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Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26201
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?
- ISBN
- 9781487594848
- Accession Number
- P2023.22
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Transformative politics of nature : overcoming barriers to conservation in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26252
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 Ol4t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Andrea Olive, Chance Finegan, and Karen F. Beazley
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- x, 310 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Environment
- Environmentalism
- Conservation
- Politics
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Peoples
- Law
- Canada
- Abstract
- Transformative Politics of Nature highlights the most significant barriers to conservation in Canada and discusses strategies to confront and overcome them. Featuring contributions from academics as well as practitioners, the volume brings together the perspectives of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts on land and wildlife conservation, in a way that honours and respects all peoples and nature. Contributors provide insights that enhance understanding of key barriers, important actors, and strategies for shaping policy at multiple levels of government across Canada. The chapters engage academics, environmental conservation organizations, and Indigenous communities in dialogues and explorations of the politics of wildlife conservation. They address broad and interrelated themes, organized into three parts: barriers to conservation, transformation through reconciliation, and transformation through policy and governance. Together, they demonstrate and highlight the need for increased social-political awareness of biodiversity and conservation in Canada, enhanced wildlife conservation collaborative networks, and increased scholarly attention to the principle, policies, and practices of maintaining and restoring nature for the benefit of all peoples, other species, and ecologies. Transformative Politics of Nature presents a vision of profound change in the way humans relate to each other and with the natural world. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- OPENING CEREMONY -- Beginning / Shalan Joudry -- PART A: INTRODUCTION -- 1. From politics to transformative politics in Canada / Karen F. Beazley, Andrea Olive, and Chance Finegan -- INTRODUCING DISRUPTIONS / Chance Finegan -- PART B: BARRIERS TO CONSERVATION IN CANADA -- 2. A pathological examination of conservation failure in Canada / Christopher J. Lemieux, Mark W. Groulx, Trevor Swerdfager, and Shannon Hagerman -- 3. Who should govern wildlife? Examining attitudes across the country / Matthew A. Williamson, Stacy Lischka, Andrea Olive, Jeremy Pitman, and Adam T. Ford -- 4. In a rut: barriers to caribou recovery / Julee Boan and Rachel Plotkin -- 5. Enacting a reciprocal ethic of care: (finally) fulfilling treaty obligations / Larry McDermott and Robin Roth -- DISRUPTIONS, PART B -- Disrupting dominant narratives for a mainstream conservation issue: a case study on "saving the bees" / Sheila R. Colla -- The national parks in disrupting heritage interpretation on Turtle Island / Chance Finegan -- PART C: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH VALUES -- 6. Reconciliation or Apiksitaultimik? indigenous relationality for conservation / Sherry Pictou -- 7. "etuaptmumk / two-eyed seeing and reconciliation with Earth" / Deborah McGregor, Jesse Popp, Andrea Reid, Elder Albert Marshall, Jacquelyn Miller, and Mahisha Sritharan -- 8. Beacons of teachings / Lisa Young -- DISRUPTIONS, PART C -- Indigenous knowledge as a disruption to state-led conservation / Natasha Myhal -- The Misipawistik Cree Nation kanawenihcikew guardians program / Heidi Cook -- PART D: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ACTION -- 9. Transforming university cirriculum and student experiences through collaboration and land-based learning / Melanie Zurba, James Doucette, and Bridget Graham -- 10. Ecological networks and corridors in the context of global initiatives / Jodi A. Hilty and Stephen Woodley -- 11. The imperative for transformative change to address biodiversity loss in Canada / Justina C. Ray -- DISRUPTIONS, PART D. -- Conservation bright spots: focusing on solutions instead reacting to problems / Barbara Frei -- Disrupting current approaches to biodiversity conservation through innovative knowledge mobilization / Vivian Nguyen -- PART E: CONCLUSION -- 12. Achieving transformative change: conservation in Canada, 2023 and beyond / Andrea Olive and Karen F. Beazley -- CLOSING CEREMONY -- Onward / Shalan Joudry
- ISBN
- 9781487550516
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 04 Ol4t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
- Responsibility
- Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Politics
- History of Alberta
- Indigenous
- Feminism
- Activism
- Resistance
- Heteropatriarchy
- Environmentalism
- Abstract
- Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
- ISBN
- 9781771992572
- Accession Number
- P2021.03
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Luc in Bella Coola, B.C.
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- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.01
- Description
- Photograph taken in Bella Coola, British Columbia representing the effects of logging on the British Columbian landscape.
1 image
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- Luc in Bella Coola, B.C.
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken in Bella Coola, British Columbia representing the effects of logging on the British Columbian landscape.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.01
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Creekbed, Vancouver Island
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- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.02
- Description
- Photograph taken of a creekbed on Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is the top photograph of a vertical diptych.
1 image
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- Creekbed, Vancouver Island
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of a creekbed on Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is the top photograph of a vertical diptych.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.02
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Creekbed, Vancouver Island
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgil.18.03
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.03
- Description
- Photograph taken of a creekbed on Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is the bottom photograph of a vertical diptych.
1 image
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- Creekbed, Vancouver Island
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of a creekbed on Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is the bottom photograph of a vertical diptych.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.03
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On the Way to the Carmanah Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgil.18.04
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.04
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is part 1 of a diptych and should be displayed on the left-hand side.
1 image
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- On the Way to the Carmanah Valley
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is part 1 of a diptych and should be displayed on the left-hand side.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.04
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On the Way to the Carmanah Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgil.18.05
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.05
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is part 2 of a diptych and should be displayed on the right-hand side.
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- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- On the Way to the Carmanah Valley
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island. Note: This photograph is part 2 of a diptych and should be displayed on the right-hand side.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.05
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Mother and Son Planting
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- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.06
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts and newly planted seedlings in Invermere, British Columbia. Note: This photograph is part 1 of a diptych and should be displayed on the left-hand side.
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- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- Mother and Son Planting
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts and newly planted seedlings in Invermere, British Columbia. Note: This photograph is part 1 of a diptych and should be displayed on the left-hand side.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.06
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Mother and Son Planting
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgil.18.07
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.07
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts and newly planted seedlings in Invermere, British Columbia. Note: This photograph is part 2 of a diptych and should be displayed on the right-hand side.
1 image
- Artist
- Lorraine Gilbert
- Title
- Mother and Son Planting
- Date
- 1988 – 1994
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20” x 24” cm
- Description
- Photograph taken of clear-cuts and newly planted seedlings in Invermere, British Columbia. Note: This photograph is part 2 of a diptych and should be displayed on the right-hand side.
- Credit
- Gift of Lorraine Gilbert, Ottawa, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- GiL.18.07
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