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Matt Patterson (Associate Professor, Sociology) along with his co-investigator, Henry Tsang (Associate Professor, Architecture, Athabasca University), and research assistants, Bryan Kuk (PhD, Sociology), Weiqi Li (Honours Undergraduate, Sociology), and Mojtaba Rostami (PhD, Sociology), have published 鈥淟iving with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns鈥� in American Sociological Review.

The article draws on five years of research into efforts to preserve historic Chinatowns across Canada and the United States, and began in support of the City of 91快色鈥檚 鈥淭omorrow鈥檚 Chinatown鈥� cultural planning process. In this article, the authors examine how Chinatown preservation movements are informed by a history of anti-Chinese racism and exclusion, which includes the imposition of the Chinese head tax and exclusion laws (1885-1947), and postwar 鈥渟lum clearance鈥� programs. In particular, the article demonstrates how the physical environment of Chinatown acts as a medium that makes the events of the past salient to how contemporary communities understand themselves and perceive present and future threats to their neighbourhood.

The included photo is of Chu Honsun鈥檚 sculpture 鈥淚n Search of Gold Mountain鈥�, which is discussed in the article. The article鈥檚 title, 鈥淟iving with Ghosts,鈥� is a reference to the work of the late Vancouver-based poet and activist Jim Wong-Chu.

The article is available