Rylan Kafara
Biographic Data
| ID | 174032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rylan Kafara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafara |
| SIGNATURE | KAFARA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2900-4796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sport ‐ Related Gentrification: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism
Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession. This multi‐year community‐based research project goes behind the spectacle, exploring the uneven impacts of Rogers Place, a $613.7 million (CAD), publicly financed hockey arena and its associated entertai…
The spectacle of settler colonial urbanism, racialized policing, and Indigenous refusal of white possessive logics
In this article, we explore how the underlying logics of white possession continue to fuel a cycle of state-supported territorial acquisition, enclosure, and expulsion in Edmonton, Alberta’s city center through the recent opening of Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arena and home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers. Drawing from a two-year ethnography, we examine how men’s professional hockey and its related land…
Alex Janvier’s Iron Foot Place: Indigenous Public Art, Survivance, and Settler Reconciliation in Edmonton’s Rogers Place
On 8 September 2016, Tsa Tsa Ke K’e (Iron Foot Place) was officially unveiled in the floor of the new Rogers Place Arena, home to the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers. The circular, 45-foot-diameter tile mosaic is the creation of renowned contemporary artist Alex Janvier (Denesųłiné/Saulteaux), whose remarkable career has involved fighting for artistic sovereignty and resisting settler colonialism. This mural has prompted multiple express…
A few Weeks in Dirt City: Sport-Related Gentrification, Mobilizing Resistance, and the Art of Failure in Edmonton, Alberta
There is no shortage of sociological research that explores the successes and failures of various sport-related social movements. However, a more capacious approach to understanding the significance of sport-related social movements, their imaginative actions and collective labor, and their impacts on social change, is one that shifts its focus away from binary categories of 'success' and 'failure'. In this paper, we explore the formation of the …
‘Who is really gonna benefit?’: The punk habitus in the downtown Edmonton field
The new home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers opened in 2016. This publicly financed, CAD 613.7 million arena was built in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The arena and its broader entertainment district were designed to ‘revitalize’ Edmonton’s inner city that was already home to the majority of the city’s homeless population. The spatial transformation of Edmonton’s inner city was an example of what geographer Neil Smith referre…
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District
The new urban sporting territory in Edmonton’s city center was constructed within the framework of continued settler colonialism. The main catalyst for this development was sport-related gentrification: a new, publicly financed ice hockey arena for the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, and a surrounding sport and entertainment district. This two-year ethnography explores this territory, in particular the changing interactions between pree…
Structural Inequality, Homelessness, and Moral Worth: Salvaging the Self through Sport
This urban ethnography explores how a group of men experiencing homelessness collectively produced an economy of moral worth and socially beneficial labor within and through a weekly sport-for-development program in the distinct settler-colonial context of Edmonton, Alberta. For over two decades, weekly floor hockey games have been organized by local health workers as part of a broader sport-based intervention/corrective aimed, in part, at reform…
Prashan Ranasinghe, Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter
Forrest, Stuart, Down, Out, & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
A few Weeks in Dirt City: Sport-Related Gentrification, Mobilizing Resistance, and the Art of Failure in Edmonton, Alberta
There is no shortage of sociological research that explores the successes and failures of various sport-related social movements. However, a more capacious approach to understanding the significance of sport-related social movements, their imaginative actions and collective labor, and their impacts on social change, is one that shifts its focus away from binary categories of 'success' and 'failure'. In this paper, we explore the formation of the …
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District
The new urban sporting territory in Edmonton’s city center was constructed within the framework of continued settler colonialism. The main catalyst for this development was sport-related gentrification: a new, publicly financed ice hockey arena for the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, and a surrounding sport and entertainment district. This two-year ethnography explores this territory, in particular the changing interactions between pree…
Forrest, Stuart, Down, Out, & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Prashan Ranasinghe, Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter
‘Who is really gonna benefit?’: The punk habitus in the downtown Edmonton field
The new home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers opened in 2016. This publicly financed, CAD 613.7 million arena was built in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The arena and its broader entertainment district were designed to ‘revitalize’ Edmonton’s inner city that was already home to the majority of the city’s homeless population. The spatial transformation of Edmonton’s inner city was an example of what geographer Neil Smith referre…
Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District
The new urban sporting territory in Edmonton’s city center was constructed within the framework of continued settler colonialism. The main catalyst for this development was sport-related gentrification: a new, publicly financed ice hockey arena for the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, and a surrounding sport and entertainment district. This two-year ethnography explores this territory, in particular the changing interactions between pree…
Structural Inequality, Homelessness, and Moral Worth: Salvaging the Self through Sport
This urban ethnography explores how a group of men experiencing homelessness collectively produced an economy of moral worth and socially beneficial labor within and through a weekly sport-for-development program in the distinct settler-colonial context of Edmonton, Alberta. For over two decades, weekly floor hockey games have been organized by local health workers as part of a broader sport-based intervention/corrective aimed, in part, at reform…
Alex Janvier’s Iron Foot Place: Indigenous Public Art, Survivance, and Settler Reconciliation in Edmonton’s Rogers Place
On 8 September 2016, Tsa Tsa Ke K’e (Iron Foot Place) was officially unveiled in the floor of the new Rogers Place Arena, home to the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers. The circular, 45-foot-diameter tile mosaic is the creation of renowned contemporary artist Alex Janvier (Denesųłiné/Saulteaux), whose remarkable career has involved fighting for artistic sovereignty and resisting settler colonialism. This mural has prompted multiple express…
A few Weeks in Dirt City: Sport-Related Gentrification, Mobilizing Resistance, and the Art of Failure in Edmonton, Alberta
There is no shortage of sociological research that explores the successes and failures of various sport-related social movements. However, a more capacious approach to understanding the significance of sport-related social movements, their imaginative actions and collective labor, and their impacts on social change, is one that shifts its focus away from binary categories of 'success' and 'failure'. In this paper, we explore the formation of the …
The spectacle of settler colonial urbanism, racialized policing, and Indigenous refusal of white possessive logics
In this article, we explore how the underlying logics of white possession continue to fuel a cycle of state-supported territorial acquisition, enclosure, and expulsion in Edmonton, Alberta’s city center through the recent opening of Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arena and home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers. Drawing from a two-year ethnography, we examine how men’s professional hockey and its related land…
Sport ‐ Related Gentrification: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism
Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession. This multi‐year community‐based research project goes behind the spectacle, exploring the uneven impacts of Rogers Place, a $613.7 million (CAD), publicly financed hockey arena and its associated entertai…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gentrification (4 works)