Michael Darroch
Biographic Data
| ID | 640416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Darroch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Darroch |
| SIGNATURE | DARROCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4820-8746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ghost borders
Borderline Cases
Communication studies has been shaped by the affective contexts of border cultures and bordering practices. Human experiences of living in borderlands, of migrating across borders, and the concomitant bridging of cultural and linguistic contexts have influenced theories, metaphors, and methods within communication and media studies. The multicultural and multilingual contexts of Canada and Quebec provide an important case study for a history of c…
The Detroit–Windsor Border and Covid-19
This brief essay chronicles the closure of the Detroit–Windsor tunnel during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Canadian government’s containment measures in the spring/ summer of 2020 from the authors’ perspectives as both residents and researchers living in the border city of Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Drawing upon crossings in March and June 2020 as well as reflections on the urban cross-border context that Windsor and Detroit facilitate, th…
Border Scenes
A multi-layered artistic scene of site-specific urban interventions crosses the border cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Consumption-oriented approaches to scenes as clusters of urban amenities would disqualify these cities as loci of scenes: Detroit's scattered hip enclaves have had little influence upon neighbouring acres of abandoned buildings and vacant lots, whereas Windsor has promoted a new downtown cultural district and u…
Cartographies of Place
Introduction
Losing Our Census
The Canadian government’s June 2010 decision to replace the mandatory long-form version of the census with a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) poses a real risk that governments, other public-sector and civil-society agencies, and private users alike will rely increasingly on outsourced and privatized forms of information holdings in lieu of reliable and transparent census data. This commentary places this decision in the context of the s…
Bridging Urban and Media Studies
This article examines the collaborations between Marshall McLuhan, the architectural historian Sigfried Giedion, and the modernist town planner Jaqueline Tyrwhitt in the 1950s. Giedion’s studies of everyday material culture and his concern with the human scale of cities became central to McLuhan’s proposal for studying media. Through a historical analysis of Tyrwhitt’s papers and correspondence, the paper documents her role in mediating a dialogu…
New Orleans in Montréal
This paper explores representations of New Orleans and Louisiana music at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal between 1999 and 2001. It questions how Louisiana and Québec have used these representations to construct cultural affinities between their francophone histories, drawing specifically on the tourist place-images of Montréal and New Orleans as cities of festive celebration. First, I frame narratives of New Orleans as the mythic …
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New Orleans in Montréal
This paper explores representations of New Orleans and Louisiana music at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal between 1999 and 2001. It questions how Louisiana and Québec have used these representations to construct cultural affinities between their francophone histories, drawing specifically on the tourist place-images of Montréal and New Orleans as cities of festive celebration. First, I frame narratives of New Orleans as the mythic …
Bridging Urban and Media Studies
This article examines the collaborations between Marshall McLuhan, the architectural historian Sigfried Giedion, and the modernist town planner Jaqueline Tyrwhitt in the 1950s. Giedion’s studies of everyday material culture and his concern with the human scale of cities became central to McLuhan’s proposal for studying media. Through a historical analysis of Tyrwhitt’s papers and correspondence, the paper documents her role in mediating a dialogu…
Losing Our Census
The Canadian government’s June 2010 decision to replace the mandatory long-form version of the census with a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) poses a real risk that governments, other public-sector and civil-society agencies, and private users alike will rely increasingly on outsourced and privatized forms of information holdings in lieu of reliable and transparent census data. This commentary places this decision in the context of the s…
Cartographies of Place
Introduction
Border Scenes
A multi-layered artistic scene of site-specific urban interventions crosses the border cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Consumption-oriented approaches to scenes as clusters of urban amenities would disqualify these cities as loci of scenes: Detroit's scattered hip enclaves have had little influence upon neighbouring acres of abandoned buildings and vacant lots, whereas Windsor has promoted a new downtown cultural district and u…
The Detroit–Windsor Border and Covid-19
This brief essay chronicles the closure of the Detroit–Windsor tunnel during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Canadian government’s containment measures in the spring/ summer of 2020 from the authors’ perspectives as both residents and researchers living in the border city of Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Drawing upon crossings in March and June 2020 as well as reflections on the urban cross-border context that Windsor and Detroit facilitate, th…
Borderline Cases
Communication studies has been shaped by the affective contexts of border cultures and bordering practices. Human experiences of living in borderlands, of migrating across borders, and the concomitant bridging of cultural and linguistic contexts have influenced theories, metaphors, and methods within communication and media studies. The multicultural and multilingual contexts of Canada and Quebec provide an important case study for a history of c…
Ghost borders
Geography (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)