Friday, 14 June/Vendredi 14 juin – “Will New Materialism changed Environmental History? Does New Materialism create a new framework for studying commodities history?”/« Le nouveau matérialisme va-t-il changer l’histoire de l’environnement ? Le nouveau matérialisme crée-t-il un nouveau cadre pour étudier l’histoire des matières premières ? »
LeCain, Timothy J. “Against the Anthropocene: A Neo-Materialist Perspective,” International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, Vol.3, no.3 (2015): 1-28.
“Roundtable: Should Agricultural Historians Care About the New Materialism?” Agricultural History, Vol.96, vol.1-2 (2022), 223-270.
Suggested Readings:
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Haraway, Donna. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Sunday, 16 June/Dimanche 16 juin – Debate/Débat: “Be it resolved that the staples approach is important to Canadian environmental history in the 21st century?”/« Est-ce que l’approche des produits de base est importante pour l’histoire environnementale canadienne au 21e siècle ? »
Innis, Harold. The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930): 386-408.
Daniel Drache, “Harold Innis and Canadian Capitalist Development,” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory / Revue Canadienne de theorie politique et sociale, Vol . 6, Nos. 1-2 (1982): 35-60.
Suggested Readings:
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin. Women’s Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.