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Plundering the North : a history of settler colonialism, corporate welfare, and food insecurity /

"The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food 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 i...

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Main Authors: Burnett, Kristin, 1974- (Author)
Group Author: Hay, Travis
Published: University of Manitoba Press,
Publisher Address: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Ontario, Northern > History.
Indigenous peoples > Food > Ontario, Northern > History.
Food supply > Government policy > Ontario, Northern > History.
Food security > Ontario, Northern > History.
Food prices > Ontario, Northern > History.
Food prices.
Food security.
Food supply > Government policy.
Indigenous peoples.
Ontario, Northern > History.
Northern Ontario
Summary: "The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food 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 North provides 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 impact the health of northern Indigenous communities."--
Carrier Form: 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-212) and index.
ISBN: 9781772840490
1772840491
9781772840520
1772840521
Index Number: E78
CLC: F371.161-09
K711.8
Call Number: K711.8/B964
Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Food Sovereignty: The Assault on Indigenous Hunting, Fishing, Trapping, and Trading -- Chapter 2. Constructing Dependency: The Hudson's Bay Company before the Second World War -- Chapter 3. "Making Proper Use": The Family Allowance Program and Forced Purchasing Lists -- Chapter 4. "Left at The Trader's Mercy": The Hudson's Bay Company and the Northern Stores Department -- Chapter 5. "Preferred Perishable Foods": Origins and Outcomes of the Food Mail Program -- Chapter 6. "We Blanket the North": The Expansion of the North West Company, 1987-2007 -- Chapter 7. "Direct, Effective and Efficient": Nutrition North Canada and Testructuring of Federal Food Subsidy Programs, 2008-2017 -- Conclusion.

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