Harold Innis in the new century
Subtitle: reflections and refractions
By: edited by Charles R. Acland and William J. Buxton.
Contributors: Buxton, William, 1947-; Acland, Charles R., 1963-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Innis, Harold Adams, 1894-1952 -- Congresses.; Economists -- Canada -- Biography -- Congresses.; Economics -- Congresses.; Communication -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.; Transportation -- Congresses.; Social sciences -- Congresses.; Canada -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-418) and index.
Papers originally presented at a conference held at Concordia University, Nov. 1994.
Includes 1 paper in French.
Table of contents: title: Innis's conception of freedom / Richard Noble; title: Innis in the Canadian dialectical tradition / Judith Stamps; title: "The expected tradition" : Innis, state rationality, and the governmentalization of communication / Michael Dorland; title: Innis 'in' Chicago : hope as the sire of discovery / James W. Carey; title: Economic history and economic theory : Innis's insights / Irene M. Spry; title: The public role of the intellectual / Liora Salter and Cheryl Dahl; title: Harold Innis and the Canadian Social Science Research Council : an experiment in boundary work / Donald Fisher; title: Monopoles du savoir ou critique culturelle journalistique? Innis et Victor Barbeau discutent la presse, le nationalisme, et les pratiques intellectuelles / Michèle Martin and William J. Buxton; title: From silence to communication? what Innisians might learn by analysing gender relations / Jane Jenson; title: Innis and Quebec : the paradigm that would not be / Daniel Salée; title: Innis in Quebec : conjectures and conjunctures / Alain-G. Gagnon and Sara Fortin; title: Too long in exile : Innis and maritime political economy / James Bickerton; title: Histories of place and power : Innis in Canadian cultural studies / Charles R. Acland; title: No future : Innis, time sense, and postmodernity / Andrew Wernick; title: Space at the margins : critical theory and colonial space after Innis; title: Postmodern themes in Innis's works / Ray Charron; title: The bias of space revisited : the Internet and the information highway through women's eyes / Heather Manzies; title: early Innis and the post-Massey era in Canadian culture / Kevin Dowler; title: The dilettante's dilemma : speaking for the arts in Canadian cultural policy / Alison Beale; title: An index of power : Innis, aesthetics, and technology / Kim Sawchuk.