Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s

Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s

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Edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Greg Kealey
Canadian Social History Series
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2012
World Rights
304 Pages 14 Images
Paper
ISBN 9781442610781
Available Jul 2012
$29.95
Cloth
ISBN 9781442641648
Available Aug 2012
$65.00
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Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era’s transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians – and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class.

With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a ‘time apart’ within the broader framework of the ‘long-sixties’ and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade’s biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.

Lara Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Dominique Clément is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Greg Kealey is Provost, Vice-President Research, and a professor in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.

Preface

Acknowledgements  

Time, Age, Myth: Towards a History of the Sixties - Lara Campbell, Simon Fraser University and Dominique Clément, University of Alberta. 

Drugs, Health and the Environment

Food, Fear and the Environment in the Long Sixties - Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph.

The Psychedelic Sixties in North America: Drugs and Identity  - Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan.

Higher Education

The Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Transformation of Faculty Power, 1951-70 - Catherine Gidney, St. Thomas University.

To Struggle Together or Fracture Apart: The Sixties Student Movements at English Canadian Universities - Roberta Lexier, Mount Allison University.

‘Riots’ at Sir George Williams: Construction of a Social Conflict in the Sixties - .Marcel Martel, York University.

Authority and Social Protest

The Struggle for a Different World’: The 1971 Gastown Riot -  Michael Boudreau, St. Thomas University.

Sex Spying: The RCMP and Women's Liberation Groups - Steve Hewitt, University of Birmingham and Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa.

Race and Working Class Movements

’Hothead Troubles’: Sixties-Era Wildcat Strikes in Canada - Peter S. McInnis, St. Francis Xavier University. 

Black Confrontation in Sixties Halifax - James Walker, University of Waterloo

The Regulation of Native Peoples and Aboriginal Resistance - Bryan Palmer, Trent University

Nationalism and the State

The Nationalist Moment in English Canada - Stephen Azzi, Laurentien University 

Reconciling the Two Solitudes?: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Canada from the Quiet Revolution to the Victoria Charter - Matthew Hayday, University of Guelph .

Sixties in Québec - José E. Igartua, Université du Québec à Montréal.

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