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Plundering the North - A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
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Plundering the North - A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
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The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the
North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human
rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis
Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this
crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous
foodways. Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West
Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is not a
naturally occurring phenomenon or the result of free-market forces.
Rather, inflated food prices are the direct result of government
policies and corporate monopolies. Using food as a lens to track
the institutional presence of the Canadian state in the North,
Burnett and Hay chart the social, economic, and political changes
that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s. They
explore the roles of state food policy and the HBC and NWC in
setting up, perpetuating, and profiting from food insecurity while
undermining Indigenous food sovereignties and self-determination.
Plundering the Northprovides fresh insight into Canada’s settler
colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food
insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities. An
important re-evaluation of northern food policies, this timely
contribution to scholarship on settler colonialism in Canada
enables better understandings of the ways the state and
corporations endanger the health and well-being of northern
Indigenous communities.
General
Imprint: |
University of Manitoba Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Kristin Burnett
• Travis Hay
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-77284-049-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-77284-049-1 |
Barcode: |
9781772840490 |
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