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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024

Featuring cover artwork by Kelly Cannell. This issue includes ARTICLES by Nicholas Bradley, Jesse Morin and Aaron Blake Evans, a CASE COMMENT by James Hickling, and a RESEARCH NOTE...

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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024 pp. 117-119

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PODCAST Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley

By Judith Burr

Prologue: "What you do, and what you don't do"

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Episode 2: "Challenging, beautiful bioregion"

Episode 3: "The lighter footprint of fire"

Epilogue: Reflecting on Feminist Methods and "Colonial Presence": A Dialogue with Dr. Karis Shearer

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2. Episode 1: "Pick your poison, or pick your medicine"

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3. Episode 2: "Challenging, beautiful bioregion"

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5. Epilogue: Reflecting on Feminist Methods and "Colonial Presence": A Dialogue with Dr. Karis Shearer

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BC Studies no. 220 Winter 2023/24 pp. 93-108

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PODCAST Campus Cooperatives: Reimagining Campus Cooperatives in British Columbia for a World in Crises

By Michelle Stack

Episode 1: Michelle Stack interviews Michelle Cooper Iverson, Chief Operating Officer for Cooperative Housing Federation BC

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Episode 2: Michelle Stack interviews Bill Engleson about the early days of a Simon Fraser University Cooperative

Episode 3: Michelle Stack interviews Elvy Del Bianco, BC Cooperative Association, Director of Co-operative Development and Government Relations Audio Player

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2. Episode 2: Michelle Stack interviews Bill Engleson about the early days of a Simon Fraser University Cooperative

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BC Studies no. 218 Summer 2023 pp. 11-18

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Water Rhythms: Listening to the Impacts of Climate Change on the Glaciers of British Columbia

By Michele Koppes

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BC Studies no. 214 Summer 2022 pp. 75-82

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A Place Called Cumberland

By Ryan Blaak

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The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict and Perilous Journeys in the Fur Trade

By George Colpitts

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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024 pp. 129-130

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British Columbiana: A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town

By Madison Helsop

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Past the End of the Road: A North Island Boyhood

By Janet Nicol

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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024 pp. 133-135

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Lightkeepers on Huu-ay-aht Shores: Indigenous Labour and Knowledge in the History of Coastal Navigation

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BC Studies no. 222 Summer 2024 pp. 47-69

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Sean Carleton’s Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

By Adele Perry, Catherine Ellis, Kristine Alexander, Bridget Stirling, and Sean Carleton

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BC Studies no. 222 Summer 2024 pp. 127-153

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An Absolute No to That! An Interview with tsiqw xwéxwne – Red Hummingbird Judy (Manuel) Wilson, Ten Years after Mount Polley

By Emma Feltes

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BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 47-58

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We Are Destroying the Earth for Vanity: An Interview with Bev Sellars

By Deborah Curran

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BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 31-45

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We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.