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Moved by the State
Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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"Why don't they just move?" This reductive question is asked whenever reports surface of the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities in Canada's rural and urban communities. But why are certain people and places vulnerable? And who is responsible for a remedy?From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people, often against their will, in order to improve their lives. Moved by the State offers a completely new interpretation of this undertaking, seeing it as part of a larger project of development and focusing on the bureaucrats and academics who designed, implemented, and monitored the relocations rather than on those who were uprooted.In this finely crafted history, Tina Loo explores the contradiction between intention and consequence as diverse communities across Canada were resettled. In the process, she reveals the optimistic belief underpinning postwar relocations: the power of the interventionist state to do good.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2019-06-01
- Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
- Vikt560 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieMcLean Family Canadian Studies Series
- Antal sidor296
- FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
- ISBN9780774861007
- UtmärkelserShort-listed for Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association 2020 (Canada)