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Current Issue

50, no. 2 (Fall 2025)

Cover: Andreas Rutkauskas, from the series After the Fire, August 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Contested Landscapes: Wilderness Parks and Shifting Narratives

Guest editors: Stéphanie Hornstein & Georgia Phillips-Amos

CONTENTS

Editors’ Note

A Note of Thanks to Mitchell B. Frank

INTRODUCTION
Stéphanie Hornstein & Georgia Phillips-Amos | Contested Landscapes: Wilderness Parks and Shifting Narratives

Articles

Siobhan Angus | Wastelands and Wilderness: David Milne’s Mining Landscapes
Liz Cavaliere | Views from the Lake: International Harmony and Historical Erasure in Photographs of the Waterton-Glacier InternationalPeace Par
Shabana Ali & Moss Norman | Exogenous Others and the Decolonization of “The Great Canadian Outdoorsman”
Joëlle Dubé | Holiday Native Land (2023) de Nicolas Renaud et Brian Virostek : critique d’un appétit impérial insatiable
Tammer El-Sheikh | Hiker, Painter, Diasporic Picture Maker: Artistic Integrity and Critical Regionalism in the Margins of Canada’s Parks Discourse
Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse | « Beautiful physiques, dizzying sex and exhilarating settings ». Production et reproduction des récits nationaux et des imaginaires homoérotiques dans les campings gais québécois
Carmen Levy-Milne & Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison | From Turtle Island to Palestine: How Rehab Nazzal’s Canada Park Resists Settler (Re)Creation
Drew Lyness | Challenge of the Yukon: Visual Identity and Subsurface Narratives in the Phantasmagoric Klondike
MJ Thompson | Postcards from the Shore: Embodying the View along Cape Cod’s Outer Beach

PRACTICES

Alexandre Campeau-Vallée | Disposer du wilderness à Niagara Falls: un essai photographique
Nyssa Komorowski | Both Wild and Claimed: Photographing “Toronto’s Urban Wilderness” at Tommy Thompson Park
Andreas Rutkauskas | The Future on Fire

INTERVIEWS

Georgia Phillips-Amos and Stéphanie Hornstein | Circumventing Protocol and Building Collaborative Histories: A Conversation on Freedom Tours with Tania Willard, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Camille Turner
Desiree Valadares | Tours of Duty: Lesbian National Parks and Services—Catching Up with Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

Reviews

Emily Cadotte | Sarah E. K. Smith, Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America
Madeline Collins | Yaniya Lee, Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art
Isabelle Gapp | Elysia French and Amanda White, eds., Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada
Alexis Janssen | Pierre B. Landry, Jean Paul Riopelle en mouvement (1923-2002)
James Michael Levinsohn & Rupert Nuttle | Maryse Ouellet and Amanda Boetzkes, eds., Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era
Florent Michaud & Anne-Julie Richard | Maxime Coulombe, Désir du noir. Sur le gothique
Raphaël Ouellet | Anthony Grégoire et Marianne-Sarah Saulnier, dirs., Artiste-chercheur·se sur le terrain
Sarah Quinton | Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger, eds., Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960–2000
Justina Spencer | Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson, eds., Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

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