Priya Vadi

Royal Holloway, University of London, Geography, Graduate Student

Simon Fraser University, Geography, Alumna

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I am currently a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.

My broad research interests focus on identities, culture, and consumption.

My PhD research explores the public performances of diasporic Iranian identities in London and Vancouver through food in terms of spaces of production, consumption, and representation. In particular, I examine the role of Iranian restaurants and grocery stores in how they are a representation of diasporic Iranian culture.
Supervisors: Dr. Philip Crang

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Complex context: Aboriginal participation in hosting the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

Leisure Studies, 2012

In an effort to build understanding of diverse Indigenous experiences with the Olympics, we explo... more In an effort to build understanding of diverse Indigenous experiences with the Olympics, we explore the relationship between the Vancouver Organizing Committee and the Four Host First Nations Society (FHFN). The research is grounded in theory that stresses the social influence and political nature of material–cultural landscapes. The article also connects important details from two disparate literatures: the politics and imagery of Olympic hosting, and the history and tensions surrounding Aboriginal sovereignty in British Columbia (BC). After discussing our methodological approach and reviewing this literature, we trace the formalisation of the FHFN and consider how protocol agreements guided its relationship with the Vancouver Organizing Committee. Next, we overview programmes that enlisted Aboriginal artists and entrepreneurs, highlighting how prominent additions to the material–cultural landscape were produced and overseen, and have since been discursively framed. The hosting relationship has resulted in benefits for some Aboriginal persons and businesses. However, it has also imprinted the landscape in ways that may (re)legitimise dominant political, economic and cultural objectives and perspectives over time. Thus, we question whether the relationship should be taken as a model for future Indigenous participation in the Olympics and/or as evidence of improved relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in BC.

Review of Janne Hukkinen (2008) Sustainability Networks: Cognitive tools for expert collaboration in social-ecological systems

Review of Susan L Cutter (2006) Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice

Review of Philippe Le Prestre and Peter Stoett (eds) (2006) Bilateral Ecopoltics: Continuity and Change in Canadian-American Environmental Reservations

Living Ruins, Value Conflicts: Loukaki, Argyro (2008)