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This paper examines the ways in which both fish farmers and environmentalists use frames to socially construct the salmon farming industry in British Columbia. Advertisements and other promotional materials contain movement actors' justifications for promoting or opposing the industry; these rationalizations are good reasons for understanding fish farming in a particular way. Because salmon environmentalists must both rely on what people already know, they create frames that direct the viewers's gaze of salmon aquaculture in surprisingly similar ways. It was found that frames created by both proponents and opponents of the industry are structured around the inter-related concepts of production, efficiency, and technology. As a result, farmed fish become natural-social hybrids. Farmed salmons are framed in both common-sensical and hyper-real ways as naturally efficient bits of living technology. This paper suggests that an awareness of the performance aspects of environmental farming allow people to live more astutely in a world of burgeoning controversy over natural resource issues.

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Environmental movements depend on mass media to reach the public and shape political decision-making. Without media access, social movements experience political marginality. In this paper, we examine whether the internet is a more open space than traditional media for activists to speak on behalf of nature. Our analysis is based on newspaper coverage and environmental organization websites that focus on the conflict over the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort ski resort in British Columbia. Environmental websites and mass media texts both define Jumbo Pass as wilderness and grizzly bear habitat, while focusing on ecological concerns as well as questions of local democracy. However, environmental group websites discuss a greater range of environmental risks and provide more detailed discussion of these issues. Environmentalist websites also integrate scientific experts and celebrity supporters to a greater degree than mass media texts, which are dominated by environmentalist, ski industry, and provincial government news sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on education and its finance. The educational climate of universities has undergone dramatic revision in the past decade. Calls for social relevance, so prolific in the late 1960's and early 1970's, have been superseded by pleas for bottom-line accountability. This article addresses several important issues raised by this new context. In 1985-86 British Columbia (B.C.) universities again face a sharp reduction in operating funds as a consequence of the provincial government's decision to reduce, by another 5 percent, the total operating grant for universities. Locating the source and size of funding shortages indicates where responsibility rests for the financial squeeze noted above. Government operating grants, which constitute the bulk of university funding, are a confusing blend of provincial and federal funds. The funding shortage in B.C. universities is directly attributable to decisions made by provincial politicians to reduce university operating grants sharply. The provincial share of post-secondary funding has been reduced, in only three years, from approximately 27 percent to nothing.

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article discusses the life and works of Richard Ericson of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. It addresses three themes of Ericson's life, considering him as a colleague, as a scholar and as a builder of institutions. It highlights the accomplishments of Ericson which includes helping the development of the "Canadian Journal of Sociology" in 1975. It offers information on several books published by Ericson such as "Policing the Risk Society," with Kevin Haggerty, "Uncertain Business," with Aaron Doyle and "Crime in an Insecure World." Furthermore, it accounts the educational attainments of Ericson.

The article provides examples of how the discourses about justice in terms of addressing First Nations longstanding land claims and certainty in terms of the desire to create political and economic stability within the province are mobilized within the British Columbia (B.C.) Treaty Process. The article also examines the symbolic violence enacted by the non-aboriginal governments in attempt to forward a rigid notion of certainty that limits the possibilities for justice. Based on this examination, an exploration of what a transformative justice might look like is initiated and contrasted with the current trajectory of the treaty process, which appears headed toward what will be described as a remedy of affirmative repair. The B.C. Treaty Process was established through the report of the B.C. Claims Task Force, which began its work in 1991. The appeal of certainty is felt particularly in economic matters. In British Columbia, various economic reports have estimated a significant loss of investment, jobs and wealth in the province all in part due to the reigning uncertainty surrounding land claims. The symbolic violence of affirmative repair also operates to try to prevent transformative visions of justice from entering into the treaty discussions.

Copyright of Canadian Journal of Sociology is the property of Canadian Journal of Sociology and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)