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Biopolitical Landscapes: The Preservation Tactics of Percy Nobbs
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Biopolitical Landscapes: The Preservation Tactics of Percy Nobbs
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Montreal architect and McGill University professor Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875-1964) advanced an ecological approach to landscape preservation through popular texts on sport fishing and in writings for the journal of the Atlantic Salmon Association (ASA), which he founded in 1948. The author ties Nobbs's choreography of human-animal interactions into a wider reassessment of his work as an early posthuman vision of the landscape as a traffic corridor for multiple species. Nobbs's skillful negotiations among a combination of private and public interests to restore four fishways on the Matane River in Eastern Quebec promoted the achievement of conservation goals, in tandem with the privatization of riparian waters and an intensification of commercial exploitation of the area's natural resources. Likewise, Nobbs's preservation of pedestrian corridors in the Montreal neighborhood of Upper Westmount applied a similarly posthuman lens to the management of urban populations.
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Future Anterior
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Vol. 7
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no. 1
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20-40
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Summer 2010
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en
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Lauder, Adam. “Biopolitical Landscapes: The Preservation Tactics of Percy Nobbs.” Future Anterior Vol. 7, no. 1 (Summer 2010): 20–40.
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