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Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
Here are my favourites:
Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.
***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***
N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.
Today we have a special guest post from Sarah York-Betram! She posted a version of this piece on her Instagram late last week, and was kind enough to transform it into a blog post.
A scholar from Treaty Six Territory, Sarah York-Bertram is a Canadian historian and PhD candidate at York University specializing in the socio-legal histories of the Canadian Prairies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In 2013, the Mikisew Cree First Nation challenged the Harper Government’s 2012 omnibus legislation on the grounds that the legislation could impact the First Nation’s constitutionally protected rights to hunt, trap, and fish in Treaty 8 territory. They argued that, as per their longstanding treaty rights, the Crown had a duty to consult them when contemplating actions or decisions that may affect their rights as Indigenous people and their treaty rights. The omnibus legislation made significant changes to the Fisheries Act, Species at Risk act, and the Navigable Waters act, reducing government oversight of lands and waters. Opposition to the omnibus legislation and the Harper government’s approach to relations with the Indigenous peoples sparked the Idle No More movement in 2012.
When you live on the West Coast like I do, attending conferences can be somewhat tricky. They don’t tend to come this way very often. And as anyone who is flying out to this year’s CHA knows, it is really expensive to fly across the country. This situation is still more complicated when it comes to international conferences, many of which tend to be held in Europe. So I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that the International Federation for Research in Women’s History would be coming to Vancouver in 2018. For those who have never heard of this organization, the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (or IRFWH) is an international organization dedicated to encouraging, coordinating, and facilitating research on women’s history all across the world. Holding the conference in Vancouver wasn’t originally the plan – the 2018 conference was supposed to be held at Santa Barbara, but ongoing travel restrictions made it impractical to host an international conference in the US right now, so conference organizers, specifically Eileen Boris, moved the conference north. And guess which lucky blogger got to go? Why me, of course. 😉 So, in today’s blog, I’m going to take the opportunity to reflect on my experiences, discuss some of the cool papers I saw presented, and how the theme of storytelling connects us all.
Note from Andrea: Due to some unforeseen problems, the blog post we were originally going to publish today has been delayed to next week. So we hope you enjoy this one instead!
Special thanks to Krista McCracken, Stephanie Pettigrew, and Catherine Ulmer for their help drafting this piece. And thanks to Heather Green, Samantha Cutrara, Stephanie Pettigrew, Sam McLean, Kesia Kvill, Maryanne Reed, Elizabeth Della Zazzera, Pam Calvert, Aisha Wynter, Stephanie Bangarth, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Mary Chaktsiris, Gillian Leitch, Maxime Dagenais, and Dan Horner for answering my random questions!
One of the most common questions that people ask me, (besides how on earth I managed to do the roundup), is: how do you manage to write a new blog post every week? Usually I give my standard response: when you teach four courses a semester, you get really good at writing lectures fast. And a blog post is pretty much just a shorter lecture. But more recently, I’ve started to rethink my approach to writing history.
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