Canadian Countercultures and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9781552388143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str.

Colin M. Coates

Opis

Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment adds to our knowledge of this understudied period. This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of major environmental debates in this era and examines a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use.

No other publication dealing with this period covers the wide range of environmental topics (among others, activism, midwifery, organic farming, recycling, urban cycling, and communal living) or geographic locales, from Yukon to Atlantic Canada. Together, they demonstrate how this period influenced and informed environmental action and issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society.

With contributions by:
Matt Cavers
Megan Davies
Nancy Janovicek
Alan MacEachern
David Neufeld
Ryan O'Connor
Daniel Ross
Henry Trim
Sharon Weaver

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Canadian Countercultures and Their Environments 1930s-1980s
• Colin M. Coates
• Section 1: Environmental Activism
• Back-to-the-Land Environmentalism and Small Island Ecology: Denman Island, BC 1974&ndash1979
• Sharon Weaver
• "Good Ecology Is Good Economics" The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project, 1973-1979
• Nancy Janovicek
• American Immigration, the Canadian Counterculture, and the Prefigurative Environmental Politics of the West Kootenay Region, 1969-1989
• Kathleen Rodgers
• Countercultural Recycling in Toronto: The "Is Five Foundation" and the Origins of the Blue Box
• Ryan O'Connor
• "Vive la VÉlorution!": Le Monde Á Bicyclette and the Origins of Cycling Advocacy in Montreal
• Daniel Ross
• Section 2: People, Nature, Activities
• An Ark for the Future: Secience, Techonlogy and the Canadian Back-to-the-Land Movement of the 1970s
• Henry Trim
• Dolars for "Deadbeats": Opportunities for Youth Grants and the Back-to-the-Land Movement British Columbia's Sunshine Coast
• Matt Cavers
• Building Futures Together: Western and Aboriginal Countercultures and the Environment of the Yukon Territory
• David Neufeld
• Nature, Spirit, Home: Back-to-the-Land Childbirt in BC's Kootenay Region
• Megan J. Davies
• Children of the Hummus: Growing Up Back-to-the-Land on Prince Edward Island
• Alan MacEachern with Ryan O'Connor
• Index