Faculty of Humanities Research Talks

Perron  will examine, among others factors, why and how the state corporation Hydro-Québec pulled through the ice storm of January 1998 with flying colours by exploiting the collective identity of the Québecois presented as inextricably linked to that of the corporation. 

Perron will analyze the implications of such confusion of identities in terms of historiography, narrative, collective myths and representations of the territory. She will also reflect on the transferability of the phenomena of "energy identities" in the case of Alberta and its effects in relation to a collective and discursive representation of the resources of oil and gas in the province.