Join us as we celebrate the book launch of (2025) from 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History Co-Director, Tonya K. Davidson.
Event: Ottawology Book Launch & Trivia Night at Glebe Central Pub
Time / Date: November 12, 2025 from 6:30pm 鈥� 8:30pm (EST)
Location: Glebe Central Pub, 779 Bank Street Ottawa, Ottawa , Ontario, Canada
RSVP: event is free to attend but please *EVENT is sold out*
Event Co-sponsored by The 杏吧原创 University Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ottawology offers an original, accessible sociological account of social structures, socialities, ecologies, and everyday life in Ottawa.
“Ottawa is often understood only as the seat of the federal government, marked by the neo-Gothic parliament buildings on the hill, and the many government office buildings. Lively, erudite and exciting, Ottawology offers a unique and radical approach to studying the city, injecting it with intrigue and verve, and expanding collective, narrow understandings of Canada鈥檚 capital city. Tonya Davidson takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through a city populated not only by power brokers, but also workers, students, seniors, trees, eels, 聽turtles, skaters and rabble rousers. Davidson applies her prodigious sociological imagination to critically explore an essential, but little understood, city.
Davidson鈥檚 Ottawa offers a fascinating template for how to scrutinize the interactions between the weight of history and the effervescent motion of everyday life in a city. She draws surprising connections, from the 聽role of the civil service to the acceleration of suburban sprawl, and the one-time incredible success of the city鈥檚 bus-rapid transit system, to stories of nightlife, policing, play, libraries, rivers, and malls. Davidson traverses the city鈥檚 streets and hidden histories to show how social structures, sustainability, and social life intersect, creating an elegant chronicle of the city鈥檚 rich and fraught social life.” (2025)