Harold Innis in the new century : reflections and refractions / edited by Charles R. Acland and William J. Buxton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buxton, William, 1947-

Acland, Charles R., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Innis, Harold A. (Harold Adams), 1894-1952--Congresses.

Innis, Harold A.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is divided into three sections: "Reflections on Innis" provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "Gaps and Silences" considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "Innis and Cultural Theory" offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis. The interpretations offered reflect the changing landscape of intellectual life as boundaries between traditional disciplines blur and new interdisciplinary fields emerge. Harold Innis in the New Century is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Canadian studies, communication studies, cultural studies, economic history, and political science. Contributors include Charles R. Acland (Calgary), Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton (Concordia), James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montréal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Daniel Salée (Concordia), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia), Irene Spry (professor emerita, Ottawa), Judith Stamps (Victoria), and Andrew Werwick (Trent).

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: Harold Innis: A Genealogy of Contesting Portraits""; ""PART ONE: REFLECTIONS ON INNIS""; ""1 Innis's Conception of Freedom""; ""2 Innis in the Canadian Dialectical Tradition""; ""3 ""The Expected Tradition"": Innis, State Rationality, and the Governmentalization of Communication""; ""4 Innis 'in' Chicago: Hope as the Sire of Discovery""; ""5 Economic History and Economic Theory: Innis's Insights""; ""6 The Public Role of the Intellectual""

""7 Harold Innis and the Canadian Social Science Research Council: An Experiment in Boundary Work""""8 Monopoles du savoir ou critique culturelle journalistique ? Innis et Victor Barbeau discutent la presse, le nationalisme, et les pratiques intellectuelles""; ""PART TWO: GAPS AND SILENCES""; ""9 From Silence to Communication? What Innisians Might Learn by Analysing Gender Relations""; ""10 Innis and Quebec: The Paradigm That Would Not Be""; ""11 Innis in Quebec: Conjectures and Conjunctures""; ""12 Too Long in Exile: Innis and Maritime Political Economy""

""PART THREE: INNIS AND CULTURAL THEORY""""13 Histories of Place and Power: Innis in Canadian Cultural Studies""; ""14 No Future: Innis, Time Sense, and Postmodernity""; ""15 Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Space after Innis""; ""16 Postmodern Themes in Innis's Works""; ""17 The Bias of Space Revisited: The Internet and the Information Highway through Women's Eyes""; ""18 Early Innis and the Post-Massey Era in Canadian Culture""; ""19 The Dilettante's Dilemma: Speaking for the Arts in Canadian Cultural Policy""; ""20 An Index of Power: Innis, Aesthetics, and Technology""

""Works Cited""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference held at Concordia University, Nov. 1994.

Includes 1 paper in French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-418) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85512-3

9786612855122

0-7735-6726-7