Recreating History, Consuming Nature: Canoeing, Suffering and Embodied Heritage WHO: Dr. Bruce Erickson, author of Canoe Nation: Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon (UBC Press, 2013). Dr. Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at York University. WHAT: This talk examines recreational canoeing, specifically voyageur re-enactments, as a form of heritage appreciation and as an aspect of the narration of national space in Canada. For these paddlers, the path of the voyageur leads to an encounter with the true Canada, signified by the wilderness travel that was the voyageur?s bread and butter. Within this encounter, minimalism and the attempt to go without is designed to help them embody the character of the nation. This voluntary renunciation is an attempt to achieve intimacy with the land and articulate belonging outside of the anxieties of colonial settlement, but it often eclipses the real history of the colonial encounter. As such, suffering, as a mode of encountering the nation, overrides the history of colonialism and presents an authoritative connection between nation and nature. Canada then becomes a nation held in the nature of the landscape, as opposed to an entity created by multifarious networks of power over the last four centuries. More information about Canoe Nation: Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon can be found here: ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173659 WHERE: Plaza 600F WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 1 pm - 3 pm WHY: This a talk is hosted by Brock Universitys Sociology Speakers Series. For more information, please contact Lauren Corman at [email protected] MORE INFO: Facebook event page, if youd like to RSVP there and receive reminders about the event: https://facebook/events/604092336299276/
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