National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — October 7th, 2008
What is a nation exactly? A theoretical look at the concept of nation in Quebec.
Posts Tagged ‘identity’
From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
Panel 3: From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: …
Governance 2.0: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies
By Eliot Che — April 1st, 2008
What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing …
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — April 1st, 2008
In today’s political life, nations are unquestionably legitimate. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the …
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity
By Christopher Alderson — April 1st, 2008
The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and …
Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France
By Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.
The Complication of the Nation: Latin America and the Dialectic of Changing Imagined Communities
By Matthew Lymburner — January 18th, 2008
Despite differing conceptions on what this might actually mean, we are living in a global world. The system of nation states remains intact - and with it, nationalist sentiment from Argentina to Yemen, and everywhere in between - but it is …
The Venue is the Culture?
By Yiu Fai Chow — December 4th, 2007
Allow me to blame the city of Hong Kong. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong. But for the last 15 years, I have been living in the Netherlands, although I am commuting between the two localities pretty frequently. The last time I …
Poetry as the Canadian Condition
By Josh Massey — November 26th, 2007
It could be that attempting to define the term “Poet” is as misguided as trying to define what it is to be “Canadian”. I am frequently misguided, and I am a poet as well, so there you have two factors tricking me into the …
