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BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017
Features SOUNDWORK by Milena Droumeva; FORUM: NAMING by Imogene Lim, Gikino’amaagewinini, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Davina Bhandar, and Lorraine Weir; A REVIEW ESSAY by Julia Polyck-O’Neill; ARTICLES by Kate Dubensky and Helen Raptis, Penney Clark, and Peter Wylie; NEW MEDIA REVIEWS by Allison Adler and Carleigh Baker; and Reflections on Rethink150 for THIS SPACE HERE by Crystal Przybille on behalf of the Rethink150 Collective.
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The Coffee-Office: Urban Soundscapes for Creative Productivity 
Pages 119-127
Terms | architecture labour force
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New Media / Exhibition Reviews
New Media / Exhibition Review
A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival: Vancouver, British Columbia, 25-26 May 2017. The festival featured film and new media presentations, including a “Turtle Island Shorts” program (May 26); VR and augmented reality presentations (May 27); and...
Pages 151-159
Terms | aboriginal art
New Media / Exhibition Review
Is the World Wonderful? On Judy Chartrand’s What a Wonderful World
Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, BC, 19 October 2016 – 26 March 2017. Admittedly, I was confused about where the permanent collection...
Pages 145-149
Terms | art
Book & Film Reviews
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Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat
Amidst the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation this year, scholars and citizens alike are calling for national reflection on what this anniversary is meant to commemorate. To this end, Margery Fee’s Literary...
Pages 155-156
book film review
Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Neither book under review has an explicit connection with British Columbia. Nonetheless, both deal with subjects of great relevance to the province. In New Treaty New Tradition Jones addresses the complexities of the New Zealand...
Pages 156-158
book film review
The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller
I was a third-year undergraduate at UBC in 1990 when Bruce Miller joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, launching his second career after having taught high school. Between 1991 and 1994 I took several...
Pages 158-159
book film review
Bringing Water to Victoria: An Illustrated History, 1843-1915
Little is as intimate and political as the water that flows from city taps. We fill our bodies with it, we wash our babies in it. Many of us depend on the state to provide...
Pages 160-161
book film review
Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
If, as Adele Perry suggests, history is cacophony, then the opening of Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in September 2014 was bound to be discordant. Camped outside the CMHR, Anishinaabe from Shoal Lake...
Pages 161-162
book film review
The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer
These are two little books about one big river and the agreement that remade it. By any measure, the Columbia River Treaty (CRT) was a transformative moment for the Pacific Northwest. Finalized by Canada and...
Pages 162-164
book film review
Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports: 1806-1821
This volume assembles the remaining records (with the exception of accounts) produced between 1806 and 1821 at Edmonton House, the Saskatchewan District headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This period starts with the 1806 Lewis...
Pages 164-165
book film review
A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda Ambrose has taken on the challenging task of telling the life story of a woman who left behind no personal diaries or papers and only a fragmented paper trail....
Pages 166-167
book film review
Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike
Arthur “Slim” Evans has long been a notable figure in Canadian labour history, most often associated with the famed On-to-Ottawa Trek that he led in 1935 in an effort to improve conditions in the relief...
Pages 167-168
book film review
A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist
On the surface, Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist is a well-researched and well-written account of Gerald H. Priest’s attempt to steal silver ore...
Pages 168-170
book film review
Christy Clark: Behind the Smile
According to Judi Tyabji this is “not an authorized biography. In fact, it’s not really a biography at all because she’s still premier.” Rather, it is “a book about Premier Clark written by someone who...
Pages 170-171
book film review
Points of Entry: How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets In
Though less controversial than in many other countries, admission of immigrants and refugees to Canada not infrequently raises protests of “too many” or “too few” from partisan commentators, and sensationalised media accounts of particular entry...
Pages 172-173
book film review
Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History
When the Kicking Horse Trail opened in 1927, connecting Banff to Golden by route of Lake Louise, parks visitors were presented with a scenic highway system unsurpassed elsewhere in the nation. For a nation that...
Pages 173-174
book film review
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
In Once They Were Hats, Francis Backhouse, who teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria, invites us to join her in exploring the multifaceted history of the beaver. She recounts personal stories about trips...
Pages 174-175
book film review
The Great Bear Sea: Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise
The Great Bear Rainforest, a region also known as the central and north coast of British Columbia, has garnered international attention over the last few decades for its global ecological significance and its cultural richness....
Pages 175-177
book film review
Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness
Museums and the Past opens with a statement that “‘museums’ and ‘historical consciousness’ dovetail almost intuitively” (3). I don’t think they do, and this book does not convince me. The editors offer a couple of...
Pages 177-178
book film review
Highlights: Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives
Using text and images, this booklet focuses on the varied elements that make up the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives – its history, physical components (primarily the exhibits), functions, and activities – and on...
Pages 178-179
book film review
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form (50th anniversary edition)
To anyone who is familiar with Northwest Coast art scholarship, it will come as no surprise that Bill Holm’s Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form was published anew 50 years after it was...
Pages 179-180
book film review
Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013
The short title of the book – Red – shares its name with the 2013 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, which gathered together the work of five notable Indigenous artists: Julie...
Pages 180-181
book film review
The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff
Jeffrey Rubinoff (1945-2017) is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and 1980s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada. Though poised...
Pages 181-182
book film review
The Life and Art of Mary Filer
The Life and Art of Mary Filer and The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher are two of the latest contributions to the Mother Tongue series featuring “Unheralded Artists of British Columbia.” They are well...
Pages 182-185
book film review
Konelīne: our land beautiful
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at the 2016 Hot Docs Festival, Nettie Wild’s Konelīne: our land beautiful weaves together stories of humanity’s relationships with industry, the wilderness, and nature in Northwestern British Columbia. Telling...
Pages 187-188
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Konelīne: our land beautiful
As the language and culture director for the Tahltan Nation and a Tahltan academic, I believe giving voice to our people is crucial. Until recent times, the academy has privileged the voices of settlers and...
Pages 188-189
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Allison Adler recently completed a masters degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Museum Studies from the University of British Columbia. She is primarily interested in how Latin communities are incorporated into museums in the United States and how these communities challenge the borders drawn around their identities through art, material culture, and everyday actions.
Carleigh Baker is a Cree-Métis/Icelandic writer and MFA student who lives as a guest on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays and The Journey Prize Anthology. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil, 2017) is now available.
Davina Bhandar is an adjunct professor in the School of Communications and Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University. She is also co-director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Culture and Communities at SFU. Davina is currently the principal investigator of a project examining the labouring lives of South Asians in British Columbia. She is co-editor of “Too Asian?”: Racism, Privilege and Post-Secondary Education in Canada (Between the Lines Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Charting Imperial Itineraries: Unmooring the Komagata Maru (under contract with UBC Press). She works in the areas of democracy, theories of citizenship, migration, carcerality, surveillance, borders and critical race studies.
Penney Clark is a professor in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. Her research is located at the intersection of cultural history, business history, education, and publishing. She is editor of New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada (UBC Press, 2011) and co-editor, with Mona Gleason, of Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation.
Milena Droumeva is an assistant professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University specializing in mobile technologies, sound studies and multimodal ethnography. She has worked in the areas of game-based learning, acoustic
ecology, urban soundscape research, and most recently gender and sound in video games. Milena has been recording and listening for over fourteen years in Vancouver and Europe as part of her urban soundscapes and mobile media cultures research. You can find her musings on sound and other material goodies at http://natuaural.com
Kate Dubensky is a doctoral candidate in Social, Cultural, and Foundational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation employs a settler colonial analysis to examine representations of national identity in public school curricula. Kate holds a BA and MA in Political Science.
Gikino’amaagewinini nindizhinikaaz. Mahkwa niin nindoodem. Obizhigokaang nindoonjii.
Imogene Lim (林慕珍) is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Vancouver Island University. Much of her current work involves communities on Vancouver Island associated with early Chinese Canadians. She also continues to use her restaurant menu collection and family
documents as sources of inspiration and research. Kirsten Emiko McAllister grew up in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island and is now an associate professor at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on cultural memory, visual studies and place.
Julia Polyck-O’Neill is an artist, curator, critic, and writer, and is a doctoral candidate in Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program (Culture and Aesthetics), where she is completing a SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary and comparative critical study of contemporary conceptualist literature and art in Vancouver. She teaches in art history and visual culture, and from 2017-18, is a Visiting Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the department of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
Helen Raptis is an associate professor of educational history in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Her research interests focus on minority learners in British Columbia. She is the co-author – with members of the Tsimshian nation – of What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools (UBC Press, 2016).
Lorraine Weir is currently completing a booklength oral history of the Tsilhqot’in Indigenous title and rights case in collaboration with Chief Roger William and the Xeni Gwet’in community. She teaches Critical Indigenous Studies in the English Department, University of British Columbia where she is a Professor.
Peter Wylie is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science of the I.K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. He is past Head of the Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology Unit of the Barber School. He holds a BSc (Econ) from The Queen’s University of Belfast and an MA and PhD in Economics from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. He is a long-serving elected member of the UBC Okanagan Senate and currently holds such a seat for 2017-20.