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Tag Archives: dissertation
FOUND! The Gateway Sept 1970-March 1971
Found the missing year! The helpful people at the University of Alberta Archives and in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library tracked down The Gateway run for the 1970/1971 academic year. The newspaper continued to publish and report on the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environmentalism, Grad School, Research
Tagged Activism, Archives, ASEH, Canada, dissertation, Environmentalism, Research, University
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Missing: The Gateway April 1970-September 1971
The Gateway (newspaper) is missing from April 1970 to September 1971 and I need help finding it! Continue reading
Environment vs. Economy: The Perpetual Alberta Conundrum
The Gateway Pipelines public hearings have landed in Edmonton and the proceedings will probably get less press than the hearings with Aboriginal communities in British Columbia. Most communities along the proposed pipeline routes (Gateway and Keystone) have the opportunity to … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Debate, dissertation, economy, Environment, Environmentalism, Natural Resources, tar sands
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Dissertation Arithmetic, or 56hrs/wk
As the semester begins graduate students, like the undergraduates, get back to work. The difference is the grad students probably didn’t take much of a break from working during the week universities close between fall and winter semesters. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Procrastination, Research
Tagged dissertation, Graduate Students, Reflection, University
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Silent Summer: Noisy Fall…
Summer is an interesting time for graduate students. There are conferences to attend, research trips to take, much writing/editing to do, and always the need to find some sort of gainful employment to pay the bills during the 4 months … Continue reading
STOP! Edmonton Environmental Advocacy circa 1970.
Madly putting the finishing touches on a guest lecture tomorrow morning and found a whole new treasure trove of researching fun right here in Edmonton. Back in the early 1970s a group of students at the University of Alberta formed … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, dissertation, Edmonton, Environmentalism, Research, STOP, University
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Lessons from Environmental History: Success Through Past Failures
Pivotal moments in Canadian environmentalism are not restricted to successes; failures to produce change and instances where institutions created to promote a more sustainable way of living are also important. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Public History, Research
Tagged Activism, Canada, conservation, dissertation, Environmentalism, Opinion, Researching
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Suzuki, The Nature of Things, and Public Science
Today is a double birthday in Canadian public science; Dr. David Suzuki turns 75 and the CBC program “The Nature of Things” turns 50. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Research
Tagged David Suzuki, dissertation, Environment, Reflection, science, The Nature of Things
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“The End is Nigh!”
This blog began as a place to reflect on the plethora of books and articles history doctoral students must read for comprehensive examinations. Somewhere in the middle of comps this blog became more about dissertation research and ideas that don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged comps, dissertation, Graduate Students, Opinion, Reading, Reflection
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Distinguishing between “European in Canada” and “Canadian” in History.
When do the resident of Canada cease to be “European” and become “Canadian”? In the process of reviewing for comprehensive exams in January, one of the things that continually strikes me seeming fluidity of the terminology used to describe the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, dissertation, Historiography, Politics, Reading, Reflection
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 