Mark
J. McLaughlin
Mark is a PhD candidate in Canadian environmental history in the UNB history department. His dissertation examines the environmental history of New Brunswick's forestry sector from the onset of the Second World War to the full implementation of a new Crown Lands and Forests Act in 1982. He illustrates how the New Brunswick government attempted to rationalize the province's forests and forest industries through the introduction of various modernization policies in the post-war period and how forest user groups, including the pulp and paper and sawmilling industries, primary producers (woods workers and woodlot owners), and conservationists and environmentalists, reacted to increased state involvement in the forestry sector. In essence, state policies favoured pulp and paper development, while the Crown Lands and Forests Act reaffirmed and even bolstered industrial forestry management within the context of mounting challenges to such a monolithic approach.
Mark's latest research interests include the science and scientists behind resource management and what he refers to as his "fun side project" -- an examination of the emergence of modern environmental values in Canadian comic books ("eco-comics") in the 1960s and 1970s.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
"Green Shoots: Aerial Insecticide Spraying and the Growth of Environmental Consciousness in New Brunswick, 1952-1973." Acadiensis XL, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2011): 3-23. Revised and reprinted in Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada, eds., Claire Campbell and Robert Summerby-Murray, 143-157 and 292-298. Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press, 2013.
"Power Tools as Tools of Power: Mechanization in the Tree Harvest of the Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Industry." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21 (Fall 2006): 235-254.
Edited Collections
"'as thick as molasses': Water Pollution Regulation in New Brunswick, 1947-1975." In Modern Canada: 1945 to Present, ed., Catherine Briggs. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"A 'Fundamental Cost that We Can't Deal With?': The Political Economy of the Pulp and Paper Industry in New Brunswick, 1960-Present," co-written with Dr. Bill Parenteau. In Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick, eds. Michael Boudreau, Peter G. Toner and Tony Tremblay, 13-34. Fredericton, NB: New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre and St. Thomas University, 2009.
Contact Information
http://markmclaughlin.webs.com
@markjmclaughlin on twitter
