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Dissenters on the Run: Canada, The Vietnam War, and the Portrayal of American War Resisters

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2024-09-09

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Thesis

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Masters

Abstract

This thesis provides original analysis that showcases the incredible diversity of war resister experience and asks why media, policy, and academic conceptions of war resisters look so different from reality. In doing so, it uses an original interview and three original maps (including one demonstrating the unity of action by border officials during the Heintzelman affair), looks at regional variation between four distinct approaches to war resistance (exiles, rural reformers, urban separatists, and integrationists) and it includes, where possible, evidence of those excluded from past studies (notably families and children). Combined this original contribution hopes to push the field forward and make future scholars critically examine the question of who a war resister is and what constitutes resistance.

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Draft dodgers, Canada, Vietnam War, War resistance, War resisters, family, media, policy,

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Master of Arts (M.A.)

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History

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History

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