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Cover: Andreas Rutkauskas, from the series After the Fire, August 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Current Issue
50, no. 2 (Fall 2025)
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Contested Landscapes: Wilderness Parks and Shifting Narratives
Guest editors: Stéphanie Hornstein & Georgia Phillips-Amos 


CONTENTS

Editors' Note
A Note of Thanks to Mitchell B. Frank

INTRODUCTION
Stéphanie Hornstein & Georgia Phillips-Amos | Contested Landscapes: Wilderness Parks and Shifting Narratives

Articles
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• Shabana Ali & Moss Norman | Exogenous Others and the Decolonization of “The Great Canadian Outdoorsman”
• Siobhan Angus | Wastelands and Wilderness: David Milne’s Mining Landscapes
• Liz Cavaliere | Views from the Lake: International Harmony and Historical Erasure in Photographs of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

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• Joëlle Dubé | Holiday Native Land (2023) de Nicolas Renaud et Brian Virostek : critique d’un appétit impérial insatiable
• Tammer El-Sheikh | Hiker, Painter, Diasporic Picture Maker: Artistic Integrity and Critical Regionalism in the Margins of Canada’s Parks Discourse
• Hugues Lefebvre-Morasse | « Beautiful physiques, dizzying sex and exhilarating settings ». Production et reproduction des récits nationaux et des imaginaires homoérotiques dans les campings gais québécois
• Carmen Levy-Milne & Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison | From Turtle Island to Palestine: How Rehab Nazzal’s Canada Park Resists Settler (Re)Creation
  
• Drew Lyness | Challenge of the Yukon: Visual Identity and Subsurface Narratives in the Phantasmagoric Klondike
  
• MJ Thompson | Postcards from the Shore: Embodying the View along Cape Cod’s Outer Beach

Zinnia Naqvi, The Wanderers, Niagara Falls, 1988, 2019. Inkjet print, 30 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist.

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Lesbian Rangers, Frankfurt, Germany Tour of Duty, 2011. Photo: Wolfgang Gunzel.

PRACTICES

• Alexandre Campeau-Vallée | Disposer du wilderness à Niagara Falls: un essai photographique 
• Nyssa Komorowski | Both Wild and Claimed: Photographing “Toronto’s Urban Wilderness” at Tommy Thompson Park 
• Andreas Rutkauskas | The Future on Fire

 
INTERVIEWS

• Georgia Phillips-Amos and Stéphanie Hornstein | Circumventing Protocol and Building Collaborative Histories: A Conversation on Freedom Tours with Tania Willard, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Camille Turner  
• Desiree Valadares | Tours of Duty: Lesbian National Parks and Services—Catching Up with Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

Reviews

• Emily Cadotte | Sarah E. K. Smith, Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America 
• Madeline Collins | Yaniya Lee, Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art 
• Isabelle Gapp | Elysia French and Amanda White, eds., Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada 
• Alexis Janssen | Pierre B. Landry, Jean Paul Riopelle en mouvement (1923-2002) 
• James Michael Levinsohn & Rupert Nuttle | Maryse Ouellet and Amanda Boetzkes, eds., Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era 
• Florent Michaud & Anne-Julie Richard | Maxime Coulombe, Désir du noir. Sur le gothique 
• Raphaël Ouellet | Anthony Grégoire et Marianne-Sarah Saulnier, dirs., Artiste-chercheur·se sur le terrain 
• Sarah Quinton | Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger, eds., Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960–2000​ 
• Justina Spencer | Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson, eds., Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

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