La version française suit la version anglaise.
During the 1960s and 1970s, many people who identified with the “counterculture” went back to the land, founding communes across the Canadian countryside. The term “counterculture” designates those who rejected different aspects of mainstream North American society. These individuals, often former city-dwellers, developed a deep engagement with the landscapes and environments in which they located themselves. The purpose of this workshop is to re-evaluate their experiences and the long-term implications of their choices. Papers should explore issues such as the environmental ideals of this movement and the adjustments these groups faced in dealing with their environments. Some of their approaches to broadly-defined environmental issues, such as organic gardening, recycling, and home births with midwives, are no longer the fringe activities that they were in the 1960s and 1970s.
The workshop will aim at producing a collective publication, and draft papers will be circulated prior to the workshop. Please send proposals of up to 250 words accompanied by a one-page curriculum vitae to Colin Coates: ccoates@gl.yorku.ca.
The deadline for proposals is 5 January 2011. The workshop will be held in collaboration with the Heron Rocks Friendship Society (http://heronrocks.ca) on Hornby Island, BC, on Tuesday 5 July and Wednesday 6 July, 2011.
Appel de communications: « Les contrecultures canadiennes et l’environnement »
Pendant les années 1960 et 1970, plusieurs personnes s’identifiant avec la « contreculture » ont choisi de s’établir dans la campagne canadienne, pour y vivre dans des communes. Le concept de « contreculture » désigne ceux et celles qui ont rejeté divers aspects de la culture dominante nord-américaine. Ces individus, souvent ci-devant urbains, ont développé un engagement nouveau avec les paysages et les environnements dans lesquels ils se sont établis. Cet atelier a pour but de réévaluer leurs expériences et les implications à long terme de leurs choix. The propositions doivent étudier des sujets comme les idéaux environnementalistes de ce mouvement et les adaptations auxquelles ces groupes ont dû faire face dans leurs nouveaux contextes. Parmi les expériences jadis novatrices dans cette période et maintenant beaucoup plus généralisées, nommons le jardinage écologique, la récupération et les naissances à domicile à l’aide des sages-femmes.
Au cours de l’atelier, les participants travailleront sur la publication collective. Les brouillons des communications seront distribuées avant l’atelier. Veuillez soumettre les propositions (d’environ 250 mots) et un très bref curriculum vitae à Colin Coates : ccoates@gl.yorkku.ca.
La date limite des propositions sera le 5 janvier 2011. La « Heron Rocks Friendship Society » parrainera l’atelier, qui aura lieu sur l’île Hornby, Colombie-britannique, le mardi 5 juillet et le mercredi 6 juillet 2011.
Featured image: Vancouver Island from Hornby Island, British Columbia. Photo by Kyle Pearce on Wikimedia Commons.
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