{"product_id":"imagining-difference-leslie-robertson-9780774810920","title":"Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town","description":"\u003ci\u003eImagining Difference\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC - a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort. Focusing on diverse experiences of people from the European diaspora, Robertson analyzes expressions of difference from the multiple locations of age, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. Her starting point is a popular local legend about an indigenous curse cast on the valley and its residents in the nineteenth century. Successive interpretations of the story reveal a complicated landscape of memory and silence, mapping out official and contested histories, social and scientific theories as well as the edicts of political discourse. Cursing becomes a metaphor for discursive power resonating in political, popular, and cultural contexts, transmitting ideas of difference across generations and geographies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Robertson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774810920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774810920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Leslie Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441342918911,"sku":"9780774810920","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f07a225a-9c95-4d20-b3d9-80f97ef3d19a.jpg?v=1777190279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-difference-leslie-robertson-9780774810920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}