Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 11.4

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Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 11.4 | The History Cooperative

from the editor

THE ESSAYS in this issue are diverse, both in terms of the topics and in terms of the geographic regions they examine.

William Rollins's "Reflections on a Spare Tire: SUVs and Postmodern Environmental Consciousness" uses advertising as a starting point for examining the popularity of sports utility vehicles in the United States and other industrial nations. The SUV, he argues, reveals a quintessentially postmodern paradox: On the one hand, it promises freedom from the tyranny of asphalt and an unprecedented access to the inner recesses of the natural world; but on the other hand, it is a gas-guzzling beast that has rightfully become one of the most visible icons of the global warming problem.

Theodore Binnema and Melanie Niemi's "'Let the Line Be Drawn Now': Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada" takes a fresh look at the "wilderness debate" by showing that sportsmen were the driving force behind the exclusion of aboriginal peoples from Canadian national parks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and suggesting that similar motives may have guided exclusionist policies in the United States as well.

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