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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Baldwin is a lecturer in human geography atDurham University. Laura Cameron is an associateprofessor of geography at Queen's University and Canada ResearchChair in Historical Geographies of Nature. AudreyKobayashi is a professor of geography and Queen'sResearch Chair at Queen's University.Contributors: Luis L.M. Aguiar! Kay Anderson! Stephen Bocking! Emilie Cameron! Jessica Dempsey! Brian Egan! BruceErickson! Kevin Gould! Roger Keil! Phillip Gordon Mackintosh! ClaireMajor! Tina I.L. Marten! Tyler McCreary! Richard Milligan! Sherene H.Razack! Catriona Sandilands! Juanita Sundberg! and Jocelyn Thorpe. Klappentext Canadian national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness seem innocent, yet this path-breaking volume shows they contain the seeds of contemporary racism.Rethinking the Great White North moves the idea of whiteness to the centre of debates about Canadian history, geography, and identity. Informed by critical race theory and the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, the contributors trace how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped shape Canada's identity as a white country in travel writing and treaty making; scientific research and park planning; and within small towns, cities, and tourist centres. These nuanced explorations of diverse historical geographies of nature not only revisit the past: they offer a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada's role in the North and the nature of multiculturalism. Zusammenfassung Rethinking the Great White North explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.
