Tina Loo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1050883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Loo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Loo |
| SIGNATURE | LOO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pipe Dreams: Imagining Different Futures for Canada in the 1970s
This article examines the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (1974–7) for what it reveals of Canada’s 1970s. Led by Justice Thomas R. Berger, the inquiry assessed the regional impacts of a proposed natural gas pipeline across the northern Yukon and Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest Territories. However, it also provoked a broader debate about what Canada should be, revealing deep divisions over development, democracy, and progress. I explore how d…
Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene
New France Beyond the Atlantic Turn
New France Beyond the Atlantic Turn / La Nouvelle-France au-delà du tournant atlantique
La Nouvelle-France au-delà du tournant atlantique
J’aimerais que ce soit aussi simple: Perspectives historiques sur la commémoration et la mémoire
I Wish It Were That Simple: Historical Perspectives on Commemoration and Memory
Is the Revolution a Click Away? Historical Perspectives on Digital History / La révolution est-elle à portée de clic? Perspectives historiques sur l’histoire numérique
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939
From Politics to the Political: Historical Perspectives on the New Canadian Political History / De la politique au politique : Perspectives historiques sur la nouvelle histoire politique canadienne
“Artisans of Their Destiny”: Participation, Power, and Place in Quebec’s Backcountry
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Foremost, we wish to thank the participants at the original Edmonton workshop in 2014, including especially the contributors to this volume, who continued
Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and the Managers in a “Post-Normal” Age
This article examines barren ground caribou conservation in the Canadian north from the 1940s to the 1980s, reframing it as an important moment in the history of science. I argue that in order to make sense of government management policy, we need to understand conservation as a “crisis science.” The possibility of species extinction impelled biologists to act without knowing all they might have wished to know. To address this uncertainty, new pe…
High Modernism, Conflict, and the Nature of Change in Canada: A Look at Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State (1998), anthropologist James C. Scott's critique of twentieth-century development and the ideology of “high modernism” that animates it, has shaped the writing of Canadian history, as it has in so many other fields. Environmental historians of Canada, particularly those who study hydroelectric development in the postwar period, have found it especially useful because it links social and environmental change to political power,…
Lawrence Grassi: From Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains by Elio Costa and Gabriele Scardellato | Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906–1974 by PearlAnn Reichwein | Conrad Kain: Letter…
Missed Connections: Why Canadian Environmental History Could Use More of the World, and Vice Versa
Canoe Nation: Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon
Journal Article Canoe Nation: Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon Get access Canoe Nation: Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon. By Erickson Bruce. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. xvii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $95.00, cloth; $32.95, paper.) Tina Loo Tina Loo University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 45…
An Environmental History of Progress: Damming the Peace and Columbia Rivers
This paper explores the spurt of dam-building in British Columbia from the 1960s to the 1980s, offering a different interpretation of high modernism and the changes it caused. It does so by focusing on the agents of high modernity: the engineers, geologists, and construction workers who designed, built, and drove the machinery of progress. By taking the synoptic seriously, we make three related arguments. First, dam-building was characterized by …
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Journal Article Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada Get access Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. By Pyne Stephen J.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xxix + 547 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $85.00, cloth; $34.95, paper.) Tina Loo Tina Loo University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2…
The Culture of Hunting in Canada
The Culture of Hunting in Canada Get access The Culture of Hunting in Canada. Edited by Manore Jean L. Miner Dale G.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, index. $32.95, paper.) Tina Loo Tina Loo University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/39…
States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Since the early days of the fur trade, wildlife has been powerfully and inspiringly emblematic of Canada. Yet the story of saving Canada’s wildlife is largely unknown. States of Nature is one of the first books to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots. While noting the influence of celebrity conservationists such as Jack Miner and Grey Owl, Tina Loo emphasizes the impact of ordina…
Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River
This article examines the environmental and social impacts of damming the Peace River in northern British Columbia as a way of exploring the challenges associated with doing environmental justice. It argues that environmental justice is not simply a matter of rectifying the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Instead, doing environmental justice requires coming to terms with the different scales at which environmental change is appr…
States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century Get access States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. By Loo Tina. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. xxiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Joseph E. Taylor, III Joseph E. Taylor, III Simon Fraser University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River
This article examines the environmental and social impacts of damming the Peace River in northern British Columbia as a way of exploring the challenges associated with doing environmental justice. It argues that environmental justice is not simply a matter of rectifying the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Instead, doing environmental justice requires coming to terms with the different scales at which environmental change is appr…
Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969–1999
Research Article| February 01 2001 Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969–1999 Carolyn Strange, Carolyn Strange Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tina Loo Tina Loo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2001) 23 (1): 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2001.23.1.55 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio S…
Of Moose and Men: Hunting for Masculinities in British Columbia, 1880-1939
This article examines gender formation. It argues that big game hunting in British Columbia constituted its practitioners as masculine and bourgeois, while simultaneously racializing and sexualizing them. The same activity also constructed an alternative masculinity for aboriginal guides, one inspired by the Trickster figure and centered on deception rather than confrontation
Rock Prison of Liberation: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination
Research Article| October 01 2000 “Rock Prison of Liberation”: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination Tina Loo; Tina Loo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carolyn Strange Carolyn Strange Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 27–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2000-78-27 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tina Loo…
Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and the Managers in a “Post-Normal” Age
This article examines barren ground caribou conservation in the Canadian north from the 1940s to the 1980s, reframing it as an important moment in the history of science. I argue that in order to make sense of government management policy, we need to understand conservation as a “crisis science.” The possibility of species extinction impelled biologists to act without knowing all they might have wished to know. To address this uncertainty, new pe…
The Traveling Show Menace: Contested Regulation in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario
The authors apply recent work on regulation to anthropological analyses of community. In Ontario, Canada, the Provincial Police, community leaders, and the traveling show industry itself regulated shows, albeit to different ends and through different means. For rural Ontarians, invoking the law to combat crooked American carnivals articulated and reinforced local and national identity. Distinctions between insiders and outsiders were amplified be…
Dan Cranmer's Potlatch: Law as Coercion, Symbol, and Rhetoric in British Columbia, 1884–1951
The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Crime and Criminal Justice in Canadian History
The volume covers criminal justice history at various times in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. It is a study which opens up greater vistas of understanding to all those interested in the interstices of law, crime, and punishment.
Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821–1871
In 1821, British Columbia was the exclusive domain of an independent Native population and the Hudson's Bay Company. By te time it entered Confederation some fifty years later, a British colonial government was firmly in place. In this book Tina Loo recounts the shaping of the new regime
Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries
The Traveling Show Menace: Contested Regulation in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario
The authors apply recent work on regulation to anthropological analyses of community. In Ontario, Canada, the Provincial Police, community leaders, and the traveling show industry itself regulated shows, albeit to different ends and through different means. For rural Ontarians, invoking the law to combat crooked American carnivals articulated and reinforced local and national identity. Distinctions between insiders and outsiders were amplified be…
Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871
Journal Article Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821–1871 Get access Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821–1871. By Loo Tina. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xii + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $18.95, paper.) W. Thomas White W. Thomas White James J. Hill Library, St. Paul Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Spectacular Justice: The Circus on Trial, and the Trial as Circus, Picton, 1903
The 1903 murder of one Black circus labourer by another in Picton, Ontario, led to the unlikely juxtaposition of two spectacles, the trial and the circus, and provides the opportunity to read the former institution in light of the latter. In doing so, we come to several conclusions about the modern circus, the trial of 'Side Show Shorty,' trials in general, and the relationship between law and community. We argue that 'Shorty's' acquittal may be …
Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871
Making Good: Law and Moral Regulation in Canada, 1867-1939.
Making Good: Law and Moral Regulation in Canada, 1867-1939
Young Canada was often portrayed as a virginal woman or as a healthy frontiersman, and the ideals of purity, industry, and self-discipline were celebrated as essential features of the Canadian identity. To ensure that Canadians lived up to this image, different levels of government passed a variety of laws and created an expanding range of institutions to enforce them. Making Good looks at the changing relationship between law and morality in Can…
Rock Prison of Liberation: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination
Research Article| October 01 2000 “Rock Prison of Liberation”: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination Tina Loo; Tina Loo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carolyn Strange Carolyn Strange Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 27–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2000-78-27 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tina Loo…
Making a Modern Wilderness: Conserving Wildlife in Twentieth-Century Canada
In Canada the twentieth century was marked by the making of a modern wilderness. In the first half of the last century, provincial government bureaucrats engineered the environment in response to market demand from urban middle-class men for a particular kind of encounter with the natural world. The article explores the emergence of this construction of the environment, arguing that it was modern in five respects: in what people sought from natur…
Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999
Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969–1999
Research Article| February 01 2001 Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969–1999 Carolyn Strange, Carolyn Strange Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tina Loo Tina Loo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2001) 23 (1): 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2001.23.1.55 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio S…
Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
This text reviews encounters by explorers, traders, and politicians with the territory and Native people of Vancouver Island. It questions premises underlying much of BC historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences
Of Moose and Men: Hunting for Masculinities in British Columbia, 1880-1939
This article examines gender formation. It argues that big game hunting in British Columbia constituted its practitioners as masculine and bourgeois, while simultaneously racializing and sexualizing them. The same activity also constructed an alternative masculinity for aboriginal guides, one inspired by the Trickster figure and centered on deception rather than confrontation
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Since the early days of the fur trade, wildlife has been powerfully and inspiringly emblematic of Canada. Yet the story of saving Canada’s wildlife is largely unknown. States of Nature is one of the first books to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots. While noting the influence of celebrity conservationists such as Jack Miner and Grey Owl, Tina Loo emphasizes the impact of ordina…
Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River
This article examines the environmental and social impacts of damming the Peace River in northern British Columbia as a way of exploring the challenges associated with doing environmental justice. It argues that environmental justice is not simply a matter of rectifying the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Instead, doing environmental justice requires coming to terms with the different scales at which environmental change is appr…
States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century Get access States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. By Loo Tina. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. xxiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Joseph E. Taylor, III Joseph E. Taylor, III Simon Fraser University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
The Culture of Hunting in Canada
The Culture of Hunting in Canada Get access The Culture of Hunting in Canada. Edited by Manore Jean L. Miner Dale G.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, index. $32.95, paper.) Tina Loo Tina Loo University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/39…
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Journal Article Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada Get access Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. By Pyne Stephen J.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xxix + 547 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $85.00, cloth; $34.95, paper.) Tina Loo Tina Loo University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2…
An Environmental History of Progress: Damming the Peace and Columbia Rivers
This paper explores the spurt of dam-building in British Columbia from the 1960s to the 1980s, offering a different interpretation of high modernism and the changes it caused. It does so by focusing on the agents of high modernity: the engineers, geologists, and construction workers who designed, built, and drove the machinery of progress. By taking the synoptic seriously, we make three related arguments. First, dam-building was characterized by …
Missed Connections: Why Canadian Environmental History Could Use More of the World, and Vice Versa
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