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Irene Baird’s ‘North and South’ in The Climate of Power
Ist Teil von
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 2012, Vol.23 (1), p.283-318
Ort / Verlag
The Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article explores the production and publication of The Climate of Power, Irene Baird’s fictionalized account of the post-World War II Ottawa civil service and its interactions with administrators and Indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic. While written primarily as a satirical exploration of the Ottawa political scene, particularly the bureaucracy and its policies in the North, the book also reveals much about the gendered nature of the Ottawa bureaucracy, a decidedly masculine space of power. Baird’s experience as an information officer in the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs left her with a rich archive of ideas and impressions about northern development. Her observations are incorporated into the novel as critical social commentary on the ‘contact zones’ of north and south, the colonial space in which unequal encounters between white settlers and Indigenous peoples took place.