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Jean Walton

Jean Walton is a professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches modernism, film, and gender studies. She is the author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (Duke University Press, 2001) and coauthor, with Mary Cappello and James Morrison, of Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). This article is adapted from her new book, Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver, published by New Star in 2018. (Author photograph by Karen Carr) icon

Shangri-La in the Mud: Vancouver’s Squatters

By Jean Walton

If you wandered downtown Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics, perhaps you were struck by an incongruous architectural juxtaposition ...

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