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Cyberidentities. Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace
(L. d'Haenens, ed.)
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Verslagboek van het congres van het
Studiegenootschap Canada in Antwerpen 1997 is uitgegeven bij Ottawa University
Press. Het boek kan worden besteld via de website van
Ottawa University Press.
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Images of Canadianness (L. d'Haenens,
ed.)
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Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of
relevant - if relatively new - features of Canada, from a political, cultural
and economic angle. Each of its four sections contains articles written by
Canadian and European experts. These offer an original perspective on issues
that are far from obvious: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and
Québec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Québec; the Belgian
and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant
press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self
government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate
their position in society; the Canada - US relationship; Canada's trade
relations with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the
information highway.
Ottawa University Press
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Cultural Identity, Language Rights and Federalism. Perspectives from Canada
and Belgium (D. Vanheule & B. Claessens, eds.)
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Verslagboek van het seminarie van het Studiegenootschap Canada in Gent op 26
februari 1999, met bijdragen van D. Haljan (Self-Determination, Federalism, and
Minority Protection), D. Réaume (Language Rights in the Canadian Federal
Context:The Territorial and Personality Principles Reconsidered), J. Clement
(Cultural Identity, Language Rights and Federalism in Belgium), J.F.
Gaudreault-DesBiens (Of Oysters and Ostriches: Some Pre-juridical Obstacles To
Constitutional Reconciliation In Canada) en G. Anderson (A Government
Perspective: Prospects for Canadian Unity on the Eve of a New Millenium).
Shaker Publishing
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Whither Multiculturalism?
A Politics of Dissensus
(B. Saunders & D. Haljan,
eds.)
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Verslagboek van de
Annual Conference of the Association for
Canadian Studies in The Netherlands and Flanders in 1999 te Leuven: "The
attempt to make democratic processes more inclusive has led to the problematic
notion of 'multiculturalism'. It is based on a new principle that 'all voices
should be heard' and 'equal respect' has become the irreducible core of the
liberal state. However mere dialogue is not enough. First, it tends to
privilege those who are already privileged. To change this needs active,
exploratory listening that is allowed to challenge everyone's picture of the
world. Second, since the tensions and ambiguities are here to stay, practical
ways to cope and negotiate have to be found, although its not at all clear
what is involved. The contributors to this volume explore both dimensions and
in particular point to what it means when the language game of dialogicality
meets its limit. However, as they point out, the limits are not absolute, but
can be the entry to more complex language-games. The authors in this volume,
from Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Britain bring a vast repertoire of
resources and interpretative frames to bear on the task of opening up what
might be understood by the political-ethical-aesthetic notion of
'multiculturalism'. In these contributions one can hear a plea for an enhanced
conception of democratic dialogue, for the need to embrace different
ontological aesthetic-moral assumptions, and for an ethics and politics which
are more generous and receptive."
Leuven University Press
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'New' Citzens, New Policies? Developments in Diversity Management in Canada and
Flanders (L. d'Haenens, M. Hooghe, D. Vanheule & H. Gezduci, eds.) |
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Verslagboek van het gelijkname colloquium in
2006 in Brugge.
Given the present context of globalization,
societies are becoming less and less homogeneous and therefore more and more
complex and diverse. As a result different systems of values come into contact
and, in spite of not always matching on all points, need to be made to connect
if we are to achieve an ‚inclusive' society. In addition, however, it also
needs to be emphasized that the increasing degree of diversity affects the
identity of the different societies in Europe, as today they find it less
obvious to cite the concept of the homogeneous nation-state than they did in
the past.
This book looks into specific hot issues now plaguing our complex pluralist
societies will shed light on the policies pursued by the authorities in Canada
and Flanders. These two separate geographic regions, with different points of
departure and with distinct social and political climates, are adopting
diversity policies which by and large, and allowing for similarities as well
as dissimilarities, have the same expectations of ‚newcomers': coping
abilities, personal responsibility and active citizenship. What do governments
offer in return and what are their motives? To what extent have governments
been successful as inclusive society builders? How will they outline a
connective policy to meet the challenge posed by a number of intractable
problems?
Academia Press Gent
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