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Haute finance in the not-so-quiet revolution: and the bombing of la Bourse de Montréal

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This paper examines a situation in which finance is perceived as imperialist – as immanent to, and serving the interests of, a single ‘culture’ in the colloquial sense. The analysis centres on the long-forgotten 1969 bombing of the trading floor of la Bourse de Montréal (the Montréal Stock Exchange), a moment in an intense phase of the Québécois movement for independence from Canada. Because of the way in which the bombers framed the attack, and its political-economic and discursive contexts, the bombing presents an opportunity to think about key features of the relation between finance and cultural domination or imperialism. These features relate to finance’s specific articulation to the future, uncertainty, and, in the words of the séparatistes of the time, cultural ‘destiny’. The paper has three parts. The first describes the bombing of la Bourse and the public, media, and state responses, linking it to Québécois cultural-political geographies at several scales. Part two places the bombing in the longer-run cultural-politicization of finance in the francophone independence movement, to outline a specifically Québecois critique of finance capital. The third part considers finance’s perceived and real connection to, and thus capacity to shape or constrain, the cultural-political construction of collective possibility.

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  • Geoff Mann, 2017. "Haute finance in the not-so-quiet revolution: and the bombing of la Bourse de Montréal," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(4), pages 364-376, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:10:y:2017:i:4:p:364-376
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1233131
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