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Social Science Human Geography

Temagami's Tangled Wild

Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature

by (author) Jocelyn Thorpe

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2012
Category
Human Geography, Post-Confederation (1867-), Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774822008
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $85.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774822015
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774822022
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $125.00

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Description

Canadian wilderness seems a self-evident entity, yet, as this volume shows in vivid historical detail, wilderness is not what it seems. In Temagami’s Tangled Wild, Jocelyn Thorpe traces how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made the Temagami area in Ontario into a site emblematic of wild Canadian nature, even though the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have long understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness. Eloquent and accessible, this engaging history challenges readers to acknowledge the embeddedness of colonial relations in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider our understanding of the wilderness ideal.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Jocelyn Thorpe is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Manitoba.

Editorial Reviews

The book’s short length and clear writing, which make it ideal for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, belie not only this ambitious objective but also Thorpe’s carefully theorizing and rich historical detail.

The Goose, Issue 11, 2012