{"product_id":"rethinking-the-great-white-north-9780774820141","title":"Rethinking the Great White North","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRethinking the Great White North\u003c\/em\u003e explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInnovative...the book is also particularly stimulating in its attempt to read urban geographies against and\/or as part of Canada's constitutive interaction with “nature.” -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *\u003cbr\u003eIs the issue race or whiteness? Nature or wilderness? The best papers in this collection engage the tensions between key concepts, offering not only theoretically engaged analyses of the Canadian situation but also seeking to advance conceptual understanding of race or whiteness and nature or wilderness. -- Shannon Stunden Bower, University of Alberta * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Where Is the Great White North? Spatializing History, Historicizing Whiteness \/ \u003cem\u003eAndrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey Kobayashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Identity and Knowledge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 “A Phantasy in White in a World That Is Dead”: Grey Owl and the Whiteness of Surrogacy \/ \u003cem\u003eBruce Erickson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Indigenous Knowledge and the History of Science, Race, and Colonial Authority in Northern Canada \/ \u003cem\u003eStephen Bocking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Cap Rouge Remembered? Whiteness, Scenery, and Memory in Cape Breton Highlands National Park \/ \u003cem\u003eCatriona Sandilands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: City Spaces\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The “Occult Relation between Man and the Vegetable”: Transcendentalism, Immigrants, and Park Planning in Toronto, c. 1900 \/ \u003cem\u003ePhillip Gordon Mackintosh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto \/ \u003cem\u003eClaire Major and Roger Keil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Shimmering White Kelowna and the Examination of Painless White Privilege in the Hinterland of British Columbia \/ \u003cem\u003eLuis L.M. Aguiar and Tina I.L. Marten\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Arctic Journeys\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Inscription, Innocence, and Invisibility: Early Contributions to the Discursive Formation of the North in Samuel Hearne’s \u003cem\u003eA Journey to the Northern Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard Milligan and Tyler McCreary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Copper Stories: Imaginative Geographies and Material Orderings of the Central Canadian Arctic \/ \u003cem\u003eEmilie Cameron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Native Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Temagami’s Tangled Wild: The Making of Race, Nature, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario \/ \u003cem\u003eJocelyn Thorpe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Resolving “the Indian Land Question”? Racial Rule and Reconciliation in British Columbia \/ \u003cem\u003eBrian Egan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neo-Liberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves \/ \u003cem\u003eJessica Dempsey, Kevin Gould, and Juanita Sundberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterlocations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtremity: Theorizing from the Margins \/ \u003cem\u003eKay Anderson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColonization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly \/ \u003cem\u003eSherene H. Razack\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404922626391,"sku":"9780774820141","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-the-great-white-north-9780774820141","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}