Blockades or Breakthroughs?
Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2014
- Category
- Canadian
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773596139
- Publish Date
- Nov 2014
- List Price
- $100.00
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773543911
- Publish Date
- Jan 2015
- List Price
- $40.95
-
Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773543904
- Publish Date
- Jan 2015
- List Price
- $110.00
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people.
The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is needed for Aboriginal groups to break an unfavourable status quo, overcome structural barriers, and achieve their goals. But are blockades actually "breakthroughs"? What are the objectives of Aboriginal people and communities who adopt this approach? How can the success of these methods be measured? This collection offers an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present. Individual case studies situate specific blockades and conflicts in historical context, examine each group’s reasons for occupation, and analyze the media labels and frames applied to both Aboriginal and state responses.
Direct action tactics remain a powerful political tool for First Nations in Canada. The authors of Blockades or Breakthroughs? Argue that blockades and occupations are instrumental, symbolic, and complex events that demand equally multifaceted responses.
Contributors include Yale D. Belanger, Tom Flanagan, Sarah King, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, David Rossiter, John Sandlos, Nick Shrubsole, and Timothy Winegard.
About the authors
Yale D. Belanger is associate professor, Native American Studies, and adjunct associate professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge.P. Whitney Lackenbauer is associate professor and chair of history at St Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo.
Yale D. Belanger's profile page
P. Whitney Lackenbauer is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, and a faculty associate with the LCMSDS.
Peter Kikkert recently completed his M.A. at the University of Waterloo and is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Western Ontario.
Other titles by
Other titles by
An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years
The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
People, Politics, and Purpose
Biography and Canadian Political History
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations
Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972
Breaking Through
Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic
La Confédération, 1864-1999
nouvelles perspectives
Reconsidering Confederation
Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
Reconsidering Confederation
Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
Roots of Entanglement
Essays in the History of Native-Newcomer Relations
China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada