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      Traditional places and modernist spaces : regional geography and northwestern landscapes of power in Canada, 1850-1990

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      Date
      2000-04-01
      Author
      Moffat, Ben Lawrence
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Doctoral
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      Abstract
      Regions are the manifestation of ideology and power in the landscape. This study maintains that changes in the allocation and exercise of state power are reflected in Western Canada's regional geography at different time periods and that the ideology(ies) supporting this power is (are) actively advanced by the creation, maintenance, and continued existence of those regions. Traditional approaches to historical geography neglect this socio-political aspect of region. To that end, alternate, contemporary approaches are applied. Aspects of critical social theory will illuminate the roles of both ideology and power and their crucial place in forming the human-built environment. Different places in different time periods will be analysed. These include: the territories of the Canadian North-West 'circa' 1885; Alberta and Saskatchewan to provincehood, 1905; and the Inuvialuit Settlement Area, 1990.
      Degree
      Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
      Department
      Geography
      Program
      Geography
      Committee
      Bone, Robert M.
      Copyright Date
      April 2000
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-10212004-002256
      Subject
      regionalism
      human geography
      political geography
      social science
      geopolitics
      power (social sciences)
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