Reconsidering the Canadian “Hinterland”: Visual Culture, the \nEnglish-Wabigoon River, and the Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm \n1945–1980
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Thesis on visual culture and archives surrounding mercury poisoning of the English-Wabigoon River; cultural and environmental history, with an archival dimension that does not make research practice its object.
The thesis studies visual culture and environmental history surrounding a Canadian disaster.
Visual-culture thesis on a Canadian environmental disaster; arts/history of place, not research systems.
Résumé
This thesis examines select visual culture produced and gathered in response to one of Canada’s worst environmental disasters: the mercury poisoning of the English-Wabigoon River in Northwestern Ontario. This catastrophic event is the contextual and historical point of entry to explore two related visual records first, the dominant settler-colonial place image produced by industry and government stakeholders; second, a more complex image world discernable in a locally gathered archive created by citizen archivist Marion Lamm (1918–1997). These representations and narratives are examined at the intersection of Anishinaabe and settler-colonial histories and contexts that formed around the mercury case. I employ discourse analysis located in late capitalist visual culture and archival histories to examine ephemera, periodicals, photographic publications, and a film within broader cultural and environmental histories surrounding the English-Wabigoon River. The primary questions guiding this thesis are: Who and what defines a Canadian hinterland? From what positions are its stories told? Here I trace how the dominant, settler-colonial place image of industrial success and a tourist paradise is complicated and challenged by a record of locally gathered materials. Through transtemporal readings of a catastrophic event, I identify gaps between the local and translocal tellings. In doing so, I hypothesize that the visual record produced and disseminated by government and industry stakeholders presents a settler-colonial “hinterland” visuality that was incoherent with local realities.
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La notice
- Revue
- Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
- Thématique
- Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
- Domaine
- Engineering
- Établissements canadiens
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- Organismes subventionnaires
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- Mots-clés
- TourismNarrativeVisual cultureGovernment (linguistics)ArchivistHistorical recordMercury (programming language)NegativePoint (geometry)Environmental history
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