By Satsi Naziel
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025
Featuring cover artwork by Satsi Naziel.
The summer issue includes a CASE COMMENT by Richard Overstall; ARTICLES by Jacquelyn Miller, Nathan Crompton, and Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte; and a special feature: “Tributes to Jean Barman, Mentor and Scholar Extraordinaire.”
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In This Issue
Too Hot to Think Small: The Case for a Right to Cool in British Columbia
By Liv Yoon, Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Kendra Jewell, Geraldine Pratt
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 7-12
By Jacquelyn Miller
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 31-52
Every Homeowner a Pretendian? On Locke, Abstraction, and the Architecture of West Coast Modernism
By Nathan Crompton
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 53-92
Before Intermedia Society: Drafting a prehistory of artist-run centres in British Columbia
By Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 93-117
Coastal Gaslink Pipeline Ltd. v. Huson [Dsta’hyl]
By Richard Overstall
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 13-30
Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
By Jason Colby
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 155-156
Discovering Nothing: In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
By Sean Fraga
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 156-157
Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art
By Kerrie Charnley
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 157-158
Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art
By Alexandra Peck
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 158-160
By Shoufu Yin
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 160-161
By Brian Gobbett
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 162-164
Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard
By Bruce Douville
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 164-165
The O’Keefes of the O’Kanagan: The Families of O’Keefe Ranch
By Shirley McDonald
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 165-166
Beneath the Coal Dust: Historical Journeys Through the Elk Valley and Crowsnest Pass
By John Sandlos
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 167-168
A Ribbon of Highway: A Photographic Exploration of Canadian Identity
By Kirk Niergarth
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 168-169
Crossing Paths Crossing Perspectives : Urban Studies in British Columbia and Quebec
By Michael Hooper
BC Studies no. 226 Summer 2025 pp. 170-171
Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University. She holds a PhD in communication from Simon Fraser University, where she studied the evolution of artist-run centres in British Columbia in relation to federal and provincial cultural policies. Her research has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, and several edited volumes. Her current research focuses on online broadcasting policy and audiovisual archives policy.
Nathan Crompton edits The Mainlander and is a staff organizer at VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users) and the Our Homes Can’t Wait coalition. He recently completed a doctorate in French history at Simon Fraser University.
Jacquelyn Miller (she/her) is a settler of northwestern European descent who has lived all but three years of her life in Coast Salish territories in southwest British Columbia. She practices Aboriginal law at Cascadia Legal LLP in Victoria, BC. She is a graduate of the first cohort of the University of Victoria’s joint common law and Indigenous law degree program. She has a master of arts degree in political science and cultural, social and political thought from the University of Victoria and a bachelor of arts degree with a major in political science and a minor in philosophy from Simon Fraser University. She currently serves as the chair of the Women Lawyers Forum Vancouver Island section for the Canadian Bar Association BC branch and as secretary for the Victoria Bar Association. She, Kilslay Kaaji Sding Miles Richardson, and Nancy J. Turner are completing their forthcoming publication of Reconciling Ways of Knowing: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge and Science Together in Caring for the Earth and Our Relations (Greystone Books, 2026).
Richard Overstall is a lawyer with a particular interest in Indigenous, environmental, and land use law. He has previously worked as a mining geologist, and then as a researcher for a number of public-interest and Aboriginal organisations, including coordinating the expert opinion evidence for the Indigenous plaintiffs in the Delgamuukw title trial. He has developed the trust as a legal device for parties to cooperatively and impartially monitor whether the goals they negotiated in land-use plans are being achieved. Richard has published and presented in a number of legal research areas, including Indigenous law and history, criminal evidence, human rights, and monitoring trusts. He is presently co-counsel in a climate case for two plaintiff Wet’suwet’en House groups, of which Dsta’hyl is a member.
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