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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.
Trade ReviewCanoe nation explores how the canoe is not only an important object of Canada’s understanding of itself as a nation, but also a vital and changing practice that is key to historically specific configurations of economics, landscapes, and modes of governance and citizenship. Ranging from the fur trade to celebrity wilderness paddling and tracing complex connections among economic, colonial, pedagogical, recreational, and environmental desires, Erickson’s brilliantly original analysis shows that the canoe is, quite literally, a vehicle of power in the Canadian national landscape. -- Catriona Sandilands, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Table of ContentsPreface: Canoeing Matters
Introduction: Canoes and the Nature of Canada
1 Pedagogical Canoes: “Forced Intimacy,” Suffering, and Remembering National History
2 I Fish, Therefore I Am: Recreational Canoeing and Wilderness Travel at the Turn of the Century
3 Regimes of Whiteness: Wilderness and the Production of Abstract Space from Seton to Grey Owl
4 Recreational Nationalism: Canoeing as Political Activism
Conclusion: Future Politics and the Production of the Nation
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