All posts by Andrew Watson
Southern Identity and Northern Territory: Review of Desbiens, Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec.
Caroline Desbiens, Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014). xxiii + 281 pp. $34.95 paper (ISBN 9780774824170). At well over one and […]
Call for Proposals: The Material Realities of Energy Histories
The Material Realities of Energy Histories A Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire (CJH/ACH) The appropriation and control of the flow […]
Sustainable Farm Systems in Mallorca
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series showing the work of the Sustainable Farm Systems project For the last five years, the Sustainable Farm Systems project has explored the socio-ecological transition from […]
Telling the Stories Staples Tell: Visualizing Data and a Call for Contributors
Andrew Watson and Jim Clifford Are there still stories that Canadian staple histories can tell us? This was the theme of a panel called “The Stories Staples Tell” organized by […]
Food and Farm Systems Energy Transitions: A Meeting of the Phoenix Energy Working Group
Editor’s Note: This post, which originally ran on the University of Saskatchewan’s HGIS lab site, is part of a series showing the work of the Sustainable Farm Systems project. In February I escaped the […]
Research Spotlight: Sustainable Farm Systems
Editor’s Note: This is part of a monthly series showing the work of the Sustainable Farm Systems project Andrew Watson and Geoff Cunfer Agriculture in the Western Hemisphere has changed dramatically over […]
Mapping Supply Chains for 19th Century Leather
By Andrew Watson with Jim Clifford For the past two weeks I’ve been in Saskatoon, working with Jim Clifford in the University of Saskatchewan’s Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) Lab. […]
An Unpredictable Path to the Suburbs: A History of Toronto’s Leaside Neighbourhood
This is the first of a series of articles on the history of Toronto’s suburban environments. NiCHE is publishing this series to provide some context for participants of the 2014 […]
Powering Up! A Symposium Advancing Canadian Energy History
Do you know what’s weird? There are almost no studies of energy in Canadian history! It’s true. Across the country, there are many courses taught on the history of energy […]
Popular Visions of Environmental Anxiety
Andrew Watson, Finis Dunaway, and Mark McLaughlin For Earth Day 2013, The Otter posts a reflection on eco-comics, zombies, and environmental popular culture. Organizing academic conference panels over pints of beer […]
For Historians, the Journey is Just as Important as the Destination
Last week’s annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History included scholars from all over the world, including China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, several European countries, Puerto Rico, […]
Cottage Country and Sustainability
I’ll be the first to admit that I come at my dissertation project from a fairly privileged and personal starting point. Each summer growing up, my parents took me and […]
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