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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
    $32.95

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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.

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