Rethinking Canada

Rethinking Canada
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Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064908505
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Canada by : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag

This now standard text examines key developments in Canadian history--form the founding of New France to the present--while highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. Of the 24 articles, 16 are new. Topics now include widows and orphans in 18th-century Quebec, women and slavery in early Canada, aboriginal/non-aboriginal marriage in colonial Canada, housewives in the Great Depression, wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women, lesbian bar cultures in the 1950s and 60s, and feminist discourse after the 9/11 attacks.

Rethinking Canada

Rethinking Canada
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Publisher : Copp Clark Professional
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001160886
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Canada by : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag

Dominion of Race

Dominion of Race
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780774834469
ISBN-13 : 0774834463
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Dominion of Race by : Laura Madokoro

How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. Dominion of Race exposes how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, positioned Canada in the international community, and contributed to a global order rooted in racial beliefs. While the contributors reconsider familiar topics, including the Paris Peace Conference and Canada’s involvement with the United Nations, they enlarge the scope of Canada’s international history by subject, geography, and methodology. By demonstrating that race is a fundamental component of Canada and its international history, this important book calls for reengagement with the histories of those marginalized in, or excluded from, the historical record.

Rebels, Reds, Radicals

Rebels, Reds, Radicals
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Publisher : Between The Lines
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781896357973
ISBN-13 : 1896357970
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Rebels, Reds, Radicals by : Ian McKay

An engaging introduction to the vibrant history of the political left in Canada

Rethinking Professionalism

Rethinking Professionalism
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 9780773586833
ISBN-13 : 0773586830
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Professionalism by : Kristina Huneault

The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for artistic practice as it has been for art historical understanding. Through a series of in-depth studies, contributors examine changes to the infrastructure of the art world that resulted from a powerful discourse of professionalization that emerged in the late- nineteenth century. While many women embraced this new model, others fell by the wayside, barred from professional status by virtue of their class, their ethnicity, or the very nature of the artworks they produced. The richly illustrated essays in this collection depict the changing nature of the professional paradigm as it was experienced by women painters, photographers, craftspeople, architects, curators, gallery directors, and art teachers. In so doing, they demonstrate the ongoing power of feminist art history to disrupt patterns of thought that have become naturalized and, accordingly, invisible. Going beyond the narratives of recovery or exclusion that the category of professionalism has traditionally encouraged, Rethinking Professionalism explores the very consequences of telling the history of women's art in Canada through that lens. Contributors include Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Alena Buis (Queen's University), Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba), Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University), Kristina Huneault (Concordia University), Loren Lerner (Concordia University), Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta), Kirk Niergarth (Mount Royal University), Mary O'Connor (McMaster University), Sandra Paikowsky (Concordia University), Ruth B. Phillips (Carleton University), Jennifer Salahub (Alberta College of Art & Design), and Anne Whitelaw (Concordia University).

Rethinking Canadian Aid

Rethinking Canadian Aid
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Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9780776623658
ISBN-13 : 0776623656
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Canadian Aid by : Stephen brown

This book contributes to a “rethinking” Canadian aid at four different levels. First, it undertakes a collective rethinking of the foundations of Canadian aid, including both its normative underpinnings – an altruistic desire to reduce poverty and inequality and achieve greater social justice, a means to achieve commercial or strategic self-interest, or a projection of Canadian values and prestige onto the world stage – and aid’s past record. Second, it analyzes how the Canadian government government is itself rethinking Canadian aid, including greater focus on the Americas and specific themes (such as mothers, children and youth, and fragile states) and countries, increased involvement of the private sector (particularly Canadian mining companies), and greater emphasis on self-interest. Third, it rethinks where Canadian aid is or should be heading, including recommendations for improved development assistance. Fourth, it highlights how serious rethinking is required on aid itself: the concept, its relation to non-aid policies that affect development in the Global South, and the rise of new providers of development assistance, especially “emerging economies”. Each of these novel challenges holds important implications for Canada, for its development policies and for its declining influence in the morphing global aid regime.

Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity

Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0802082130
ISBN-13 : 9780802082138
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity by : David Lyon

The contributors consider how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world, somewhere between the largely secularized Europe and the relatively religious United States.

Rethinking Who We Are

Rethinking Who We Are
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Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages : 455
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ISBN-10 : 9781773633923
ISBN-13 : 1773633929
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Who We Are by : Paul U. Angelini

Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian law, human rights legislation and health care. Contributors also explore the diversities that are often treated in a non-traditional manner on the bases of gender, class, sexuality, disAbility and Indigeniety. Finally, the ways in which difference is treated in Canada’s legal system, literature and the media are explored with an aim to challenge existing orthodoxy and push readers to critically examine their beliefs and ideas, particularly in an age where divisive, racist and xenophobic politics and attitudes are resurfacing.

Rethinking the Great White North

Rethinking the Great White North
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9780774820165
ISBN-13 : 0774820160
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking the Great White North by : Andrew Baldwin

Canadian national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness seem innocent, yet this path-breaking volume shows they contain the seeds of contemporary racism. Rethinking the Great White North moves the idea of whiteness to the centre of debates about Canadian history, geography, and identity. Informed by critical race theory and the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, the contributors trace how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped shape Canada’s identity as a white country in travel writing and treaty making; scientific research and park planning; and within small towns, cities, and tourist centres. These nuanced explorations of diverse historical geographies of nature not only revisit the past: they offer a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada’s role in the North and the nature of multiculturalism.

Rethinking Settler Colonialism

Rethinking Settler Colonialism
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0719071682
ISBN-13 : 9780719071683
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Settler Colonialism by : Annie E. Coombes

Focusing on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, this book investigates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologized, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century through monuments, exhibitions and images.