The Politics Of The Canoe

Author : Bruce Erickson,Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780887559112

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The Politics of the Canoe by Bruce Erickson,Sarah Wylie Krotz Pdf

Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe’s relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies.

Author : Bruce Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822503

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Canoe Nation by Bruce Erickson Pdf

More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson argues that the canoe’s sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that attempt to legitimize a particular vision of Canada that overvalues the nation’s connection to nature. From Alexander Mackenzie to Grey Owl to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the canoe authenticates Canada’s reputation as a tolerant, environmentalist nation, even when there is abundant evidence to the contrary. Ultimately, the stories we tell about the canoe need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics.

Author : C.E.S. Franks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487597238

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The Canoe and White Water by C.E.S. Franks Pdf

The exhilaration of challenging and surviving rapids in a fragile canoe has made white water canoeing one of the fastest growing sports in Canada. Much of this book is concerned with analyzing white water, with the techniques for handling it rather than trying to conquer it by brute force, with canoeing safety, and with the planning and organizing of safe but adventurous trips. But The Canoe and White Water goes far beyond primers in canoeing skills. It sets the sport in the contexts of history, technology, geology and physics. The author describes how canoes have been made over the centuries, the factors governing their design, and the features to look for in choosing one today. In tracing the history of the canoe, he rediscovers part of the Canadian heritage. His own experience has led him to pursue the sciences which help the canoeist understand the sport: he discusses the physics of river turbulence, the geological formation of rivers, and environmental questions. His interests range from the personal rights of modern canoeists to the eating habits of the voyageurs of old. The book reflects his enthusiasm and his research. The text is illustrated with modern photographs, instructive drawings of paddle strokes and river situations. It is a clear, concise, and interesting account which will delight the enthusiast and intrigue the curious.

Author : Fay Alailima,University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 9820201152

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New Politics in the South Pacific by Fay Alailima,University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies Pdf

Focusses on the newer forces on the political scene within the Pacific Islands, examining the evolving impact of women in politics and relations with the wider world.

Author : Paul Gilchrist,Russell Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317990994

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The Politics of Sport by Paul Gilchrist,Russell Holden Pdf

Sport is an essential part of community structure, membership and identity. Whether on the field of play, in stadia, or on the streets, sport has consistently brought together disparate individuals to share culture, values and memories. Nowadays these relationships are being rewritten through the effects of global socio-economic practices, the interventions of government, the impact of cultural imperialism and, at the local level, through the actions of individuals and new constituencies that are emerging in response. Furthermore, this generates discourse on matters of regional and national identity. This themed issue presents a range of essays that examine the relationship between sport and society through the conceptual lenses of community, mobility and identity. Drawing upon insights from contemporary history and current political phenomena from leading academic specialists in the field, the issue addresses cross-cutting themes such as loyalty and allegiance, migration and integration, identity and collective memory, and the politics of resistance and change, which will be of interest to the political scientist, the contemporary historian and sport scholar alike. This book was previously published as a special edition of the journal Sport in Society.

Author : Jessica Dunkin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487530853

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Canoe and Canvas by Jessica Dunkin Pdf

Canoe and Canvas offers a detailed portrait of the summer encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910. The encampments were annual events that attracted canoeing enthusiasts from both sides of the Canada-US border to socialize, race canoes, and sleep under canvas. While the encampments were located away from cities, they were still subjected to urban logic and ways of living. The encampments, thus, offer a unique site for exploring cultures of sport and leisure in late Victorian society, but also for considering the intersections between recreation and the politics of everyday life. A social history of sport, Canoe and Canvas is particularly concerned with how gender, class, and race shaped the social, cultural, and physical landscapes of the ACA encampments. Although there was an ever-expanding arena of opportunity for leisure and sport in the late nineteenth century, as the example of the ACA makes clear, not all were granted equal access. Most of the members of the American Canoe Association and the majority of the campers at the annual encampments were white, middle-class men, though white women were extended partial membership in 1882, and in 1883, they were permitted to camp on site. Canoe and Canvas also reveals how Black, Indigenous, and working-class people, while obscured in the historical record, were indispensable to the smooth functioning of these events through their labour.

Author : Mari K. Webel
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821446911

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The Politics of Disease Control by Mari K. Webel Pdf

A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past. Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.

Author : Willard Carl Klunder
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873385365

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Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation by Willard Carl Klunder Pdf

A champion of spread-eagle expansionism and an ardent nationalist, Cass subscribed to the Jeffersonian political philosophy, embracing the principles of individual liberty; the sovereignty of the people; equality of rights and opportunities for all citizens; and a strictly construed and balanced constitutional government of limited powers.

Author : P. W. Gathercole,David Lowenthal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415095549

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The Politics of the Past by P. W. Gathercole,David Lowenthal Pdf

This stimulating collection demonstrates the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the "winners." Drawing on original studies from Africa, North America, Australia and the Pacific in order to make its points,The Politics of the Pastemphasizes that archaeology has a crucial role to play in promoting a more balanced, eclectic approach to the past. The essays in the book are organized around four themes: the forms and consequences of the Eurocentric heritage, the conflicting perspectives of rulers and ruled, the significance of administrative and institutional rivalries, and the divide between professional and popular views of archaeology. This illuminating book aims to enrich historical and archaeological inquiry and interpretation,

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Torsten Jost,Saskya Iris Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317935841

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The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Torsten Jost,Saskya Iris Jain Pdf

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other. While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept points back to postcolonialism and its contradictions, The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures explores global developments in the performing arts that cannot adequately be explained and understood using postcolonial theory. The authors challenge the dichotomy ‘the West and the rest’ – where Western cultures are ‘universal’ and non-Western cultures are ‘particular’ – as well as ideas of national culture and cultural ownership. This volume uses international case studies to explore the politics of globalization, looking at new paternalistic forms of exchange and the new inequalities emerging from it. These case studies are guided by the principle that processes of interweaving performance cultures are, in fact, political processes. The authors explore the inextricability of the aesthetic and the political, whereby aesthetics cannot be perceived as opposite to the political; rather, the aesthetic is the political. Helen Gilbert’s essay ‘Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968–2010)’won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association.

Author : J. Van Velsen,Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Politics Of Kinship: Astudy In Social Manipulation Among The Lakeside Tonga Of Nyasaland by J. Van Velsen,Rhodes-Livingstone Institute Pdf

Author : Lloyd Maepeza Gina
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1740760328

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Journeys in a Small Canoe by Lloyd Maepeza Gina Pdf

Although the life story of prominent Solomon Islander Sir Lloyd Maepeza Gina has a unique value for Solomon Islanders, it also has universal aspects. This book provides vivid insights into the richness of his family and spiritual life and how this gave meaning to his strivings, as well as support in his disappointments.

Author : Bruce W. Hodgins,John Jennings,Doreen Small
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706330

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The Canoe in Canadian Cultures by Bruce W. Hodgins,John Jennings,Doreen Small Pdf

The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada's most powerful icon. Within this Canexus II publication are a collection of essays by paddling enthusiasts and experts. Contributing authors include: Eugene Arima, Shanna Balazs, David Finch, Ralph Frese, Toni Harting, Bob Henderson, Bruce W. Hodgins, Bert Horwood, Gwyneth Hoyle, John Jennings, Timothy Kent, Peter Labor, Adrian Lee, Kenneth R. Lister, Becky Mason, James Raffan, Alister Thomas and Kirk Wipper.

Author : Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107094857

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The Politics of Heritage in Africa by Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool Pdf

This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.

Author : Paul Wingfield Nesbitt-Larking
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781551118123

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Politics, Society, and the Media by Paul Wingfield Nesbitt-Larking Pdf

"Nesbitt-Larking challenges his readers to become critical consumers of media and provides a number of strategies to encourage them to do so." - Nick Baxter-Moore, Brock University