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Heidegger's Way Of Being By Richard Capobianco, Brian Mccormack

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A review of Richard Capobianco's Heidegger's Way of Being.

Winds Of Change: Short Stories About Our Climate Edited By Mary Woodbury, Veronika Kratz

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Review of Mary Woodbury's edited collection, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate.

Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers

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Review of Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Germaine Warkentin's Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future.

My Last Continent By Midge Raymond, Jessica George

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A review of Midge Raymond's My Last Continent.

A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey

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A Review of Madhur Anand's A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes.

Found In Alberta: Environmental Themes For The Anthropocene Edited By Robert Boschman And Mario Trono, L. Camille Van Der Marel

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Review of Robert Boschman and Mario Trono’s edited collection Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene.

Marry & Burn By Rachel Rose, Carolyn J. Creed

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Review of Rachel Rose's Marry & Burn.

Sleeping In Tall Grass By Richard Therrien, Gillian Frances Harding-Russell

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Review of Richard Therrien's Sleeping in Tall Grass.

Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics Of Time In Canadian Literary Culture By Paul Huebener, Cheryl Lousley

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Review of Paul Huebener's Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture

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.

Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus

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Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman

Desecrations By Matt Rader, Katie Stobbart

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Review of Matt Rader's Desecrations.

The Book Of Feral Flora By Amanda Ackerman & Skeena By Sarah De Leeuw, Emily Mcgiffin

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Review of Amanda Ackerman's The Book of Feral Flora. Review of Sarah de Leeuw's Skeena.

The Unlit Path Behind The House By Margo Wheaton, Adam J. Kneeland

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Review of Margo Wheaton's The Unlit Path Behind the House.

The Literature Of Waste: Material Ecopoetics And Ethical Matter By Susan Signe Morrison, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Susan Signe Morrison's The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter.

Hillsdale Book By Gerald Hill, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Gerald Hill's Hillsdale Book.

Undercurrent By Rita Wong, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Rita Wong's undercurrent.

Ecocriticism On The Edge: The Anthropocene As A Threshold Concept By Timothy Clark, Paul T. Corrigan

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Review of Timothy Clark's Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept.

The Names By Tim Lilburn, Jeremy Luke Hill

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Review of Tim Lilburn's The Names.

The Plotline Bomber Of Innisfree By Josh Massey, Dessa Bayrock

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A review of Josh Massey's The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree.

Settler Education By Laurie D. Graham, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Laurie D. Graham's Settler Education.

Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow

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Accompanied by tree portraits, this personal narrative reflects upon the intersecting histories between the indigenous peoples of Marin County (north of San Francisco, CA) and the author, who is Euro-American, while contemplating the changing relationship to their shared woodland, the effects of colonization, and possibilities for healing.

“And It’S Just When I Think I’Ve Won The Staring Contest”: Viewing The World Through Science And Poetry With Madhur Anand, Alec Follett

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In this interview, poet and ecologist Madhur Anand discusses her collection of poetry, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, with Alec Follett. She considers the poetic potential of scientific language as well as other topics related to her poetry and her research including field guides, biodiversity, and socio-ecological relationships.

From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon

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Since the year 1500, almost 900 species around the world have officially become extinct. Several of these species resided in Canada and though some are well known to the public, others are not. Here, briefly, are stories of five of them.

Formulating An Intentional Curriculum For Spiritual Leadership Development At The West University Church Of Christ, Daniel A. Mcgraw

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This project addresses the lack of a formal curriculum for spiritual leadership formation in the West University Church of Christ in Houston, Texas. While the West University Church of Christ has been blessed by strong congregational leaders in both the past and present, recent conversations revealed the need for a deeper connection to God and a better understanding of spiritual leadership on the part of the congregation’s leaders. The problem I identified was a lack of understanding about spiritual leadership in contrast to secular understandings of leadership and the lack of a formal curriculum to help address this problem.

This …

Confessions Of A Media Literacy Scholar-Practitioner: Job Market Advantages, Research Agenda Challenges, And Theory-Driven Production, Christopher Boulton

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This essay explores how higher education’s move away from the liberal arts tradition of learning by thinking and towards more vocational “experiential” approaches has implications for media literacy educators’ career options, scholarly identities, and teaching strategies. Specifically, I consider my own negotiation of increasing administrative and student demands for “hands-on” production courses by confessing both my advantages on the job market and my post-hire challenges in articulating a clear research agenda. I then conclude with a case study of how I repurposed my scholar-practitioner identity and used critical theory to drive production by bringing film students into a cultural studies …

Why Does Film And Television Sci-Fi Tend To Portray Machines As Being Human?, Edward Brennan

Conference Papers

This paper identifies, and attempts to explain, a lack of diversity in the way that cinema and television science fiction represents robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Through a qualitative content analysis of recent film and television portrayals, it is argued, that a limited and limiting vision predominates. This limitation may serve to ideologically reinforce the power of corporate elites. It may also hamper discussion and debate around technological possibilities and their relationship with society.

There has been a slew of entertainment productions since 2013 that represent AI and robotics. This work examines Her (2013), Transcendence (2014), Interstellar (2014), Chappie (2015), …

Book Review: Remembering Genocide, Tony Barta

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

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L’Écrivain Intellectuel Et Le Destin De L’Université Camerounaise, Jean Marie Wounfa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This reflection is based on a corpus of narrative texts (novels and short stories) and on an eclectic approach which theoretical and methodological tools are borrowed from the comparatism, the institutional approach and the discourse analysis. The goal is to show that as a literary theme, the University strips off its pedestal and undergoes a more or less severe criticism under the pen of Cameroonian intellectual writers. Hence, its representation is marked with prejudgments, stereotypes and misconceptions that make the University a myth from which the writers free and engage themselves in a realistic representation of the university system. The …

L’Africain Et Le Paradigme De La Modernité. Que Devient L’Identité?, Yvette Balana

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Questioning the african uniqueness within the academic field of identity forces us to investigate the ability of Africans to find a way out of a painful aporia between an adulterated tradition and an overwhelming totalitarian modernity. The latter, in Africa more than anywhere else, constitutes an obstacle to individual emancipation. Thus it raises today like yesterday, the imperative of a dual liberation without which Africa will be unable to construct an identity taking into account both alterity and anteriority.