Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book
While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason’s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development.
Books for Development, published this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press, considers how state and non-state actors used books within the late twentieth-century development paradigm between 1945 and the end of the 1970s or so. Doing so allows her to track the ways the book, which came to function as a key representative of settler exceptionalism, was used within the context of the development paradigm to express solidarity with newly decolonized nations; to argue for the importance of Canadian leadership in the new international order; and to consolidate settler liberal rule at home.
