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Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada
This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76
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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164
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Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii
In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51
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Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies and Human Communities in British Columbia.
This is a thought-provoking book. Focussing on the rangelands of Interior British Columbia, John Thistle describes how commercial ranching begot inequities, dispossessions, and ecological degradation. All, according to his analysis, were avoidable. Resettling the Range...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 178-79
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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160
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Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44
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The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition
Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08
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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22
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“Metis:” Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
In “Métis,” Chris Andersen highlights the widespread marginalization of Métis peoples by taking to task the continued racialization of the term “Métis.” Systematically unpacking the ways in which the word “Métis” has been misrecognized and...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 116-17
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