The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2007

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2007

The 'greening' of global project financing: the case of the Sakhalin-II offshore oil and gas project.(Author abstract)(Case study)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Recently, Hayter et al. (2003) urged economic geographers to pay greater attention to the world's 'resource peripheries'. The logic for such a reorientation is two-fold. First, the resource sector is a crucial component of the...

Rivers as resources, rivers as borders: community and transboundary management of fisheries in the Upper Zambezi River floodplains.(Report)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Discussions concerning natural resources in Africa often question the role of the state and nation as suitable institutional and spatial scales for management (e.g., Hulme and Murphree 2001; Adams and Mulligan 2003). Proposed...

Spatial dynamics of local labour markets in the Quebec City Metropolitan Field, 1981-2001/La dynamique spatiale des marches locaux de l'emploi au sein du champ metropolitain de Quebec, 1981-2001.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Au Canada, nombreuses sont les etudes portant sur les deplacements residence-travail en milieu metropolitain (Thomas 1995; Lemelin et Gatignol 1999; Thomas et Villeneuve 1998; Vandersmissen, Villeneuve et Theriault 2001a,...

Fixed links and the engagement of islandness: reviewing the impact of the Confederation Bridge.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction: A Contentious Affair Valentia is a small island off County Kerry, on the southwest coast of Ireland. A recent count for the island's permanent population is around 650. A ferry operates daily from 1 April to 30 September....

Historical geographies of colonialism: introduction.
September 22, 2007... Positioned as it is at the intersection between two disciplines, historical geography is a field whose boundaries have expanded and been reshaped over the years. If meticulous reconstruction of past geographies has long been a unifying...

Intimate colonialisms: the material and experienced places of British Columbia's residential schools.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction The colonial geographies of British Columbia (BC) are well considered, by geographers and non-geographers alike, notably with reference to: the creation of reserves (Harris 2002); tensions between colonial and Indigenous...

Speaking the land exploring women's historical geographies in Northern Quebec.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction In 2003, The Nation--which is the Eastern James Bay Cree's main periodical--published the legend of 'The woman who turned cannibalistic' (Masty 2003). (1) It tells the story of a couple who lived on the land a long time ago...

Vanishing the Haida: George Dawson's ethnographic vision and the making of settler space on the Queen Charlotte Islands in the late nineteenth century.(Report)
September 22, 2007... Introduction A score of individuals sit huddled in the underbrush, each tightly wrapped in the dye-banded wool of a Hudson Bay Company blanket (Figure 1). Above the blanket hems, attentive faces--some elderly, many quite young--peer at us,...

Afterword: historical geographies of colonialism: comments on the intergenerational bridge.
September 22, 2007... Bonheur de ces ouvrages de critique americaine qui ne denigrent pas, ne denoncent pas, mais plongent dans la problematique de l'oeuvre critiquee, cherchent a la rendre la plus consistante possible, a en degager toutes les possibilites pour que...

Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography. by Daniel R. Montello and Paul C. Sutton. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006, xiv + 303 pp., paper US$46.95 (ISBN 1-4129-0287-8) Dan Montello and Paul Sutton's well-written...

Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance edited by Christine Milligan and David Conradson, The Policy Press, Bristol, 2006, ix + 304 pp., cloth US$75 (ISBN 10-1-86134-632-8) The non-profit and voluntary...

Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth by Alessandro Scafi. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2006, 400 pp. + 16 colour plates, cloth US$55.00 (ISBN 0-226-73559-1) Though the description of the garden of Eden furnished by scripture...

The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge by Matthew A. Zook, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2005, xiii + 200 pp. paper US$36.95 (ISBN 0-631-23332-6) The Geography of the Internet Industry...

Contesting Neo-liberalism: Urban Frontiers.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Contesting Neo-liberalism: Urban Frontiers edited by Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric S. Sheppard, The Guilford Press, New York & London, 2006, x + 340 pp., paper US$30.00 (ISBN 1-59385-320-3) A mass of geographical writing, the bulk of...

Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development since 1740 by Barbara Kennedy, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2006, x + 160 pp., paper US$41.95 (ISBN 104051-0188-1) Dr Kennedy begins on the defensive by asserting her book is not a...