Donna Young

A Bridge to Nowhere

Temporalities to Abandonment in Rural Canada

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This lyrical ethnography sheds light on the lives of people in remote settlements in Canada, exploring themes of memory and the lingering legacies of resource extraction and rural poverty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• ISBN-13: 9781487564469
• ISBN-10: 1487564465
• Artikelnr.: 73292010

Autorenporträt

Donna Young is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Bridge to Nowhere
1. The Evanescent Freedoms of Life on a CPR Rail Gang
2. The Family Gothic
3. Clothing of Piety, Clothing of Poverty: Object Lessons and the Poverty
Narratives of Women
4. Landscapes of Memory and a Lonesome Nature
5. Unravelling
Notes
Works Cited
Index