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  • Cover image featuring two colour portraits. Each photograph features a woman covered in intricately stitched feathers and elaborately beaded jewelry that spill over their figures, almost completely obscuring their faces.

    Summer 2024
    No. 222

    Featuring cover artwork by Dana Claxton.

    This issue includes ARTICLES by Annabelle Penney, Jesse Robertson,  Mayana C. Slobodian, Jeff Shemilt and Tamara Krawchenko, and a FORUM on Sean Carleton's Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia.

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    This issue will be open access 2025-10-25

     

  • Learning from Disaster: A Decade After the Mount Polley Tailings Dam Failure (Spring 2024)
    No. 221

    Guest edited by Neil Nunn and Max Chewinski

    On August 4th, 2014, on unceded Secwépemc territory, in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia, the Mount Polley copper-gold mining operation produced the worst environmental disaster in Canadian history, and the second largest tailings dam failures in the world. The Mount Polley Mine disaster has had cascading effects on the political, social and cultural life of British Columbians. This special issue considers the expansive context of this disaster to open a wide-reaching conversation to consider and reimagine what British Columbia might be. The issue prioritizes the participation of Indigenous voices in several reflection pieces and written interviews, along with peer-review articles.

    This special issue has been published open access with funding provided by Northern Confluence Initiative, MiningWatch Canada, Concerned Citizens of Quesnel Lake, University of Northern British Columbia, and Memorial University.

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  • Illustration of man facing a sun representative of Salish motifs. wearing a baseball cap with the word Landback.

    Winter 2023/24
    No. 220

    Featuring cover artwork by Jordanna George.

    This issue includes ARTICLES by Joan Sangster, Margery Fee, and Catriona Mallows and Karena Shaw, and a SCHOLARLY PODCAST by Judith Burr. 

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    This issue will be open access 2025-4-30

  • An Indigenous woman looking towards us as her hair is interwoven with illustration of a killer whale.

    Autumn 2023
    No. 219

    Featuring cover artwork by Angela Sterritt.

    Our issue begins with a tribute to Gloria Cranmer Webster followed by ARTICLES by Bing Yan, and Ian Pooley and Patricia E. Roy. The issue also includes a RESEARCH NOTE by Wilfrid Greaves and Aly Tkachenko, and Conversations with Judge Alfred Scow and Chief Simon Baker: INTERVIEWS by William G. Lindsay, Preface and Transcription by Elliot Goodell Ugalde.

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    This issue will be open access 2025-02-28

  • Photo of an artist painting a mural that has three hues of blue. The mural represents a three-strand braid which represents the different bodies of water and streams woven together building on themes of interconnectedness, diversity, and also family.

    Summer 2023
    No. 218

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    Featuring cover artwork by Diamond Point (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm).

    Our first ever peer-reviewed PODCAST, by Michelle Stack, is featured alongside ARTICLES by Natasha Lyons, Tanja Hoffmann, Roma Leon, Mike Leon, Michael Blake, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, and Sandra Peacock; Meagan Joan Curtis and Janette Bulkan; and June Chow and Jennifer Douglas.

    REFLECTIONS - The centennial of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 includes contributions from Imogene Lim and Naomi Louie.

    This issue will be open access 2024-11-16

  • Spring 2023
    No. 217

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    Featuring cover artwork by Christopher Auchter, and articles by Sarah Hunt/Tłaliłila’ogwa, Nicholas Fast, Ian Baird, and Patricia E. Roy. This issue also incluses book reviews and a bibliography of recent publications on BC. 

    This issue will be open access 2024-08-28

  • Winter 2022/23
    No. 216

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    Featuring cover artwork by Cole Pauls, a special tribute In Memory of Cole Harris, former editor of BC Studies, along with original articles, book reviews, and a bibliography of recent publications on BC. 

    This issue will be open access 2024-03-23

  • Artwork titled "Confluence" featuring carved etched glass, a cedar box, and a light mechanism to create shadows of the etched image. The carved images refer to an original Dzawada'enuxw house. On the sides of the house are carved two canoes and two human figures who rise up amid the regrowth of crabapple and clover.

    Autumn 2022
    No. 215

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    Featuring articles by David Fairey; Jennie Leong, James Rowe and Karena Shaw; Michael Ekers, and a Research Note by Ian Rocksborough-Smith. Also includes a Review Essay by Dave Hazzan as well as New Media and Book Reviews, and the Bibliography of BC.

    This issue will be open access 2024-01-03

  • The Birds of Haida Gwaii mural was commissioned by the Haida Gwaii Community Futures organization in 2013.

    Summer 2022
    No. 214

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  • Spring 2022
    No. 213

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  • The Constitution Express: A 40-Year Retrospective (Winter 2021/22)
    No. 212

    Guest edited by Emma Feltes and Glen Coulthard.

    Originating in British Columbia, the Constitution Express was an Indigenous movement launched in 1980 in response to the Canadian government's plans to 'patriate' the Constitution from the UK. It was a local, national, and international movement with far-reaching impacts on decolonial thought and action and among colonized people around the world. This special issue reflects the simultaneously local and transnational facets of the movement, and contributes a nuanced perspective on provincial politics and the scholarship of Indigenous rights.

  • Autumn 2021
    No. 211

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  • Summer 2021
    No. 210

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  • Spring 2021
    No. 209

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  • Winter 2020/21
    No. 208

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  • Autumn 2020
    No. 207

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  • Summer 2020
    No. 206

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  • Spring 2020
    No. 205

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  • (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific
    No. 204

    (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific, co-edited by Christine O’Bonsawin and John Price, showcases a unique collection of articles that explore Indigenous and Asian Canadian histories from Vancouver Island and beyond.

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  • Autumn 2019
    No. 203

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  • Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia
    No. 202 (2019)

    Guest Edited by Geertje Boschma, Sasha Mullally, Megan J. Davies, and Alison Phinney.

    Featuring Digital Story Practice Exemplars which can be viewed here.

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  • Spring 2019
    No. 201

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  • Winter 2018/19
    No. 200

    Our 200th issue marks the 50th anniversary of BC Studies!

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  • Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations - Autumn 2018
    No. 199

    Guest edited by Caitlin Gordon-Walker and Martha Black. In this special issue of BC Studies we invite you into a conversation about museums in British Columbia and about the broader politics of colonialism and decolonization in which they are involved. Articles address both Indigenous and non-Indigenous institutions, focusing on topics of collections, archives, repatriation, collaboration, exhibitions, access, and engagement. Contributors, bringing together scholarship and museum practice, share their critical reflections and experiences within museums, illustrating some of the innovative ways in which museums in British Columbia are working to bring about and build new kinds of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, as well as some of the persistent challenges they face. Many of the longer papers are coauthored or dialogical in form and are interspersed with shorter pieces to offer a wide range of perspectives and experiences. We hope these will provoke further discussions within, across, and beyond museum boundaries.

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  • Summer 2018
    No. 198

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