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BIRDS OF BRIER ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, REVISED AND UPDATED
No full textThis monograph is a revision and updating of our publication on the birds of Brier Island, Nova Scotia, published in the Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science in 2011. Known for its concentrations of seabirds and large volume of migration in spring and autumn, the island has gained constantly increasing attention by birders since it was first investigated by members of the Nova Scotia Bird Society in 1955. The past decade, since 2011, has seen a remarkable increase in bird reports, mainly due to increased field work by birders, but also because of the use of the online bird logging system eBird. The heart of this monograph is the annotated list of birds, which has been enlarged and revised in the light of new reports by field observers and new information from the ornithological literature. We have incorporated eBird observations, along with our personal records of occurrences and bird banding data into this revision, along with the changes in the order and arrangement of North American bird families as set out by the Checklist Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Three species, Pacific Golden-Plover, Brown Booby and Zone-tailed Hawk, have been added to the island checklist, and one has been lost, Thayer‘s Gull, which has been incorporated into Iceland Gull. The total list of species reported from the island is 357, including two hypothetical species. The number of known breeding bird species has increased from 74 to 83. We also update ecological knowledge of the island as a result of recent fieldwork and the restoration of the Big Meadow Bog in support of Eastern Mountain Avens conservation.
Loon Watch – 25 years of successful volunteer citizen science at Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia
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The Woven Weirs of Minas (Curatorial Report #73)
No full textIn Nova Scotia each spring, the mixed hard and softwood forests of Colchester and Cumberland Counties become an active foraging ground for the men who cut the hundreds of trees-spruce, fir, birch, cherry, maple and alder-needed to build their fence-like fish traps, or weirs often pronounced "wares", on the expansive intertidal flats of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy. This study focuses primarily on present-day woven fish weirs at Economy and Five Islands. This study examines the lives of two men who continue to weave brush weirs in Nova Scotia. James Webb of Economy is a commercial fisherman who builds the sole all-woven weir not only along this shore but in the entire province. Gerald Lewis of Five Islands is a retired fisherman who continues to build his woven/netted weir off this mystical string of islands each summer, both as a source of food for himself and his neighbours and as a tourist attraction. This is their story, along with the fascinating history of the brush weir fishery in Nova Scotia. _____________________________________________________________________ Please note: This resource is presented as originally published. The content of older reports may not reflect the current state of knowledge on the topic documented. Please be aware of this when using this resource
La langue francophone : d\u27une passion vindicative sur l\u27autorité coloniale du discours chez J.-L. Raharimanana
No full textÉcrire en langue française cristallise chez l‘écrivain francophone une passion double, celle d‘un viatique de représentation de soi, mais aussi d‘un retour de violence, de nature vindicative, marquant le refus d‘assimilation sous l‘autorité coloniale du discours (Mignolo). Dans le sillage d‘une approche de décolonisation de l‘imaginaire et du langage, l‘oeuvre francophone affirme dès son émergence soit une contre-narration qui révise les archives de l‘histoire officielle, et impose une restitution sans compromis de la mémoire, en répondant souvent à la violence de domination effective par une violence symbolique, portée par la langue. Soit un effort d‘édification d‘une culture autre dans les décombres de l‘effacement subséquent à l‘hégémonie impériale. Si ce dernier mouvement a été en réalité l‘acte de naissance décoloniale de la littérature francophone, confondu dans une volonté d‘édification nationaliste, le premier émane d‘une conscience aiguë sur le rôle de la langue dans le façonnement de l‘imaginaire et la formation de l‘autorité symbolique impériale. C‘est sans doute chez Jean-Luc Raharimanana que s‘incarnent à la fois la conscience de restauration des archives historiques (Madagascar 1947 et 2011) et le recours à la langue comme site symbolique ou la violence extérieurement subie se transpose à l‘échelle de l‘usage dysfonctionnel de la langue (Za 2008). Cette étude se veut donc une exploration aussi large que possible de l‘oeuvre de l‘auteur malgache sous l‘optique d‘une vengeance voulue comme retour de violence (Fanon) qu‘elle soit réelle (la torture politique), historique (la colonisation française) ou encore symbolique (l‘autorité du système de la langue).For the francophone writer, to write in French brings a twofold passion into focus. On the one hand, it is an aid to self-representation, but on the other, it represents the return of violence of a vindictive nature, signifying the rejection of assimilation to discourse under colonialism‘s authority (Mignolo). In the wake of approaches to the decolonisation of creation and language, the francophone oeuvre maintains one of two possibilities. Either it is a counter-narration, which revises the official historical archives and imposes an uncompromising restitution of memory, all the while frequently responding to the violence of domination, effectively a symbolic violence, borne by language, or it maintains an attempt to build up a different culture amidst the ruins of erasure subsequent to the imperial hegemony. If the more recent movement was in reality the birth certificate of the decolonisation of francophone literature, wrapped up in a desire for nationalistic edification, the first movement emanated from a keen awareness of the role of language in the shaping of the imagination and the creation of symbolic imperial authority.It is very likely in Jean-Luc Raharimanana‘s work that that we see the crystallization of both a conscientiousness in the restoration of historical archives (Madagascar 1947 and 2011) and a recourse to language as the symbolic site where an externally subjected violence gets transposed upon the range of dysfunctional language usage (Za 2008). This study hopes to explore as much of the work of this Madagascan author as possible from the perspective of a vengeance that seeks to be a return to violence (Fanon), whether such violence is real (political torture), historical (French colonisation) or even symbolic (the authority of a system of language)
Yéhuda Moraly. Révolution au Paradis : représentations voilées de personnages juifs dans le cinéma de la France occupée
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Envisioning Care: Responses to the Traumas of “Truth” in an Online Queer Christian Community
Get PDFIn light of the antagonistic histories of Christianity and the LGBTQ+ community in the U.S., a common hardship experienced by queer Christians is the shame of isolation. Many queer Christians are steeped in queerphobic faith communities, lacking resources to help themselves. Digital spaces have become an innovative way to forge connections around this distinct point of tension between faith and lived experience. In this digital ethnography of an online queer Christian community, care is witnessed to be formative for many, and vital for some. Community members adapt approaches to care in the online domain of Reddit to produce support, belonging, and solidarity for those like themselves who are suffering. Yet this care is also bound by social and political norms, which limit its scope to address the entrenched problems queer Christians face. Central to this experience is the role of “Truth” and how it has been wielded against queer Christians, used to marginalize populations, and exploited to shape American culture