Temagami's Tangled Wild : Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature (Nature | History | Society)

Thorpe, Jocelyn

University of British Columbia Press（2012/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774822015
• DDC分類 333.309713147

Full Description

Temagami's Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic of Canadian wilderness. In this sophisticated analysis, Jocelyn Thorpe uncovers how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made Temagami a site of wild Canadian nature. Despite the fact that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have for many generations understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness, the forestry and tourism industries, as well as Canadian law, have refused to acknowledge this claim. Instead, the concept of wilderness has been employed to aid in Aboriginal dispossession and to create a home for non-Aboriginal Canadians on Native land.

An eloquent critique and engaging history, Temagami's Tangled Wild challenges readers to acknowledge how colonial relations are embedded in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider our understanding of the wilderness ideal.

Contents

Foreword: Nature and Nation in a "Little Known District amid the Wilds of Canada" / Graeme Wynn

Introduction: Welcome to n'Daki Menan ("Our Land")

1 Tangled Wild

2 Timber Nature

3 Virgin Territory for the Sportsman

4 A Rocky Reserve

5 Legal Landscapes

6 Conclusion: A Return to n'Daki Menan

Notes; Bibliography; Index