Scott Rutherford
Biographic Data
| ID | 217782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Rutherford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutherford |
| SIGNATURE | RUTHERFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0322-3424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 289 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
The social landscape of wolves in Canada - preliminary findings
Despite the long-standing presence of wolves (Canis lupus) in Canada, attitudes toward wolves have been understudied at the national scale. However, such data can inform wildlife management policies and robust coexistence strategies. We developed an 11-question survey to assess "the social landscape" of wolves in Canada. We explored the following research questions: 1) Are attitudes toward wolves generally positive? 2) What is the role of proximi…
Animals, Affect and Annihilation: Campaigns against Canids in Postwar Canada
This essay suggests that culling campaigns against canids in postwar Canada have striking affective dimensions. Drawing on examples of canid management in the 1950s and 60s from Nunavik, Alberta, and Ontario, we contend that the killing of supposedly rabid dogs and wild canids was predominantly about affective excess and emotional management. The wildness of these animals was perceived to lead to excessive nonhuman affectivity, which was seemingl…
Wolfish White Nationalisms? Lycanthropic Longing on the Alt-right
This article takes aim at what, on its face, appears counterintuitive: the figure of the wolf in the iconography of alt-right groups in Canada and the US. In settler colonial states until quite recently wolves have historically been reviled and exterminated. Indeed, in the US and Canada, wolves were often conflated with Indigenous peoples and both were constructed as obstacles to colonial progress. This collapse of racial and species categories c…
Canada's Other Red Scare: Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties
Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during the ’60s should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest, when its logic and acts of dispossession are held up like a mirror
The Anthropocene's animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
This article considers the irreducible indeterminacy of the coywolf and how this shapes human perceptions of the animal, as well as attempts to manage it. The hybridity of the coywolf matters very much to its interactions with humans, as well as the panic that has ensued over its evolutionary success. They are genetic and morphological intermediaries, an admixture of western coyote, eastern wolf, and dog. They hunt in packs like wolves but demons…
Environmentality and Green Governmentality
Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its problems, and the solution to those problems. The concept emerged in the 1990s and has been applied to a wide array of environmental questions. Environmentality is most keenly focused on how regimes of truth are made, how strategies of regulation are formed, and how human subjectivities are enacted with refer…
We Have Bigotry All Right-but No Alabamas: Racism and Aboriginal Protest in Canada during the 1960s
We Have Bigotry All Right—but No Alabamas"Racism and Aboriginal Protest in Canada during the 1960s Scott Rutherford (bio) I'm all for the Indians; I treat them like any other colored man. But in this area they are no damned good. Less than one percent will co-operate. Some of the older generation are O.K., but the young ones are no good. But that's the younger generation all over. Look at the South. Look at what's going on in Vietnam. George Mill…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Science and Storytelling: Al Gore and the Climate Debate
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore ac…
Non‐representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect – By Nigel THRIFT
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Theme Park
Colonialism and the Indigenous present: An interview with Bonita Lawrence
In this interview, a leading scholar of Indigeneity, Bonita Lawrence, discusses some of the crucial issues facing Native people in Canada today. She reflects on the denial of citizenship arising from the Indian Act's definition of 'Indianness' - which, in Lawrence's words, reduces cultural identity to racial identity. Also examined are the dilemmas of finding common ground between Indigenous struggles against the colonialism of the Canadian settl…
Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly
Patterns of Change The global climate record of the past 1500 years shows two long intervals of anomalous temperatures before the obvious anthropogenic warming of the 20th century: the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly between roughly 950 and 1250 A.D. and the Little Ice Age between around 1400 and 1700 A.D. It has become increasingly clear in recent years, however, that climate changes inevitably involve a complex pattern of regional changes, whose …
Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia
Following the suggestions of a recent National Research Council report [NRC (National Research Council) (2006) Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (Natl Acad Press, Washington, DC).], we reconstruct surface temperature at hemispheric and global scale for much of the last 2,000 years using a greatly expanded set of proxy data for decadal-to-centennial climate changes, recently updated instrumental data, and complementary m…
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
Christopher M. White, A Global History of the Developing World (New York: (Routledge, 2014)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
The Anthropocene's animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
This article considers the irreducible indeterminacy of the coywolf and how this shapes human perceptions of the animal, as well as attempts to manage it. The hybridity of the coywolf matters very much to its interactions with humans, as well as the panic that has ensued over its evolutionary success. They are genetic and morphological intermediaries, an admixture of western coyote, eastern wolf, and dog. They hunt in packs like wolves but demons…
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Wolfish White Nationalisms? Lycanthropic Longing on the Alt-right
This article takes aim at what, on its face, appears counterintuitive: the figure of the wolf in the iconography of alt-right groups in Canada and the US. In settler colonial states until quite recently wolves have historically been reviled and exterminated. Indeed, in the US and Canada, wolves were often conflated with Indigenous peoples and both were constructed as obstacles to colonial progress. This collapse of racial and species categories c…
Colonialism and the Indigenous present: An interview with Bonita Lawrence
In this interview, a leading scholar of Indigeneity, Bonita Lawrence, discusses some of the crucial issues facing Native people in Canada today. She reflects on the denial of citizenship arising from the Indian Act's definition of 'Indianness' - which, in Lawrence's words, reduces cultural identity to racial identity. Also examined are the dilemmas of finding common ground between Indigenous struggles against the colonialism of the Canadian settl…
Christopher M. White, A Global History of the Developing World (New York: (Routledge, 2014)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia
Following the suggestions of a recent National Research Council report [NRC (National Research Council) (2006) Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (Natl Acad Press, Washington, DC).], we reconstruct surface temperature at hemispheric and global scale for much of the last 2,000 years using a greatly expanded set of proxy data for decadal-to-centennial climate changes, recently updated instrumental data, and complementary m…
Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly
Patterns of Change The global climate record of the past 1500 years shows two long intervals of anomalous temperatures before the obvious anthropogenic warming of the 20th century: the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly between roughly 950 and 1250 A.D. and the Little Ice Age between around 1400 and 1700 A.D. It has become increasingly clear in recent years, however, that climate changes inevitably involve a complex pattern of regional changes, whose …
Theme Park
Colonialism and the Indigenous present: An interview with Bonita Lawrence
In this interview, a leading scholar of Indigeneity, Bonita Lawrence, discusses some of the crucial issues facing Native people in Canada today. She reflects on the denial of citizenship arising from the Indian Act's definition of 'Indianness' - which, in Lawrence's words, reduces cultural identity to racial identity. Also examined are the dilemmas of finding common ground between Indigenous struggles against the colonialism of the Canadian settl…
Science and Storytelling: Al Gore and the Climate Debate
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore ac…
Non‐representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect – By Nigel THRIFT
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Environmentality and Green Governmentality
Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its problems, and the solution to those problems. The concept emerged in the 1990s and has been applied to a wide array of environmental questions. Environmentality is most keenly focused on how regimes of truth are made, how strategies of regulation are formed, and how human subjectivities are enacted with refer…
We Have Bigotry All Right-but No Alabamas: Racism and Aboriginal Protest in Canada during the 1960s
We Have Bigotry All Right—but No Alabamas"Racism and Aboriginal Protest in Canada during the 1960s Scott Rutherford (bio) I'm all for the Indians; I treat them like any other colored man. But in this area they are no damned good. Less than one percent will co-operate. Some of the older generation are O.K., but the young ones are no good. But that's the younger generation all over. Look at the South. Look at what's going on in Vietnam. George Mill…
The Anthropocene's animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
This article considers the irreducible indeterminacy of the coywolf and how this shapes human perceptions of the animal, as well as attempts to manage it. The hybridity of the coywolf matters very much to its interactions with humans, as well as the panic that has ensued over its evolutionary success. They are genetic and morphological intermediaries, an admixture of western coyote, eastern wolf, and dog. They hunt in packs like wolves but demons…
Wolfish White Nationalisms? Lycanthropic Longing on the Alt-right
This article takes aim at what, on its face, appears counterintuitive: the figure of the wolf in the iconography of alt-right groups in Canada and the US. In settler colonial states until quite recently wolves have historically been reviled and exterminated. Indeed, in the US and Canada, wolves were often conflated with Indigenous peoples and both were constructed as obstacles to colonial progress. This collapse of racial and species categories c…
Canada's Other Red Scare: Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties
Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during the ’60s should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest, when its logic and acts of dispossession are held up like a mirror
Animals, Affect and Annihilation: Campaigns against Canids in Postwar Canada
This essay suggests that culling campaigns against canids in postwar Canada have striking affective dimensions. Drawing on examples of canid management in the 1950s and 60s from Nunavik, Alberta, and Ontario, we contend that the killing of supposedly rabid dogs and wild canids was predominantly about affective excess and emotional management. The wildness of these animals was perceived to lead to excessive nonhuman affectivity, which was seemingl…
The social landscape of wolves in Canada - preliminary findings
Despite the long-standing presence of wolves (Canis lupus) in Canada, attitudes toward wolves have been understudied at the national scale. However, such data can inform wildlife management policies and robust coexistence strategies. We developed an 11-question survey to assess "the social landscape" of wolves in Canada. We explored the following research questions: 1) Are attitudes toward wolves generally positive? 2) What is the role of proximi…
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
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