'Multiculturalism' has become a commonplace in modern Canadian
political parlance as the social geography of Canadian cities changes to
reflect an increasingly more diverse immigrant profile. But as several
critical interpretations of it contend, multiculturalism signifies more than
pure diversity itself—multiculturalism is also an ideological framework that
tries to contain and defuse political-economic crises among racialised
immigrant communities. In this thesis I explore the circumstances
surrounding two interventions by the city of Vancouver to police the
production of 'ethnicised' commodities during the 1970s and 1980s. I
argue this intervention was a problematic one which provoked tension
between the state and a cadre of small capitalists, a struggle which was then
promptly displaced onto the ideological field and mediated through the
ideological framework of multiculturalism. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15776 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Storey, Andrew Iain |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3528128 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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