Arn Keeling
Department of Geography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1B 3X9
Office: SN-2006
Tel: (709) 864-8990
Fax: (709) 864-3119
E mail: akeeling[at]mun.ca
My academic training and research interests lie at the intersection of history and geography.
I received my BA (Carleton 1996) and MA (British Columbia 1999) in history and my PhD (British Columbia 2004) in geography. I subsequently spent a year as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in geography at the University of Saskatchewan, then another as an NSF-funded postdoc in the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman.
My research and publications on the environmental history of Canada focus on Western and Northern Canada, and include studies of domestic and industrial pollution, pollution control and environmental regulation, mining and Northern development, environmental politics, and the history of the conservation/environmental movement. I am co-investigator on a multi-site, multi-year project examining abandoned mines in Northern Canada. I am also interested in historical-geographical approaches to environmental science, political ecology and environmental justice.
New: Opportunity for funded graduate study in 2012
Teaching Interests
- Nature and culture in Canada;
- Historical geography;
- Political Ecology
Current Research
Selected Publications
- Sandlos, J. and Keeling, A. 2012 Claiming the New North: Mining and Colonialism at the Pine Point Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada. Environment and History 18, 1(February): 5-34.
- Keeling, A. and Wynn, G. 2011'The Park is...A Mess': Development and Degradation in B.C.'s First Provincial Park. BC Studies 120 (Summer): 119-150. Special issue on B.C. Provincial Parks
- Keeling, A. and Sandlos, J. 2011 Shooting the Archives: Document digitization for historical-geographical collaboration. History Compass 9, 5 (May): 423-432.
- Keeling, A. 2010 'Born in an Atomic Test Tube': Landscapes of cyclonic development at Uranium City, Saskatchewan. The Canadian Geographer 54, 2 (Summer), 228-252.
- Keeling, A. and Sandlos, J. 2009 Environmental Justice Goes Underground? Historical Notes from Canada's Northern Mining Frontier. Environmental Justice 2, 3: 117-125.
- Keeling, A. 2008 "We Are Scholars": Using Teamwork and Problem-based Learning in a Canadian Regional Geography Course. MountainRise 4:3 (online).
- Keeling, A. 2007 Charting Marine Pollution Science: Oceanography and Pollution Control on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1938-1970. Journal of Historical Geography 33: 403-428.
- Keeling, A. 2005 Urban Waste Sinks as a Natural Resource: The Case of the Fraser River. Urban History Review/Revue d’Histoire Urbaine 34, pp. 58-70.
- Keeling, A. 2004 Sink or Swim: Water Pollution and Environmental Politics in Vancouver, 1889-1975. BC Studies 142/43: 69-101.
