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Item Containing the multitudes(Journal of International Students, 2023) Rose-Redwood, CindyAnn; Rose-Redwood, ReubenA growing body of scholarship has examined different aspects of the international student experience in higher education institutions, yet few studies have critically interrogated the very concept of the “international student” itself. In this article, we consider the different ways in which politico-legal practices of boundary-making have produced categorization schemes that demarcate the boundary between the national “Self” and the international “Other.” These legal categories of the “domestic” and “international” student serve as the discursive grid through which student populations are rendered legible by university administrators, student affairs practitioners, and scholars. We argue that the socio-cultural worlds of international students are not reducible to the homogenizing logics of politico-legal and institutional categorization, and that they should be reimagined through a pluriversal lens – where multiple worlds of difference can co-exist in spite of persistent efforts to contain the multitudes within the rigid, fixed, and mutually exclusive categories of the nation-state.Item Geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic(Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020) Rose-Redwood, Reuben; Kitchin, Rob; Apostolopoulou, Elia; Rickards, Lauren; Blackman, Tyler; Crampton, Jeremy; Rossi, Ugo; Buckley, MichelleThe spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the most devastating global public health crisis in over a century. At present, over 10 million people from around the world have contracted the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to more than 500,000 deaths globally. The global health crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic has been compounded by political, economic, and social crises that have exacerbated existing inequalities and disproportionately affected the most vulnerable segments of society. The global pandemic has had profoundly geographical consequences, and as the current crisis continues to unfold, there is a pressing need for geographers and other scholars to critically examine its fallout. This introductory article provides an overview of the current special issue on the geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes 42 commentaries written by contributors from across the globe. Collectively, the contributions in this special issue highlight the diverse theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and thematic foci that geographical scholarship can offer to better understand the uneven geographies of the Coronavirus/COVID-19.Item “Reclaim, rename, reoccupy”: Decolonizing place and the reclaiming of PKOLS(ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2016) Rose-Redwood, ReubenThe naming of places is one of the primary ways in which the spatial imaginaries of colonialism have been entrenched within the spaces of everyday life in settler-colonial societies. Consequently, the reclaiming of Indigenous toponymies has become a key strategy for decolonizing space and place in the neocolonial present, thereby revalorizing place-based Indigenous ontologies and challenging the neocolonial state’s assertions of authority over geographical naming practices. This article examines the efforts of Indigenous peoples in W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen Territories to reclaim their “storyscapes” through the renaming of PKOLS, a mountain known by the settler society as Mount Douglas in Saanich, British Columbia. In doing so, this study highlights how the reassertion of Indigenous ontologies of place calls into question the white supremacist logic embedded in the commemorative landscapes of settler colonialism as part of the broader struggle for Indigenous self-determination.Item Statues, names, memories, and reconciliation: revisiting UVic’s Begbie Building, a roundtable discussion(2020-12-22) Johnson, Rebecca; Rose-Redwood, ReubenWithin the last few years, communities, groups, and institutions have striven to remove controversial names and monuments from public and private spaces. Intense debates have focused on why and how those names and monuments should be removed. However, there are crucial issues that still need to be discussed: what happens after those symbols are removed? Is reconciliation a part of this process? Should institutions and communities acknowledge their unfortunate past decisions? In this roundtable discussion moderated by Esteban Vallejo Toledo, Professors Rebecca Johnson and Reuben Rose-Redwood explored these questions and more. Our panelists contributed to these ongoing debates by analyzing the disappearance of a commemorative statue as well as the renaming of UVic’s Begbie Building to the Fraser Building.Item The making of the campus namescape: A comparison of university naming policies in Canada and the United States(The Professional Geographer, 2024) Rose-Redwood, Reuben; Rose-Redwood, CindyAnn; Alderman, Derek H.; Hackett, KatherineThe naming of places on university campuses plays an important role in shaping the cultural landscapes and geographies of higher education institutions. In recent years, there have been contentious debates over place renaming at colleges and universities in North America and around the world, which has drawn increasing attention to the politics of toponymic practices in higher education contexts. The decision-making process involved in place naming on a university’s campus is generally informed by the institution’s naming policy and implemented by a university naming committee, yet there is very little scholarship on university naming policy frameworks, procedures, and practices. In this article, we provide a systematic and comparative analysis of university naming policies in Canada and the United States. Drawing on data from more than 2,000 colleges and universities across North America, we assess the level of representation that faculty and students have on university naming committees, institutional commitments to public engagement in the naming process, the value of diversity, and restrictions on corporate naming rights agreements. We conclude that colleges and universities should develop more inclusive and equitable naming policy frameworks to ensure that campus namescapes live up to the ideals of higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.Item The social and political life of names and naming(Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics, 2021) Rose-Redwood, ReubenThis concluding commentary critically and constructively engages with the articles in this first multidisciplinary issue of the Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics. It does so in the spirit of affirmative critique, with the aim of advancing the ongoing dialogue on the social and political life of names and naming. The commentary concludes by arguing that the multidisciplinary field of socio-onomastics is best viewed as a contact zone, or space of convergence, for scholarship that examines the diverse ways in which names and naming shape, and are shaped by, worlds-in-the-making.