Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Federal government
ISBN : 0773513418
Is Quebec Nationalism Just? is an examination of how nationalist aspirations in Quebec relate to liberal principles of freedom, justice, equality, and democracy. While nationalism is often assumed to be inherently illiberal and regressive, the authors argue that Quebecers' desire to control their own political destiny is not fuelled by hostility to liberalism.
Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0776604899
Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.
Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0525432892
Jane Jacobs, writing from her adoptive country, uses the problems facing an independence-seeking Quebec and Canada as a whole to examine the universal problem of sovereignty and autonomy that nations great and small have struggled with throughout history. Using Norway’s relatively peaceful divorce from Sweden as an example, Jacobs contends that Canada and Canadians—Quebecois and Anglophones alike—can learn important lessons from similar sovereignty questions of the past.
Author : Jennifer Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317599993
Nationalism and ethnicity have become, across time and space, a force in the construction of boundaries. This book analyses geographical and physical borders and symbolic, political and socio-economic boundaries, and how they impact upon nationalism and ethnic identity. Geographic and other tangible borders are critical components in the making and unmaking of boundaries. However, symbolic or intangible boundaries along national, ethnic, political or socio-economic criteria are equally significant. Organised into three sections on theory, national and transnational case studies, this book both introduces existing approaches to the study of boundaries and illustrates how it is possible to apply renewed boundary approaches to better understand nationalism and ethnicity in contemporary contexts. Expert contributors in the field present detailed case studies on the UK, Israel, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and draw upon further examples from more than a dozen countries to provide a critical evaluation of the use of borders, boundaries and boundary-making in the study of nationalism and ethnicity. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Nationalism, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Ethnic Identity and Sociology.
Author : Jeffery Vacante
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774834668
This intellectual history explores how the idea of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and Quebec’s nationalist movement. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Quebec was an agrarian society, and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and informed by Catholic principles of piety and self-restraint. As the industrial era took hold, a new model was forged, built on the values of secularism and individualism. Jeffery Vacante’s perceptive analysis reveals how French Canadian intellectuals defined masculinity in response to imperialist English Canadian ideals. This “national manhood” would be disentangled from the workplace, the family, and the land and tied instead to one’s cultural identity. The new formulation was crucial in the larger struggle to modernize Quebec’s institutions while preserving French Canadian community, faith, and culture. It offered French Canadian men a way to remodel themselves, participate in industrial modernity, and still assert cultural authority.
Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199242143
Globalisation and regional integration are sometimes seen as the enemies of nationalism, imposing a single economic, cultural and political order. This book argues that the process may open the way for the claims of stateless nations.
Author : Dominique Clift
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773503830
First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Québec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and analytical, with a sharp eye for the social meaning of public events. Clift covered Quebec politics as a daily journalist for almost 25 years. He has succeeded in sweeping across events he covered to reduce them to their most substantial conflict." Dominique Clift's perceptive analysis traces two antagonistic trends in recent Quebec history: the growth of nationalism, which reached its high point with the election of René Lévesque in 1967, and the development of individualism at the expense of group solidarity.
Author : Jocelyne Couture
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
In the last two decades, nationalism has become a multiform and complex phenomenon which no longer seems to correspond to the accounts given previously by sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists. Students of nationalism now face the daunting task of renewing their subject matter. This formidable volume of seventeen essays and an extensive Introduction and Afterword by the very capable editors, contains some of the most innovative samples of present reflection on this contentious subject. Moreover, contributions are from a variety of disciplines, from different parts of the world, often reflecting very different ways of thinking about nationalism and sometimes reflecting very different methodologies, substantive beliefs, and underlying interests.
Author : L. Oakes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230625495
Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case study of how to foster a sense of belonging.
Author : Daniele Conversi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415332736
Essential reading for anyone interested in problems associated with ethnicity and nationalism - it offers a guide to understanding the ethnonational forces that underpin much of recent terrorist activity.
