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Living in a Material World
Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture
Häftad, 1991
374 kr
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This book offers scholarly state-of-the-art presentations concerning material culture research at this critical stage in its development. These essays describe the emerging field of Material Culture Studies and the new ways it offers for seeking an understanding of our society's basic values and …
Labour and Working Class History in Atlantic Canada
A Reader
Av David Frank, Gregory S. Kealey
Häftad, 1995
374 kr
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This collection of essays provides a generous introduction to the vibrant field of labour and working-class history in Canada's eastern provinces. Organized in four sections covering pre-industrial labour, the industrial revolution, labour's wars of the early twentieth century, and the rise of …
Just Fish
Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries
Av Harold Coward, Rosemary E. Ommer m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
328 kr
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Today in Canada, the fish stocks of both the east and west coasts are in serious trouble. The once-great cod stocks have collapsed; the Fraser River salmon stocks seem to have done likewise. Coastal communities are in crisis. The majority of the great world fisheries are seriously over-exploited, …
Remote Control
Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions
Av Godfrey Baldacchino, Rob Greenwood m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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How does one transform small size and relative isolation into a powerful combination for sustainable growth and prosperity? Some islands and rural regions have already done so. Winning tools and strategies deployed by these middle-level governance structures include: 'scaling up' of municipal …
French Visitors to Newfoundland
An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Travel Writings
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers—sailors and naval officers, diplomats, scientists, journalists, …
History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis
Häftad, 2014
274 kr
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History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis is a collection of twelve essays presenting new research on the archaeology, history, and contemporary challenges and perspectives of Inuit-Métis of central and southeastern Labrador from Lake Melville south to Chateau Bay. It reports on results from …
Place Peripheral
Place-Based Development in Rural, Island, and Remote Regions
Av Kelly Vodden, Ryan Gibson m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales from a place-based approach. This is a timely edited collection, addressing themes that are receiving considerable attention in Canada and internationally as local communities, scholars, researchers …
Democracy Cookbook
Recipes to Renew Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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The Democracy Cookbook is a collection of short and snappy, non-partisan opinion pieces authored by a cross-section of opinion leaders, academics, creative writers and other citizens. It also features some politically-themed poetry and food recipes. A unique form of grassroots mobilization, the …
Food Futures
Growing a Sustainable Food System for Newfoundland and Labrador
Häftad, 2018
288 kr
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Over the centuries, people living in Newfoundland and Labrador have demonstrated remarkable resourcefulness in order to reap the bounty of both sea and land. However, despite renewed interest in traditional Newfoundland and Labrador cuisine, the reality is that many cannot attain healthy and …
Resettlement
Uprooting and Rebuilding Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Beyond
Av Isabelle Côté, Yolande Pottie-Sherman
Häftad, 2020
288 kr
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Resettlement is a global phenomenon once again at the forefront of political debate in Newfoundland and Labrador. This collection, edited by political scientist Isabelle Côté and geographer Yolande Pottie-Sherman, presents an assembly of interdisciplinary voices situating Newfoundland and Labrador …
Voices of Inuit Leadership and Self-Determination in Canada
Av David Lough
Häftad, 2020
274 kr
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This book presents a broad range of perspectives and voices — Inuit and non-Inuit, youth and Elders, academics and community members — united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Premised on the understanding that new ways of blending traditional …
Muskrat Falls
How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation
Av Lisa Moore, Stephen Crocker
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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For more than a decade now, the $13 billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been generating a never-ending assemblage of crises in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. The dam's promise of clean hydro power has been accompanied by menacing risks of methylmercury poisoning and …
Families, Mobility, and Work
Av Barbara Neis, Nora Spinks m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
358 kr
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Employment-related geographical mobility is widespread and increasing within Canada and around the world. Prolonged daily commutes, working away for extended periods, and being employed in mobile workplaces can affect work and family lives along with creating personal risk and compromising …
Revitalizing PLACE Through Social Enterprise
Av Natalie Slawinski, Brennan Lowery m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
330 kr
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Around the world, rural and urban communities alike face growing socio-economic and environmental challenges. Confronted with mounting threats of climate change, food insecurity, resource depletion, and inequality, local leaders are increasingly leveraging place-based social enterprises to …
Pursuing Equality
Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador
Av Linda Kealey
Häftad, 1993
302 kr
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This collection of essays breaks the silence of the political and legal history of women in Newfoundland and Labrador during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other books on Canadian women's history have concentrated on middle-class women in central Canada and largely ignored women's history …
Resilient Outport
Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland
Häftad, 2002
353 kr
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At Memorial University an interdisciplinary team of social, natural, health, and education scientists studied the sustainability of cold-ocean coastal communities, centering on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula and the Isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula. Research began in 1994 to uncover what had …
Living on the Edge
The Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
Av Lawrence Felt, Peter R. Sinclair
Häftad, 1995
302 kr
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"Living on the edge" implies insecurity. On the surface, the people of the Great Northern Peninsula must be marginal Canadians for they live in an isolated area where incomes are low and unemployment high. So why do people stay? How do they cope with life on the margins of an advanced industrial …
Finding Our Sea Legs
Linking Fishery People and Their Knowledge with Science and Management
Av Barbara Neis, Lawrence Felt
Häftad, 2000
302 kr
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The global fisheries crisis has prompted widespread debate about the origins of overfishing in managed fisheries. Criticisms of existing systems of science and management have led to experimental approaches involving access to fishery workers and their knowledge. Finding Our Sea Legs is an edited …
Power and Restructuring
Canada's Coastal Society and Environment
Av Peter R. Sinclair, Rosemary E. Ommer
Häftad, 2006
345 kr
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This is a book about power in small places, its perceptions and realities; where these conflict and where they come together. Based on research conducted on Canada's Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the chapters analyze the interaction of people and environment in coastal settings, the way power …
Despite This Loss
Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador
Av Elizabeth Yeoman, Ursula A. Kelly
Häftad, 2010
288 kr
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This collection includes a variety of forms - art, photography, personal narrative, translation and cross disciplinary scholarly essay - to discuss many levels and kinds of loss: cultural assimilation and change, environmental devastation, language loss, personal and collective losses, community …
Kindness, Kinship, and Tradition in Newfoundland/Alberta Migration
Av Craig T. Palmer, Emily K. Groom m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
274 kr
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Migration between Newfoundland and Alberta is transforming the social and cultural landscape of Canada. Newfoundlanders involved in this migration overcome the many challenges it entails with countless acts of altruism; ranging from supplying a place to live and help in finding a job, to providing …
Creating a University
The Newfoundland Experience
Av Roberta Buchanan, Stephen Harold Riggins
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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Creating a University is a collection of memoirs by more than 30 former faculty and staff of Memorial University — a series of "MUNographies,"— about personal and professional experiences working at Newfoundland's only university. It is something of a Memorial University family reunion, without a …
