Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity
Is Canada a country of equal and peacefully coexisting identities, working towards what Charles Taylor has called a 'post-industrial Sittlichkeit'? In this analysis of the history of Canadian diversity, Richard Day argues that no degree or style of state intervention can ever bring an end to tensions related to ethnocultural relations of power. Using Foucault's method of genealogical analysis and a theory of the state form derived from the works of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802080758
ISBN13:9780802080752
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Interesting Genealogy of Multiculturalism
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Richard Day has written on excellent book from a poststructuralist perspective on the Canadian state's discourse of multiculturalism and the ways in which its rise in postmodern society results in both the shift away from the NATION-state (singular) to the MULTINATION-state (plural) and how that tension tends to also call the legitimacy of the state into question on multiple fronts even while it temporarily strengthens it to adapt to the "problem" of diversity. This book will be of interest to those interested in theories of multiculturalism, alternative histories of Canada and the applied philosophy of Nietzche, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari.
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