Nutritional Science, Health, and Changing Northern Environments
This essay is drawn from a larger research project that examines the expansive, varied, and complex region of Northern Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
indigenous peoples
“I Prefer to Die on the Mountain”: Local Resistance to National Park Development on Mount Merapi
Northern Bison Sanctuary or Big Ranch? Wood Buffalo National Park
Arcadia, 2013, no. 19
Removing the People: The Creation of Canada’s Kouchibouguac National Park
Salmon Cultures: Indigenous Peoples and the Aquaculture Industry
About this issue
In this volume of RCC Perspectives, diverse salmon cultures—from the aquaculture industry and biology, to northern Sami and First Nations—speak about life and work with salmon.
Content
Eco-Images: Historical Views and Political Strategies
About this issue
Taking a closer look at the history of eco-images and their influence in current debates, this issue of RCC Perspectives analyzes the role of visual material in shaping environmental discourses.
Content
Warriors of the Rainbow: The Birth of an Environmental Mythology
Arcadia, 2013, no. 16
The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast
This book examines the various practices—social, discursive, and political—through which Canada’s West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle.
Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
Strata: Deserts Past, Present and Future. An Environmental Art Project about a Significant Cultural Place
With reference to Puritjarra, a rock shelter in the Cleland Hills in western central Australia, this environmental art project examines the relationship between knowledge systems–be they indigenous, scientific, or artistic–and place.