Rough and Plenty

A Memorial

de Raymond A. Rogers (auteur), Jeff Schwager (lecteur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

avril 2021

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Compares the displacement of Nova Scotia fishers in the 1990s with that experienced by Scottish crofters in the 19th century. Using first-hand accounts, Rogers shows how both groups experienced marginalization and displacement as capitalism decimated their worlds. The book gives voice to people otherwise ignored by the historical record.

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Résumé

The marginalization of local people at the hands of dominant structures has a wide appeal to a range of groups in society and this work is part of that emancipatory debate. <.i>The book is controversial because it challenges Canadians "good" sense of themselves. It makes clear that our staples economy is built on exploitation of nature and of local people.

Uses first hand accounts of fishers and crofters to reframe how we think about our country.

Combines a "ripping yarn" with a strong social justice critique and gives voice to people who would otherwise not be in the historical record.

Auteur

Raymond A. Rogers (auteur)

RAYMOND A. ROGERS was a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University for twenty-five years. He is the author of three previous books: Nature and the Crisis of Modernity, The Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability, and Solving History: The Challenge of Environmental Activism. He earned the first PhD in Environmental Studies in Canada.

Auteur(s) : Raymond A. Rogers