… Then, we will look at the romanticism underlying the idea of the nation. This idea is interesting when applied to the Quebec nation, which only emerged during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s despite its roots being founded prior to then.. Then, we will look at the construction of Quebec’s national identity as defined in the 1960s - what this national identity attempts to create, and …

Tags: Canada, citizenship, community, culture, identity, language, nationalism, politics

… 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: A Study of the Quebec Nation
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Tags: animal welfare, Canada, class, economy, gender, identity, policy, political economy, risk, urbanization

… 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 in virtual space. Although the use of online social networking is nothing new, the emergence of virtual worlds such as Second Life …

Tags: economy, governance, identity, Internet, periodization, scale, technology, virtual worlds, virtualization

… Secondly, through the Canada-Quebec nexus, the pitfalls of national identity will be identified. Exclusion, romanticized history, limited membership and restricted identity are widespread strategies of nations in order to turn the multitude into a synthetic homogeneity. Although it seems clear that the geography of nation-states themselves must be challenged, this façade of unity is …

Tags: Canada, citizenship, geography, identity, Quebec

… I demonstrate that through the use of risk mitigation practices associated with a liberal governmentality, the CBSA not only attempts to mitigate the contradiction of a prosperous uncertainty but also secures what Rob Walker has identified as the conventional account of a centered and homogeneous political space. I argue here that the use of risk management strategies in Canada’s …

Tags: Canada, Canada Border Services Agency, identity, policy, risk, trade

… for those who left for France, mainly due to the nature of the “break” between the immigrant and the nation, historically grounded in the memories of colonization. Using Mieke Bal’s theory of “trauma recall,” Patricia Lorcin argues that “in the Franco-Algerian context it is the collective experience of trauma that left its mark on both nations: the trauma of colonial …

Tags: Africa, Algeria, citizenship, collective memory, community, diaspora, France, identity, law, media, migration, police, politics, poverty

… formation that accompany it. Two cases in Latin America present extremely interesting examples of these changes: the Bolivarian Revolution, and the Zapatista movement.
Anderson’s text works within both geographic and historical fields in that he seeks to provide a genealogy of nationalism and explain this historical trajectory with reference to the imposition of national …

Tags: community, geography, globalization, identity, Latin America, technology

… 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 spent quite a considerable period of time in Hong Kong, was in 1997, the year when Hong Kong was handed over from British to Chinese rule. 10 years later, I thought I should do that again. I thought …

Tags: China, collective memory, economy, Hong Kong, identity, music, pop culture

… a working foundation upon which we can agree to B, and build our B-eing. We might hazard a definition for Canada …“a post colonial, Westminster-model style of newish nation comprised of 10 provinces and 3 territories, as outlined in the constitution”. And so do the poets sometimes risk a totalizing definition of their vocation, maybe something along the lines of Poetry: “a …

Tags: Canada, identity, language, nationalism, poetry

… As Jenson and others have argued, the welfare state was established because of the need to redress the inequalities inherent in capitalism but also because of its potential to unify a diverse collection of regions and people. The mythology of the ‘social Canadian’ became firmly embedded and fostered a distinct, pan-Canadianism that centered on “belonging to a certain type of …

… politics, work-well-fare offers new possibilities for progressive social change. And though my paper deals specifically on what this all means for organized labor, this presentation will focus on this concept of work-well-fare and try to present a convincing argument for its emergence.
But first, some background. This paper emerged out of a policy seminar last spring, and my intent was …

… and Public Policy

Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
Rachel Ariey-Jouglard, Political Science
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… read this book - it will make criticizing Thatcher and Reagan a little easier!

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… that then require new explanations.

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… Kong (chapter 9).
Neo-liberalism as exception is also a critique of juridical-legal interpretations of the connections between citizenship and government. Ong argues that this method is evident in Giorgio Agamben’s focus on the bifurcation of the population into two halves: zones of citizenship, consisting of political beings, and zones of bare life, consisting of those without …