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Nature Matters
Spring 2009, Number 21
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Guest Editor: Cate Mortimer SandilandsArticles
Stacy Alaimo
MCS Matters: Material Agency in the Science and Practices of Environmental Illness
Mark Vardy
Metaphysical Closure and the Political Articulation of Climate Change
Keith Lindner and George Stetson
For Opacity: Nature, Difference and Indigeneity in Amazonia
Renate Sander-Regier
Bare Roots: Exploring Botanical Agency in the Personal Garden
Jaime Yard
Softwood Lumber and the Golden Spruce:
Two Perspectives on the Material and Discursive Construction of British Columbian Forests
Meaghan Lowe
Dreamworld and Reality: An Exploration of Environmental Aesthetics in Contemporary Photography
Patrick D. Murphy
Subjects, Identities, Bodies and Selves: Siblings, Symbiotes and the Ecological Stakes of Self Perception
Mysoon Rizk
Looking at "Animals in Pants": The Case of David Wojnarowicz
Astrida Neimanis
Bodies of Water, Human Rights and the Hydrocommons
Offerings
Jodey Castricano
The Question of the Animal: Why Now?
Stephen Muecke
Dust Mites vs. Sebastian: Anecdotes from the Nature Wars
Review Essays
Tim Kaposy
Testing Cultural Theory
Andrea Medovarski
Transformative Geographies
Dossa Shama
Complicating “Native Informing” through a Transnational Feminist Lens
Jim Harding
Lacking Historical Specificity and Prone to Clichés
Reviews
Sherryl Vint
I’d Rather Be a Companion SpeciesDilia Narduzzi
Di Brandt’s Un-Elusive Worlds
Nancy Townshend
Painting the Valley
Lauren Corman
An Empathetic Intervention:
Animal Subjects Confronts the Limits of Cultural Studies
Andrew Wernick
Greened Bataille
Jerry Zaslove
Unfinished Landscapes:
Smelting the Tailings from the Riches of the Canadian wilderness
Darin Barney
Ethics Minus Politics Equals (Nearly) Zero
News
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Decenber 5 and 6, 2008
Inspiring Collaborations.A Symposium in honor of Barbara Godard
Pia Bouman School
6, Noble street, Toronto.
This symposium celebrates Barbara Godard's long career as teacher, theorist, translator, mentor, and activist. The event culminates in the launch of the long awaited Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture: Selected Essays by Barbara Godard .
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/godard/
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ETOPIA:
1) ETopia CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (click here for details)
INTERSECTIONS CONFERENCE JOURNAL
Proceedings from Hybrid Entities, Annual Graduate Conference Hosted by the York/Ryerson Programme in
Communication and Culture
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Probing McLuhan: Understanding Media Culture
Sunday, October 17th, 2004
Drake Hotel
