Contributors

Tina Adcock is an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She studies the cultural and environmental history of the modern Canadian North, particularly the experiences of southern sojourners involved in exploration, scientific fieldwork, travel, and resource exploitation. Her research has previously appeared in Swedish, Norwegian, and American scholarly collections. She is completing a book manuscript on cultures of northern Canadian exploration in the first half of the twentieth century.

Stephen Bocking is a professor of environmental history and policy in the Trent School of the Environment, Trent University. His research interests include the environmental history of science, and the roles of science in environmental affairs in northern Canada and elsewhere.

Emilie Cameron is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. Her current research focuses on geographies of resource extraction, empire, and labour in the contemporary North.

Hans M. Carlson is Executive Director of the Great Mountain Forest, in Norfolk, Connecticut. Great Mountain is a 6,300-acre working forest dedicated to sustainable forestry practice, research, and the integration of human communities and human history in the stewardship of their land. Carlson previously taught in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. His contribution to this volume is part of an ongoing writing project on the cultural and environmental impacts of global resource use in James Bay, Quebec.

Marionne Cronin is an honorary research fellow in the Northern Colonialism program at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include the histories and historical-cultural geographies of science, technology, and exploration, with a special interest in the history of circumpolar aviation. Her current research examines the material practices and imagined geographies of northern colonialism.

Matthew Farish is a historical geographer and an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the relationships between militarization and geographical knowledge. Among his current research projects is a comprehensive history of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.

Arn Keeling is Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial University, conducting research on the environmental history and historical geography of western and northern Canada. With John Sandlos, he led the Abandoned Mines in Northern Canada project, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and ArcticNet. They are currently pursuing research on industrial development and pollution in the north.

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of history at St. Jerome’s University. His research explores historical and contemporary arctic sovereignty and security issues, Native-newcomer relations, and civil-military relations. He acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and ArcticNet for facilitating his archival, oral history, and field research on Canada and the Cold War Arctic.

Tina Loo teaches Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. The work in this volume is part of a larger project examining forced relocations, development, and the welfare state in postwar Canada.

Brad Martin is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health, and Human Development at Capilano University.

Paul Nadasdy is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal Relations in the Southwest Yukon and numerous scholarly articles. The present chapter is part of a larger study he is conducting on the cultural assumptions that underlie the Yukon land claim and self-government agreements and the effects their implementation is having on Indigenous ways of life.

Jonathan Peyton is an assistant professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba whose research on extractive economies lies at the intersection of environmental historical geography and political ecology. He is the author of Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia.

Liza Piper is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta. Her 2009 book, The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada, examines the role of industrial resource exploitation and science in the twentieth century transformation of subarctic environments. Her current research considers how disease and climate have changed human relations to nature in the Subarctic and the Arctic since the nineteenth century.

John Sandlos is an associate professor of History at Memorial University, where he teaches environmental history and conducts research on wildlife conservation, parks, and mining in northern Canada. He was recently a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. With Arn Keeling, he led the Abandoned Mines in Northern Canada project, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and ArcticNet. They are currently pursuing research on industrial development and pollution in the north.

Andrew Stuhl is an assistant professor of Environmental Humanities at Bucknell University. His 2016 book, Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands, examines scientific engagement with the western North American Arctic between 1881 and 1984 as colonial and environmental history. He is currently researching the environmental histories of northern comprehensive land claim agreements and offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea.