Dianne Newell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dianne Newell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Newell |
| SIGNATURE | NEWELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fishing Places, Fishing People
Renewing "That Which Was Almost Lost or Forgotten"
The pressure on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to solve socio-economic issues globally begs the question: What is the state of TEK today, given the economic, social, and cultural ruptures it has endured during the past 200 years? The author traces how historical collaborative work between ethnographic pairings of “insiders” and “outsiders” created partnerships between some prominent anthropologists and local Indigenous research collaborat…
Situando o Instituto de Estudos Avançados Peter Wall
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Daughter of Earth
Although Judith Merril is well known as an important editor and anthologist during the formative period of North American sf from the 1940s through the 1970s, her fiction has been largely overlooked by sf scholars. Even feminist work tends to proceed from the assumption that women did not become an important force in sf until the 1970s, and so excludes Merril’s writing from consideration as feminist sf. This article reconsiders the importance of …
For the Extended Family and the Universe
This article, in exploring why so few SF writers produce compelling or innovative autobiographies, examines Judith Merril's controversial memoir, Better to Have Loved, written in collaboration with her granddaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary. The memoir authorship and form have no equal in SF circles. Merril (1923-1997) was a central, socially radical powerhouse in the extraordinary "man's world" of modern science fiction, tracing her career through New …
Sisters or Strangers
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Life Lived ‘like a map with all the rivers and hills showing’
This essay examines an autobiographical vignette by Canadian painter-writer Emily Carr (1871–1945) through the lens of Frye’s idea of the ‘explorer-painter’. Through wide-ranging research, the article touches on historical concepts of the Canadian West Coast, the role of the visual and of transportation structures in travellers’ experiences of landscape, the tension between the natural and industrial technological realms (particularly in regard t…
Rugged Domesticity
In the four science fiction novels explored here, the post-atomic frontier is represented as a modern version of American civilization’s ongoing cyclical encounter with savagery, as identified by Rickard Slotkin. Although normalcy assumed critical importance as a means by which postwar American culture could regenerate from its encounter with savagery after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the idealization of normalcy conflicted with other …
Fish versus Power
Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores th…
Home truths
This paper develops a political reading of women writers’/writer-editors’ involvement in the American atomic age, Cold War-era fields of science fiction and popular science writing. Judith Merril (1928-97) in her post-war science-fiction writing and Rachel Carson (1907-64) in her international best-selling anti-pesticide polemic, Silent Spring (1962), capitalized on popular, mass-market literary genres as vehicles for social criticism in what Jes…
Subject Matter
Making Salmon
Journal Article Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. By Joseph E. Taylor III. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xviii, 421 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0295-97840-6.) Get access Dianne Newell Dianne Newell University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1592–1593, htt…
Introduction
Notes on Dianne Newell, Tangled Webs of History
A Response
Tangled Webs of History
My Past Is Now
Dynamic Traditions
The new approaches to the history of production technology view technological change as a dynamic social and cultural process, one in which class, gender, and race intersect. Recently, these ideas found their way into a temporary exhibit, Cannery Days: A Chapter in the Lives of the Heiltsuk, at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. The curator of this exhibit, Pamela Windsor (now Pamela Brown), is a Heiltsuk woman from the I…
Tangled Webs of History
Tangled Webs of History
When British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, First Nations people (referred to then and in Newell's book as Indians) constituted a majority, yet were not consulted in negotiating terms of union. Nowhere in process of confederation were institutions, governments and economies of First Nations given serious consideration as founding principles of new Dominion. The Fathers of Confederation thought that, with implementation of a paternalistic…
Tangled Webs of History
Awarded the Canadian Historical Association's British Columbia and Yukon Certificate of Merit Award for 'Professor Newell's courageous critique of a history of mismanagement and misunderstanding in one of the region's key sectors should provide pause for thought to anyone with an interest in the workings of the modern state.'
Survivals
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
Journal Article The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game and Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing Get access The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game. Edited by Newell Dianne. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xvii + 303 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)Winds of Change: Women in Nort…
Making Salmon
Journal Article Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. By Joseph E. Taylor III. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xviii, 421 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0295-97840-6.) Get access Dianne Newell Dianne Newell University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1592–1593, htt…
Fish versus Power
Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores th…
The Rationality of Mechanization in the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry before the Second World War
An industry may fail to adopt or to extend new technology for many reasons other than lack of entrepreneurial vision. In the following article, Professor Newell considers the halting and incomplete diffusion of mechanization and continuous-process technology in the salmon-canning industry of the Pacific Northwest. She shows that the fragile and cyclical character of the natural resource, the labor system employed, and the remote and isolated loca…
Dispersal and concentration
Tangled Webs of History
Home truths
This paper develops a political reading of women writers’/writer-editors’ involvement in the American atomic age, Cold War-era fields of science fiction and popular science writing. Judith Merril (1928-97) in her post-war science-fiction writing and Rachel Carson (1907-64) in her international best-selling anti-pesticide polemic, Silent Spring (1962), capitalized on popular, mass-market literary genres as vehicles for social criticism in what Jes…
My Past Is Now
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia Packers Ltd., one of the few pioneer fish-packing companies that remains viable today. He was recognised by friends and enemies alike as the unofficial industry historian not only for British Columbia but also for Alaska and the Pacific US coastal states. D…
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Technological innovation and persistence in the Ontario oilfields
Latest technologies may not always be applicable to local situations. Pumping methods on the low‐yield Ontario oilfields are described to illustrate the persistence of a relatively primitive technology where there was no clear economic advantage in increasing the rate of flow. The same techniques are shown to have been in use in Europe in the seventeenth century, if not before
The Workers' World at Hagley
All in a Day's Work
The major scientific discoveries and key inventions of the Industrial Revolution occurred primarily in advanced economies where incentives were the greatest. Canada was a marginal supplier of natural resources and therefore depended on more advanced economies for technological innovations, skilled labor, capital, and markets.' This reliance on imported technology inevitably involved Canadians in experimentation, modification, and improvement to s…
Technology on the Frontier
This book tells about a frontier region in economic transition. Its focus is the successful adoption of new technology to the particular economic and engineering circumstances associated with the newness or frontier nature of Ontario mining to 1890
Technology on the Frontier
Technology on the Frontier
Technology on the Frontier
Journal Article Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario Get access Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. By Newell Dianne. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. xi + 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, indexes. $24.00.) Brian Shovers Brian Shovers Butte, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, …
Technology on the Frontier
Dispersal and concentration
The Rationality of Mechanization in the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry before the Second World War
An industry may fail to adopt or to extend new technology for many reasons other than lack of entrepreneurial vision. In the following article, Professor Newell considers the halting and incomplete diffusion of mechanization and continuous-process technology in the salmon-canning industry of the Pacific Northwest. She shows that the fragile and cyclical character of the natural resource, the labor system employed, and the remote and isolated loca…
Technology on the Frontier
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia Packers Ltd., one of the few pioneer fish-packing companies that remains viable today. He was recognised by friends and enemies alike as the unofficial industry historian not only for British Columbia but also for Alaska and the Pacific US coastal states. D…
Survivals
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry
Journal Article The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game and Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing Get access The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game. Edited by Newell Dianne. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xvii + 303 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)Winds of Change: Women in Nort…
Tangled Webs of History
Awarded the Canadian Historical Association's British Columbia and Yukon Certificate of Merit Award for 'Professor Newell's courageous critique of a history of mismanagement and misunderstanding in one of the region's key sectors should provide pause for thought to anyone with an interest in the workings of the modern state.'
Dynamic Traditions
The new approaches to the history of production technology view technological change as a dynamic social and cultural process, one in which class, gender, and race intersect. Recently, these ideas found their way into a temporary exhibit, Cannery Days: A Chapter in the Lives of the Heiltsuk, at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. The curator of this exhibit, Pamela Windsor (now Pamela Brown), is a Heiltsuk woman from the I…
Tangled Webs of History
Tangled Webs of History
When British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, First Nations people (referred to then and in Newell's book as Indians) constituted a majority, yet were not consulted in negotiating terms of union. Nowhere in process of confederation were institutions, governments and economies of First Nations given serious consideration as founding principles of new Dominion. The Fathers of Confederation thought that, with implementation of a paternalistic…
Notes on Dianne Newell, Tangled Webs of History
A Response
Tangled Webs of History
My Past Is Now
History (18 works) · Canadian Identity and History (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Biology (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Fishery (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Frontier (10 works) · History (10 works)