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Welcome to Resisterville

Welcome to Resisterville

American Dissidents in British Columbia

by Kathleen Rodgers

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

12 b&w photos, 1 map

Digital download
9780774827355
Published: April 2014

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This book will interest British Columbia history buffs, as well as sociologists studying immigration, social movements, and alternative communities.

Foreword

Prologue

1 Welcome to Resisterville

2 Identity and the American Migration

3 Taking Root: Brokering Friends and Allies in the West Kootenay Counterculture, 1965-73

4 Acting Together and Resisting Together: Building a Countercultural Haven, 1968-79

5 “We Were Even Stranger than Other Strangers”: Conflict, Contestation, and Boundary Negotiation in the Formation of the West Kootenay Counterculture, 1968-79

6 The Birth of Environmental Consciousness and the Rise of the Environmental Critique, 1973-91

7 Leadership, Legacy, and Reconciliation

Conclusion: Forging a Long Tradition

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Kathleen Rodgers is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

Deftly combining interviews, local newspaper reports, and archival and personal documents, Welcome to Resisterville is an exciting, original book that will appeal to a broad audience. It tells the intriguing story of the migration of American war resisters to BC, the welcome they received, and the vibrant counterculture that they helped form. ~Jim Conley, co-editor of Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-mobility

Kathleen Rodgers’s sociological study of the impact of American Vietnam-era exiles on the creation of a countercultural haven in the West Kootenay Valley is a fascinating account of modern immigration history...Rodgers’s study provides future scholars with a rich and complex body of material to better understand a whole range of changes to Canadian society that ensued in the aftermath of yet another American invasion. ~Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016