Shannon Stunden Bower
Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
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- Reposted by Shannon Stunden Bower"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau niche-canada.org/2024/11/27/n... #envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
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- Lots of important historical analysis in here, including some environmental history stuff.
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- One last push in support of @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising efforts. There are so many good causes, and money is tight for many, but if you can spare a few dollars, we'll put them to good use.
- Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."
- Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
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- Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.
- Reposted by Shannon Stunden BowerDo you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history? Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
- @nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!
- Reposted by Shannon Stunden BowerThere is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
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- An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."
- I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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- Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.
- Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
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- Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
- Exciting event planned for next June!
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- Okay, so who is writing or is going to write the labour and environmental history of potash in Saskatchewan? (Also, can it be done within the next two weeks, please.)
- Huge congratulations to the historian who taught the first Canadian history class I ever took, who supervised my undergraduate Honors thesis, who was a member of my doctoral committee, and who continues to shape our understanding of the prairies in so many important ways.
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- Huge congratulations to Crystal and Jill, both amazing colleagues.
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- Thinking about the communities in central and northern Manitoba now being evacuated, and also about how the experience of evacuation is often harmful in itself, particularly for people from Indigenous communities.
- Come connect with other scholars with interests in environmental history!
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- The final post in the Historicizing Adaptation series with @nichecanada.bsky.social -- check it out! Authored by @mauritsertsen.bsky.social
- Check out this discussion of activism and adaptation by Iñupiat peoples in the North Slope Borough. It illustrates "the importance of including Indigenous sources of knowledge in policy processes." Another post in the Historicizing Adaptation series with @nichecanada.bsky.social
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- Historicizing Adaptation in Winnipeg! Another post in the blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social
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- Check out @peterfortna.bsky.social on Indigenous knowledges and adapting to newly-dangerous environments along the Athabasca River, another post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social
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- Teaching-focused, career-stream appointment available in Indigenous and Canadian History at U of Alberta! Please feel free to contact me for more information. Don't delay; closes 25 April.
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- Check out the latest post in the @nichecanada.bsky.social Historicizing Adaptation blog series, which is authored by L'nu scholar Raymond Sewell.
- Read about Māori strategies of adaptation in the face of settler capitalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. As author Jamie Ashworth puts it, Māori efforts established that "adaptation could not equal erasure." Another post in the "Historicizing Adaptation" blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social
- Check out this important piece on adaptation and Wyandot resilience by Dr. Mckelvey Kelly, published in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series by @nichecanada.bsky.social
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- Check out this excellent post by @benst.bsky.social that explores a compelling 19th century example of degrowth thinking -- another contribution to the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series on historicizing adaptation.
- Check out Róbert Balogh's analysis of rural peoples' adaptations in the face of the loss of the commons in the 19th century Kingdom of Hungary -- another post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social
- In a new post in the Historicizing Adaptation series @nichecanada.bsky.social, we are invited by @gjmorgan.bsky.social to take seriously the seeming weirdness in the historical record as a first step toward understanding the past and grappling with the challenges of the present. Give it a read!
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- Today begins the "Historicizing Adaptation" blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social. Stay tuned over coming weeks for thought-provoking contributions from a great group of scholars.
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- Last night I hit a mid-career milestone -- a stress dream about forgetting to give a midterm exam to students, rather than about forgetting to write one as a student.
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- Check out this new blog post considering the environmental history dimensions of Indian Residential and Day Schools in the north of what's now often called Canada. The post includes links to an important new podcast on the topic.
- Today I learned, via a local newspaper, that my employer, the University of Alberta, is abandoning the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion because of how these principles have been framed by some parties as "polarizing" and "ideological." This is really worrying, to put it mildly.
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- Last call to submit to the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series on "Historicizing Adaptation." The deadline is tomorrow, 29 November.
- In my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social, I'm editing a series of blog posts on "Historicizing Adaptation." Submissions pertaining to all time periods and parts of the world are welcome. Deadline for proposals is 29 November. See the link for more information and reach out to me with any questions.
- We're soliciting submissions for a series of @nichecanada.bsky.social blog posts on the topic of "historicizing adaptation" and I'm really exited about the submissions we've received so far! Still time to join in -- we are taking submissions until Friday 29 November. See link for details.
- I wrote a blog post! It was quick and easy. All I had to do was first spend many years writing a book. That part was, er, not so easy.
- Reminder: In my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social, I'm editing a series of blog posts on "Historicizing Adaptation." Deadline for proposals is 29 November. See the link for more information and reach out to me with any questions. niche-canada.org/2024/10/16/c...
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- @nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! If you are able to spare a contribution, we will put it to good use. And thanks to everyone who has already chipped in.
- Alberta's United Conservative Party government is aiming to use the K-12 curriculum to distribute oil industry propaganda. This political interference in curriculum is alarming and abhorrent.
