Current Issue
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019
Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia. Guest Edited by Geertje Boschma, Sasha Mullally, Megan J. Davies, and Alison Phinney. Featuring Digital Story Practice Exemplars which can...
In this Issue
Book & Film Reviews
Review
Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Working Towards Equity examines the intersection of the contested nature of disability movements and activism...
Review
Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Sarah Nickel’s Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is...
Review
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC
To borrow an old joke, institutional histories can often be the sofa beds of historical...
Review
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Focusing on the “trente glorieuses” period, Tina Loo’s study of how the Canadian welfare-state pursued...
Sensory
digital stories
PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Hidden
I had to either jump off the bridge or don’t even go on the damn...
digital stories
PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Dance, Dementia, and Social Citizenship
Seven girls from a Mission, BC elementary school were introduced to a group of elders...
digital stories
PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: A Night for All Souls: An interview with Paula Jardine
An event like Night of All Souls gives people the opportunity to develop their own traditions. By leaving...
digital stories
PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Land & Sea Project: Community Ecosystem Reconnection
Our time together was confessional, vulnerable, uncomfortable, hopeful. Some people shared powerful stories of connecting with the...
Decolonization
article
article
New Media / Exhibition Review
Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019
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Digital BC
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Events
16th Annual BC Studies Online Fundraiser Auction
Save the date! The 16th Annual BC Studies Online Fundraiser Auction will be November 19 – 26, 2019. Support non-profit publishing by bidding on great prizes – hotel getaways, yoga passes, restaurant gift certificates, event tickets,...
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Online Bibliography Now Live!
We are excited to announce the launch of the BC Studies Online Bibliography. This project – a searchable database of audiovisual materials, books (and chapters in books), journal articles, and theses, dissertations, and graduate projects pertaining...
September 24, 2019 | News
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Remembering Bob McDonald
Remembering Bob McDonald, former editor of BC Studies, and sending our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. He will be greatly missed. This is the piece he recently wrote for our 50th anniversary...
June 20, 2019 | News
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2018 BC Studies Prize Winners!
BC Studies is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 BC Studies Award- and it’s a tie! Congratulations to Becki Lynn Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton for their article “Loss Must Be Marked and It...
May 15, 2019 | News