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5 Economic History and Economic Theory: Innis's Insights

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  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Contributors xi
  5. Introduction: Harold Innis: A Genealogy of Contesting Portraits 3
  6. Reflections on Innis
  7. Innis's Conception of Freedom 31
  8. Innis in the Canadian Dialectical Tradition 46
  9. "The Expected Tradition": Innis, State Rationality, and the Governmentalization of Communication 67
  10. Innis 'in' Chicago: Hope as the Sire of Discovery 81
  11. Economic History and Economic Theory: Innis's Insights 105
  12. The Public Role of the Intellectual 114
  13. Harold Innis and the Canadian Social Science Research Council: An Experiment in Boundary Work 135
  14. Monopoles du savoir ou critique culturelle journalistique? Innis et Victor Barbeau discutent la presse, le nationalisms, et les pratiques intellectuelles 159
  15. Gaps and Silence?
  16. From Silence to Communication? What Innisians Might Learn by Analysing Gender Relations 177
  17. Innis and Quebec: The Paradigm That Would Not Be 196
  18. Innis in Quebec: Conjectures and Conjunctures 209
  19. Too Long in Exile: Innis and Maritime Political Economy 225
  20. Innis and Cultural Theory
  21. Histories of Place and Power: Innis in Canadian Cultural Studies 243
  22. No Future: Innis, Time Sense, and Postmodernity 261
  23. Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Space after Innis 281
  24. Postmodern Themes in Innis's Works 309
  25. The Bias of Space Revisited: The Internet and the Information Highway through Women's Eyes 322
  26. Early Innis and the Post-Massey Era in Canadian Culture 339
  27. The Dilettante's Dilemma: Speaking for the Arts in Canadian Cultural Policy 355
  28. An Index of Power: Innis, Aesthetics, and Technology 369
  29. Works Cited 387
  30. Index 419
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