Bucking Conservatism
Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
- Publisher
- Athabasca University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2021
- Subjects
- Social History, Post-Confederation (1867-), Conservatism & Liberalism
- Categories
- About Alberta
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- ISBN
- 9781771992596
- Publish Date
- Nov 2021
- List Price
- $34.99
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Description
With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta’s noncomformists---those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics---and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists.
About the authors
Leon Crane Bear is Siksika and a treaty Indian, as well as a graduate of the University of Lethbridge.
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Larry Hannant is a Canadian historian specializing in twentieth-century political dissent. He is the author of The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens and the editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art, which won the Robert S. Kenny Prize in Left/Labour Studies. He also researched and co-wrote a feature-length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The Spirit Wrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television in 2002. He currently teaches at Camosun College and the University of Victoria.
Karissa Robyn Patton is a post-doctoral fellow at Vancouver Island University.