Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice’s liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago
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ftviurr:oai:viuspace.viu.ca:10613/5611 2023-05-15T14:26:23+02:00 Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice’s liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago Vannini, Phillip Baldacchino, Godfrey Guay, Lorraine Royle, Stephen A. Steinberg, Philip E. 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5611 https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Vannini%20et%20al_1.pdf https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-551 en eng Island Studies Journal Vannini, P., Baldacchino, G., Guay, L., Royle, S. A., & Steinberg, P. E. (2009). Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice's liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago. Island Studies Journal, 4(2), 121-138. 1715-2593 https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Vannini%20et%20al_1.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5611 http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-551 Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-ND Historical geography Arctic regions Climatic changes Article 2009 ftviurr https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-551 2019-05-07T07:57:30Z This article is published under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 3.0. The definitive version of record is available at https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Vannini%20et%20al_1.pdf. Studying mobile actor networks of moving people, objects, images, and discourses, in conjunction with changing time-spaces, offers a unique opportunity to understand important, and yet relatively neglected, “relational material” dynamics of mobility. A key example of this phenomenon is the recontinentalization of Canada amidst dramatically changing articulations of the meanings and boundaries of the Canadian landice-ocean mass. A notable reason why Canada is being re-articulated in current times is the extensiveness of Arctic thawing. The reconfiguration of space and “motility” options in the Arctic constitutes an example of how “materiality and sociality produce themselves together.” In this paper we examine the possibilities and risks connected to this recontinentalization of Canada’s North. In exploring the past, present, and immediate future of this setting, we advance the paradigmatic view that Canada’s changing Arctic is the key element in a process of transformation of Canada into a peninsular body encompassed within a larger archipelagic entity: a place more intimately attuned to its immense (and growing) coastal and insular routes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Canadian Archipelago VIURRSpace (Royal Roads University and Vancouver Island University) Arctic Canada |
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This article is published under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 3.0. The definitive version of record is available at https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Vannini%20et%20al_1.pdf. Studying mobile actor networks of moving people, objects, images, and discourses, in conjunction with changing time-spaces, offers a unique opportunity to understand important, and yet relatively neglected, “relational material” dynamics of mobility. A key example of this phenomenon is the recontinentalization of Canada amidst dramatically changing articulations of the meanings and boundaries of the Canadian landice-ocean mass. A notable reason why Canada is being re-articulated in current times is the extensiveness of Arctic thawing. The reconfiguration of space and “motility” options in the Arctic constitutes an example of how “materiality and sociality produce themselves together.” In this paper we examine the possibilities and risks connected to this recontinentalization of Canada’s North. In exploring the past, present, and immediate future of this setting, we advance the paradigmatic view that Canada’s changing Arctic is the key element in a process of transformation of Canada into a peninsular body encompassed within a larger archipelagic entity: a place more intimately attuned to its immense (and growing) coastal and insular routes. |
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Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice’s liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago |
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Vannini, P., Baldacchino, G., Guay, L., Royle, S. A., & Steinberg, P. E. (2009). Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice's liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago. Island Studies Journal, 4(2), 121-138. 1715-2593 https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Vannini%20et%20al_1.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5611 http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-551 |
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