of the city Ottawa with facts from her book Ottawology.
About this Event
Join author Tonya K. Davidson for the book launch of Ottawology and a trivia night about the city of Ottawa.
There will be prizes for the winners. Copies of Ottawology will be available to purchase from our friends at Octopus Books.
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Ottawa is often understood only as the seat of the federal government, marked by the neo-Gothic parliament buildings on the hill, and the many government office buildings. Lively, erudite and exciting, Ottawology offers a unique and radical approach to studying the city, injecting it with intrigue and verve, and expanding collective, narrow understandings of Canada’s capital city. Tonya Davidson takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through a city populated not only by power brokers, but also workers, students, seniors, trees, eels, turtles, skaters and rabble rousers. Davidson applies her prodigious sociological imagination to critically explore an essential, but little understood, city.
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Tonya Davidson has spent many years living in, teaching in, and studying Ottawa. She is an associate professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, where she has taught introduction to sociology, a sociology of Ottawa course for first-year students, urban sociology, and a variety of sociology of Ottawa courses in Carleton University’s Lifelong Learning program. These experiences shaped her broad-ranging interest in the sociology of Ottawa, including its parks, schools, workplaces, bars, and so on.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Glebe Central Pub, 779 Bank Street, Ottawa, Canada
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