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This second edition brings to life the work's incisive analysis and its important contribution to Canadian intellectual history.
Imperial federation. --- Nationalism --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Canada --- Politics and government --- Canadian national characteristics --- Federation, Imperial --- Imperialism --- Foreign relations.
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Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity.
National characteristics, Canadian. --- Années soixante (Vingtième siècle) --- Canadiens. --- Canadian national characteristics --- Canada --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Annees soixante (Vingtieme siecle)
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An interdisciplinary inquiry into the history of the photograph in Canada.
Photography --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Group identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Canadian national characteristics --- Social aspects --- History.
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Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributors consider questions such as: to what extent do Canada’s natural resource industries benefit the Canadian economy? Do Canada’s federal institutions hinder or promote the ability of the economy to respond to global economic shifts? Do current intergovernmental structures allow for constructive dialogue about national policy issues? In responding to these and related questions, many of the authors touch on energy issues. Others consider the importance of functional institutions in a federal or multilevel context as an essential requirement for the effective resolution of issues. Together, the volume raises questions about the relationship of state and society, the importance of identity, trust, and moral legitimacy for the operation of our federal institutions, and the extent to which federal institutions are reinforced or placed under stress by societal structures. The theme of this volume was triggered by Richard Simeon, the outstanding scholar of federalism who passed away in October 2013, and it is dedicated in his honour.
Energy policy --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Natural resources --- Canadian national characteristics --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Economic aspects
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Early Canadians, McGregor finds, were hardly the robust adventurers of legend; in fact, they preferred the view from the fort to the call of the wild - a disconcerting through for a nation rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. In modern times, Canadians live most comfortably in the security of small towns, happily regulated by compromise and ritual. Ambivalent in character, they have limited horizons, but within these bounds they have great power and ability to control their own lives. McGregor takes as her starting point the Canadian's recoil from nature - the awesome and hostile northern wilderness - as exemplified in Major John Richardson's Wacousta. She finds in this novel a paradigm of the Canadian experience - man at aodds with generally unpleasant surroundings - a pattern that pervades and dominates our entire cultural expression. By studying Canadian cultural artifacts, particularly literary ones of the twentieth centiry, she explores the Canadian 'langscape' (the set of myths through which a culture processes its encounter with nature), aiming at nothing less than the delineation of the 'prototypical Canadian' and the 'mapping' of the Canadian sense of self. She reconstructs a comprehensive image of Canadian culture, divested of its 'American' veneer, as a rational, self-consistent, seamless whole, and concludes with a brilliant analysis of the role of the artist, especially the writer, as mediator between ourselves and our world. There is major critical intelligence at work here. McGregor presents a grand challenge to those who think they know about our literature, our art, and cultural identity to refine and re0think, possibly even change, their current views.
Canadian literature --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Canadian national characteristics --- History and criticism. --- Canada --- Civilization. --- National characteristics, Canadian --- Littérature canadienne --- Caractéristiques nationales canadiennes --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Civilization --- Civilisation
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Is There a Canadian Philosophy? addresses the themes of community, culture, national identity, and universal human rights, taking the Canadian example as its focus. The authors argue that nations compelled to cope with increasing demands for group recognition may do so in a broadly liberal spirit and without succumbing to the dangers associated with an illiberal, adversarial multiculturalism. They identify and describe a Canadian civic philosophy and attempt to show how this modus operandi of Canadian public life is capable of reconciling questions of collective identity and
Nationalism --- Democracy --- Multiculturalism --- Civil rights --- Nationalisme --- Démocratie --- Multiculturalisme --- Droits de l'homme --- Democratie --- Philosophy, Canadian. --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Canadian national characteristics --- Canadian philosophy --- Government policy --- Canada --- Civilization
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Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.
National characteristics, Canadian. --- Canada (Nord) dans la littérature. --- Canada (Nord) dans l'art. --- Canadiens. --- Canadian national characteristics --- Canada, Northern. --- Canada, Northern --- Canada (Nord) --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- In literature. --- National characteristics, Canadian --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 82.04 --- 820 <71> --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Canada (Nord) dans la litterature.
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The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime.
Hockey --- Sports in literature. --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Canadian national characteristics --- Ice hockey --- Winter sports --- Social aspects --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kaineḍā --- Kanakā --- Republica de Canadá
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Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture explores the presentation and experience of diversity and belonging in public cultural spaces in Canada. An interdisciplinary group of scholars interrogate how Canadian-nessa is represented, disputed, negotiated and legitimized within spaces, media and institutions. The volume begins with contributions that draw attention to contested and exclusionary places within official public culture, and then offers alternative narratives that assert voice and remap public spaces. Contributors take a close look at actually-occurring engagements with culture, heritage and community, and the erasures, conflicts, compromises, failures and successes that have emerged. - - Special attention is paid to multiculturalisma as a central concept in the ideal of diverse spacesa in Canada, and the perspectives of people from many cultural backgrounds who seek to engage with cultural, historical and social knowledge within these spaces. The authors in this book examine, analyze and theorize why and how Canadaas diverse peoples have publically expressed or contested different histories, different identities and different forms of community. - - Places of official culture inspected in this volume include national, provincial and local museums and monuments including the Canadian National Museum of Immigration and Windsoras Underground Railroad monument. Alternative spaces addressed by contributors look at (re)presentations and (re)mappings through public art and performance, both individual and community-based, such as the photographs of Jeff Thomas, the personal narratives at the Sikh Heritage Centre, and the chalk memorializing of politician Jack Layton. - - These chapters will resonate with a broad range of scholars examining how nations and citizens address culturally the liberty, equality and solidarity implied by the concept of diverse spacesa. Though primarily intended for graduate students, researchers and professors in cultural studies, sociology and Canadian studies, the interdisciplinary nature of the questions raised will also appeal to international scholars in cultural policy, arts and cultural management, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, and cultural geography. Importantly, this book will be of interest to professionals and practitioners in institutions, agencies and associations of the public arts and culture sector both in Canada and internationally. - -
National characteristics, Canadian. --- Regionalism --- Canadian national characteristics --- Canada --- Civilization. --- Public spaces --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Government policy --- E-books
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The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages.Drawing upon rich empirical research and relevant theory, the contributors ask how and why particular bodies (of Estonian immigrants, sports stars, First Nations peoples, self-identified homosexuals, and women) are either promoted and upheld as "Canadian" bodies while others are marginalized in or excluded from media representations. Essays are grouped into three sections: Embodied Ideals, The Embodiment of "Others," and Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience of scholars and students, this volume is original within the field of visual media, affect theory, and embodiment due to its emphasis on detailed empirical and, in some cases, ethnographic research within a Canadian context.
National characteristics in mass media. --- Mass media and nationalism --- Mass media and culture --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Mass media --- Nationalism and mass media --- Nationalism --- Culture and mass media --- Culture --- Canadian national characteristics --- Canadian identity. --- Community art. --- Figure skating. --- Gender identity. --- Hockey. --- Media. --- Mind/body dualism. --- Olympics.
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