Islands of resistance: challenging hegemony from the Johnstone Strait to the Salish Sea

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dc.contributor.authorHowe, Ronald
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMacKay, Bruce
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-09T22:01:21Z
dc.date.available2020-09-09T22:01:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how three unique, isolated maritime communities located off the coast of British Columbia, Canada have responded to significant obstacles. Over a century ago, disillusioned Finnish immigrants responded to the lethal conditions of the coal mines they laboured in by creating Sointula, a socialist utopia. The ‘Namgis First Nation in Alert Bay, a group of the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples, have recently developed a land-based fish farm, Kuterra, in response to an ocean-based fish farming industry that threatens the wild salmon they have survived on since time immemorial. Lasqueti Island residents have responded to exclusion from access to traditional power sources by implementing self-generating, renewable energy into their off-grid community. Through contemporary and historic analysis, a common theme emerges that explains what unites these three disparate cultural communities in response to impediments faced: “Your neighbours are your insurance.”en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5762
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subjectCultural anthropology [0326]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectCanadian studies [0385]
dc.proquest.subjectSocial structure [0700]
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Women and Gender Studies
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectDissertations, Academic
dc.subjectCoal mines and mining
dc.subjectFisheries
dc.subjectKwakwaka’wakw
dc.subjectLasqueti Island (B.C.)
dc.subjectNamgis First Nation
dc.subjectRenewable energy
dc.subjectSointula (B.C.)
dc.titleIslands of resistance: challenging hegemony from the Johnstone Strait to the Salish Seaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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