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- Title
INDIGENOUS CONTENTIOUS COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CANADA: THE LABRADOR INNU AND THEIR OCCUPATION OF THE GOOSE BAY MILITARY AIR BASE.
- Authors
Alcantara, Christopher
- Abstract
Over the last fifty years or so, a number of Aboriginal groups in Canada have used protests, blockades, and occupations to oppose the Canadian state. Although most of these conflicts have received significant scholarly attention, a number of important phenomena related to Indigenous contentious collective action remain relatively unexplored or untested. One particular phenomenon that is in need of further study is why Aboriginal groups decide to engage in contentious collective action in the first place. To address this question, this paper uses the theoretical lenses of rational choice and political opportunity structure to analyze the Labrador Innu's decision to mobilize and occupy the Goose Bay military air base during the 1980s and the 1990s.
- Subjects
GOOSE Bay (N.L.); NEWFOUNDLAND &; Labrador; CANADA; NASKAPI (North American people); COLLECTIVE action; PUBLIC demonstrations; RATIONAL choice theory; AIR bases; FIRST Nations of Canada; ABORIGINAL Canadians; SOCIAL conditions in Canada; CANADIAN history, 1945-
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0715-3244
- Publication type
Article