Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada

Tina Loo

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Moved by the State

Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada

Tina Loo

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies

About this book

Through five diverse episodes of forced relocation across Canada, Moved by the State offers a new look at the power of the welfare state and the political culture of postwar Canada.

Author / Editor information

Tina Loo is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia. Her previous book is States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. A recipient of Clio and Sir John A. Macdonald prizes from the Canadian Historical Association, as well as the Canada Prize from the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, she is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

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C. J. Taylor, Parks Canada:
…the book is thought-provoking and will inspire discussion among those looking to Canadian social and political challenges of the past, as well as those considering them in the future.

Penny Bryden, author of Canada: A Political Biography:
Tina Loo is a masterful scholar and in Moved by the State she offers a completely new interpretation of resettlements of the 1950s and ’60s as understood through the lens of high modernism. The result is both revisionist and refreshing.

James Kenny, associate professor, Department of History, Royal Military College of Canada:
Moved by the State illuminates a moment in Canadian history when bureaucrats, politicians, and university “experts” – imbued with hope and a belief in the interventionist state – planned the forcible relocation of individuals from their communities in order to help them share in “the good life.” It is meticulously researched, theoretically informed, and convincingly argued.

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History Topics in History Global History

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
“No More Canadians Will Starve!” Development, Discipline, and Decolonizing the North Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
“The Governmentality Game” Problematizing, Resettling, and Democratizing Newfoundland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
“Artisans of Their Destiny” Participation, Power, and Place in Quebec’s Backcountry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
“Deviating from the Strict Letter of the Law” Race, Poverty, and Planning in Postwar Halifax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
“A Fourth Level of Government”? Urban Renewal, State Power, and Democracy in Vancouver’s East Side Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

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eBook published on:

June 1, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9780774861021

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296

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20 b&w photos, 12 maps, 2 tables

https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774861021

eBook ISBN: 9780774861021

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