Wilderness and tolerance in Flora MacDonald Denison: towards a biopolitics of whiteness

Baldwin, W.A.

doi:10.1080/14649365.2010.523842

Wilderness and tolerance in Flora MacDonald Denison: towards a biopolitics of whiteness

Baldwin, W.A.

Authors

Professor Andrew Baldwin w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

Building on recent argumentation concerning the relationship between wilderness and multiculturalism and whiteness in Canada, this essay argues that the relationship between wilderness and tolerance, one of multiculturalism's operative terms, offers a potentially rich vein for researching and theorizing liberal biopolitics and whiteness in Canada. To formulate this argument the essay historicizes the pairing of tolerance and wilderness in Edwardian Canada through the figure of Flora MacDonald Denison, an important early twentieth-century Canadian feminist and labour activist, a wilderness enthusiast, Theosophist/spiritualist and Walt Whitman devotee.

Citation

Baldwin, W. (2010). Wilderness and tolerance in Flora MacDonald Denison: towards a biopolitics of whiteness. Social and Cultural Geography, 11(8), 883-901. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2010.523842

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Dec 1, 2010
Deposit Date	Aug 31, 2010
Journal	Social and Cultural Geography
Print ISSN	1464-9365
Electronic ISSN	1470-1197
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	11
Issue	8
Pages	883-901
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2010.523842
Keywords	Wilderness, Tolerance, Flora MacDonald Denison, Liberal biopolitics.