The Goose (journal)

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History

In 2013, Lisa Szabo-Jones outlined the history of the journal, connecting its origins with the 2005 conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) in Eugene, Oregon. This conference spurred the formation of a Canadian chapter of ASLE and with it, The Goose as the organization's flagship journal. Szabo-Jones explained that "Canada, because of its geographical proximity to the United States, tends to be seen to have cultural practices similar to those of its southern neighbour. Many Canadians present at the Eugene conference questioned the assumption of cross-border commonality. The creation of a Canadian chapter of ASLE transpired from a conviction that a distinctly Canadian ecocritical discourse exists." [5]

Although ASLE-Canada started as an informal listserv network coordinated by the University of Calgary, Szabo-Jones argues that the 2005 conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment is what primarily spurred the growth of ALECC and by extension, The Goose: "informal and formal forums created at the Eugene conference (roundtable discussions and social occasions)... brought some Canadian ecocritics face-to-face for the first time. The presence of approximately thirty Canadians with a common interest in Canadian ecocritical studies made more tangible the realization of an actual ASLE-Canada chapter." [6] Szabo-Jones identified Catriona Sandilands, Pamela Banting and Stephanie Posthumus as "three figures who were instrumental in bringing these meetings together" [6]

Previous editors of The Goose have included Amanda Di Battista, Alec Follett, Paul Huebener, Lisa Szabo-Jones and Melanie Dennis Unrau. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Scope and readership

The book Greening the Maple edited by Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley explains that the Goose has an "emphasis on regional specificity and the promotion of Canadian literature, arts, and environments, serves as a forum to counter broad cultural assumptions about North America." [11] Regarding the scope of the journal's readership, Lisa Szabo-Jones has argued that "the publication's open-access, online medium (effectively a 'placeless' virtual world) allows it to extend to wider global affiliations. The Goose may thus be viewed as simultaneously specialized in its primarily Canadian emphasis and grass-roots origin and cosmopolitan in its coverage of international material and its potentially global reach." [11]

Association for Literature, Environment & Culture in Canada

The Canadian chapter of ASLE was initially named ASLE-Canada before it was renamed the Association for Literature, Environment & Culture in Canada (ALECC). In 2009, Loretta Johnson drew parallels between ALECC and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and specifically their journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE); in a discussion of ALECC, Johnson argued that "its online journal, The Goose, has been designed to complement ISLE with articles on Canadian literature." [12] In other words, Johnson posited that The Goose is to ALECC what ISLE has been to the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

Editorship

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