In the name of profit: Canada's Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve as economic development and colonial placemaking
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Authors
Hutchings, Richard
La Salle, Marina
Issue Date
2016-02-16
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Report
Language
en
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Abstract
Taking a critical heritage approach to naming and placemaking in contemporary Canada, we discuss how the power to name reflects the power to control people, their land, their past, and ultimately their future. Our case study is the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve (MABR), a recently invented place on Vancouver Island, southwest British Columbia. Through analysis of representations and landscape, we explore MABR as state-sanctioned branding, where a dehumanized nature is packaged for and marketed to wealthy ecotourists. Greenwashed by a feel-good "sustainability" discourse, MABR constitutes colonial placemaking and economic development, representing no break with past practices.
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Hutchings, R.M., & La Salle, M. (2016). In the name of profit: Canada’s Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve as economic development and colonial placemaking (ICHT Bulletin 2016-2). Retrieved from Institute for Critical Heritage and Tourism website: https://criticalheritagetourism.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/icht-bulletin-2016-2.pdf.
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Institute for Critical Heritage & Tourism