The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2002

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2002

Changing landscapes of Atlantic Canada/les nouveaux paysages des provinces atlantiques canadiennes. (Guest Editor's Introduction / introduction de l'editrice invitee).
March 22, 2002... Canada is a nation of regions whose sizes, economics, environments, and cultures vary. There are four provinces in Atlantic Canada; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the smallest region in...

Historical coastline adjustment at MacVanes Pond Inlet, Eastern Prince Edward Island.
March 22, 2002... Introduction Atlantic Canada is a region in which sea level changes have occurred continually since deglaciation and have profoundly affected coastal development. During the Holocene, differences in isostatic adjustments, combined with...

Anthropogenic pressures on coastal dunes, Southwestern Newfoundland.
March 22, 2002... Introduction Newfoundland is popularly referred to as `The Rock', and sand-dominated coastlines developed under the influence of aeolian processes are rarely regarded as characteristic. Although local communities have endeavoured to...

Peri-urban residential development in the Halifax region 1960-2000: magnets, constraints, and planning policies.
March 22, 2002... Introduction Since the late 1950s there has been an explosion of residential development within the commuter belt of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This city region is unusual in having very little farming or pre-existing settlement, so that land...

Interpreting deindustrialised landscapes of Atlantic Canada: memory and industrial heritage in Sackville, New Brunswick.
March 22, 2002... Introduction This article investigates the manner in which selected industrial landscapes in Atlantic Canada are reinterpreted, rehabilitated and re-made following systematic deindustrialisation. It argues that we actively use memory in...

"Between belonging": habitus and the migration experience.
March 22, 2002... Introduction In their introduction to NowHere, Friedland and Boden (1994) articulate the complexity of understanding the changing dynamics of space, time and modernity, especially when we adopt a fixed point perspective. They illustrate...

Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests.
March 22, 2002... Edited by John G. Robinson and Elizabeth L. Bennett, Columbia University Press, New York and Chichester, West Sussex, 2000, xxi + 582 pp. paper US$29.50 (ISBN: 0231109776). For those interested in `sustainable use' as something more than a...

Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Ottawa and the Migration of Memory.
March 22, 2002... By Lubomyr Luciuk, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, xxix + 576 pp. cloth $70.00 (ISBN 0-8020-4245-7); paper $29.95 (ISBN 0-8020-8088-X) This tale unravels like a fascinating mystery. Written in the style of investigative...

China's Regions, Polity, and Economy: a Study of Spatial Transformation in the Post-Reform Era.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Si-ming Li and Wing-shing Tang, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 2000, ix + 413 pp. paper US$25.00 (ISBN 962-2010854-8) Reading this book during my field research in China has proven to be a refreshing experience. Not only...

Geopolitical Traditions: a Century of Geopolitical Thought.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, 408 pp. cloth US$90.00 (ISBN 0-41 5-1 7248-9); paper US$29.99 (ISBN 0-415-1 7249-7). This is a large book with a lengthy list of contributors on a big topic....

De-centring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, ix + 299 pp. Cloth $135.00 (ISBN 0-415-19465-2); paper $44.99 (ISBN 0-415-19466-0) Expanding over the course of the 1990s, sexuality studies...

In Search of Sustainability: BC Forest Policy in the 1990s.
March 22, 2002... By Benjamin Cashore, George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, and Jeremy Wilson, UBC Press, Vancouver and Toronto, 2000, x + 329 pp. cloth $85.00 (ISBN 0-7748-0830-60). In the 1990s, numerous books have sought to comprehensively...

Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape.
March 22, 2002... By Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, xiv + 274 pp. cloth $113.00 (ISBN 0-41 5-92371-9); paper $34.99 (ISBN 0-415-92372-7) Recent research in health geography shows a rediscovery of place as the locus...

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Mark Shell and Tony Fitzmaurice, Blackwell, Oxford and Malden, Mass., 2001, xxi + 297 pp. cloth US$27.95 (ISBN 0-631-22244-8). This collection of 22 essays emerged from an international, interdisciplinary conference organised by...

Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America.
March 22, 2002... By Cecilia Menjivar, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000, xviii + 301 pp. cloth US$48.00 (ISBN 0-520-22210-5); paper US$ 19.95 (ISBN 0-520-22211-3) Cecilia Menjivar provides a rich and timely ethnographic account of the informal...