To Know Our Many Selves

From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies

By Dirk Hoerder
Categories: Political Science, Political Theory
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Ebook (Kindle) : 9781771991186, 451 pages, June 2010
Paperback : 9781897425725, 360 pages, May 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9781897425732, 451 pages, June 2010
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Table of contents

Bibliographic Notes
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction - 1. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural or Societal Studies

Part I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements of the Past
2. The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterland
3. Canada’s Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions
4. Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to National Billboards

Part II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on Social Spaces
5. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making
6. Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Survey of Canada
7. Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, Educational Institutions, Elite Formation

Part III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, New Media, 1920s-1950s
8. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History, Sociology
9. Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were the Humanities?

Part IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about Interlinked Societies
10. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s
11. Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s
12. Views from the Outside: The Surge of International Canadian Studies
13. Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary Research Achievements

Part V. Perspectives
14. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to Transcultural Societal Studies

Interviews with the Author / Index

Description

To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solid foundation was formed for the nation’s master narrative. Against this background, To Know Our Many Selves focuses on why Canadian Studies may be used as a sound model for the study of other societies in a frame of Transcultural Societal Studies.