Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
About this ebook
This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors’ construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.
About the author
Liza Piper is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, where she teaches environmental and Canadian history. She researches and writes about the relations between people and the rest of nature in the past, primarily in northern environments and with a particular focus on the roles of science and industry and the consequences for diet and health. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).
Lisa Szabo-Jones is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and teaches English at the University of Alberta. She is a co-founder and co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment and Culture in Canada and co-editor, with Liza Piper, of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (WLU Press, 2015).
