Social Science Human Geography
Temagami's Tangled Wild
Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2012
- Category
- Human Geography, Post-Confederation (1867-), Environmental Conservation & Protection
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774822008
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774822015
- Publish Date
- Jul 2012
- List Price
- $32.95
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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