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Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions

✍ Scribed by Charles R. Acland; William J. Buxton


Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
450
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Harold Innis: A Genealogy of Contesting Portraits
PART ONE: REFLECTIONS ON INNIS
1 Innis's Conception of Freedom
2 Innis in the Canadian Dialectical Tradition
3 "The Expected Tradition": Innis, State Rationality, and the Governmentalization of Communication
4 Innis 'in' Chicago: Hope as the Sire of Discovery
5 Economic History and Economic Theory: Innis's Insights
6 The Public Role of the Intellectual
7 Harold Innis and the Canadian Social Science Research Council: An Experiment in Boundary Work
8 Monopoles du savoir ou critique culturelle journalistique ? Innis et Victor Barbeau discutent la presse, le nationalisme, et les pratiques intellectuelles
PART TWO: GAPS AND SILENCES
9 From Silence to Communication? What Innisians Might Learn by Analysing Gender Relations
10 Innis and Quebec: The Paradigm That Would Not Be
11 Innis in Quebec: Conjectures and Conjunctures
12 Too Long in Exile: Innis and Maritime Political Economy
PART THREE: INNIS AND CULTURAL THEORY
13 Histories of Place and Power: Innis in Canadian Cultural Studies
14 No Future: Innis, Time Sense, and Postmodernity
15 Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Space after Innis
16 Postmodern Themes in Innis's Works
17 The Bias of Space Revisited: The Internet and the Information Highway through Women's Eyes
18 Early Innis and the Post-Massey Era in Canadian Culture
19 The Dilettante's Dilemma: Speaking for the Arts in Canadian Cultural Policy
20 An Index of Power: Innis, Aesthetics, and Technology
Works Cited
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