num_pages: 232
description: Kimberly A. Williams wants the annual Calgary Stampede to change its ways. An intrepid feminist scholar with a wry sense of humour Williams deftly weaves theory history pop culture and politics to challenge readers to make sense of how gender and race matter at Canadas oldest and largest western heritage festival. Stampede examines the settler colonial roots of the Calgary Stampede and uses its centennial celebration in 2012 to explore how the event continues to influence life on the streets and in the bars and boardrooms of Canadas fourth-largest city. Using a variety of cultural materialsphotography print advertisements news coverage poetry and social mediaWilliams asks who gets to be part of the we in the Stampedes slogan Were Greatest Together and who doesnt.
language: English
title: Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacism and Settler Colonialism
publisher: Fernwood Publishing