The First French-Canadian National Parks: Kouchibouguac and Forillon in History and Memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Rudin
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Creation

Until the mid-1970s, the creation of a national park in Canada meant the removal of the resident population whose presence was viewed as incompatible with the preservation of nature and its presentation to visitors. Like other high-modernist schemes of the time, park projects were conceived by agents of the state whose knowledge trumped that of the people on the ground whose lives were viewed as worthless. The first nineteen of Canada’s national parks were created in areas populated predominately by English-speakers so that it was only with the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick in late 1969 and Forillon National Park in Quebec eight months later that French-speakers bore the brunt of forced removal. This essay explores the dynamics regarding the creation of the first two French-Canadian national parks, both of which emerged in the midst of révolutions tranquilles, one acadienne and the other québécoise. This context shaped both the process that led to the development of the parks and to the very different ways that they have been remembered over the past forty years.

scholarly journals IDEAS-THEMATIC DIVERSITY LEZGIN PEOPLE RIDDLES

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-365
Author(s):  
A.R. Gasharova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Artistic Skill

The Lezgi folk mystery is one of the interesting genres of Lezgi folklore, created by the working masses for many centuries. Studying them has scientific and practical pedagogical significance. There are no special works devoted to Lezgian folk puzzles. This explains the relevance of our appeal to this genre of folklore. The object of our study is the genre diversity of Lezgian folk puzzles. The main objectives of the work are: conducting a comprehensive, diverse study of the Lezgian folk puzzles and obtaining a holistic view of them. To achieve this goal, we set and solve a number of interrelated tasks, the priority of which are: a) through the prism of folk riddles to consider individual aspects of everyday life, to show how it reflected the worldview of the simple working people in the past; b) to characterize the features and to reveal the artistic skill of the people in the creation of verbal works; c) identify the origins and basic artistic principles of Lezgi folk riddles, etc. The need for a holistic understanding of the actual, theoretical and pedagogical heritage of the Lezgian folk mystery led to historical-comparative and comparative methods of its study.

scholarly journals Conserving Shells in Kenya

Oryx ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart M. Evans ◽  
Graham Knowles ◽  
Charlis Pye-Smith ◽  
Rachel Scott
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Wild Populations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Made In

Over-collecting of shells on the Kenya coast, mainly for sale to tourists, has almost denuded some popular and accessible sites. In some formerly rich areas few molluscs can now be found, and collecting has shifted to more inaccessible sites. The authors describe an investigation they made in 1972 and 1974 into stocks held by dealers and the effects on the wild populations. They emphasise the importance of the marine national parks at Malindi and Watamu, where regular patrolling effectively prevents collecting and there are signs that cowries at least may now be re-establishing themselves. The creation of a third and much larger marine national park, near Shimoni, will protect another area rich in shells.

Co-management and the creation of national parks in Indonesia: positive lessons learned from the Togean Islands National Park

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1183-1199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochamad Indrawan ◽  
Celia Lowe ◽  
Sundjaya ◽  
Christo Hutabarat ◽  
Aubrey Black
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals Use of Multiple Methods: An Examination of Constraints Effecting Ethnic Minority Visitor Use of National Parks and Management Implications

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina S. Roberts ◽  
Donald A. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Park Visitation ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Visitor Use ◽  
Recreation Participation

Understanding outdoor recreation participation and national park visitation by members of ethnic minority groups has been a particular focus of outdoor recreation researchers for the past twenty years. Attracting ethnic minorities, and understanding their recreation needs and interests, demands a multi-faceted approach and sustained commitment not only by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) but by other resource management agencies as well.

scholarly journals Developing Co-management for Conservation and Local Development in China’s National Parks: Findings from Focus Groups in the Sanjiangyuan Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Ma ◽  
Brent Swallow ◽  
J. Marc Foggin ◽  
Linsheng Zhong ◽  
Weiguo Sang
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
The People ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
National Park System

Abstract Environmental protection in China has progressed significantly in the past decades, including introduction of more collaborative approaches in the management of protected areas and the establishment of a new national park system. Many milestones have been achieved. While such developments are driven largely by national and global goals, the people who are most affected are those who reside in the protected landscapes. A range of strategies have been proposed and tried in relation to local development, with many important lessons learned, yet little has been heard to date directly from the community stakeholders themselves. In this study we report on feedback and recommendations received from focus groups in vicinity of China’s first national park, Sanjiangyuan, regarding lived experiences of “community co-management” by Tibetan herders and local officials. Overall, the most recent National Park model is deemed successful, albeit with some notable perceived limitations. Focus group participants recommend more balanced compensation opportunities including for communities living outside but in close proximity to the paranagement and health care) and establishing a more effective compensation or insurance system to offset econok, eased restrictions on ecotourism, provision of public services for communities in the park (especially waste mmic losses due to wildlife damage.

scholarly journals Landscapes and national imagination: The role of national parks in the formation of national belonging in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 12001
Author(s):  
Asya Ece Uzmay
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The People ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
The Usa

When the concept of a national park idea was first established in the USA, it was promoted as the ownership of the landscape for the use of the people while emphasizing national identity through nature. As a latecomer to this movement, this paper describes part of the journey of the establishment of national parks in Turkey, with a focus on the period between 1950 and 1975. In this paper I argue that the national parks were a means of constructing a national identity through the transformative power of modernism on the countryside. Focusing on different national parks from Turkey, I interrogated the role of these so-called pristine and primitive lands in the construction of national identity through different forms. Under the threat of neoliberal economic policies and new approaches to understanding of nature these protected and reserved pieces of “nature” deserve more attention.

scholarly journals References to Iconic Landscapes in the Debate Surrounding the Founding of Finland’s National Parks, circa 1880–1910

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 741-764
Author(s):  
Juho Niemelä ◽  
Esa Ruuskanen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
Vegetation Zones ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Artificial Boundaries

This article reviews the formation of the idea of national parks in Finland between the 1880s and 1910s. It argues that both the term and the concept of national park evolved in a long-lasting deliberative process between competing definitions. The main actors in this process were geographers, forestry scientists and NGOs devoted to popular education and the promotion of tourism. As a result of the debates, iconic landscapes and species were located in Finnish nature inside the wholly artificial boundaries of the national parks. Eventually, both the science and tourism poles of the decades-long debate were incorporated into the plans and visions for Finland’s national parks in the early twentieth century. The national park debate between the 1880s and 1910s focused mainly on landscapes, land formations and vegetation zones, and not so much on the wildlife or indeed the people who lived inside these areas.

scholarly journals RELIGION AND ATTITUDES OF POLITICAL PARTIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Maria Serafimova
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Creation

It presents no problem for a well-established, stable social world to go from the past, through the present and towards the future. However, what if the crises are consecutive and never ending? A necessity of security and support, a need of firm grounds for the worldly and social universe of the people, appears in that case. Religion could help to legitimate the purposes and actions of a society, to strengthen the determination of its people. In fact, it symbolizes a kind of social solidarity and a collective sentiment. The whole of the religious answers constitutes the sacred universe of traditional societies, but it could be included in the creation of a modern sacred, given that “sacred” does not mean only “religious”. Essential part of this presentation is based on sociological surveys, conducted using qualitative methods, rather than quantitative ones.

scholarly journals Performance as Counter-memory:

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Zane Radzobe
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Documentary Theatre ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Twenty First Century

The article introduces the topic of Latvian documentary theatre of the second decade of the twenty-first century using Michael Foucault’s concept of counter-memory. The article analyses a series of performances by artists of the Latvian post-Soviet and post-memory generation dealing with history and memory discourses and highlights the main strategies of use of countermemory discourses in the creation of national, cultural, and individual identities; emphasizing memory as a construct and highlighting strategies of its creation and maintenance; emphasizing the oppressive nature of dominant-discourses; a disassociation with the past and memory, both cultural and individual.

scholarly journals Unusual Suspects: “Allies in the Park, Are Closer Than They Appear”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
candace gossen
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Right ◽  
Electrical Impulses ◽  
Field Report

One season, 1039 hours, as a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde National Park. Interps we are called, observing, telling stories, being stewards of the past, present and future of wildness. Wildness in the animal world is reserved to only 4% of the planets millions of animals, Wildness is why people come to the National Parks, they are the last stronghold of beauty that bears presence in each of our souls. As a Field Scientist it is all about observation over time, and if you are lucky even, at the right time in the right place, a story makes itself known. This year, 2021, finally after the unlucky stall of 2020, we were back at work in the park and I am the lucky one to tell this story of how nature is working together as allies to regrow the burned forests of this place. Who are the characters in nature that are regenerating this burned landscape?I call them the “Unusual Suspects” and use the adage that we all have seen on our review mirrors “Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.” I have rewritten those words as “Allies in the Park Are Closer Than They Appear.” Those allies, in this case, the Yucca baccata (banana yucca), the most important plant of cultural use by the Ancient Pueblo People at Mesa Verde, the Pinyon-Juniper forest and particularly the Juniperus utahensis, Pack rats and horses. There is much more than is visible going on, but these are the key players to the questions I asked: Why are the burned Juniper trees still standing after twenty years, some 90 years ago burned, still standing, how? And where are the new saplings, it appears that the trees are not growing back. The last 20 years the forests have stood still like an eerie Tim Burton movie. This field report includes my daily observations on the mesas over six months, data collection on 175 trees and new discoveries found that indeed new trees are growing back, with the help of their allies, the unusual suspects working together in regenerating life after wildfires. I can say for certain that regeneration takes communication, and in this case it is between nature through chemical signals, electrical impulses and heartbeats, neural networks working under the surface, deep in the earth that are keeping the ecosystem intact, strong and diverse. I’ve offered insight from these types of communication in ecology that we are just learning to understand that are intriguing and calling for all humans to pay attention.

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