ACSRC Books and Articles

The ACSRC is proud to have contributed to the following publications.

Articles

Banack, Clark. “The Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Cohesion in Rural Canadian Communities: Letter-to-the-Editor Forums as a Window into Community Discord,” Journal of Rural Development, 16(4), 1-26, 2021.

Banack, Clark. “Rural Identity in an Urban Canada: Minority Rights for Agrarian Communities?” American Review of Canadian Studies, 51 (4), 2021.

Banack, Clark, “Ethnography and Political Opinion: Identity, Alienation, and Anti-Establishmentarianism in Rural Alberta,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 54 (1), 1-22, 2021.

Banack, Clark, “Understanding the Influence of Faith-based Organizations on Education Policy in Alberta,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 48 (4), 933-959, 2015.

Banack, Clark, “Evangelical Christianity and Political Thought in Alberta,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 48 (2), 70-99, 2014.

"Citizen Engagement in Sustainability Planning: Patterns and Barriers from Hinton and Wood Buffulo, Alberta, Canada" in the Journal of Rural and Community Development (2019).

"Rural Governmentality in Alberta: A Case Study of Neoliberalism in Rural Canada" in Revue Governance (2019).

"Implementation Dynamics for Sustainability Planning in Rural Canada" in the Journal of Rural and Community Development (2019)

"Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenged across Scales, Sectors, and Sites" in Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) (March 20, 2019).

"Prioritizing Research Questions for Protected Areas Agencies: A Case Study of Provincial Parks in Alberta, Canada" in The Journal of Park and Recreation Administration (2019).

"Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management" in Conservation Biology (December 11, 2018).

"Continuing care in rural Alberta: A scoping review" in The Canadian Geographer (2018).

"Continuing care in Northern Alberta: Capacity and Collaboration" in the Journal of Rural and Community Development (2018).

"Rural sustainability plans in Canada: An Analysis of structure, content and influence" in Journal of Rural Studies (November 2017).

"Employer Perspectives in Youth Employability in Rural Areas" with Lars Hallstrom and Carly Heck in Observatoirse Juenes et Society. Quebec. (Hiver 2017).

"Policy Design in Rural Manitoba: Alternatives and Opportunities in the Midst of Change" in the Manitoba Law Journal (Policy Edition): Underneath the Golden Boy. (2016).

"Developing Navigation Competencies to Care for Older Rural Adults with Advanced Illness" in the Canadian Journal on Aging (April 19, 2016).

"Which Way from Here? Navigation for the Care of Older Rural Adults with Terminal Illness" Canadian Journal of Aging (January 2015).

"Rural Alberta's Priority Policy Research Questions" in Journal of Rural and Community Development (December 2014).

"Hope of Rural Women Caregivers of Persons with Advanced Cancer: Guilt, Self-Efficacy and Mental Health" in Rural and Remote Health 14:2561 (2014).

"Watershed Management and Public Health: An Exploration of the Intersection of Two Fields as Reported in the Literature from 2000 to 2010" in Environmental Management (August 2014).

 

Books

Banack, Clark and Jim Farney, Faith, Rights, and Choice: The Politics of Religious Schools in Canada (2023).

Banack, Clark and Dionne Pohler, eds. Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada, University of Alberta Press (2023).

Banack, Clark. God’s Province: Evangelical Christianity, Political Thought, and Conservatism in Alberta, God’s Province: Evangelical Christianity, Political Thought, and Conservatism in Alberta (2016).

Boom and Bust: A Guide to managing ups and downs in communities (2016).

Taking the Next Steps: Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada (2016).

Ecosystems, Society and Health: Pathways through Diversity, Convergence, and Integration (2015).

 

Book Chapters

Banack, Clark, “Understanding Rural Attitudes Toward Cultural and Religious Minorities via Political Ethnography: The Case of Rural Alberta,” in C. Banack and D. Pohler ed. Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada, (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. (2023).

Banack, Clark and Dionne Pohler, “Introduction: Thinking about Inclusivity in Rural Canada,” in C. Banack and D. Pohler ed. Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada, (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 2023).

Banack, Clark and Dionne Pohler, “Conclusion: Toward Inclusive Rural Communities,” in C. Banack and D. Pohler ed. Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada, (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 2023).

Banack, Clark, “The Premiership of Alison Redford,” in Sylvia Bashevkin ed. Doing Politics Differently? Women Premiers in Canada's Provinces and Territories, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019), 225-249.

Banack, Clark, “Government for the People, Not by the People.’ Populism and Parliamentary Governance under Stephen Harper,” in T. Healy and S. Trew ed., The Harper Record 2008-2015, (Ottawa: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives, 2015)

Banack, Clark, “Conservative Christianity, Anti-Statism and Alberta’s Public Sphere: The Curious Case of Bill 44,” in S. Lefebvre and L. Beaman ed., Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), 257-274.

Banack, Clark, “American Protestantism and the Roots of ‘Populist Conservatism’ in Alberta,” in J. Farney and D. Rayside ed., Conservatism in Canada, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).

"Grieving Nature - Grieving in Nature: The place of parks and natural places in palliative and grief care" in Quilley, S., Zywert, K. (Eds). Health in the Anthropocene: Living well on a finite planet. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (2019 - forthcoming). The chapter by Jakubek et al. is connected to the Parks and Palliative Care project.

"Public Health at the Watershed Scale" in Water Policy. Springer. (2016).

"Public Policy and the Welfare State" In D. Raphael (Ed.) The Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives (3rd ed.) Canadian Scholars Press Inc. (2016).

"Oppression and the political economy of health inequities" in McGibbon, E. (Ed.). Oppression: A social determinant of health. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. (2012).

 

Other Publications

The State of Rural Canada (2015) Alberta Chapter.