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Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta Nov 2023

Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta

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Memoir, history and critique of girlhood on a farm on the Alberta prairie in the 1970's and 1980's.


The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic, Daze Jefferies Oct 2022

The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic, Daze Jefferies

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For centuries, violence against mermaids has coexisted alongside slippery sexualizations in much of Newfoundland’s folk and popular cultures. This is demonstrated most grievously in colonist Richard Whitbourne’s 1620 text, A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland. The fishy reality of simultaneous disposability and desirability also mirrors the life histories of trans women and sex workers in the capital port city of St. John’s. Imagining mermaids as trans and sex-working ancestors in a province that has been structured by ecologies of fish trade, this work of research-creation drifts through precarious survival in the North Atlantic.


Time Doesn’T Matter, Kelly Shepherd Sep 2021

Time Doesn’T Matter, Kelly Shepherd

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Poetry by Kelly Shepherd


By Shattering The Vulture’S Nose, Melissa Yang Oct 2020

By Shattering The Vulture’S Nose, Melissa Yang

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This project explores an unusual ornithological debate between 19th-century naturalists John James Audubon and Charles Waterton on the olfaction of vultures. Both naturalists involved were also artists—certainly more than they were scientists—and prone to artifice and performative amplification. This article examines the rhetorical dynamics of this niche but sensational debate on avian olfaction, and its problematic influence on scientific progress.


Faire Comme Les Castors : Un Idéal D’Organisation Du Travail En Nouvelle-France Dans Les Écrits De Nicolas Denys, Éric Debacq Mar 2020

Faire Comme Les Castors : Un Idéal D’Organisation Du Travail En Nouvelle-France Dans Les Écrits De Nicolas Denys, Éric Debacq

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Nicolas Denys (1603?-1688), commerçant français, publie en 1672 deux livres, la Description geographique et historique des costes de l’Amerique septentrionale et l’Histoire naturelle des peuples, des animaux, des arbres & plantes de l’Amerique septentrionale & de ses divers climats. Dans ces livres, il témoigne de ses tentatives de colonisation en Acadie pendant près de quarante ans et énumère les possibilités économiques de ce territoire, notamment liées à la pêche à la morue. Denys, dans cette œuvre, fait aussi l’éloge du castor, qu’il compare à l’homme. Ceci est à double tranchant : l’animal, dont on célèbre l’intelligence, devient alors …


Art For Animals: Visual Culture And Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 By J. Keri Cronin, Gina M. Granter Jun 2019

Art For Animals: Visual Culture And Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 By J. Keri Cronin, Gina M. Granter

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Teview of J. Keri Cronin's Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914


Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life By Dianna Hunter And The New Farm: Our Ten Years On The Front Lines Of The Good Food Revolution By Brent Preston, Kristin Van Tassel Aug 2018

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life By Dianna Hunter And The New Farm: Our Ten Years On The Front Lines Of The Good Food Revolution By Brent Preston, Kristin Van Tassel

The Goose

Review of Dianna Hunter's Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life and Brent Preston's The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution.


Nature, Place, And Story: Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada By Claire Campbell, Emma K. Morgan-Thorp Aug 2018

Nature, Place, And Story: Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada By Claire Campbell, Emma K. Morgan-Thorp

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Review of Claire Campbell's Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada.


Winter Birches At York Redoubt, Irene Oore Feb 2018

Winter Birches At York Redoubt, Irene Oore

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This painting of Winter Birches at York Redoubt in Halifax, Nova Scotia reflects the grandeur and beauty of the historic site on which it sits and evacuates the fortification from it. York Redoubt, now a National Historic Park, was constructed in 1793 (just as war broke out between Britain and France) on a bluff at the narrowest point on the outer harbour. It overlooks the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada.


Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon Aug 2017

Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon

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Review of Michael Engelhard's Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon.


Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny, Catriona Duncan Aug 2016

Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny, Catriona Duncan

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Review of Sandy Marie Bonny's Yes, and Back Again.


Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon Aug 2016

Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon

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Review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó's Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.


An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr Aug 2016

An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr

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Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.


Settler Education By Laurie D. Graham, Kelly Shepherd Aug 2016

Settler Education By Laurie D. Graham, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Laurie D. Graham's Settler Education.


We Share Our Matters / Teionkwakhashion Tsi Niionkwariho:Ten: Two Centuries Of Writing And Resistance At Six Nations Of The Grand River By Rick Monture, Eric Russell Feb 2016

We Share Our Matters / Teionkwakhashion Tsi Niionkwariho:Ten: Two Centuries Of Writing And Resistance At Six Nations Of The Grand River By Rick Monture, Eric Russell

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Review of We Share Our Matters / Teionkwakhashion Tsi Niionkwariho:Ten: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Rick Monture.


Forest Prairie Edge: Place History In Saskatechewan By Merle Massie, Matthew Zantingh Jul 2015

Forest Prairie Edge: Place History In Saskatechewan By Merle Massie, Matthew Zantingh

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Matthew Zantingh reviews Merle Massie's Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatechewan.


Dialogical Interspecies Ethics: Ataraxia, Desire And Hope In The Post-Human World Of Anne Carson's Pastoral, Thomas Bristow Dr Jun 2015

Dialogical Interspecies Ethics: Ataraxia, Desire And Hope In The Post-Human World Of Anne Carson's Pastoral, Thomas Bristow Dr

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This review essay implicitly revisits human and non-human power relations within a critical animal studies context that understands the affective conjunction between the manipulation of our worlds (action, partly through knowledge) and degrees of involvement with these others that live in our worlds (comportment via emotions). I take Louise Westling’s new study as the platform for an analysis of two book-length poems, The Autobiography of Red (1998) and red doc> (2013), which centre on the life of a shepherd, Geryon. Rather than revisit classical pastoral, these texts extract power-relations that classical myth and pastoral spatialise. In so doing, I argue, …


Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Translated By Bernard Saladin D’Anglure, Zoe Todd Feb 2015

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Translated By Bernard Saladin D’Anglure, Zoe Todd

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Review of Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk and translated by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure.


Animals As Neighbours: The Past And Present Of Commensal Animals By Terry O'Connor, Derek Woods Feb 2015

Animals As Neighbours: The Past And Present Of Commensal Animals By Terry O'Connor, Derek Woods

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Review of Terry O'Connor's Animals as Neighbours: The Past and Present of Commensal Animals.


Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden Jan 2015

Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden

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Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.


Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, Rebecca Raglon Aug 2014

Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, Rebecca Raglon

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Review of Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America, edited by Ryan Hediger.