Michèle Dagenais
- Professeure titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-6108
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Affiliations
- Membre – CIÉQ — Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises
Education Programs
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Administration and Management Sciences
- Social Sciences Literature and Languages Humanities
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Literature and Languages Humanities
- Humanities Arts and Music
- Arts and Music Humanities
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences Literature and Languages Humanities
- Literature and Languages Humanities Social Sciences
- Teaching and Education Sciences
- Humanities Social Sciences Economics and Politics
- Teaching and Education Sciences
- Humanities
Courses
- HST1052 Histoire du Canada depuis 1850
- HST7002 Séminaire de doctorat en histoire
Areas of Expertise
- Environment
- City
- Public space
- Historiography
- Municipal politics
- 19th century
- 20th century
- North America
- Quebec
- Canada (Québec)
Cities are my main research topic. I study them through the history of their concrete and symbolic formation. I am interested in showing that the efforts involved in the physical organization of cities shape the way they are governed and help structure social and political relationships at this level. This way of seeing the history of cities as a product of interrelated physical and social factors has led to published papers on the development of public spaces for culture and recreation in Montreal and Toronto in the 19th and 20th centuries, and on the structuring of the municipal domain through drinking water and wastewater networks. I recently published a paper on evolving relationships between Montreal and water, in an attempt to reconstitute the role of water and its successive transformations in the city's urbanization process since the early 19th century. Since then I have been pursuing my work on the history of the environment at the larger scale of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence hydrographic system.
I am also interested in issues relating to the writing and public uses of history in theoretical and practical terms. I have taken part in various debates and roundtables on the teaching of history. I also sometimes collaborate on mounting exhibitions and producing historical documents for various audiences.
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Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
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Commerce impérial et transformations environnementales : la formation des hectares fantômes dans la vallée laurentienne, 1763-1918 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2024
(Réseau Québec Maritime - RQM) Dynamiques spatio-temporelles des contaminations anthropiques au sein des sédiments de la rivière Saint-Charles Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2022
LE SYSTEME GRANDS LACS - SAINT-LAURENT : DEFINITIONS ET REPRESENTATIONS, 19E-20E SIECLES Projet de recherche au Canada / 2012 - 2015
Montréal au fil de ses rivières: lecture cartographique et environnementale de son tissu urbain Projet de recherche au Canada / 2012 - 2014
MONTREAL AU FIL DE SES RIVIERES : LECTURE CARTOGRAPHIQUE ET ENVIRONNEMENTALE DE SON TISSU URBAIN Projet de recherche au Canada / 2012 - 2014
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Publications principales
Montréal et l’eau. Une histoire environnementale, Montréal, Boréal, 2011, 306p. (www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/catalogue/livres/montreal-eau-1870.html)
Metropolitan Natures. Environmental Histories of Montreal, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, 321p. (ouvrage collectif dirigé avec Stéphane Castonguay) (www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx)
Faire et fuir la ville. Espaces publics de culture et de loisirs à Montréal et Toronto, XIXe et XXe siècles, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006,260p.
« Natures et métropole », VertigO. La La revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement, 12, 2 (septembre 2012) (vertigo.revues.org/12202). (dossier thématique dirigé avec A. Da Cunha, P. Deboudt, C. Vainer et É. Duchemin)
« The Municipal Territory: A Product of the Liberal Order ? », dans J.-F. Constant et M. Ducharme, dir., Liberalism and Hegemony : Debating the Canadian Revolution,Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2009, p. 201-220.
« Débats autour de l’histoire scolaire : caractères singuliers, mais enjeu unique », Bulletin d’histoire politique, 22, 3 (printemps 2014), p. 185-199. (avec Christian Laville)
« Le naufrage du projet de programme d’histoire ‘nationale’. Retour sur une occasion manquée accompagné de considérations sur l’éducation historique », Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, 60, 4 (printemps 2007), p. 517-550. (avec Christian Laville)
Additional Information
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Montréal et l’eau. Une histoire environnementale
Julie St-Onge "Dagenais, Michèle, Montréal et l’eau. Une histoire environnementale (Montréal, Boréal, 2011), 308 p." Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 654 (2012): 509–511.
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