Canadian countercultures and the environment / / edited by Colin M. Coates.
In Canadian historiography, there has been an increasing attention on the 1960s. Studies have focused mainly on the radical politics of the period but tended to downplay the extent to which much of the intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. This present collection, Canad...
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| Superior document: | Canadian history and environment series, no. 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian history and environment series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 302 pages) :; illustrations (black and white); digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Canadian countercultures and their environments, 1960s-1980s / Colin M. Coates
- section 1. Environmental activism
- 2. Back-to-the-land environmentalism and small island ecology : Denman Island, BC, 1974-1979 / Sharon Weaver
- 3. "Good ecology is good economics" : the Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project, 1973-1979 / Nancy Janovicek
- 4. American immigration, the Canadian counterculture, and the prefigurative environmental politics of the West Kootenay Region, 1969-1989 / Kathleen Rodgers
- 5. Countercultural recycling in Toronto : the "is five foundation" and the origins of the blue box / Ryan O'Connor
- 6. "Vive la vélorution!" : le Monde à bicyclette and the origins of cycling advocacy in Montreal / Daniel Ross
- section 2. People, nature, activities
- 7. An ark for the future : science, technology, and the Canadian back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s / Henry Trim
- 8. Dollars for "deadbeats" : opportunities for youth grants and the back-to-the-land movement on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast / Matt Cavers
- 9. Building futures together : western and Aboriginal countercultures and the environment in the Yukon Territory / David Neufeld
- 10. Nature, spirit, home : back-to-the-land childbirth in BC's Kootenay Region / Megan J. Davies
- 11. Children of the hummus : growing up back-to-the-land on Prince Edward Island / Alan MacEachern with Ryan O'Connor.