A collection of essays about the environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. Alberta's industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, so this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play.
A collection of essays about the environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. Alberta's industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, so this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play.
Robert Boschman is a professor of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University, Calgary. He is the author of In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt (2009) and co-editor with Mario Trono of Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocesne (WLU Press, 2014). Mario Trono studies visual cultures from an environmental perspective. He co-edited (with Robert Boschman) Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (2014). Mario was a co-founder of Under Western Skies, a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment and teaches at Mount Royal University.
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Table of Contents for Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Foreword Maude Barlow Introduction: Alberta and the Anthropocene Mario Trono and Robert Boschman I: Found in Alberta 1. Re-engineering the Contours of Civilization: Alberta Land Trusts and the Neoliberalization of Nature Lorelei Hanson 2. Bum Steer: Adulterant E. coli and the Nature-Culture Dichotomy Robert Boschman 3. "There Is No Such Place as Away": Reconciling the Abject in Ecology and Poetry Harry Vandervlist II: Bituminous Sands 4. Visualizing Alberta: Duelling Documentaries and Bituminous Sands Geo Takach 5. Critical Literacy and Discursive Governance Control(s) in Canada's Oil/Tar Sands Conny Davidsen 6. Are the Oil Sands Sublime? Edward Burtynsky and the Vicissitudes of the Sublime T.R. Kover 7. From Railway to Pipeline: The Great Divide as Landscape and Rhetoric Sean Atkins III: Policy and Legal Perspectives 8. Fostering Environmental Citizenship Mishka Lysack, Ben Thibault, and Greg Powell 9. Environmental Divide: The Nuclear Power Debate in Alberta and Saskatchewan Duane Bratt 10. Do Corporations Have to Consider Sustainability? Jeffrey Bone IV: Wilderness 11. Defending the Wild: Time to Think beyond Legislated Wilderness Shaun Fluker 12. Place, Desire, and Maps: Representing Wilderness at the Columbia Icefield Benedict Fullalove 13. Radical Albertans? Hunting as the Subversion of Heroic Enlightenment Nathan Kowalsky V: Shared Horizons 14. Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Limits of Cultural Evolutionary Thinking Sam McKegney 15. Bioaesthetics and the American West Curt Whitaker 16. Cultivating Longitudinal Knowledge: Alternate Stories for an Alternative Chronopolitics of Climate Change Anita Girvan Contributors Index
Table of Contents for Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Foreword Maude Barlow Introduction: Alberta and the Anthropocene Mario Trono and Robert Boschman I: Found in Alberta 1. Re-engineering the Contours of Civilization: Alberta Land Trusts and the Neoliberalization of Nature Lorelei Hanson 2. Bum Steer: Adulterant E. coli and the Nature-Culture Dichotomy Robert Boschman 3. "There Is No Such Place as Away": Reconciling the Abject in Ecology and Poetry Harry Vandervlist II: Bituminous Sands 4. Visualizing Alberta: Duelling Documentaries and Bituminous Sands Geo Takach 5. Critical Literacy and Discursive Governance Control(s) in Canada's Oil/Tar Sands Conny Davidsen 6. Are the Oil Sands Sublime? Edward Burtynsky and the Vicissitudes of the Sublime T.R. Kover 7. From Railway to Pipeline: The Great Divide as Landscape and Rhetoric Sean Atkins III: Policy and Legal Perspectives 8. Fostering Environmental Citizenship Mishka Lysack, Ben Thibault, and Greg Powell 9. Environmental Divide: The Nuclear Power Debate in Alberta and Saskatchewan Duane Bratt 10. Do Corporations Have to Consider Sustainability? Jeffrey Bone IV: Wilderness 11. Defending the Wild: Time to Think beyond Legislated Wilderness Shaun Fluker 12. Place, Desire, and Maps: Representing Wilderness at the Columbia Icefield Benedict Fullalove 13. Radical Albertans? Hunting as the Subversion of Heroic Enlightenment Nathan Kowalsky V: Shared Horizons 14. Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Limits of Cultural Evolutionary Thinking Sam McKegney 15. Bioaesthetics and the American West Curt Whitaker 16. Cultivating Longitudinal Knowledge: Alternate Stories for an Alternative Chronopolitics of Climate Change Anita Girvan Contributors Index
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