Bruce R Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3424409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce R Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce R |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0322-9504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Scaling hope
The Salvage Frontier
The transition to a neoliberal economy that has been happening in Northern Canada has promised increasing control over resources to residents. Yet, the neoliberal approach carries significant risk, especially as it attempts to extract profit from failed and abandoned public projects—what Anna Tsing calls “salvage accumulation”. In Churchill, Manitoba, the primary economic drivers—shipping and tourism—have turned the town as a place into a particu…
Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears
Within nature-based tourism research, authenticity has received a great deal of attention in relation to existential authenticity and in examining the authenticity of experiences. Yet very little research exists that explores the ways in which tourists perceive wildlife as more or less authentic, as objects in nature-based tourism discourses. This qualitative case study research explores visitors' perspectives in relation to polar bear tourism in…
Anthropocene futures
The universal discourse of the Anthropocene presents a global choice that establishes environmental collapse as the problem of the future. Yet in its desire for a green future, the threat of collapse forecloses the future as a site for creatively reimagining the social relations that led to the Anthropocene. Instead of examining structures like colonialism, environmental discourses tend to focus instead on the technological innovation of a green …
Introduction
Marx, Alienation and Dialectics Within Leisure
Although a foundational concept to leisure studies, alienation still holds significant promise for helping us understand leisure in contemporary society. Starting from Marx’s writing on alienation, this chapter illustrates the influence Marx’s writing and methods have had on leisure studies. Leisure studies draws much from Marx’s articulation of value as being produced from exchange. In the modern world, this exchange is found within the consumpt…
Embodied heritage on the French River
In 1985, Ontario's French River was designated one of the inaugural Canadian Heritage Rivers by the Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS), highlighting the important natural and cultural heritage of the French River to the Canadian nation. Specifically, the designation noted the role the French River played in the fur trade as a major link between the port of Montreal and the trading posts of the interior. Important to the CHRS is the ability to…
Recreational activism
This paper develops an analysis of recreational activism in light of the relationship between outdoor recreation and environmental politics. As part of the rise of green liberalism, it is argued that recreational activism – recreational activities that are backed by a public political campaign – works (often accidentally) to legitimise neoliberalisation in the realm of environmental politics. Drawing from two expressions of recreational activism,…
Canoe Nation
Style Matters
The concern for style in climbing has been a long-standing debate in the climbing community, ranging from discussions around the politics of bolting routes to what exactly constitutes a first ascent. These debates, when read through Lacanian psychoanalysis, illustrate a larger concern for the construction of identity within rock climbing. Style becomes a strategy of differentiation that works through the signifier of whiteness to promise wholenes…
Ichnofossils from the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation of South Carolina
Bruce R. Erickson, Robert C. Melchior, Ichnofossils from the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 246-254
Crocodilians of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina Coastal Plain
Bruce R. Erickson, Crocodilians of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina Coastal Plain, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 196-214
A Palaeophid Snake from the Late Paleocene of South Carolina
Bruce R. Erickson, A Palaeophid Snake from the Late Paleocene of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 215-220
Anthropocene futures
The universal discourse of the Anthropocene presents a global choice that establishes environmental collapse as the problem of the future. Yet in its desire for a green future, the threat of collapse forecloses the future as a site for creatively reimagining the social relations that led to the Anthropocene. Instead of examining structures like colonialism, environmental discourses tend to focus instead on the technological innovation of a green …
Introduction
Recreational activism
This paper develops an analysis of recreational activism in light of the relationship between outdoor recreation and environmental politics. As part of the rise of green liberalism, it is argued that recreational activism – recreational activities that are backed by a public political campaign – works (often accidentally) to legitimise neoliberalisation in the realm of environmental politics. Drawing from two expressions of recreational activism,…
Style Matters
The concern for style in climbing has been a long-standing debate in the climbing community, ranging from discussions around the politics of bolting routes to what exactly constitutes a first ascent. These debates, when read through Lacanian psychoanalysis, illustrate a larger concern for the construction of identity within rock climbing. Style becomes a strategy of differentiation that works through the signifier of whiteness to promise wholenes…
The Salvage Frontier
The transition to a neoliberal economy that has been happening in Northern Canada has promised increasing control over resources to residents. Yet, the neoliberal approach carries significant risk, especially as it attempts to extract profit from failed and abandoned public projects—what Anna Tsing calls “salvage accumulation”. In Churchill, Manitoba, the primary economic drivers—shipping and tourism—have turned the town as a place into a particu…
Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears
Within nature-based tourism research, authenticity has received a great deal of attention in relation to existential authenticity and in examining the authenticity of experiences. Yet very little research exists that explores the ways in which tourists perceive wildlife as more or less authentic, as objects in nature-based tourism discourses. This qualitative case study research explores visitors' perspectives in relation to polar bear tourism in…
Embodied heritage on the French River
In 1985, Ontario's French River was designated one of the inaugural Canadian Heritage Rivers by the Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS), highlighting the important natural and cultural heritage of the French River to the Canadian nation. Specifically, the designation noted the role the French River played in the fur trade as a major link between the port of Montreal and the trading posts of the interior. Important to the CHRS is the ability to…
Canoe Nation
Ichnofossils from the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation of South Carolina
Bruce R. Erickson, Robert C. Melchior, Ichnofossils from the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 246-254
Crocodilians of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina Coastal Plain
Bruce R. Erickson, Crocodilians of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina Coastal Plain, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 196-214
A Palaeophid Snake from the Late Paleocene of South Carolina
Bruce R. Erickson, A Palaeophid Snake from the Late Paleocene of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 215-220
Style Matters
The concern for style in climbing has been a long-standing debate in the climbing community, ranging from discussions around the politics of bolting routes to what exactly constitutes a first ascent. These debates, when read through Lacanian psychoanalysis, illustrate a larger concern for the construction of identity within rock climbing. Style becomes a strategy of differentiation that works through the signifier of whiteness to promise wholenes…
Canoe Nation
Recreational activism
This paper develops an analysis of recreational activism in light of the relationship between outdoor recreation and environmental politics. As part of the rise of green liberalism, it is argued that recreational activism – recreational activities that are backed by a public political campaign – works (often accidentally) to legitimise neoliberalisation in the realm of environmental politics. Drawing from two expressions of recreational activism,…
Embodied heritage on the French River
In 1985, Ontario's French River was designated one of the inaugural Canadian Heritage Rivers by the Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS), highlighting the important natural and cultural heritage of the French River to the Canadian nation. Specifically, the designation noted the role the French River played in the fur trade as a major link between the port of Montreal and the trading posts of the interior. Important to the CHRS is the ability to…
Marx, Alienation and Dialectics Within Leisure
Although a foundational concept to leisure studies, alienation still holds significant promise for helping us understand leisure in contemporary society. Starting from Marx’s writing on alienation, this chapter illustrates the influence Marx’s writing and methods have had on leisure studies. Leisure studies draws much from Marx’s articulation of value as being produced from exchange. In the modern world, this exchange is found within the consumpt…
Anthropocene futures
The universal discourse of the Anthropocene presents a global choice that establishes environmental collapse as the problem of the future. Yet in its desire for a green future, the threat of collapse forecloses the future as a site for creatively reimagining the social relations that led to the Anthropocene. Instead of examining structures like colonialism, environmental discourses tend to focus instead on the technological innovation of a green …
Introduction
Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears
Within nature-based tourism research, authenticity has received a great deal of attention in relation to existential authenticity and in examining the authenticity of experiences. Yet very little research exists that explores the ways in which tourists perceive wildlife as more or less authentic, as objects in nature-based tourism discourses. This qualitative case study research explores visitors' perspectives in relation to polar bear tourism in…
The Salvage Frontier
The transition to a neoliberal economy that has been happening in Northern Canada has promised increasing control over resources to residents. Yet, the neoliberal approach carries significant risk, especially as it attempts to extract profit from failed and abandoned public projects—what Anna Tsing calls “salvage accumulation”. In Churchill, Manitoba, the primary economic drivers—shipping and tourism—have turned the town as a place into a particu…
Scaling hope
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works)