{"id":8456,"date":"2011-03-03T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:35:42","slug":"visual-arts-professor-publishes-book-about-jasper-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/visual-arts-professor-publishes-book-about-jasper-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts professor publishes book about Jasper National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8458\" title=\"Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/manufacturing1.jpg\" alt=\"Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper\" width=\"191\" height=\"270\" \/>Jasper National Park is the focus of a new book by an assistant professor of Visual Arts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/visual-arts\/faculty-3\/visual-arts\/keri-cronin\" target=\"_blank\">Keri Cronin<\/a> has written <em>Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper<\/em>, a book that looks at the tourist imagery of the environmental landmark. She examines how postcards, advertisements and other images divorce the park from real environmental threats and portray it as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin is also a faculty affiliate in Brock&#8217;s Social Justice and Equity Studies graduate program and editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brockreview\" target=\"_blank\">The Brock Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcpress.ubc.ca\/search\/title_book.asp?BookID=299173205\" target=\"_blank\">At ubcpress.ca<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Manufacturing-National-Park-Nature-Photography\/dp\/0774819073\" target=\"_blank\">At amazon.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keri Cronin has written Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper, a book that looks at the tourist imagery of Jasper National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}