Author(s)	Chad Gaffield; Karen Gould
Publication Year	2003
Publisher	University of Ottawa Press

ISBN: 9780776605517

Category: Canada

View more details about this title
on the publisher's website:

Go to publisher’s site

The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century – La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

Name: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle
SKU: 9780776605517
Price: 0.32 CAD
Availability: InStock

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.

Contributors

Chad Gaffield

Chad Gaffield is Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He was educated at McGill University (BA 1973; MA 1974) and at the University of Toronto (PhD 1978). He taught at the University of Victoria (1979-1985) before coming to the University of Ottawa where he holds a University Research Chair in Canadian History. His teaching and research activities focus on Canadian social history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was selected the University's Researcher of the Year for 1995 and Professor of the Year in 2002. In 2000-2001, he was President of the Canadian Historical Association. He is currently team leader of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project.;

Karen Gould

Karen L. Gould is Dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author or co-editor of five books, including Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec (1990), and over 40 articles and essays dealing with women's writing and culture in Quebec and the French nouveau roman. She is Past President of the International Council for Canadian Studies, former President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and former editor of the interdisciplinary journal Québec Studies.

Chapter Title	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Perspectives sur la distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle Preview	Introduction	Chad Gaffield	4	2003	$0.32
Perspectives on the Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century Preview	Introduction	Chad Gaffield	4	2003	$0.32
The Inclusive Shape of Complexity Preview	At this time, all of us —just about everywhere in the world, especially in democracies or countries where the free market prevails—are victims of what could be called the Tristan and …	John Ralston Saul	15	2003	$1.20
Passer a l'avenir. Actualiser la canadianite Preview	Si, pour nombre d’habitants du pays, le moyen de passer à l’avenir est à l’évidence de se souvenir d’où ils s’en vont, c’est-à-dire de …	Jocelyn Letourneau	17	2003	$1.36
Survival Then and Now Preview	I wrote and published Survival in 1972. It ignited a ferocious debate and became, as they say, a runaway bestseller. This was a shock to everyone, including me. Canadian writing, interesting! …	Margaret Atwood	9	2003	$0.72
Toward a Baroque Governance in Twenty-first Century Canada Preview	Canada has also evolved into a country of citizens who are better informed and better able to express their dissent; better equipped to assert their multiple identities and to demand …	Gilles Paquet	30	2003	$2.40
Evolving State — Civil Society Relationships: The Beginning of a New Era? Preview	The relationship between the coluntary sector and the state is undergoing fundamental change in Canada, as elsewhere. Thisis a result of a transformation in both the nature of governance and …	Susan D. Phillips	30	2003	$2.40
Malentendus multiculturels : France, Etats-Unis, Canada Preview	Les variantes du multiculturalisme français, américain, canadien, ne peuvent être comprises que si elles sont remises en leur contexte. Penser le multiculturalisme en contexte, …	Denis Lacorne	15	2003	$1.20
Aboriginal Peoples in the Twenty-first Century: A Plea for Realism Preview	This paper has a single objective – to clarify the debate about how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples are to live together in the future.	Alan C. Cairns	30	2003	$2.40
Canadian Business: "No, I'm from Canada" Preview	This essay will address Canadian distinctiveness in business.	W. Michael Wilson	6	2003	$0.48
"I am Canadian!:" From Beer Commercials to Medicare: In Search of Identity Preview	Any attempt to find a common denominator among all Canadians in order to define the texture of our society is a very daring and risky proposal. The elusive concept of ‘political …	Monique Bégin	9	2003	$0.72
The Multicultural Wheel: The Texture of Canadian Society and Literature in the Twenty-first Century Preview	Literature reflects the times, and immigrant literary texts serve as major points of reference for the dual purpose of exploring and evaluating the different racial, cultural, religious, and …	Maya Dutt	14	2003	$1.12
Packaging Canada/Packaging Places: Tourism, Culture, and Identity in the Twenty-first Century Preview	Issues of ideology, identity, and representation have become central to many of the analyses of the manner in which places have come to be packaged as a product to be sold.	C. Michael Hall	15	2003	$1.20
Canadian Distinctiveness and Cultural Policy As We Enter the Twenty-first Century Preview	The forces of continentalization continue to increase, yet Canadian culture remains[…]distinct and distinctive, the reflection of our unique sensibilities. Canada’s cultural agencies …	Shirley L. Thomson	9	2003	$0.72
Pour une convention multilaterale sur la culture Preview	Si les cultures du monde sont diverses, et elles le sont, si cette diversité constitue une valeur radicale, alors il faut en tirer les conséquences et lancer le grand chantier de …	Jean-Louis Roy	6	2003	$0.48
Identity and Otherness in Canadian Foreign Policy Preview	In this essay, discourse on otherness is an analytical resource, expressed on three levels in Canadian foreign policy.	Maria Teresa Gutierrez-Haces	20	2003	$1.60
The Canadian Military in the Security Environment of the Twenty-first Century Preview	It is difficult to guess what the future holds, but we can be certain that the faces of war and peace will change dramatically. New challenges will put greater demands on military personnel than …	Donna Winslow	14	2003	$1.12
The Role of Canada in the International Context of the Twenty-first Century Preview	Our multicultural democracy and our sustained peace is of great interest to many countries as a learning model. One could postulate that this constant accommodation of shared differences has …	Huguette Labelle	6	2003	$0.48
A Communications, Technology, and Societal Memory: A Distinct Canadian Archival Voice in the Global Village Preview	Archives are important to Canadian Studies in two ways: in the familiar sense as the primary source documents that underpin research about Canada in many disciplines and, in a less appreciated …	Terry Cook	17	2003	$1.36
Canada One Hundred Years from Now: A Federation of Nations? Preview	Canada’s distinctiveness rests not in its multi-ethnic and multicultural composition but in its enduring national cleavages and confrontations. That distinctiveness is the cause of a …	Jean Laponce	21	2003	$1.68
Metaphors and Maps: Imagining Canada into the Twenty-first Century Preview	In their introduction to Painting the Maple – a 1998 collection of essays that, as the metaphor in the title suggests, investigates some of the ways that race and gender influence our …	Lorna Irvine	9	2003	$0.72

The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century – La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

Contributors

Chad Gaffield

Karen Gould

Welcome

Win a $25 Indigo Gift Card with the CCR GIVEAWAY!