Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices

Examines dominant threads in Canada’s political, social, and cultural discourse as the country enters the new millennium. No previous volume has collected as interesting and broad a collection of essays on Canadian discourse and culture as Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices. Editors Sherry Deveraux Ferguson and Leslie Regan Shade have compiled a volume of representative case studies that reflects the Canadian experience in terms of discourse, society, and public culture, linking its discussions to larger political and social issues and theories. Topics ranging from globalization to cultural sovereignty, marginalized communities to Internet issues, feminist voices to constitutional controversies, and nationalism to nativity are discussed here. Meanwhile, multidisciplinary perspectives from a mix of established and emerging Canadian studies scholars converge in a highly readable, appealing, and unique book that offers a distinctive portrait of a nation not nearly as well understood as its proximity to the United States might suggest.