Harold Innis in the New Century

by Acland, Charles R.; Buxton, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780773517370
• ISBN10: 0773517375
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

The book is divided into three sections: "Reflections on Innis" provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "Gaps and Silences" considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "Innis and Cultural Theory" offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis. The interpretations offered reflect the changing landscape of intellectual life as boundaries between traditional disciplines blur and new interdisciplinary fields emerge. Harold Innis in the New Century is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Canadian studies, communication studies, cultural studies, economic history, and political science. Contributors include Charles R. Acland (Calgary), Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton (Concordia), James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Daniel Salee (Concordia), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia), Irene Spry (professor emerita, Ottawa), Judith Stamps (Victoria), and Andrew Werwick (Trent).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction: Harold Innis: A Genealogy of Contesting Portraits	3	(28)
William J. Buxton
Charles R. Acland
PART ONE REFLECTIONS ON INNIS
Innis's Conception of Freedom	31	(15)
Richard Noble
Innis in the Canadian Dialectical Tradition	46	(21)
Judith Stamps
``The Expected Tradition'': Innis, State Rationality, and the Governmentalization of Communication	67	(14)
Michael Dorland
Innis `in' Chicago: Hope as the Sire of Discovery	81	(24)
James W. Carey
Economic History and Economic Theory: Innis's Insights	105	(9)
Irene M. Spry
The Public Role of the Intellectual	114	(21)
Liora Salter
Cheryl Dahl
Harold Innis and the Canadian Social Science Research Council: An Experiment in Boundary Work	135	(24)
Donald Fisher
Monopoles du savoir ou critique culturelle journalistique? Innis et Victor Barbeau discutent la presse, le nationalisme, et les pratiques intellectuelles	159	(18)
Michele Martin
William J. Buxton
PART TWO GAPS AND SILENCES
From Silence to Communication? What Innisians Might Learn by Analysing Gender Relations	177	(19)
Jane Jenson
Innis and Quebec: The Paradigm That Would Not Be	196	(13)
Daniel Salee
Innis in Quebec: Conjectures and Conjunctures	209	(16)
Alain-G. Gagnon
Sarah Fortin
Too Long in Exile: Innis and Maritime Political Economy	225	(18)
James Bickerton
PART THREE INNIS AND CULTURAL THEORY
Histories of Place and Power: Innis in Canadian Cultural Studies	243	(18)
Charles R. Acland
No Future: Innis, Time Sense, and Postmodernity	261	(20)
Andrew Wernick
Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Space after Innis	281	(28)
Jody Berland
Postmodern Themes in Innis's Works	309	(13)
Ray Charron
The Bias of Space Revisited: The Internet and the Information Highway through Women's Eyes	322	(17)
Heather Menzies
Early Innis and the Post-Massey Era in Canadian Culture	339	(16)
Kevin Dowler
The Dilettante's Dilemma: Speaking for the Arts in Canadian Cultural Policy	355	(14)
Alison Beale
An Index of Power: Innis, Aesthetics, and Technology	369	(18)
Kim Sawchuk
Works Cited	387	(32)
Index	419