Abstract:This article argues that a popular Winnie-the-Bear statue operates within the framework of family to 'tame' the anxieties around settler colonialism. The ostensibly benign motives for taming that the statue condones align with and consolidate those offered in dominant discourses around bear capture, taming, and captivity in Canadian spaces of human/bear encounter. In keeping with such a project, the statue works to calm any discomfort visitors might feel about actual bear docility and captivity, particularly as these apply to the polar bears in the park's adjacent zoo and the tranquilised black bears that are occasionally spotted in residential areas. By extension, the statue opens up questions of taming and subservience in the authority structures that undergird the creation and maintenance of the Canadian nation state where docile, disempowered bodies have constituted and continue to constitute the desirable colonised subject in a settler-colonial society.
{"title":"Taming Settler Colonialism: The Statue of Lieutenant Harry Colebourn and Winnie-the-Bear","authors":"Tracy Whalen","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2020.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that a popular Winnie-the-Bear statue operates within the framework of family to 'tame' the anxieties around settler colonialism. The ostensibly benign motives for taming that the statue condones align with and consolidate those offered in dominant discourses around bear capture, taming, and captivity in Canadian spaces of human/bear encounter. In keeping with such a project, the statue works to calm any discomfort visitors might feel about actual bear docility and captivity, particularly as these apply to the polar bears in the park's adjacent zoo and the tranquilised black bears that are occasionally spotted in residential areas. By extension, the statue opens up questions of taming and subservience in the authority structures that undergird the creation and maintenance of the Canadian nation state where docile, disempowered bodies have constituted and continue to constitute the desirable colonised subject in a settler-colonial society.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"65 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41325117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Scholarly focus on British representatives in nineteenth-century Canada has often seen them as enforcers of a hegemonic English ethnic nationalism. This article challenges that view by showing that Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the seventh Governor General, and well known as an early feminist, was also a consistent advocate of a more pluralistic civic nationalism that supported minority religious, ethnic, and linguistic rights in Canada. It shows that her establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses and Canada's branch of the National Organisation of Women, along with many of her activities in partnership with her husband, were shaped by her beliefs about religious and ethnic co-existence as well as her feminism and anti-Americanism. In doing so it connects acceptance of diversity with longer-term trends in British governance: Lady Aberdeen's approach to cultural and religious diversity within women's organisations was an important precursor of official multiculturalism in Canada.
{"title":"Lady Aberdeen and the British origins of multiculturalism in Canada","authors":"Amy Shaw, Andrew D Smith","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2020.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarly focus on British representatives in nineteenth-century Canada has often seen them as enforcers of a hegemonic English ethnic nationalism. This article challenges that view by showing that Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the seventh Governor General, and well known as an early feminist, was also a consistent advocate of a more pluralistic civic nationalism that supported minority religious, ethnic, and linguistic rights in Canada. It shows that her establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses and Canada's branch of the National Organisation of Women, along with many of her activities in partnership with her husband, were shaped by her beliefs about religious and ethnic co-existence as well as her feminism and anti-Americanism. In doing so it connects acceptance of diversity with longer-term trends in British governance: Lady Aberdeen's approach to cultural and religious diversity within women's organisations was an important precursor of official multiculturalism in Canada.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"22 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48699395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Thinking through Margaret Atwood's 1981 novel Bodily Harm and the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada case R v Butler, this article examines a Canadian discussion about the excessiveness of the freedom of expression to which obscenity has been key. For Atwood, expression is central to Bodily Harm's narrative of personal, political revelation. Yet it is also at the root of a discourse of harm that Atwood elucidates throughout the novel as she incorporates pornography into an expansive analogic continuity of violence. In Butler, the Supreme Court curtails obscenity in the name of equality and collective well-being, even as it continues to view expression as a valuable individual freedom and a national good. In each text freedom of expression both is and is not safeguarded; in each, the freedom can be conceived of and celebrated, but its excessive possibilities must also be contained.
{"title":"Analogies of Harm: Excess, Expression, and Obscenity in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm and the Supreme Court of Canada Decision R v Butler","authors":"Benjamin Authers","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2020.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Thinking through Margaret Atwood's 1981 novel Bodily Harm and the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada case R v Butler, this article examines a Canadian discussion about the excessiveness of the freedom of expression to which obscenity has been key. For Atwood, expression is central to Bodily Harm's narrative of personal, political revelation. Yet it is also at the root of a discourse of harm that Atwood elucidates throughout the novel as she incorporates pornography into an expansive analogic continuity of violence. In Butler, the Supreme Court curtails obscenity in the name of equality and collective well-being, even as it continues to view expression as a valuable individual freedom and a national good. In each text freedom of expression both is and is not safeguarded; in each, the freedom can be conceived of and celebrated, but its excessive possibilities must also be contained.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"23 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48180124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Carol Shields's Künstlerroman Unless, protagonist Reta Winters revisits, in her narrative, her private home in suburbia and the public spaces of Toronto. These sites help her ponder the role of space and ultimately her own role as a writer in redefining the nation. Reta's home emblematises an incompletely revised Canada. Privatisation of space, suburbanisation, and consumerism, as well as her self-absorption in her relatively privileged position as a woman writer, perpetuate selfishness and fear of (other forms of) alterity. Reta must widen her scope of interest as a writer of difference and reconsider public space, a site of different ethnic and class identities, as a model for the diverse nation.
{"title":"Public Space as Inspiration for the Writer: Writing the Diverse Nation and the Threat of Privatisation in Carol Shields's Unless","authors":"Esra Melikoğlu","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2020.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2020.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Carol Shields's Künstlerroman Unless, protagonist Reta Winters revisits, in her narrative, her private home in suburbia and the public spaces of Toronto. These sites help her ponder the role of space and ultimately her own role as a writer in redefining the nation. Reta's home emblematises an incompletely revised Canada. Privatisation of space, suburbanisation, and consumerism, as well as her self-absorption in her relatively privileged position as a woman writer, perpetuate selfishness and fear of (other forms of) alterity. Reta must widen her scope of interest as a writer of difference and reconsider public space, a site of different ethnic and class identities, as a model for the diverse nation.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"43 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46594767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies ed. by Gillian Lane-Mercier, Denise Merkle, and Jane Koustas (review)","authors":"Stuart S. Dunmore","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv941x3t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv941x3t","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"130 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47210913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972) was conceived with the mandate of protecting cultural and natural sites that represent part of the global narrative of humanity. This article contextualises the Canadian Indian residential school system, and specifically the Mohawk Institute of Brantford, Ontario, within this international convention. In demonstrating how the Mohawk Institute could be a contender for World Heritage status, this article incorporates recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that illustrate how commemoration can be used as a tool towards reconciliation.
{"title":"Commemoration and reconciliation: The Mohawk Institute as a World Heritage Site","authors":"C. Groat","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972) was conceived with the mandate of protecting cultural and natural sites that represent part of the global narrative of humanity. This article contextualises the Canadian Indian residential school system, and specifically the Mohawk Institute of Brantford, Ontario, within this international convention. In demonstrating how the Mohawk Institute could be a contender for World Heritage status, this article incorporates recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that illustrate how commemoration can be used as a tool towards reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"195 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44270975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Harold Innis (1930) famously described Canada as a country comprised of 'hewers of wood and drawers of water'. The staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further developed has become a reference point for continuing debate over the economic importance and consequences of natural resource development in Canada, a debate reignited by the long commodities boom of 2000–14. In this article we examine another, overlooked legacy of the staples approach, namely, the ways in which its emphasis on linkages has provided a frame of reference for opponents of natural resource projects. This is illustrated by examining some of the contemporary contestations of resource projects in northern British Columbia. These examples also show, however, that the staples approach provides only a partial frame of reference for contemporary contestations; more recent concerns such as Indigenous rights, procedural fairness, and environmental issues also play a significant role in oppositional politics to resource projects. Nevertheless, our discussion shows that Canada at 150 is still debating the role that natural resource development should play, and that the legacy of the staples approach continues to play a role in the debate.
{"title":"Contesting natural resource development in Canada: The legacies and limits of the staples approach","authors":"P. Bowles, F. MacPhail","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Harold Innis (1930) famously described Canada as a country comprised of 'hewers of wood and drawers of water'. The staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further developed has become a reference point for continuing debate over the economic importance and consequences of natural resource development in Canada, a debate reignited by the long commodities boom of 2000–14. In this article we examine another, overlooked legacy of the staples approach, namely, the ways in which its emphasis on linkages has provided a frame of reference for opponents of natural resource projects. This is illustrated by examining some of the contemporary contestations of resource projects in northern British Columbia. These examples also show, however, that the staples approach provides only a partial frame of reference for contemporary contestations; more recent concerns such as Indigenous rights, procedural fairness, and environmental issues also play a significant role in oppositional politics to resource projects. Nevertheless, our discussion shows that Canada at 150 is still debating the role that natural resource development should play, and that the legacy of the staples approach continues to play a role in the debate.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"167 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44836189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"J. Mann","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2018.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2018.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42741372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart's Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent of power. Through investigating the dehistoricised and decontextualised landscape in Northrop Frye's garrison mentality, the article argues that Away refuses to participate in the colonialist operation of reducing the Canadian topography to terra nullius by raising the issue of amnesia and restoring the trauma of history to the landscape that has been emptied of its layered past for (re-)territorialisation.
{"title":"Landscape and history in Jane Urquhart's Away","authors":"Mei-Chuen Wang","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.13","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart's Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent of power. Through investigating the dehistoricised and decontextualised landscape in Northrop Frye's garrison mentality, the article argues that Away refuses to participate in the colonialist operation of reducing the Canadian topography to terra nullius by raising the issue of amnesia and restoring the trauma of history to the landscape that has been emptied of its layered past for (re-)territorialisation.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"181 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43324676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this anecdotal article, I employ Eva Mackey's concept of settler uncertainty to analyse my place in settler colonialism. I grew up in the quintessentially Canadian setting of Parry Sound, Ontario–a town steeped in anti-Indigenous racism as much as nationalistic imagery. However, majoring in Canadian studies at Carleton University forced me to grapple with the colonial and racist nature of my upbringing. This self-reflexive piece critically examines my motivations for entering academia through formative stories from my childhood and reflections on my scholarly pursuits, exploring the influence of guilt on my so-called transformation. This article was originally written during my political science undergraduate degree at York University. Rather than updating it I have added another level of reflection critically analysing the previous work. I outline my previous adherence to colonial structures, my internal struggle to leave them behind, and ongoing reflections concerning settler decolonisation within the academy.
{"title":"Avoiding innocence: Unsettling white guilt","authors":"Darren Zanussi","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this anecdotal article, I employ Eva Mackey's concept of settler uncertainty to analyse my place in settler colonialism. I grew up in the quintessentially Canadian setting of Parry Sound, Ontario–a town steeped in anti-Indigenous racism as much as nationalistic imagery. However, majoring in Canadian studies at Carleton University forced me to grapple with the colonial and racist nature of my upbringing. This self-reflexive piece critically examines my motivations for entering academia through formative stories from my childhood and reflections on my scholarly pursuits, exploring the influence of guilt on my so-called transformation. This article was originally written during my political science undergraduate degree at York University. Rather than updating it I have added another level of reflection critically analysing the previous work. I outline my previous adherence to colonial structures, my internal struggle to leave them behind, and ongoing reflections concerning settler decolonisation within the academy.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"209 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47965672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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