BC Studies Scholarly Podcasts

By Susan Frohlick and Nassim Zand Dizari Transcript and Show Notes – Okanagan Summer Tourism Sounds PDF - article in OJS This podcast raises the broad question of why sound matters in tourism, understood as episodic or transitory relations of co-existence and as territories, worlds, and spaces co-inhabited yet often frictious. Created as an experimental audio documentary, it offers an in-depth sto...

A Hot Topic Podcast: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) By Erica Dolman, Kirsten Mah, and Sarah Wiebe This episode follows Glenys Verhulst, a Sustainability Specialist with the District of Saanich, and Kirsten Mah, a community member and Healthy Communities Planner with the Capital Regional District who share they’re professional experiences of working in climate...

A Hot Topic Podcast: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) By Erica Dolman, Kirsten Mah, and Sarah Wiebe This episode tells the story of Ruth Waldick, the Lead Scientist of the Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL) with Transition Salt Spring, a not-for-profit organization based on Salt Spring Island that is dedicated to climate action across Salt Spring Island and...

A Hot Topic Podcast: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) By Erica Dolman, Kirsten Mah, and Sarah Wiebe This episode tells the story of John Lamont, peer support worker with Mental Health Recovery Partners South Island (MHRP SI) and his experience with the 2021 heat dome, and other extreme heat events that have happened since. John shares his tools and ideas for cop...

A Hot Topic Podcast: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) By Erica Dolman, Kirsten Mah, and Sarah Wiebe This episode tells the story of Eva Shaffer, member and Marine Liaison of T’Souke Nation, and her and her community’s experience with the 2021 heat dome, and extreme heat events that have happened since. Eva speaks from the perspective of a scientist and member of...

A Hot Topic Podcast: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) By Erica Dolman, Kirsten Mah, and Sarah Wiebe This episode provides the context and background of the A Hot Topic: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) research project, and how this podcast series came to be. Kirsten Mah, community organizer, and Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe, assista...

Episode 3: Michelle Stack interviews Elvy Del Bianco, BC Cooperative Association, Director of Co-operative Development and Government Relations Along with faculty and the larger community, students are demanding accountability by university leaders in challenging racism, sexual violence and ableism on campuses and in the education of future professionals. In addition, many students, staff and facu...

Episode 2: Michelle Stack interviews Bill Engleson about the early days of a Simon Fraser University Cooperative Along with faculty and the larger community, students are demanding accountability by university leaders in challenging racism, sexual violence and ableism on campuses and in the education of future professionals. In addition, many students, staff and faculty are housing (Weissman et al...

Episode 1: Michelle Stack interviews Michelle Cooper Iverson, Chief Operating Officer for for Cooperative Housing Federation BC Along with faculty and the larger community, students are demanding accountability by university leaders in challenging racism, sexual violence and ableism on campuses and in the education of future professionals. In addition, many students, staff and faculty are housing...

The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary pro...

The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary pro...

The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary pro...

The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary pro...

The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary pro...

By Janey Lew and Samantha Nock, with Ayaka Yoshimizu Stories in/relation is a teaching and learning companion resource within the in/relation Project, created to support facilitators’ understanding of Indigenous topics, histories, and lived realities and to inspire facilitators to share this learning with other new learners. The textual component, bibliography, and show notes can be found here:  P...