Social Science Popular Culture
Challenging Frontiers
The Canadian West
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2005
- Category
- Popular Culture
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- ISBN
- 9781552381403
- Publish Date
- Feb 2005
- List Price
- $44.95
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- ISBN
- 9781552383070
- Publish Date
- Feb 2005
- List Price
- $44.95
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The frontier reality of confronting new conditions, adapting cultural inclinations, and dealing with a volatile environment in an effort to establish and nurture new communities is central to the western Canadian experience. It has shaped many aspects of our heritage, and it is within that context the essays assembled here strive to identify and critique the impact of the frontier on our region, culture, and society.
Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West is a multidisciplinary study using critical essays as well as creative writing to explore the conceptions of the "West," both past and present. Considering topics such as ranching, immigration, art and architecture, as well as globalization and the spread of technology, these articles inform the reader of the historical frontier and its mythology, while also challenging and reassessing conventional analysis.
With a comprehensive introduction to situate the geographic and cultural boundaries of the western frontier, this collection is a must for anyone interested in uncovering what it means to be a westerner and how the new frontier has influenced every part of our society.
With Contributions By: Sarah Carter Ann Davis Janice Dickin Marcia Jenneth Epstein Lorry W. Felske Max Foran R. Douglas Francis Madeline A. Kalbach Emma LaRocque Michael McMordie Beverly Raporich Brian Rusted Lloyd Sciban Robert Seiler Tamara Seiler Geoffrey Simmins David Taras Aritha van Herk
About the authors
Lorry Felske is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written numerous articles and acts as an historical consultant to many different groups and societies.
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R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history.
R. Douglas Francis' profile page
Beverly Rasporich has written many articles on Canadian arts and culture, Native art and literature, Canadian humour, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. She is author of Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro, the CD-ROM Western Place/Women's Space, and Magic off Main: The Art of Esther Warkov (University of Calgary Press).
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Anne Davies, PhD, has worked in most Canadian provinces, in American states, and overseas. She works with educators at every level—primary to post-secondary, as well as with parents. Anne is involved with schools and jurisdictions in multi-year projects, working closely with local educators. This allows her to help people find assessment-for-learning solutions that work in a specific context. Anne does sessions at home in the Comox Valley, and works with educators in various locations to provide workshops to meet local needs. She also works with professional development and instructional leaders. Anne has written and produced numerous multimedia resources and books, including Making Classroom Assessment Work and co-authoring the Knowing What Counts series. Her newest project is a multimedia resource titled The Facilitator's Guide to Classroom Assessment (K–12).
Sarah Carter, F.R.S.C., is H.M. Tory Chair and Professor in the Department of History and Classics, and Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is a specialist in the history of Western Canada and is the author of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Capturing Women, and Lost Harvests. Sarah Carter was awarded the Jensen-Miller Prize by the Coalition for Women's History for the best article published in 2006 in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.
Max Foran has been working the field of western Canadian history for over thirty years and has published on various urban, rural, and cultural topics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.
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Dr. Emma LaRocque is a scholar, author, poet, social and literary critic, and a professor in the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. She is the author of the groundbreaking book, Defeathering the Indian, and has also written extensively on contemporary Aboriginal literatures, Canadian historiography, and images of Aboriginal people in the media marketplace. She is a Plains Cree Metis from northeastern Alberta.
Tamara Palmer Seiler is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary. She has written widely on the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on Canadian culture and, in particular, on Canadian literature. She has co-authored two books on the history of Alberta.
Geoffrey Simmins is Associate Dean, Research and Planning, at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts. He is also adjunct professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Environmental Design. His publications include both contemporary and historical books, exhibition catalogues, numerous encyclopedia articles, and videos on Canadian art and architectural history.
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Michael McMordie is a Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. He has written numerous articles on architecture and environmental design.
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David Taras holds the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of several books, including The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics (1990) and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media (2001), and co-author of Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada (2005).
Max Foran is the author of a dozen books, including The Chalk and the Easel: Stanford Perrott, Teacher?Painter; Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Canadian Cattle Industry; Roland Gissing: the People's Painter; and Calgary: Canada's Frontier Metropolis. He is a professor in the University of Calgary's faculty of Communications and Culture.
Marcia Jenneth Epstein is a musicologist and historian at the University of Calgary.
Editorial Reviews
Challenging Frontiers lives up to its title in challenging the monochromatic definition of “frontier? that has played across most of western North American "frontier theory."
—Francis W. Kaye, Canadian Ethnic Studies
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Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Canada and the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
The Technological Imperative in Canada
An Intellectual History
The Prairie West as Promised Land
One West, Two Myths II
Essays on Comparison
Rediscovering the British World
The Prairie West: Historical Readings
Other titles by R. Douglas Francis
Other titles by Ann Davis
Marion Nicoll
Silence and Alchemy
Cover and Uncover
Eric Cameron
Ancient Peru Unearthed
Sense of Place
a catalogue of essays
Ted Godwin
The Regina Five Years: 1957-1967
Everett Soop
Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist
Excursions into the Cultural Landscapes of Alberta
The Logic of Ecstasy
Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940
Other titles by Sarah Carter
Ancestors
Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs
Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Compelled to Act
Histories of Women's Activism in Western Canada
Lost Harvests
Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Second Edition
Mistress of Everything
Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds
Finding Directions West
Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past
Imperial Plots
Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
Recollecting
Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
The The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
Other titles by Janice Dickin
Other titles by Lorry W. Felske
Other titles by Emma Larocque
Other titles by Tamara Seiler
Other titles by Geoffrey Simmins
John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography
Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture
Full Spectrum
The Architecture of Jeremy Sturgess
Spirit Matters
Ron (Gyo-zo) Spickett, Artist, Poet, Priest
Documents in Canadian Architecture
Fred Cumberland
Building the Victorian Dream
Twelve Modern Houses 1945-1985
Other titles by Michael McMordie
Other titles by David Taras
The End of the CBC?
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
How Canadians Communicate V
Sports
Digital Mosaic
Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
Last Word
Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada
How Canadians Communicate, Vol. 2
Media, Globalization and Identity
How Canadians Communicate, Vol. 1
Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
Updated Edition
The Domestic Battleground
Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Other titles by Max Foran
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
Failures of Principle and Policy
Finding Directions West
Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945–1978
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Madonna List, The
The Madonna List
Harm's Way
Disasters in Western Canada
Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business
Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History
Roland Gissing
The Peoples' Painter
