Title

Caribou, Petroleum, and the Limits of Locality in the Canada–US Borderlands

Authors

Jenny Kerber, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-6-2015

Department

Department of English and Film Studies

Abstract

his article discusses Karsten Heuer’s 2006 book Being Caribou in light of debates in ecocriticism and border studies about how to define the local in the context of environmental problems of vast range and uncertain temporality. It explores how Heuer’s book about following the Porcupine Caribou herd’s migration engages in multiple forms of boundary crossing—between countries, between hemispheric locations, and between species—and shows how insights from Indigenous storytelling complicate the book’s appeal to environmentalist readers by asserting a prior, transnational Indigenous presence in the transboundary landscapes of present-day Alaska and the Yukon.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES on 6 October 2015, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2015.1063522

Recommended Citation

Jenny Kerber (2015) Caribou, Petroleum, and the Limits of Locality in the Canada–US Borderlands, American Review of Canadian Studies, 45:3, 332-345, DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2015.1063522