Title: Debating dissent :
Authors: Campbell, Lara,; Clément, Dominique,; Kealey, Gregory S.,
Date: 2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Physical description: viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: "Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade's political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era's transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians - and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class. With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a 'time apart' within the broader framework of the 'long-sixties' and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade's biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties."--pub. desc.
Contents: Time, Age, Myth: Towards a History of the Sixties / Lara Campbell and Dominique Clément -- 1. Drugs, Health and the Environment -- Food, Fear and the Environment in the Long Sixties . Catherine Carstairs -- The Psychedelic Sixties in North America: Drugs and Identity / Erika Dyck -- 2. Higher Education -- The Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Transformation of Faculty Power, 1951-70 / Catherine Gidney -- To Struggle Together or Fracture Apart: The Sixties Student Movements at English Canadian Universities / Roberta Lexier -- 'Riots' at Sir George Williams: Construction of a Social Conflict in the Sixties / Marcel Martel -- 3. Authority and Social Protest -- The Struggle for a Different World': The 1971 Gastown Riot / Michael Boudreau -- Sex Spying: The RCMP and Women's Liberation Groups / Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna -- 4. Race and Working Class Movements -- 'Hothead Troubles': Sixties-Era Wildcat Strikes in Canada / Peter S. McInnis -- Black Confrontation in Sixties Halifax / James Walker -- The Regulation of Native Peoples and Aboriginal Resistance / Bryan Palmer -- 6. Nationalism and the State -- The Nationalist Moment in English Canada / Stephen Azzi -- Reconciling the Two Solitudes?: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Canada from the Quiet Revolution to the Victoria Charter / Matthew Hayday -- Sixties in Québec / José E. Igartua.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canada--History--1945-; Canada--Social conditions--1945-; Nineteen sixties.; Social change--Canada--History--20th century.