate crisis, I've long thought that free commercial parking in cities is an abomination. If you happen to live in Toronto, you may wish to send a message to your councillor asking that the city implement a commercial parking levy for the support of the TTC.

https://www.torontoenvironment.org/parking_levy_2024

brian_gettler, to random
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New Jesus and Mary Chain! https://thejesusandmarychain.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-eyes

brian_gettler, to Canada
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Are you a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has published a book as a writer, editor, translator, photographer, illustrator, or narrator? You might qualify for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. It provides creators with payment for the free public use of their works in libraries. The annual registration period runs from Feb. 15 to May 1.

https://publiclendingright.ca/

brian_gettler, to history
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Monographs that basically say "trust me, I'm a historian" re: sources and methodology drive me nuts. You made decisions about what collections to consult and what evidence to use, decisions that when explained help the reader evaluate your argument. It wouldn't kill you to write a few paragraphs on this process. Those who aren't interested in the method will skip it and those who are will have a deeper appreciation for all of your hard work. @histodons

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TFW you get an email from a colleague titled "request," open it in dread because you already have more to do than one lifetime could ever allow, before finally realizing that it's a group message you can safely ignore. 🎉

brian_gettler, to random
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Tooting my horn: I can draft then delete without ever publishing more posts than you can.

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Robin song in the cool morning air. Is it late March?

brian_gettler, to superbowl
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It's time again.

Leah Qumaluk, "Owl Walking About Searching for Lemmings," 1982

Source: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2326586

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Tomorrow, February 10, is 's coldest day of the year ride. The high is expected to be 12°C.

inquiline, to random
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Once again amused by people opting to just subtoot the hell out of each other rather than arguing directly. Maybe no quote-toot encourages passive aggression 🤣

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline It's the upper Midwest of social media.

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline @cour13r5 I've already had that argument and on Mastodon to boot! I've decided to big tent it because, I guess Ohio can be whatever it wants. Sigh.

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline @Zeb_Larson @tkinias @cour13r5 I was thinking of Clastres. Society Against the State was about Ohio, right?

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I continue to think academics should on the whole be weirdos off doing their own weird thing, or people who occasionally say "That's obviously crap" in public and go back to doing their own weird thing. The idea of “impact” is mostly poisonous.

brian_gettler,
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@prachisrivas You're right. You get bonus points for making our work (its influence "only reveals itself years later") sound like a veiled threat. This is how I'll think of my scholarship from now on.
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brian_gettler, to history
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While distant both geographically and temporally from my usual stomping grounds (so so I may be missing critical context), I enjoyed this book. It makes a compelling case for rethinking the cultural underpinnings of the material world we inhabit while at the same time challenging the notion - with a couple centuries of receipts as proof - that individual acquisitiveness is the only way to organize a successful society. The history it recounts is both tragic and inspiring. @histodons

brian_gettler, to history French
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🚨 Postdoc - histoire🚨
Le Groupe d’histoire de Montréal lance son concours de stage postdoctoral.

La bourse (40 000$ CDN) de 9 mois (idéalement du 1er sept. 2024 au 31 mai 2025) sera attribuée à une personne détenant un doctorat en histoire ou dans une discipline connexe.

Date limite: le 15 avril 2024 à 17h (EDT).

En tant que membre de longue date du Groupe, je serais heureux de répondre aux questions. @histodons

https://ghm.uqam.ca/2024/02/05/lancement-du-concours-de-stage-postdoctoral-2024-2025/

brian_gettler, to random
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Many of us, when we refer to the , really mean the war on us - as individuals, communities, societies, cultures - conducted through the car. This isn't so much an issue of modernity vs tradition as it is one of capital, atomization, and alienation against us all.

brian_gettler, to history
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Sparked by its exhibit "Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy," the McCord Museum in Montreal is organizing "Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives Symposium" on February 22-23. It's both in-person and online, in French and English (with simultaneous translation) and features an excellent slate of speakers. Definitely worth checking out. @histodons

https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/activities/international-symposium-around-wampum-histories-perspectives/

brian_gettler, to Montreal
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So I'm totally gonna be a crotchety old bastard about this: St-Viateur making "hole-less bagels," to hawk Philadelphia, less than 2 years after the end of Liberté cream cheese is seriously disturbing. After decades of debate, this looks fairly indisputable - Fairmount (and, honestly, Beaubien) win.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/is-a-bagel-with-no-hole-still-a-bagel-montreal-s-st-viateur-behind-cheeky-campaign-1.6749292

maartjeoostdijk, to academicchatter
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How to respond to a reviewer who thinks using 'we' consistently throughout a manuscript (in methods and a little in discussion 'we found' etc) sounds unscientific? @academicchatter

brian_gettler,
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@maartjeoostdijk @academicchatter Active voice - including the use of first-person pronouns - makes it clear that you are acting whereas passive voice - "it has been shown" - partially divorces results from their context. The scientist is imagined to be a mere conduit for universal truths. This second approach is a fantasy that the use of "we" undermines - who did the work is an important piece of evidence of which it is worthwhile to remind the reader.

brian_gettler, to academia
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Worth a listen from Canadaland on international students and post-secondary education.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/957-the-missing-piece-for-international-students/

brian_gettler,
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From my perspective as a former international student and current university professor, taxes are the answer to the problem (and to so many others). Governments across Canada have abdicated their responsibility to support post-secondary education in favour of the quick fix of international student fees. This is not only morally dubious, it is also financially unsustainable. The provinces need to support their key institutions.

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