We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Redbaiting and racism on our frontier: military expansion in Labrador and Quebec.
- Authors
Armitage, Peter; Kennedy, John C.
- Abstract
This article examines the debate over the expansion of military flight training in eastern Quebec and Labrador regions in Canada. In opposing the military expansion, the indigenous Innu mobilize specific ethnic symbols that portray them as a peaceful, aboriginal people besieged by a huge and impersonal war machine. The aim of Innu is to convince the public outside the region that military flight training seriously threatens the wildlife and the existence of Innu culture. Military expansionists includes both local business and political leaders as well as people not resident in the region who support military development. Military expansionists, particularly federal and provincial politicians, argue that military development is the panacaea for a depressed region with a history of failed economic development. Ultimately, the military expansion debate in Labrador is about power and domination. State support of military expansion is justified in the name of national interests and by provincial concerns about high unemployment.
- Subjects
CANADA; RACISM; FLIGHT training; ETHNIC groups; NASKAPI (North American people); ENDANGERED species; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CULTURAL identity; CULTURE; IDENTITY (Psychology); PRACTICAL politics; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 1989, Vol 26, Issue 5, p798
- ISSN
0008-4948
- Publication type
Article