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Cloudberry Connections: Wilderness and Development on the Lower North Shore of Québec
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Cloudberry Connections: Wilderness and Development on the Lower North Shore of Québec
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Quebec's Lower North Shore consists of sixteen small English, French and Innu communities spread along 375 km of coastline. The author points out that prompted by the collapse of its cod-fishing industry in the 1990s, the region has turned to place-branding strategies to encourage wilderness tourism as a form of economic renewal. She examines "rubus chamaemorus," or the cloudberry, a local wild berry, as a contested cultural symbol in this process. The author analyzes how the cloudberry is being used as a symbol of wilderness and purity in current place-branding projects in the region, an image that perpetuates a frontier myth that the land is empty and available for privatization. She argues that a relational approach to the cloudberry challenges its representation as a fixed “object”, understanding it instead as a nexus of lived relations that include a range of practices such as walking, cooking and camping, and a host of competing interests such as Concordia University, Université du Québec, Lower North Shore development centres , as well as the Anglophone, Francophone and Innu communities.
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PhD dissertation
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2016
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vii-182p.
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en
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Doonan, Natalie. “Cloudberry Connections: Wilderness and Development on the Lower North Shore of Québec.” PhD dissertation, Concordia University, 2016. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/981006/1/Doonan_PhD_S2016.pdf.
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