Peter Hodgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 2783124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hodgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodgins |
| SIGNATURE | HODGINS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3016-348X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Climate Witnessing in Canada’s National Science and Technology Collection
In a workshop on climate witnessing and material storytelling held at Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Technology – scholars, curators and artists collaboratively studied five artefacts from the museum’s collection through the lens of climate change and witnessing. Collaborators submitted interpretive captions that represent the hybrid testimonies of objects that bear witness to our changing global climate and humans who receive their s…
Recasting History
Commemorating Canada
Presenting Canada to the Scientific Gaze
In 1884, the Handbook for the Dominion of Canada was produced by the Montreal organizing committee for the first-ever meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to be held outside of the British Isles. At first glance, the Handbook resembles present-day tourist guides in that it separates the country into sections, provides historical and natural historical descriptions for each, and identifies major sights. Yet its style b…
Immunize-Nation
This exploratory essay investigates the fruitfulness of thinking about the intersection of fears of contagion and the construction of national cultural boundaries in relation to cultural nationalist discourse in general and to the specific Canadian nation-building project. It begins by tracing the rise of biopolitical discourses on contagion in the 19 th century, explores how these discourses took on a moral-cultural character with the rise of fe…
Taking the Romance out of Extraction
As in many nation-states, Canadian modernity viewed nature through two seemingly opposed gazes: the extractive and the romantic. In many ways, the Romantic movement was a response to the de-humanizing effects of industrial extraction, a process that summarily stripped the natural world of spirit and meaning. For many working within this representational tradition, however, the search for ontological meaning was a question of developing techniques…
The Haunted Terroir
This article looks at the manner in which a recent Québécois film – Francis Leclerc's Mémoires affectives (2004) – uses avant-garde formal and narratives devices to unsettle the memory-terroir-language-masculinity equation upon which traditional Québécois nationalist identity narratives rest. In so doing, it renders the Québécois terroir 'unhomely' by revealing it to be at once haunted by traumatic and fragmented memories of colonial and gendered…
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The Haunted Terroir
This article looks at the manner in which a recent Québécois film – Francis Leclerc's Mémoires affectives (2004) – uses avant-garde formal and narratives devices to unsettle the memory-terroir-language-masculinity equation upon which traditional Québécois nationalist identity narratives rest. In so doing, it renders the Québécois terroir 'unhomely' by revealing it to be at once haunted by traumatic and fragmented memories of colonial and gendered…
Taking the Romance out of Extraction
As in many nation-states, Canadian modernity viewed nature through two seemingly opposed gazes: the extractive and the romantic. In many ways, the Romantic movement was a response to the de-humanizing effects of industrial extraction, a process that summarily stripped the natural world of spirit and meaning. For many working within this representational tradition, however, the search for ontological meaning was a question of developing techniques…
Immunize-Nation
This exploratory essay investigates the fruitfulness of thinking about the intersection of fears of contagion and the construction of national cultural boundaries in relation to cultural nationalist discourse in general and to the specific Canadian nation-building project. It begins by tracing the rise of biopolitical discourses on contagion in the 19 th century, explores how these discourses took on a moral-cultural character with the rise of fe…
Presenting Canada to the Scientific Gaze
In 1884, the Handbook for the Dominion of Canada was produced by the Montreal organizing committee for the first-ever meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to be held outside of the British Isles. At first glance, the Handbook resembles present-day tourist guides in that it separates the country into sections, provides historical and natural historical descriptions for each, and identifies major sights. Yet its style b…
Commemorating Canada
Recasting History
Climate Witnessing in Canada’s National Science and Technology Collection
In a workshop on climate witnessing and material storytelling held at Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Technology – scholars, curators and artists collaboratively studied five artefacts from the museum’s collection through the lens of climate change and witnessing. Collaborators submitted interpretive captions that represent the hybrid testimonies of objects that bear witness to our changing global climate and humans who receive their s…
Art (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Witness (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)