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Air and surface temperature modelling across a temperate mountain landscape: An investigation of microclimatic influences on surface offsets viewed within the context of epigaeic arthropod thermal habitat

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70003

Nick Hassink, Philip P. Bonnaventure, Dan L. Johnson

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Resisting the dehumanization of refugees By Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath, and Anna Kirova (Eds.), Athabasca: Athabasca University Press. 2024. 420 pages. $39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9781771994101

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70004

Jennifer M. Holzer

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Infrastructures and feelings of ontological (in)security in times of crisis: Lessons from rural areas in British Columbia

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70001

Carl-Jan Dihlmann, Ilse Helbrecht

{"title":"Infrastructures and feelings of ontological (in)security in times of crisis: Lessons from rural areas in British Columbia","authors":"Carl-Jan Dihlmann, Ilse Helbrecht","doi":"10.1111/cag.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70001","url":null,"abstract":"In government guidelines the strengthening of rural infrastructure is often seen as a central building block to create economically prosperous, well-developed rural regions and to support the well-being of local communities. We challenge this assumption by analyzing the subjective handling of infrastructures in a remote rural area in British Columbia, Canada. Based on the analysis of empirical material from photography-supported interviews, we argue that fully capturing the influence of infrastructures on local communities requires a relational approach to infrastructures understood as infrastructuring. Derived from the conceptualization of infrastructuring in science and technology studies, we developed the notion of infrastructural autonomy. With the notion of infrastructural autonomy, we are able to outline our findings that subjective and place-sensitive handlings of infrastructures promote gains in personal ontological security. Based on our qualitative study, we argue that a closer examination of the subjective relation between a place, its infrastructure, and its inhabitants is crucial to understand the infrastructural needs of a place as well as the well-being of its users.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From developmentalism to developmentality: How development constructs its geographies of control and contempt

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70002

Arslan Waheed

{"title":"From developmentalism to developmentality: How development constructs its geographies of control and contempt","authors":"Arslan Waheed","doi":"10.1111/cag.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70002","url":null,"abstract":"Development is not a set of performative actions. Rather, it is produced and reproduced over the years as a discourse (in the Foucauldian sense) that operates through a variety of categories of knowledge. In this way, development is a set of socio-political and economic beliefs—an undeniable truth—that is exported to Pakistan through international institutions and technocrats. This paper attempts to understand the dissemination of development in Pakistan by focusing on the constructivist tendencies of development that employ various discursive strategies and language techniques to naturalize the socio-economic and political hierarchies both socially and spatially. Taking the planning and development of Islamabad—a model urban settlement and a crown jewel of development in the country's history—as the case study, this research finds that various labels, linguistics contrasts, othering, and socio-economic hierarchies were constructed and employed to construct the socio-materiality of development as a natural order of things. This developmentality (drawing on Foucault's governmentality) is found in more than 150 planning and policy-related documents from 1957 to 2018, showing the patronization and reproduction of power hierarchies, inequalities, exclusion, discrimination, and control.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Northern Ontario in historical statistics, 1871–2021: Expansion, growth, and decline in a hinterland-colonial region By David Leadbeater Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 2024. 292 pages. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780776641676

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70000

Rachel Barber

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Conceptualizing discrimination against LGBTQ+ workers in the unbounded workplace

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12971

Benjamin Owens, Suzanne Mills

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PPE shortages and healthcare workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12970

Daniel Amoak, Satveer Dhillon, Evans Batung, Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano

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When the pine needles fall: Indigenous acts of resistance By Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton, Toronto: Between the Lines. 2024. 280 pages. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781771136501

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12969

Melissa Folk

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Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat-or-eat trade-off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia 测量新斯科舍布里奇沃特能源贫困应对策略和热或吃权衡的使用情况

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12967

Laurianne Debanné, Mylène Riva, Morgen Bertheussen, Graham MacDonald, Runa Das, Sophie Kutuka

{"title":"Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat-or-eat trade-off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia","authors":"Laurianne Debanné, Mylène Riva, Morgen Bertheussen, Graham MacDonald, Runa Das, Sophie Kutuka","doi":"10.1111/cag.12967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12967","url":null,"abstract":"In Bridgewater, a small town in Nova Scotia, around 40% of households face energy poverty. Little research has examined energy poverty in Canada and how it affects the well-being of households. The aim of this study was to identify the ways households cope with energy poverty across socio-economic characteristics, paying particular attention to the heat-or-eat trade-off. Data were collected using a community-based survey on housing, energy use and costs, coping strategies, socio-economic characteristics, and well-being. Overall, 516 residents of Bridgewater completed the survey. Cross-tabulations and logistic regressions were used to analyze the data. Results indicate that the use of coping strategies was higher among women compared to men, young adults compared to other age groups, in households with children, and in lower-income households. Over one-third of respondents reported using the heat-or-eat trade-off. Women, young adults, those in dwellings in need of repairs, and those with lower education levels and lower household incomes were more likely to use the heat-or-eat trade-off. Our findings reveal that households vulnerable to energy poverty are forced to use a range of coping strategies, including strategies beyond those captured by the heat-or-eat trade-off. Better understanding the experience of households facing energy poverty can inform the creation of effective support programs.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.12967","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hills thought to be mountains: A geobiocultural characterization of island highlands in Canada's continental plain 被认为是山的丘陵：加拿大大陆平原岛屿高地的地理生物特征

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12964

Murray M. Humphries, A. Kirsten Bowser, Jiaao Guo, Allyson K. Menzies

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