Two men and two women golfing in Shawbridge, Québec. June 1950. Chris Lund. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired.
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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.
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.
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:
- BC Studies 197 (Spring 2018)
- Canadian Journal of History 53, no. 1 (Spring 2018)
- International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis 73, no. 1 (March 2018)
- Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 32, no. 2 (Fall 2017)
- Oral History Review 45, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2018)
- Acadiensis 47, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2018)
- Archivaria 85 (Spring 2018)
- Regional Environmental Change 18, no. 4 (April 2018)
- British Journal of Canadian Studies 31, no. 1 (March 2018)
- Individual articles:
- Samantha Cutrara, “The Settler Grammar of Canadian History Curriculum: Why Historical Thinking is Unable to Respond to the TRC’s Calls to Actions,” Canadian Journal of Education, 41, no. 2 (2018): 250-275.
- Tom Peace, “Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Biography in the Northeast: A Historiographical Reflection,” History Compass 16, no. 4 (April 2018): 1-10.
- Catherine Evans, “Heart of Ice: Indigenous Defendants and Colonial Law in the Canadian North-West,” Law Review and History 36, no. 2 (May 2018): 199-234.
Here are my favourites:
We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features the fierce Sarah York-Bertram – feminist, activist, and sex work historian.
A scholar from Treaty Six Territory, Sarah York-Bertram is a PhD Candidate in York University’s Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies programme. She studies histories of sex work, the affective basis of social responses to the sex trade, and the erasure of sex workers’ histories from public memory specializing in the geographic area of the Canadian Prairies. She won a Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2015-2018 in support of her dissertation project Stopping Traffic: Historicizing Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada’s Prairie West, 1880-1940
Also a qualitative and community-based researcher, Sarah has worked on studies of feminist pedagogies in relation to intercultural learning, educational access and justice, harm reduction, parenthood in the context of HIV/AIDS, and digital queer communities and activisms. She has also coordinated the Neil Richards Exploring Cultures Group and various other queer and feminist-focused groups in Saskatoon and Toronto.
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.
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.
The maple tree that used to stand outside my parents’ place. Photo by author.
I recently re-read Pamela Sugiman’s wonderful article, “A Million Hearts from Here,” in preparation for a discussion group on WW2. If you haven’t read this piece yet, I highly recommend it. I often find myself rereading texts, whether they are academic articles or novels, and each time I do, I always find something new to think about. This time, I was particularly struck by Sugiman’s personal connection to her research. As the daughter and granddaughter of Japanese-Canadian internees, she is closely connected to her own research on this subject. And now, as a mother, she is an active “maker of memory” for her daughter.[1] As Sugiman was working on this project, her daughter also wrote a short story about a little girl who was interned. She selected the title, “A Million Hearts from Here,” explaining
“I called it “A Million Hearts from Here” because it is about a million people, well, a lot of people, that were interned. And they all had a heart somewhere. And “from here”? They were a long way away [from home]. And how would you feel if you were away, for about four years?”
Sugiman goes on to explain how her own research was in turn influenced by her grandmother, an internee, who, though she has passed, lives on in the memory of Sugiman’s daughter.
While Sugiman uses this story to set up her argument about “the ways in which our memories of historical injustices travel across generations and are strongly shaped by our most intimate relationships,”[2] to my mind it also speaks to an unspoken truth about much historical research: its personal connection to our own lives. So, in today’s blog post, I am going to share my own personal connection to my research, talk about subjectivity/objectivity and, and the importance of positionality.
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:
- History Compass 15, no. 9 (September 2016)
- Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15, no. 3 (Summer 2017)
- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 6, no. 3 (August 2017)
- London Review of Education, 15, no. 2 (July 2017)
- Journal of Canadian Studies 50, no. 3 (Fall 2016)
- Canadian Journal of Law and Society 32, no. 1 (2017)
- Canadian Historical Review 98, no. 3 (September 2017)
Here are my favourites:
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Joanna Pearce defending Sean Mills’ A Place In The Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec.
Or: Why you should move Sean Mills’ latest to the top of your TBR pile of great Canadian history books, even if you don’t see how it connects to your own research
If there’s one thing #CHAReads2017 is teaching me, it’s that we have an abundance of great books to choose from for this year’s Sir John A MacDonald Prize. If you’re anything like me, you go into the CHA every year with the best of intentions to read the short list, or at least the winner. If you’re also anything like me, your Canadian history reading is mostly limited to books related to your own research, whatever you’re teaching this year, and books by your friends and colleagues (and supervisors) because trying to pull together your own work is taking up all of your mental energy. #gradstudentproblems