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BC Studies BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
A journal of informed writing on British Columbia

Established in 1969, BC Studies is dedicated to the exploration of British Columbia's cultural, economic, and political life; past and present. Each issue offers articles on a wide range of topics, in-depth reviews of current books, and a bibliography of recent publications. With a solid national and international reputation for its authoritative and informative content, BC Studies is read by acad

emics and general readers alike. Publication of BC Studies is supported by the Social Sciences and and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria.

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction! We would like to take this time to thank these generous busin...
09/25/2025

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction!

We would like to take this time to thank these generous businesses that have donated prizes to the auction: Spin Society, Harbour Publishing, and Times Square Suites Hotel.

We are preparing for our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction (19th-26th November)! Thank you to The Bar Method, Carousel The...
09/24/2025

We are preparing for our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction (19th-26th November)!

Thank you to The Bar Method, Carousel Theatre, Rio Theatre, and MakerLabs for their donations and continued support.

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction! We would like to extend our gratitude to these businesses tha...
09/23/2025

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction!

We would like to extend our gratitude to these businesses that have generously donated prizes to be auctioned: Grandview Bowling, Ronsdale Press, The Cultch, and T-Squared Training!

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction! Thank you to Meridian Pilates, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC...
09/22/2025

19th-26th November is our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction!

Thank you to Meridian Pilates, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC Press, and Vancouver Water Adventures for these incredible donations and their continued support.

As November approaches, we are preparing for our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction! We've already got an incredible line-u...
09/19/2025

As November approaches, we are preparing for our 22nd Annual Fundraising Auction! We've already got an incredible line-up of donations to be auctioned off.

To start us off -- thank you to Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Skoah for their generous donations!

BC Studies Summer 2025 is coming soon! Meanwhile, here is a sneak peak at one of the featured pieces that will be includ...
09/10/2025

BC Studies Summer 2025 is coming soon! Meanwhile, here is a sneak peak at one of the featured pieces that will be included.

This case comment by Richard Overstall, “Coastal Gaslink Pipeline Ltd. v. Huson [Dsta’hyl]” evaluates the legal reasoning and implications of the BC Supreme Court conviction of Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl for criminal contempt of an injunction.

Read Overstall's comment here:https://bcstudies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Overstall-copyedited-pre-print.pdf
For Amnesty International’s previous commentary on this case, see “This Space Here,” in BC Studies no. 222: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/200006/193268

BC Studies is pleased to welcome our newest editorial board member, Ben Bradley. Bradley is currently an Assistant Profe...
09/10/2025

BC Studies is pleased to welcome our newest editorial board member, Ben Bradley.

Bradley is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph, and is most interested in modern Canada, public pasts, commemoration, tourism, and so on. His book, British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape, challenges the idea that the automobile offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of unadulterated nature, and rather shows that an array of interested parties – boosters, businessmen, conservationists, and public servants – manipulated what drivers and passengers could and should view from the road. More recently, Bradley’s current project investigates “park rowdyism” – that is, the proliferation of bad behaviour in non-urban parks in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

BC Studies would like to welcome their newest board member, Julie Andreyev, who is joining as the associate editor of So...
09/10/2025

BC Studies would like to welcome their newest board member, Julie Andreyev, who is joining as the associate editor of Soundworks.

Andreyev is an Associate Professor in New Media & Sound Arts, the Faculty of Design & Dynamic Media at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver who explores themes of animal agency and consciousness, most recently in her research project called Animal Lover. In it, she has produced new media performances such as video installation, generative art, and relational aesthetics. Andreyev recently completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her dissertation, “Biophilic Ethics and Creativity with More-Than-Human Beings”, is an interdisciplinary investigation into an expansion of ethics for more-than-human beings, examined through interspecies relational creativity in art processes.

Call for Soundworks: Sound Pieces in relation to the Lands of so-called British ColumbiaThis Soundworks call for submiss...
09/09/2025

Call for Soundworks: Sound Pieces in relation to the Lands of so-called British Columbia

This Soundworks call for submissions invites sound pieces that explore listening to and sound making in relation to the lands of so-called British Columbia. Submissions may be sonic expressions, phenomena, or explorations of sounds. They may be site-specific and/or related to particular questions, intentions, or creative processes, and may be approached from various epistemological perspectives, including activist, phenomenological, ecological, cultural, historical, artistic, political, or ethical. We particularly encourage submissions from Indigenous sound artists / scholars. Possible forms include narrative or non-narrative voice, music, soundscape, storytelling, collected or created sound and noise.

Soundworks are part of BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly. They are peer-reviewed sonic compositions or recordings that extend our commitment to disseminating knowledge about British Columbia, in this case through sound as a form of knowing.

For submission details, head to: https://bcstudies.com/call-for-soundworks-sound-pieces-on-the-theme-of-listening-to-the-land/

Deadline: Oct 15, 2025

Accepted Soundworks will be published along with the accompanying text in the Soundworks section of the BC Studies website; and the text and URL will be published in the print journal.

Please contact Soundworks Editor, Julie Andreyev for more information: [email protected]

Culture days is back! From September 19th to October 12th, catch lots of fun cultural programming all around BC. This ye...
08/29/2025

Culture days is back! From September 19th to October 12th, catch lots of fun cultural programming all around BC. This year's theme: the mental health benefits of arts, culture, and creativity. Head to https://culturedays.ca/en to sign up to volunteer, register an event, or for more information!

BC Studies is pleased to welcome our newest editorial board member: Dr. Jaskwaan (Amanda) Bedard!Dr. Bedard has contribu...
08/23/2025

BC Studies is pleased to welcome our newest editorial board member: Dr. Jaskwaan (Amanda) Bedard!
Dr. Bedard has contributed to Haida language programming since 2007 and has taught multi-level language classes to community learners since 2015. Her work includes translation and transcription of X̱aad Kíl as well as resource and curriculum development. Since 2017, Bedard has taught for the Haida Gwaii Institute (UBC Department of Forestry). Classes include Indigenous Perspectives of History, and Language and Cultural Continuity.

Book Review: Pentecostal Preacher Woman by Linda M. Ambrose (UBC Press)Reviewed by Bruce DouvilleHead to the link in our...
08/22/2025

Book Review: Pentecostal Preacher Woman by Linda M. Ambrose (UBC Press)

Reviewed by Bruce Douville

Head to the link in our bio to read the full review!

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Established in 1969, BC Studies is dedicated to the exploration of British Columbia's cultural, economic, and political life; past and present. Each issue offers articles on a wide range of topics, in-depth reviews of current books, and a bibliography of recent publications. With a solid national and international reputation for its authoritative and informative content, BC Studies is read by academics and general readers alike.

Publication of BC Studies is supported by the Social Sciences and and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria.