Taking a Ride on a Bumpy Road to Imagined Community - How Sub-Provincial Political Parties in Canada Became Vehicles to Pursue, Perform and Participate in Region-Making, 1967-1988

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dc.contributor.advisorMartel, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorStos, William Peter
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-11T12:49:39Z
dc.date.available2020-08-11T12:49:39Z
dc.date.copyright2020-04
dc.date.issued2020-08-11
dc.date.updated2020-08-11T12:49:39Z
dc.degree.disciplineHistory
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores an aspect of Canadian sub-provincial regionalism the creation of new political parties that either acted as primary vehicles for its expression or made pointed appeals to this form of regionalism to draw popular support for their larger programme to Illuminate a captivating site in the study of projects of regionalism. The New Labrador Party (NLP), the Northern Ontario Heritage Party (NOHP), and the Cape Breton Labor Party (CBLP) all engaged in activities that, in whole or in part, promoted specific ideas of the nature of region and a regions interests. Using a combination of interviews, archival research, and reviews of published material from the years these parties were active, the dissertation provides case studies of each party through the use of historical narratives and a comparative analysis of the three parties through a framing concept. The dissertation asks why these kinds of parties appeared in parts of Canada in the latter half of the 20th century, what their supporters hoped to accomplish, how they promoted their ideas and arguments, how opponents refuted these arguments or undermined a party and its members, and how their relative successes and failures should be measured. Regionalists framed their project using three major arguments to diagnose the problem: exploitation; alienation and neglect; and diversity from other communities. Rhetoric and symbolic imagery used within these arguments employed the idea of internal colonialism, and discourses of citizenship, fairness, equality, and distinct lived experience. Opponents used counter frames to dispute the value of these parties or to promote alternatives. The dissertation concludes that these parties should be understood metaphorically as vehicles with which to drive the project and process of region. As vehicles, they were primarily functional creations, their design dictated by the needs of their creators and supporters and shaped by prevailing trends within a given historical context. Focussing on a type of vehicle as a lens through which to examine region is therefore an immensely fruitful exercise when historicizing this concept and the comparative method provides an additional degree of depth and confirmation of observations made.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37751
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsregion
dc.subject.keywordsregionalism
dc.subject.keywordsregionalisation
dc.subject.keywordspolitical parties
dc.subject.keywordsprotest
dc.subject.keywordsthird parties
dc.subject.keywordsNorthern Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsCape Breton
dc.subject.keywordsLabrador
dc.subject.keywordspolitics
dc.subject.keywordsgeography
dc.subject.keywordspolitical science
dc.subject.keywordsframing
dc.subject.keywordsframe analysis
dc.subject.keywordslimited identities
dc.subject.keywordsimagined identities
dc.subject.keywordsexploitation
dc.subject.keywordsnegligence
dc.subject.keywordseconomic disparity
dc.subject.keywordsborders
dc.subject.keywordsprovinces
dc.subject.keywordsprovincial history
dc.subject.keywordslegislatures
dc.subject.keywordsseparatism
dc.subject.keywordssecession
dc.subject.keywordsNew Labrador Party
dc.subject.keywordsNorthern Ontario Heritage Party
dc.subject.keywordsCape Breton Labor Party
dc.subject.keywordsNew Democratic Party
dc.subject.keywordsNDP
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian politics
dc.subject.keywordsidentity
dc.subject.keywordspolitical rhetoric
dc.subject.keywordspolitical leaders
dc.subject.keywordsgrassroots
dc.subject.keywordspartisan
dc.subject.keywordspartisan organizing
dc.subject.keywordsinternal colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsalienation
dc.titleTaking a Ride on a Bumpy Road to Imagined Community - How Sub-Provincial Political Parties in Canada Became Vehicles to Pursue, Perform and Participate in Region-Making, 1967-1988
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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