Power from the north : the poetics and politics of energy in Quebec / Caroline Desbiens; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desbiens, Caroline, 1969-

Series:

Nature, history, society Power from the north

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Quebec (Province)--History.

Environmental policy.

Natural resources--Quebec (Province).

Natural resources.

Québec (Province)--History.

Québec (Province).

Québec (Province)--Civilization.

James Bay (Nunavut)--History.

James Bay (Nunavut).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Power from the North, Caroline Desbiens explores how this culture of hydroelectricity helped shape the material landscape during the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project. She analyzes the cultural forces that contributed to the transformation of the La Grande River into a hydroelectric complex. Policy makers and Quebecers did not, she argues, view those who built the dams as mere workers -- they saw them as pioneers in a previously uninhabited landscape now inscribed with the codes of culture and spectacle.

Contents:

1 Power and the North

1. Nexus of Hydroelectricity in Quebec

2. Discovering a New World: James Bay as Eeyou Istchee

pt. 2 Writing the Land

3. Who Shall Convert the Wilderness into a Flourishing Country?

4. From the Roman de la Terre to the Roman des Ressources

pt. 3 Rewriting the Land

5. Pioneers

6. Workers

7. Spectators.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2418-2

OCLC:

828767033