Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
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Product details:
- Publisher UBC Press
- Date of Publication 15 May 2025
- ISBN 9780774870405
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b&w photos, 11 maps, 2 charts 700
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Short description:
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada?s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
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Transforming the Prairies proposes a new understanding of Canada?s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of the agency as a model of effective government environmental management. Between 1935 and 2009, the PFRA promoted agricultural rehabilitation in and beyond the Canadian Prairies with mixed and equivocal results. The promotion of strip farming as a soil conservation technique, for example, left crops susceptible to sawfly infestations. The PFRA?s involvement in irrigation development in Ghana increased the local population?s vulnerability to various illnesses. And PFRA infrastructure construction intended to serve the public good failed to account for the interests of affected Indigenous peoples. The PFRA is revealed as being a high modernist state agency that produced varied environmental outcomes and that contributed to consolidating colonialism and racism. This investigation affirms the importance of engaging historical perspectives to help ensure that contemporary environmental management efforts support more just and sustainable futures.
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