Kate Black

Oct 15, 2024 | wonkhe.com | Kate Black |David Kernohan |Mark Leach

Why is it that academic disciplines tend to work in disciplinary silos, when working with other disciplines might enable academics to gain insights into alternative practices they might adopt or adapt within their own discipline – or that might support the co-creation of new pedagogies to better support learners to address the global grand challenges?

Apr 1, 2024 | albertaviews.ca | Kate Black

Listing the themes of Deborah Willis’s debut novel Girlfriend on Mars sounds like a 21st-century bridge to that famous Billy Joel song from the ’80s: climate panic, polyamory, daddy issues, content factories, space travel, going viral, neoliberal thought. Each of these issues plagues Amber and Kevin, now grown past their prime as high-school sweethearts and into the epitome of millennial dysfunction.

Mar 19, 2024 | cbc.ca | Matthew Morris |Kate Black |Alexandra Posadzki |Sima Samar

Check out these Canadian biographies, essay collections, memoirs and other works coming out in spring 2024. Let It Go by Chelene KnightLet It Go is a nonfiction book by Chelene Knight.

Mar 2, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Kate Black

Award-winning Canadian essayist Black analyzes the rise and the decline of indoor malls. The first American indoor mall was the Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, MN, which opened in 1956. Its two floors featured exotic birds, a petting zoo, a fishpond, an ice rink, a carousel, and 72 stores. Other space was used for a school, a post office, medical offices, and even a library. This innovative success led to the building of an additional 250+ malls across the United States over the next 10 years.

Feb 22, 2024 | thestar.com | Kate Black

When we go to the mall, we’re entering a mistake. Or at least a miscalculation. I mean, look around. Not much of this screams, ‘God’s plan!’In one of the many contradictions in the mall’s origin story, its inventor, Victor Gruen, hated cars. Gruen, a Jewish architect, fled Nazi-occupied Austria for New York City in 1938. He soon settled in Los Angeles, where shopping was a complete perversion from the storefronts he designed and the high streets he loved in his native Vienna.