Index

Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...

Review by Rob McMahon

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218

Flight was in his Spirit: The Life of Harry Burfield

First Tracks: The History of Skiing in Revelstroke

First Tracks: Whistler's Early History

Review by David A. Rossiter

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 209-12

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

Carbon Democracy historicizes “the forms of democratic politics that carbon made possible” (233). Timothy Mitchell’s goal is nothing short of destabilizing two central intellectual and material pillars of modern western life: the sacrosanct institution of...

Review by Jonathan Peyton

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 182-83

University Impact on the Development of Industries in Peripheral Regions: Knowledge Organization and the British Columbia Wine Industry

By Malida Mooken, Roger Sugden, Marcela Valania

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 125-152

economic development food and nutrition Okanagan

Salmo Stories: Memories of a Place in the Kootenays

The Green Necklace: The Vision Quest of Edward Mahon

Review by Takaia Larsen

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Pages 171-73

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...

Review by Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164

Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies

Over the last ten years, Canada has seen recurring waves of protest including Occupy, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter, among others. This collection provides an account of the role of protest in contemporary...

Review by Miriam Smith

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 165-166

A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

This collection explores many of the controversial issues surrounding fish farming practices in British Columbia. In five separate essays, the authors illustrate the importance of the precautionary principle in experimenting with new chemicals and processes...

Review by Lissa Wadewitz

BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 121-3

Nature and Human Societies: Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History

In the three decades since environmental history burst onto the academic scene in the United States in the early 1970s, the field experienced impressive growth among American scholars and internationally in arenas such as South...

Review by John Sandlos

BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 141-4

The Bennett Government’s Pacific Northern Railway Project and the Development of British Columbia’s “Hinterland”

By Lawrence Douglas Taylor

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 35-56

Wenner-Gren Axel and corporation northern development monorail Bennett W. A. C.

The Answer is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance

The Answer is Still No is a disparate collection of voices united in opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines: First Nations activists and hereditary chiefs, members of the environmental movement establishment and those self-consciously on...

Review by Jonathan Peyton

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 187-88

Oil and Gas Consultation and shale gas development in British Columbia

By Kathryn H. Garvie, Karena Shaw

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 73-102

BC Oil and Gas Commission natural gas and LNG northern development Fort Nelson First Nation Treaty 8 First Nations government

Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada

Empowering Electricity is a detailed examination of the political and social economy of electricity co-operatives and power sector reform in Canada. The co-operative movement is commonly, and rightfully, viewed as a model of grassroots organization...

Review by Nichole Dusyk

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 226-227

Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia

In 1921 the Prince George Citizen reminded its readership that “central B.C. is not a new country” (Prince George Citizen 1921). Defining “central B.C.” as those parts of the province situated between the 52nd and...

Review by Daniel Sims

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 193-4

Canadian Energy Policy: Some Economic Questions

By Paul G. Bradley

BC Studies no. 13 Spring 1972 | Page(s) 110-120

energy petroleum industry federal-provincial relations international relations

Reserve and Urban Indians in British Columbia: A Social and Economic Profile

By W.T. Stanbury

BC Studies no. 26 Summer 1975 | Page(s) 39-64

poverty demography aboriginal people

“Into That Country to Work”: Aboriginal Economic Activities during Barkerville’s Gold Rush

By Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 109-137

gold rush economy employment aboriginal people Dakelh people Barkerville Bowron Lake Stąatąimc or Stląatląimx (Lillooet)

City-Building in the Canadian West: A Case Study of Economic Growth in Early Vancouver, 1886-1893

By Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 3-28

economic development railways Vancouver

The Economic Impact of the Public Sector Upon the Indians of British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 19, Autumn 1973

Review by Wilson Duff

BC Studies no. 19 Autumn 1973 | Page(s) 122-9

The Economic Constitution of Federal States

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 42, Summer 1979  

Review by Mark Sproule-Jones

BC Studies no. 42 Summer 1979 | Page(s) 67-9

The Practical Application of Economic Incentives to the Control of Pollution: The Case of British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 36, Winter 1977  

Review by Mark Sproule-Jones

BC Studies no. 36 Winter 1977-1978 | Page(s) 53-6

The Politics of Canadian- Japanese Economic Relations 1952-1983

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985  

Review by John English

BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 69-70

Restraining the Economy: Social Credit Economic Policies for B.C. in the Eighties

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 78, Summer 1998  

Review by Terry Morley

BC Studies no. 78 Summer 1988 | Page(s) 91-5

Economic Restructuring and Housing Markets in Vancouver: The Role of Secondary Suites

By Pablo Mendez

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 187-214

economy housing real estate Vancouver