Temagami's Tangled Wild Race, Gender and the Making of Canadian Nature

By: Jocelyn Thorpe(Author)

220 pages, 80 illustrations

Publisher: University of Washington Press

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A vivid and engaging history that shows how the much-beloved concept of Canadian wilderness is more troubling than it seems.

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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.

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By: Jocelyn Thorpe(Author)

220 pages, 80 illustrations

Publisher: University of Washington Press

NHBS

A vivid and engaging history that shows how the much-beloved concept of Canadian wilderness is more troubling than it seems.

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"An incredibly important and original contribution to the related fields of environmental history, cultural geography, and race and ethnicity studies."
- Andrew Baldwin, lecturer in human geography, Durham University

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