{"product_id":"canoe-nation-9780774822480","title":"Canoe Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanoe nation\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Canoeing Matters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Canoes and the Nature of Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Pedagogical Canoes: “Forced Intimacy,” Suffering, and Remembering National History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 I Fish, Therefore I Am: Recreational Canoeing and Wilderness Travel at the Turn of the Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Regimes of Whiteness: Wilderness and the Production of Abstract Space from Seton to Grey Owl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Recreational Nationalism: Canoeing as Political Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Future Politics and the Production of the Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003eIndex","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404925575511,"sku":"9780774822480","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canoe-nation-9780774822480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}