CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Essentialism, Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, Canadian Studies

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 1000
• Professor: Richard Nimijean

Document Summary

Canadian studies notes monday, september 26, 2011. Think about the shift from first wave to second of canadian studies. Develop framework for studying canada in this course: the idea of canada as a project. Lead-in to post colonialism stuff from next week. Move to more politically neutral interpretation of area studies: canada as unique society. More recent work in canadian studies examines history of colonialism and problems with multiculturalism. Canada is swept up from british history, an off-shoot from britain (cid:862)ti(cid:373)e for ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s to get k(cid:374)o(cid:449) oursel(cid:448)es(cid:863) If ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t do this for the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es, (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e else a(cid:374)d our history (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e lost. Left-(cid:374)atio(cid:374)alis(cid:373) is (cid:449)he(cid:374) ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s are s(cid:272)ared that they (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ed (cid:271)y a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s. Canadians studies (cid:449)as (cid:272)reated to prote(cid:272)t us fro(cid:373) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ed (cid:271)y a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s. We need to have a more politically neutral interpretation of what canada represents. Instead of studying to protect it, study it to figure out the unique features of canada.