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Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada - Couverture souple

 
9780774820141: Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0774820144 ISBN 13 : 9780774820141
Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2012

Synopsis

Canadian national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness seem innocent, yet this path-breaking volume shows they contain the seeds of contemporary racism.

Rethinking the Great White North moves the idea of whiteness to the centre of debates about Canadian history, geography, and identity. Informed by critical race theory and the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, the contributors trace how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped shape Canada's identity as a white country in travel writing and treaty making; scientific research and park planning; and within small towns, cities, and tourist centres. These nuanced explorations of diverse historical geographies of nature not only revisit the past: they offer a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada's role in the North and the nature of multiculturalism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Baldwin is a lecturer in human geography at Durham University. Laura Cameron is an associate professor of geography at Queen's University and Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature. Audrey Kobayashi is a professor of geography and Queen's Research Chair at Queen's University.

Contributors: Luis L.M. Aguiar, Kay Anderson, Stephen Bocking, Emilie Cameron, Jessica Dempsey, Brian Egan, Bruce Erickson, Kevin Gould, Roger Keil, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Claire Major, Tina I.L. Marten, Tyler McCreary, Richard Milligan, Sherene H. Razack, Catriona Sandilands, Juanita Sundberg, and Jocelyn Thorpe.

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Éditeur
University of British Columbia Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0774820144
ISBN 13 
9780774820141
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
356
Éditeur
Baldwin Andrew, Cameron Laura, Kobayashi Audrey
Coordonnées du fabricant
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