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A new issue of BC Studies, no. 229 (Spring 2026) is coming soon 👀

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Book review in our upcoming issue no. 229 (Spring 2026): The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa (Harbour Publishing).

Reviewed by Brandon Gabriel (Kwantlen Polytechnic University).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/the-teachings-of-mutton-a-coast-salish-woolly-dog/ to read the full review!

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Book review in our upcoming issue no. 229 (Spring 2026): The Final Spire: ‘Mystery Mountain’ Mania in the 1930s by Trevor Marc Hughes (Ronsdale Press).

Reviewed by PearlAnn Reichwein (Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/the-final-spire-mystery-mountain-mania-in-the-1930s/ to read the full review!

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Book review in our upcoming issue no. 229 (Spring 2026): Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion by Éléna Choquette (UBC Press).

Reviewed by Mckelvey Kelly (Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/land-and-the-liberal-project-canadas-violent-expansion/ to read the full review!

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Book review in our upcoming issue no. 229 (Spring 2026): Native Plants of British Columbia’s Coastal Dry Belt by Hans Roemer and Mary Sanseverino (Harbour Publishing).

Reviewed by David E. Giblin (UW Biology).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/45403/ to read the full review!

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Book review in our upcoming issue no. 229 (Spring 2026): Unearthing Forgotten Values by Sean P. Connaughton (UBC Press).

Reviewed by Andrew Martindale (UBC Anthropology Department).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/unearthing-forgotten-values/ to read the full review!

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EDIT: This giveaway is now closed.

Giveaway alert!

To celebrate the release of our newest issue, BC Studies no. 228 (Winter 2025/26), we’re giving away a special journal prize pack!

Prizes include:
📘 A hard copy of issue 228
📄 Issue 228 bookmarks
👜 BC Studies canvas tote bag
🖊️ BC Studies stationary (pens, notepads, and cleaning cloths)
📚 Plus 3 hard copy back issues of your choice!

To enter:
• Follow on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bcstudiesjournal/)
• Like this post
• Tag 1 friend in the comments who you’d love to read the journal with!
(1 Comment = 1 Entry. Unlimited Entries)

Giveaway ends Tuesday, May 19 at 12pm Noon PDT.

Winners will be randomly selected and announced on our story on May 19th in the afternoon.

*This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.

Drumroll please!

We are excited to announce the winners of the annual BC Studies Prize to JP Catungal and May Farrales for their article “The Race to Indigeneity: Three Vexations in Filipinx Diasporic Politics,” published in issue no. 227 (Autumn 2025).

We would also like to congratulate the runners-up for this year:

Nathan Crompton, “Every Homeowner a Pretendian? On Locke, Abstraction, and the Architecture of West Coast Modernism” published in BC Studies no. 226 (Summer 2025)

and Rebecca Hartley, “In the Empire She Loved So Well”: Imperial Legitimacies and the Writing of The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island (1928)” published in BC Studies no. 225 (Spring 2025).

Visit https://bcstudies.com/bc-studies-prize/ to read the articles open access on OJS!

We are accepting submissions for our next special issue on the Politics of Sikh Art / Activism and Material: Cultural Production in the Diaspora.

We invite contributions that explore Sikh art, activism, and Sikhi in British Columbia in relation with larger ecologies, matters relevant to various BC-based Sikh communities, Indigenous nations, and other communities.

Visit https://bcstudies.com/call-for-papers-special-issue/ to learn more!