Paradigmatic Changes and Territorial Development
Produced within the context of an analysis of geography in the 1970s, this paper addresses the issue of territorial change in Quebec, particularly regional development. An analysis of regional development in the 1970s enables geographers to identify the competing political trends related to the territorial organization of the province; it sheds light on a range of government policies as well as objections to them, and attempts to show that this analysis of the roots of policies implemented subsequently and bearing all the marks of institutional consensus, is anchored in a hybrid approach that is new in Quebec politics. This approach, the result of opposition and compromise in the 1970s, was actively supported by the work of geographers and anyone connected with geography.