Ethnoscaping Canada's boreal forest: Liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space
This essay examines the construction of Canada's boreal forest from the point of view of critical whiteness studies. Through an evaluation of two texts - a film and a book - produced in conjunction with a 2003-2004 environmental campaign, it argues that the boreal forest is constructed as a whi...
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ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/0b753a20-ff23-49d3-8b47-1703ff24181a 2023-11-12T04:17:11+01:00 Ethnoscaping Canada's boreal forest: Liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space Baldwin, Andrew 2009-12 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/0b753a20-ff23-49d3-8b47-1703ff24181a https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00260.x eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Baldwin , A 2009 , ' Ethnoscaping Canada's boreal forest: Liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space ' , Canadian Geographer , vol. 53 , no. 4 , pp. 427-443 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00260.x Boreal forest Ethnoscape Liberal whiteness Nature Particularity Universality article 2009 ftumanchesterpub https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00260.x 2023-10-30T09:15:37Z This essay examines the construction of Canada's boreal forest from the point of view of critical whiteness studies. Through an evaluation of two texts - a film and a book - produced in conjunction with a 2003-2004 environmental campaign, it argues that the boreal forest is constructed as a white ethnoscape and that, as a result, boreal forest conservation comes to be associated with 'white' identity, although by no means exclusively so, and certainly not without significant contradictions. The essay deploys Robyn Wiegman's notion of liberal whiteness to argue that liberal white subjectivity is cultivated in these texts by its self-conscious distancing, or disaffiliation, from colonial spatial practices. It is argued that this distancing is achieved through the active inclusion of First Nations peoples in the texts such that the boreal forest is constructed as a socio-natural working landscape. Liberal white disaffiliation is explored through three specific tropes: inclusion, inverted racial historicism and economic partnership. © 2009 Canadian Association of Geographers/L'Association canadienne des géographes. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations The University of Manchester: Research Explorer The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 53 4 427 443 |
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This essay examines the construction of Canada's boreal forest from the point of view of critical whiteness studies. Through an evaluation of two texts - a film and a book - produced in conjunction with a 2003-2004 environmental campaign, it argues that the boreal forest is constructed as a white ethnoscape and that, as a result, boreal forest conservation comes to be associated with 'white' identity, although by no means exclusively so, and certainly not without significant contradictions. The essay deploys Robyn Wiegman's notion of liberal whiteness to argue that liberal white subjectivity is cultivated in these texts by its self-conscious distancing, or disaffiliation, from colonial spatial practices. It is argued that this distancing is achieved through the active inclusion of First Nations peoples in the texts such that the boreal forest is constructed as a socio-natural working landscape. Liberal white disaffiliation is explored through three specific tropes: inclusion, inverted racial historicism and economic partnership. © 2009 Canadian Association of Geographers/L'Association canadienne des géographes. |
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Ethnoscaping Canada's boreal forest: Liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space |
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