Pyrogeography in Context: Encountering Wildland Fire in Canadian National Parks

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dc.contributor.advisorRoth, Robin
dc.contributor.authorSutherland, Colin Robert
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T14:00:23Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T14:00:23Z
dc.date.copyright2020-09
dc.date.issued2020-11-13
dc.date.updated2020-11-13T14:00:23Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThe management of wildland fire in North America is premised on fire suppression, as has been the case for much of the last century. As the roles of wildland fire in ecosystem functions are better understood and the adverse impacts of fire suppression are made clear, wildland fire suppression approaches are being re-evaluated. In protected areas such as Canadian national parks, this realization has led to the reintroduction of fire to park landscapes to achieve ecological and risk reduction goals. Through a multi-sited institutional analysis of Parks Canada, this research explores the complex relationship between conservation, fire management, and the maintenance of value in Canadian national parks. In this study I position Parks Canada within the context of Canadian settler colonialism and Canadian national parks as an ongoing component of the relationship between settlers and Canadian territory. I analyze how fire management has developed and is enacted in Canadian national parks and pay particular attention to the practice of prescribed burning as an alternative to full suppression. I argue that the political-economic context of national parks along with the logics of species conservation and so-called ecological integrity narrate contemporary fire management practices in Canadas national parks. I also show how a set of more-than-human actors, and the process of fire itself, are enlisted to carry out these mandates while also functioning as important companions in identifying the limits of these contemporary policies. I argue that Parks Canadas dominion over fire and landscapes that burn is not absolute and that this is a productive context to think-with in the so-called Anthropocene.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37986
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectEnvironmental studies
dc.subject.keywordsFire
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical ecology
dc.subject.keywordsParks Canada
dc.subject.keywordsNational parks
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsWildfire
dc.subject.keywordsWildland fire
dc.subject.keywordsEthnography
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical geography
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental studies
dc.subject.keywordsMore-than-human
dc.subject.keywordsMulti-species ethnography
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional analysis
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental management
dc.subject.keywordsFire management
dc.subject.keywordsBureaucracy
dc.subject.keywordsBiopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsSpecies conservation
dc.subject.keywordsSocial studies of science
dc.titlePyrogeography in Context: Encountering Wildland Fire in Canadian National Parks
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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