Plundering the North

Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay

16,99 €
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Langue:
Ebook en anglais
ISBN:
9781772840513
Date de parution:
27-10-23
Nombre de pages:
216
Editeur:
University of Manitoba Press
Format:
Ebook
Format Détaillé:
EPUB
Protection digitale:
Digital watermarking

Description

Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024

Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024


The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis


Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous foodways.


Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is neither a naturally occurring phenomenon nor the result of free-market forces. Rather, inflated food prices are the direct result of government policies and corporate monopolies. Using food as a lens to track the institutional presence of the Canadian state in the North, Burnett and Hay chart the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s. They explore the roles of state food policy and the HBC and NWC in setting up, perpetuating, and profiting from food insecurity while undermining Indigenous food sovereignties and self-determination.


Plundering the North provides fresh insight into Canada’s settler colonial project by re-evaluating northern food policy and laying bare the governmental and corporate processes behind the chronic food insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities.