Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada - Couverture souple

Thobani, Sunera

 
9780802094544: Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802094546 ISBN 13 : 9780802094544
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2007

Synopsis

Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines how the national subject has been conceptualized in Canada at particular historical junctures, and how state policies and popular practices have exalted certain subjects over others.

Foregrounding the concept of 'race' as a critical relation of power, Thobani examines how processes of racialization contribute to sustaining and replenishing the politics of nation formation and national subjectivity. She challenges the popular notion that the significance of racialized practices in Canada has declined in the post Second World War period, and traces key continuities and discontinuities in these practices from Confederation into the present. Drawing on historical sociology and discursive analyses, Thobani examines how the state seeks to 'fix' and 'stabilize' its subjects in relation to the nation's 'others.' A controversial, ground-breaking study, Exalted Subjects makes a major contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered underpinnings of both nation and subject formation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sunera Thobani is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802094546
ISBN 13 
9780802094544
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780802092274: Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0802092276 ISBN 13 :  9780802092274
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2007
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