Visions of Northern Canada from abroad through the lens of international environmentalism.

From: Textual Studies in Canada | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Cooke, Lisa | Copyright information

Introduction--Reflexive and Academic

The present work has emerged from my academic interest in the anthropology of space and place, my political interest in environmentalism, and my personal experiences in the Yukon. In my last semester as an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, I wrote a paper for a cultural ecology class entitled "The Arctic 'Sink': Local, Social, and Cultural Dimensions of a Global Environmental Problem". In this paper I revie...

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