ABSTRACT
Echoing Jardine's words, the undertakings in this book are part of “an intergenerational project, not just a pathological one handed to an isolated individual” that “require[s] our attention and our work and our care for their well-being, for their ‘furtherance’. The University of British Columbia Point Grey campus, situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, is geographically located on the headland overlooking the Strait of Georgia and marking the southern entrance to Burrard Inlet. An Aokian entails being in the midst of lived entanglements, engaging the “curricular landscape that allows multiplicity to grow in the middle”, and working with/through the messiness. Aoki writes about the Nitobe Memorial Garden both as a place of compelling invitation and one that inspires his metaphors. The editors present these key resonances with the anticipation that they might ground a reading of the coming chapters and encourage readers to experience Aoki's work for themselves.
