"What Is to Become of the Native Peoples of the North?": Social Science and the Politics of Northern Development, 1954–73.
This article examines the history of the Northern Coordination and Research Centre (ncrc), a semi-autonomous research group within the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. From 1954 to 1973, the ncrc coordinated government social research in the North, distributed funding to northe...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 106; no. 2; pp. 271 - 294 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=186778616&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 186778616 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00083755 CHR jtl: Canadian Historical Review issn: 00083755 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2025 vid: 106 iid: 2 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 186778616 10.3138/chr-2024-0059 ppf: 271 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 318KB tig: atl: "What Is to Become of the Native Peoples of the North?": Social Science and the Politics of Northern Development, 1954–73. aug: au: Stoller, Mark affil: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada su: Canadian Inuit Community development Canada. Indian & Northern Affairs Canada Social science research Social policy Social sciences sug: subj: Canadian Inuit Community development Canada. Indian & Northern Affairs Canada Social science research Social policy Social sciences keyword: anthropology Arctic Inuit Northern Coordination and Research Centre northern development Northern Science Research Group social science anthropologie Arctique Bureau de recherches scientifiques sur le Nord Centre de coordination et des recherches sur le Nord développement du Nord sciences sociales ab: This article examines the history of the Northern Coordination and Research Centre (ncrc), a semi-autonomous research group within the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. From 1954 to 1973, the ncrc coordinated government social research in the North, distributed funding to northern studies programs at Canadian universities, and commissioned social scientists, especially anthropologists, to evaluate government programs aimed at "modernizing" Indigenous communities in the North. Researchers soon came into conflict with government officials, however, and began openly critiquing government social policies related to subjects such as resource extraction, community development, and the influence of transient workers from southern Canada. ncrc researchers were gradually isolated from policy-making circles, and the centre was shut down. Drawing from reports of the ncrc and correspondence from the Department of Northern Affairs, this article depicts tensions between social scientists and government policy-makers as representative of deeper rifts between academic and government research. These rifts highlight the government's evolving antipathy towards social research as a foreshadowing of major social and political developments of the 1970s. Le présent article se penche sur l'histoire du Centre de coordination et des recherches sur le Nord (CCRN), un groupe de recherche semi-autonome du ministère des Affaires du Nord et des Ressources nationales. De 1954 à 1973, le CCRN a coordonné la recherche en sciences sociales du gouvernement dans le Grand Nord, a distribué le financement aux programmes d'études nordiques des universités canadiennes et a confié à des spécialistes en sciences sociales, notamment des anthropologues, la tâche d'évaluer les programmes gouvernementaux visant à « moderniser » les communautés autochtones du Nord. Les chercheurs sont toutefois vite entrés en conflit avec les responsables gouvernementaux et ont commencé à critiquer ouvertement les politiques sociales du gouvernement sur des sujets comme l'extraction des ressources, le développement communautaire et l'influence des travailleurs migrants du sud du Canada. Les chercheurs du CCRN ont été graduellement isolés des milieux politiques, et le Centre a été fermé. À partir de rapports du CCRN et de la correspondance des Affaires du Nord, le présent article démontre que les tensions entre les spécialistes en sciences sociales et les décideurs sont évocatrices d'un fossé plus profond entre les recherches universitaires et gouvernementales. Ce fossé signale que l'antipathie progressive du gouvernement envers les recherches en sciences sociales est annonciatrice des développements sociaux et politiques majeurs des années 1970. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Historical Review is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Historical Review holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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