Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec

摘要

Power from the North examines the development of the James Bay hydroelectric projects in the north of Quebec. The book traces the role of massive hydroelectric developments in shaping new identities for the marginalized Aboriginal territories as well as the French Canadian nationalist movements. Throughout the book Desbiens keeps these two aspects in dialectical tension, mixing archival research, literary analysis, interviews, and personal history to show how the hydroelectric project draws two geographically distant but inexorably intertwined cultures together.