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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Now Is the Time
In the extraordinary short film Now Is the Time, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter brings to the screen a moving story of renewal through the restoration and re-editing of footage from the National Film Board of...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 130-131
museums repatriation aboriginal self government colonialism settler colonialism aboriginal art aboriginal rights Haida Indigenous worlds
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
The Nameless Collective Podcast: Exploring History
Season one of the Nameless Collective, which is produced by Manjot Bains of JugniStyle and hosted by intrepid researchers, historians and archival explorers Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh, evokes past South Asian Canadian...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Not your usual science: a Future Ecologies Podcast Review
Future Ecologies is not your typical science podcast. Strongly reminiscent of Radiolab (2002–), the renowned WNYC series from the “golden age” of podcasting (Barry 2015), Future Ecologies investigates “the shape of our world,” or the...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 128-130
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Chief Supernatural Being with the Big Eyes (2021)
Exploring the creative possibilities offered by augmented reality (AR) technology, Vancouver-based Haida artist Ernest Swanson has teamed up with the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) and AR designer Mark Illing to present Chief Supernatural Being with...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 125-128
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Crackdown
British Columbia is in year four of a provincial public health emergency declared in response to devastating rates of drug overdose deaths resulting from a toxic, illicit drug supply. As of July 2020, COVID-19 had...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 127-128
epidemics liquor and drugs mental health social services substance use government law public policy
Book Review
Victoria Unbuttoned: A Red-Light History of BC’s Capital City
Linda J. Eversole’s first book, Stella: Unrepentant Madam, written in 2005, was praised for its academic value and readability. The author continues her exploration of women in the sex trade with Victoria Unbuttoned, profiling ten...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
The Transect Podcast Review
The world of British Columbian archaeology is, to most, unknown and inaccessible. This is a shame, particularly in a province whose settler population has such a poor grasp of its long human history. Archaeology is...
Book Review
Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
The revised third edition of Kilian Crawford’s ground-breaking book on BC’s Black pioneers is timely and essential reading. It is a critical corrective to omissions and erasure in both academic histories and in popular understandings,...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 131-132
Book Review
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
In historical memory, the forced confinement and exclusion of 22,000 Japanese Canadians from 1942 to 1949 remains one of the darkest and, unfortunately, least understood chapters in Canadian history. Although the story has been told...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action
Season one of the RAVEN (De)Briefs podcast series is a refreshing Indigenization of the traditional podcast format in that it evokes everyday kitchen table conversations among relatives, combined with sonic, Indigenous documentary. Exploring contemporary environmental...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 128-129
colonialism Delgamuukw v. BC Indigenous Indigenous rights treaties land claims law
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Vancouver: No Fixed Address
What stays with you after watching Charles Wilkinson’s new documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, is its beautiful cinematography. Vancouver’s ideal location at the intersection of the ocean, the mountains, and the sky is captured brilliantly: every shot...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
Book Review
Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Knowing that Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve would end in the establishment of a park offers no relief from the sense of urgency that reading the book elicits. Usually,...
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National Parks: What are they good for? 
Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970
Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies: A History of Waterton Country
Guardians of the Wild: A History of the Western Service of Canada's National Parks
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Pages 111-5
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research note
Book Review
Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
The text of Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story extends well beyond its own parameters, both literal and figurative. Syilx, Tsilhqot’in, Ktunaxa, and Dakelh playwright Kim Senklip Harvey offers a thoughtful, funny, and compelling exploration of...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 132-133
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Book Review
Inalienable Properties: The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
In Inalienable Properties: the political economy of Indigenous land reform (2020), Jamie Baxter presents his readers with a puzzle surrounding the inalienability of Indigenous land tenure systems. Baxter asks, ‘why does inalienable property persist in...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 133-135
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Book Review
Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
On 12 July 1776 Captain James Cook, Royal Navy, sailed from Plymouth, England, in the three-master collier, Resolution, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. It was a voyage that swept Cook and the crews...
BC Studies No. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 135-136
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Book Review
A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada
Historical geographer Cole Harris, professor emeritus at UBC, has in his latest book brought together a number of his articles, some previously published, to focus on the subject of settler colonialism in Canada. It is...