Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738191207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738191207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle
Author: Chad GaffieldPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776617036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future.
Multiculturalism and Integration
Author: Vera ReganPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776619330
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences of Canada and Ireland. While these two societies share many historical and cultural links, their differences help reveal the range of possible approaches to these important issues. Multicultural and multilingual diversity in contemporary Ireland are fairly recent phenomena, whereas Canada’s policies and practices addressing cultural and linguistic diversity are several decades old. This basic difference has influenced their laws, language policies, education systems, cultural creations, and national identities as they have worked to accommodate multiculturalism. The volume brings together an international group of scholars working in a variety of fields including politics, law, sociolinguistics, literature, philosophy, and history. Their interdisciplinary approach addresses the complex factors influencing integration and multiculturalism, painting detailed and accurate portraits of these issues in Canada and Ireland.
Canada: The State of the Federation 1990
Author: Ronald Lampman WattsPublisher: IIGR, Queen's University
ISBN: 0889115702
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada
Author: Norman CheadlePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554586569
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The essays in Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of colonizer/colonized, this book examines a field of many cultures and the creative interactions among them. This study discusses, from various perspectives, Canadian cultural space as being in process of continual translation of both the other and oneself. Les articles réunis dans Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada donnent de l’expérience transculturelle canadienne une image nuancée. Plutà ́t que dans les termes d’une dichotomie biculturelle entre colonisateur et colonisé, le Canada y est vu comme champ oÃ1 plusieurs cultures interagissent de manià ̈re créative. Cette étude présente sous de multiples aspects le processus continu de traduction d’autrui et de soi-mÃame auquel l’espace culturel canadien sert de théâtre.
Travelling Concepts
Author: Christian LammertPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3531921398
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Bhikhu Parekh As creative and reflective agents, human beings seek meaning in their lives, and develop more or less coherent views of the world or cultures in terms of which to organize their personal and collective lives. When different groups of individuals within the same society subscribe to different ways of thought, they face the crucial question of how to deal with their cultural diversity and sustain a shared common life. Premodern societies took a relatively relaxed view of diversity and generally opted for a looser union. Modernity brought with it a very different approach to the subject. This is reflected in, among other things, the institution of the modern state, especially the liberal democracy which represents one way of constituting it. Liberal democracy has exercised a decisive influence on our political and moral imagination for the past three centuries. Unlike premodern societies which took the community as their starting point and defined the individual in terms of it, it takes the individual as the ultimate and irreducible unit of, and thus conc- tually and ontologically prior to society. The latter is taken to consist of in- viduals, and refers to the totality of its members and their formal and informal relationships. Individual are the sole and equal sources of moral claims, and social and political institutions are judged in terms of their ability to safeguard and promote individual interests.
The Politics of Belonging
Author: Alain DieckhoffPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739108260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nationalism. Alain Dieckhoff introduces an indispensable collection of work for anyone dealing with questions of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism.
Canada
Author: Peter M. LesliePublisher: IIGR, Queen's University
ISBN: 0889114579
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century
Author: Cornelius H. W. RemiePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027220883
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague, October 24-27, 1990. This unique meeting took place for the first time in the history of Canadian Studies. The focus of the papers is on the future rather than the past and it took place at a moment in time when Canada went through major crises that raised serious doubts about the country s future. The papers of this volume explore the main issues and problems that Canada faces. The volume contains sections on demography, environmental problems, economic transformations, Canadian identity, political power structure, aboriginal issues and Canada s international relations. As a whole the book takes stock where Canada stands and where it is going.
Cultural Identity and the Nation-state
Author: Carol GouldPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847696772
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this collection, several distinguished political philosophers consider alternative models of the recognition of diverse cultures and the significance of cultural and national identity within democratic societies. The impact of this recognition for conceptions of citizenship and the supposed neutrality of the democratic state is examined, in the framework of economic and political globalization on the one hand, and the widespread assertion of cultural and ethnic differences on the other. The tension between the recognition of diverse cultures and universal frameworks of human rights is discussed, as are the idea of national self-determination and the new forms of democratic and civic institutions that may be required in order to deal with present political conflicts.