The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2004

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2004

Observations on weathering forms at the Caniapiscau reservoir, North-Central Quebec, Canada.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Remnants of deep weathering, saprolites, mainly older than the last ice overriding, are known both from Fennoscandia (Lundqvist 1985; Soderman 1985; Lidmar-Bergstrom et al. 1997; Migon and Lidmar-Bergstrom 2001) and Canada...

A multi-criteria analysis of Canadian electricity supply futures.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Environmental issues are defining a new agenda for energy research and energy policy development. At the 24th Annual Conference of the New England Governors and the Eastern Canadian Premiers, the Northeast International...

Taking stock: geographical perspectives on women and health in Canada.
March 22, 2004... The summer of 2000 heralded the announcement of the fourteen Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)--an announcement that took the women's health research community by surprise because neither sex nor gender was included as a theme in...

The influence of the 'spaces of everyday life' on pregnancy health.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Health geographers recently acknowledge the need for stronger links between health and social theory, especially with regards to social influences on health and illness (e.g., Gesler 1991, 1992; Kearns 1993; Dorn and Laws...

Differences in cancer incidence between men and women in the province of Quebec, Canada, 1984-1993.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Since the 1990s, issues regarding women's health have been of great interest, particularly in Europe and North America. According to Hunt and Annandale (1999), this interest has been inspired both by the second wave of...

'Safe space' as counter-space: women, environmental illness and 'corporeal chaos'.
March 22, 2004... We have made ourselves unsafe. Nothing we use does not give out something that's detrimental to the body. We are just flesh. (Gabriella, age: early seventies) After recent debates in the geography of health and healthcare, three main...

The changing landscapes of Southwest Montreal: a visual account.
March 22, 2004... The inner city is notoriously difficult to define and profile, marked more by heterogeneity and dynamism than homogeneity or stability. As Ley (2001, 297) argued, the contemporary Canadian inner city is a study in contrasts, '... a confusing...

A Political Space: Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... edited by Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2003, xiii + 306 pp. paper US$29.95 (ISBN 0-8166-4040-8) 'A rhizome is not amenable to any structural or generative model' (Deleuze and Guattari...

Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By John Connell and Chris Gibson, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, xii + 320 pp. cloth US$110.00 (ISBN 0-415-17027-3); paper US$29.95 ([SBN 0-415-17028-1) As part of an explanation for what he perceives to be the increasing use of...

The White Man's Gonna Getcha: the Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... by Toby Morantz, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2002, xxviii+370 pp. paper US$27.95 (ISBN 0-7735-2299-9) Used by the Crees as a warning to unruly children--'Stop! The white man will come and get you' (p. 3)--the...

Science, Space and Hermeneutics, Hettner-Lecture 2001.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... by David N. Livingstone, Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2002, 116 pp. paper (ISBN 3-88570-505-2) This short work is a record of the Hettner-Lecture series of 2001, hosted annually by the Department of...

The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... edited by Laurence Ma and Carolyn Cartier, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, vii + 400 pp. paper US$34.95 (ISBN 0-7425-1756-X). From the millionaire business immigrants to the undocumented boat arrivals, the Chinese diaspora has...