The Canadian Geographer articles from December 2003

The Canadian Geographer archives from December 2003

Environment, race and nation reconsidered: reflections on Aboriginal land claims in Canada.(Wiley Lecture)
December 22, 2003... ********** It is appropriate to recall the work of Griffith Taylor, one of the founders of geography as an academic discipline in Canada, on this 50th Anniversary meeting of the CAG. Although his books were no longer standard course texts...

Challenging geographies of ableness: celebrating how far we've come and what's left to be done.
December 22, 2003... As we write this introduction, it is 'Canada Day', a collective celebration of our country's history and accomplishments. It is a brief moment of coming together, to celebrate the good things this country has done and what many of us believe in...

Road-kill on the information highway: repetitive strain injury in the academy.
December 22, 2003... Introduction In an early interrogation of geographic information systems (GIS) in geography, Pickles (1993) and Sheppard (1993) criticised the positivist assumptions of most automated geographies. Pickles (cf. Haraway 1991) questioned the...

Thinking about environment: incorporating geographies of disability into rehabilitation science.
December 22, 2003... One of the health sciences that attempts to strike a path for its professional practice outside the limitations of biomedical discourse is occupational therapy. The biomedical framework is found to be inadequate in dealing with many aspects of...

Community-based cooperative ventures for adults with intellectual disabilities.
December 22, 2003... ********** The lives and landscapes of people with intellectual disabilities changed dramatically over the last three decades of the twentieth century. A large number are no longer warehoused in asylums stuck away in rural settings...

Disabilities, gender and employment: social exclusion, employment equity and Canadian banking (1).
December 22, 2003... ********** At present, the track record for ensuring equity for persons with disabilities, much less those with psychiatric disabilities, is far from shining. According to the 2001 Employment Equity Report, persons with ...

'It feels like being Deaf is normal': an exploration into the complexities of defining D/deafness and young D/deaf people's identities.
December 22, 2003... Introduction In this article we discuss the tensions between the definitions and meanings of Deafness/deafness and disability. We consider the significant academic discourses about the construction of Deafness/deafness. There follows a...

Rediscovering place: experiences of a quadriplegic anthropologist.
December 22, 2003... ********** Field research by anthropologists, geographers and sociologists, is both a methodology and a craft, and the boundary between art and science is not always finely drawn. This article deals with this ambiguity by focusing on...

Enhancing spatial learning and mobility training of visually impaired people--a technical paper on the Internet-based tactile and audio-tactile mapping.
December 22, 2003... Introduction While we do not know a great deal about how the blind perceive space, we do know that blind people know less about geospatial configuration and the location of objects in space than do sighted people, as this knowledge is...

Narrating intersections of gender and dwarfism in everyday spaces.
December 22, 2003... Introduction Feminist researchers have focused attention upon the discursive identities of women in a variety of contexts (Rose 1993, 1999; Valentine 1993; Pratt and Hanson 1994; Moss and Dyck 1996; Longhurst 1997; Blunt and Wills 2000)....

Geographical Voices: Fourteen Autobiographical Essays.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... edited by Peter Gould and Forrest R. Pitts, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2002, xiv + 376 p., paper US$34.95 (ISBN 0-8156-2940-0) I just finished Michael Cunningham's (1998, 225) The Hours, a novel about the lives of three twentieth...

Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... edited by John Eade and Christopher Mele, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002, xvi + 423 pp. US$34.95 pbk (ISBN 0-631-22406-8 [hbk] 0-631-22407-6 [pbk]) This is an excellent reader for those who have sympathy for the rich panoply of understanding...

Landscapes of Transition.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... edited by K. Hewitt, M.-L. Byrne, M. English and G. Young, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002, ix + 246 p, cloth 87 [euro], US$80. GBP55 (ISBN 1402006632) This interesting volume is a collection of papers based on a conference held...

Health, Place and Society.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Mary Shaw, Danny Dorling and Richard Mitchell, Prentice Hall, New York, 2002, x + 221p., paper $2.95 (ISBN 0130164550) Health and its ever present shadow, mortality, are explored in this text, the goal of which is to demonstrate the...

Deforesting the Earth: from Prehistory to Global Crisis.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Michael Williams, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003, 689 pp, cloth US$70.00 ISBN 0-226-89926-8 Let there be no doubt: Deforesting the Earth is a major achievement. In 500 pages of text supported by approximately 75 pages of...

Across This Land: a Regional Geography of the United States and Canada.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by John C. Hudson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2002, xxi + 474 p., paper US$29.95 (ISBN0-8018-6567-0) Those still teaching regional geography and those who remember taking a course on the USA and Canada will be...