ABSTRACT
The quest of this chapter is to unpack some of the historical and ongoing intersectional socio-spatial violences in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With over 95 percent of the province of British Columbia being located on unceded Indigenous lands, this geographic area holds various inter-generational conflicts or ‘traumascapes’ (Tumarkin, 2005), that are inscribed into negotiations about cultural identity, belonging, and ownership. My specific lens lies through creative practices of placemaking in Vancouver’s downtown neighborhood of Hogan’s Alley, a site of significant displacement of a large proportion of local Black residents.
