The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2004

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2004

Suzanne MacKenzie Memorial Lecture conceptually unclad: feminist geography and Aboriginal peoples *.
September 22, 2004... Introduction In a March 2002 essay in the Globe and Mail introducing George Erasmus's LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, (1) Gerald Friesen, a historian at the University of Manitoba, noted the urgency of resolving Aboriginal peoples' place in...

Defining maritime boundaries: 'the murky hand of history's oversight' in the Gulf of Maine.
September 22, 2004... Introduction In March 2002, a committee of the Grand Manan Lobster Fishermen's Sector (Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada) presented a report to the Annual Meeting of the Fishermen's Association (GMFA). In its report, the committee...

Spatial accessibility and equity of playgrounds in Edmonton, Canada.
September 22, 2004... Evaluer l'equite spatiale des equipements urbains publics, implique la comparaison entre la distribution des equipements et le besoin des habitants pour ces equipements. Pour cette publication nous utilisons des Systemes d'Informations...

Municipally managed gentrification in South Parkdale, Toronto.
September 22, 2004... Auparavant, les etudes de l'embourgeoisement des quartiers desherites au Canada, particulierement a Toronto, projet une image du processus comme il etait d'une facon libere: une reaction de la classe moyenne a la conformite oppressive de la...

La mesure des variations territoriales du bien-etre de la population vieillissante de l'Outaouais, entre caracteres objectifs et evaluations subjectives.
September 22, 2004... Introduction La question de la mesure du bien-etre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Un arsenal d'instruments et de methodes ont ete developpes pour le mesurer et en faire rapport, dans une diversite de contextes. Plusieurs dimensions du...

The distribution and morphometry of lakes and reservoirs in British Columbia: a provincial inventory.
September 22, 2004... Introduction Lakes play an important role as a critical ecosystem component for many aquatic and terrestrial plant and animal species and are an invaluable freshwater resource for human populations. To improve the regional knowledge base...

A Deleuzian critique of resource-use management politics in Industria.(Commentary)
September 22, 2004... Introduction The first question of political philosophy today is not if, or even why, there will be resistance and rebellion, but rather how to determine the enemy against which to rebel. Indeed, often the inability to ...

Metromarxism: a Marxist Tale of the City.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by Andy Merrifield, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, xii+221 pp., cloth C$120.00 (ISBN 0-415-93348-X), paper $32.95 (ISBN 0-415-93349-8) Andy Merrifield's engaging Metromarxism offers an overview of Marxist engagements with the city...

Introduction to Remote Sensing (3d ed.).(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by James B. Campbell, The Guilford Press, New York, 2002, xxxi+621 pp., cloth US$80.00 (ISBN 1-57230-640-8) In a rapidly evolving field of study, such as remote sensing, textbooks need to be updated on a regular basis. This third edition of...

Weather and Transportation in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... edited by Jean Andrey and Christopher Knapper, Department of Geography Publication Series no. 55, University of Waterloo, 2003, xvi+290 pp., paper $25 (ISBN 0-921083-65-3) This book is comprised of nine chapters. The eight chapters...

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by Neil Smith, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2003, xvii + 557 pp., cloth US$39.95 (ISBN 0-520-23027-2) A big book and an ambitious one too, this is the volume on Isaiah Bowman that Neil Smith has long promised. Its...

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by Maureen G. Reed, UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2003, xii + 282 pp., cloth $85.00 (ISBN 07748-1017-3), paper $29.95 (ISBN 0-7748-1018-1) Logging disputes follow a predictable trajectory in the media. Environmentalists stand off...

The Heavens Are Changing. Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by Susan Neylan, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2002, xvii + 406 pp., cloth $75.00 (ISBN 0-7735-2327-8) The Heavens Are Changing is a critical study of the encounter between nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism and the...

Rivers and Floodplains: Forms, Processes and Sedimentary Record.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... by John S. Bridge, Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2003, 491 pp., paper $84.95 (ISBN 0-632-06489-7) This excellent and original book brings together the literature and ideas on 'the origin, nature and evolution of alluvial rivers and...