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Acknowledgements The idea for Imagining Resistance was first hatched in 2003 at the Universities Art Association of Canada conference at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.As the conference drew to a close,we found ourselves chatting excitedly about the potential for bringing together scholars who explore the visual in activism.The first manifestation of this idea was a conference panel,called (Image)ining Resistance,at the 2005 Canadian Association of Cultural Studies conference held at the University of Alberta.The two-part panel helped begin many of the dialogues that have informed the current project. Since that cold November day at the UAAC conference in Kingston, this project has undergone many transformations and we have many people to thank, including above all the scholars who have contributed their work to the book. We would also like to recognize the support we have received over the years from the faculty members we worked with at Queen’s University, in particular Lynda Jessup, Susan Lord, and Clive Robertson. Kirsty would also like to thank Janis Jefferies, Kelly Thompson, and Susan Kelly from Goldsmiths for all the encouragement they offered while she was a post-doctoral fellow there.Thanks are also due to Janine Marchessault,Cate Sandilands, Imre Szeman, and Anne Whitelaw for their continued support, friendship, and mentoring. We would like to acknowledge the support of our colleagues at Brock University and at the University of Western Ontario, especially Catherine Heard, Leah Knight, Patrick Mahon, Margaret de Rosia, Christine Sprengler, Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Linda Steer, and Kelly Wood. Kirsty would also like to thank participants in a graduate seminar at UWO on the economization of culture for their careful consideration of and lively debates over some of the issues present in this book.Those seminar participants include: Jennifer Orpana, Jamie Quail, Stephanie Radu, Kevin Rodgers, Jonathan Sarma, Josh Schwebel, and Matthew Smith. Lastly, we would like to acknowledge our friends and family, the people who have supported us and made us smile through the duration of this and many other projects: Alex Boutros, Bill & Ruthie Casey, Nikki Cormier,Duncan Cowie,Scott Cronin,Mario deGiglio-Bellemare,Kit Dobson, ix Anna Lepine, Amish Morrell, Laurie Morrison, Erin Morton, Timothy Pearson and the extended Pearson family, Jasmine Rault, Fraser Robertson, Chris Robertson, Sarah Smith, Elizabeth Stec, Kaarla Sundstrom, Kim Wahl, and Tamara Vukov. Acknowledgements x ...

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