UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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"A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice" by Toban Black, Stephen D'Arcy, Tony Weiss, and Joshua Kahn Russell, eds.
No full textReview of A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice by Toban Black, Stephen D'Arcy, Tony Weiss, and Joshua Kahn Russell, eds. (2014, Between the Lines).Find full text in .pdf below
Excerpt from "The Tale of the Sarnia Nose" (a toxic comic book)
Full text linkThe Tale of the Sarnia Nose is one of three comic book chapters that appear in Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics, Hobbs' 2016 dissertation. This text mixes archival research, ethnography, and comic book drawings to produce a creative hybrid: part political critique, part environmental activism, and part artist publication...Find full piece in .pdf below
"Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence" by Christina B. Hanhardt
Full text linkReview of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina B. Hanhardt (2013, Duke UP).Find full text in .pdf below
"A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond" by Timothy B. Leduc
Full text linkReview of A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond by Timothy B. Leduc (2016, McGill-Queen's UP).Find full text in .pdf below
A "Feast of Fools": Food Security and the Carnivalesque in Peterborough, Ontario's Food Not Bombs
Full text linkCounterculture movements in the 1960s and 70s dramatically reorganized the role of bodies within social frameworks and saw the internalization of political issues, both figuratively and literally. The political became the personal and quotidian moments of consumption became sites of resistance. As Warren Belasco suggests, in reference to the radical food movements that saw the expulsion of "Wonderbread" and the resurgence of home-cooked holistic foods, "[d]ietary radicalism could be lived 365 days a year, three times a day. If, as Leftists knew, the personal was political, what could be more personal than eating? And what could be more political than challenging America's largest industry, the food business?" (227). Food provides a dynamic vessel for engaging with politics and capital at both the gastronomical level (what we choose to put into our bodies) and the social level (how we arrange our bodies collectively and individually). The kneading, baking, and consumption of bread, for example, provide precious, intimate moments for expressing agency and resistance to systems of power. Belasco saw this...Find full text in .pdf below
The Treaty 8 First Nations and BC Hydro's Site C Dam
Full text linkThe Site C Clean Energy Project is a proposed dam and hydroelectric generating station on the Peace River in northeast British Columbia, seven kilometers southwest of the city of Fort St. John. The proposed site―within the Peace River Valley―is home to BC’s Treaty 8 First Nations with an approximate Aboriginal population of 2500-3000 people (T8TA, "Treaty 8 Communities"). The project's proponent, BC Hydro, received environmental approval for Site C from the federal and provincial governments on October 14, 2014 (BCEAO Conditional Environmental Assessment Certificate Granted: Site C Clean Energy Project; CEAA "Government of Canada's Decision on the Environmental Assessment of the Site C Clean Energy Project"); however, the project still requires an investment decision from the Province and regulatory permits and authorization before it can proceed to construction (BC Hydro, "Multi-Stage Evaluation"). The Treaty 8 First Nations are opposing Site C, having filed a lawsuit on grounds that the project would have a devastating impact on their traditional land and thus violate their treaty rights (Keller)...Find full text in .pdf below
Black PoeTree Saved My Life
Full text linkFree our Heroes caged in prison cells.When will we hear more Wedding Bells than gun salutes?Black Power is on the rise again,that strange fruit...Find full piece in .pdf below
"Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition" by Glen Sean Coulthard
Full text linkReview of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard (2014, U of Minnesota P).Find full text in .pdf below
Cyborg Salmon
Full text linkThis figurative sculpture invites the viewer to reconsider the boundaries that presumably exist between organic life and artificial technology; nature and culture. By bending wires, tubes, thread, and netting into the body of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), this work attempts to convey the species' biological dependence on the technical and social ingenuity that facilitate its existence in Lake Ontario and adjoining tributaries...Find full piece in .pdf below