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{"title":"1950s Canada: Politics and Public Affairs","authors":"Stephen G. Brooks","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2210412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2210412","url":null,"abstract":"This book, written by University of Toronto political scientist Nelson Wiseman, chronicles a decade in the life of Canada. Based largely on newspaper accounts from the Globe and Mail, Wiseman weaves a meticulous account of politics and of the social, cultural, and economic factors affecting public affairs during the 1950s. “My study focusses on the what rather than the why of the happenings of the 1950s” (3), he writes. It would be hard to imagine, however, that one of the foremost Canadian political scientists of his generation could repress the urge to address, or even want to avoid addressing the “why?” of the events and developments that he recounts. And, indeed, analysis and explanation are offered throughout the book, most particularly in a concluding chapter in which Wiseman offers reflections on the significance of the decade as “a chapter in Canadian history and part of a larger historical plot” (174). But why the 1950s? Wiseman recognizes that this is a question that will immediately be asked and that requires an answer. His explanation is one that makes rather modest claims about the decade. “We cannot say of the 1950s,” he writes, “as we can of the 1940s and the 1960s, that they represented a turning point in Canadian or world history” (3). In defense of his choice, Wiseman observes that “studying the decade does contribute to illuminating some of the fault lines and axes around which Canadian politics and public affairs have always revolved” (3). The same may be said, however, about any decade of the 20 century. I think that Wiseman’s claims about the significance of the 1950s in the larger sweep of Canadian political history are too modest. It is true that the decade has neither inspired nor acquired a label, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Swinging Sixties. Indeed, the 1950s are generally thought of, in both Canada and the United States, as a rather soporific decade, bookended by much more tumultuous and consequential times. “In the procession of Canadian history,” Wiseman writes, “the 1950s may be considered as both a tranquil decade in which little changed or an era of transformation and adaptation” (4, my emphasis). Readers of this book will find that the latter is the appropriate characterization. As I made my way through the year-by-year biography of this decade, I found myself thinking about Earle Birney’s 1948 poem, “Canada: Case History.” Birney portrays the country as,","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"293 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49025019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opportunities to Promote Human Rights and Democratic Norms Abroad: The Case of Canadian Foreign Policy Toward Cuba","authors":"Yvon Grenier","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2199670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2199670","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that to understand Canadian foreign policy toward Cuba, and specifically its quiet and reserved support for democratization in the island, one needs to examine the opportunities at both ends of the bilateral relationship; specifically, opportunities for democratization in Cuba, and opportunities to prioritize human rights and democratic values in Canadian foreign policy. The greater these opportunities, as is the case for bilateral relations with Venezuela and Nicaragua for instance, the greater the probability that a vigorous policy of democracy promotion will be adopted. Conversely, in the case of bilateral relations with Cuba, low opportunities make this option unlikely, although the article examines how that could change, in light of the recent protests of July 2021.","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"218 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of NonCitizens","authors":"Stephanie D. Bangarth","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2231788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2231788","url":null,"abstract":"bibliography for the work, or even of English’s works, would have better illustrated that point and would better serve a reader looking to get acquainted with his impressive oeuvre. Its absence—although no doubt the press’s decision—is a serious flaw. By not limiting itself to the traditional biographies of prime ministers and instead including the lives of lovers, lumberjacks, and Indigenous leaders, People, Politics, and Purpose represents an expansive approach to political biography and political history more generally. At a time when some historians are jettisoning the practice of biography due to the challenges of writing the lives of marginalized subjects, political biographers’ inclusion of the lives of those on the periphery of formal political power is a surprising but welcome development that bodes well for both the field and the discipline. A decade ago, English worried that fewer historians were willing to write political biographies. But this volume demonstrates that the field that he so carefully tended is still flourishing and that his former students and colleagues are purposefully peopling political history in creative new ways.","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"288 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42270650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Robert Bly in New Brunswick: The Cross-Border Poetics of Allan Cooper","authors":"Thomas Hodd","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2207703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2207703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT New Brunswick poets have a history of looking to the United States for literary models. A recent example is Allan Cooper, the Alma, New Brunswick writer, editor, publisher, and translator, who since the late 1970s has spent much of his career emulating both the poetics and literary activities of the Minnesota poet, editor, and translator, Robert Bly. Not only did Cooper adopt Bly’s Deep Image poetics and the concept of the twofold consciousness: he also modeled the editorial policies for his creative-writing journal, Germination, on the editorial approach employed by Bly in his poetry magazine, The Fifties. Cooper also followed Bly’s example by performing translation as a means for improving his own poetic craft. Taken together, Cooper’s embrace of Bly as literary mentor corresponds to the beginnings of a larger shift away from Canada’s entrenched cultural nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s toward more internationalist cultural interventions by the mid-1980s.","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"192 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47730693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nationalism, Regionalism, and Strategic Learning in Federal Systems: Drawing on the Quebec Model in Alberta","authors":"D. Béland, André Lecours","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2195259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2195259","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Territorial and intergovernmental tensions are particularly strong in multinational federations like Canada. In this article, we study how Quebec has become an explicit model for Alberta in its own quest for greater autonomy and influence within the Canadian federation. After discussing the notion of strategic learning as it relates to different types of territorial politics (substate nationalism, regionalism, and jurisdictionalism), the article explores three instances of explicit political borrowing from Quebec in contemporary Alberta politics: 1) public statements by provincial leaders advocating increased provincial autonomy; 2) the use of a referendum as a tool to put pressure on the federal government to adopt positions and policies friendly to the Alberta government, as occurred in 2021 with the consultation on equalization; and 3) the development of an Alberta-centered federal party with a secessionist position to bolster the influence of the province in federal politics, as occurred with the Maverick Party.","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"156 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46985088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Malraux au Québec. Propos et discours","authors":"Y. Laberge","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2210417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2210417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"273 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memoriam: Dr. Raymond Pelletier (1942-2023)","authors":"Frédéric Rondeau, Stephen Hornsby","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2225942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2225942","url":null,"abstract":"\"In Memoriam: Dr. Raymond Pelletier (1942-2023).\" American Review of Canadian Studies, 53(2), p. 155","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Canadian Multiculturalism, Identity, and Reconciliation: Evidence from a National Survey","authors":"Kaylee G. Brink","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2220596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2220596","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indigenous-settler reconciliation seems to enjoy widespread support, yet progress has stalled. At the same time, multiculturalism, a concept that celebrates diversity and equality, is a point of pride for many Canadians. Should reconciliation not be included in Canada’s imagining of multiculturalism? This study aimed to analyze the possible relationship between symbols of Canadian multiculturalism and support for further reconciliation using responses to a representative survey of non-Indigenous Canadian adults (n = 5,203). Political affiliation, knowledge of residential schools, and demographic variables were also analyzed. Only one multicultural variable was a predictor of support for further reconciliation efforts, along with measures of political ideology, home language, and views on individual responsibility for reconciliation were meaningful. Components of individual identity are more influential in reconciliation support than the collective (multicultural) identity. This contrasts many claims by citizens and the federal government alike, that multiculturalism is an important part of Canadian identity. The study revealed that while multiculturalism is a touchstone of Canadian identity and pride, it may have a minimal role in reconciliation, positive or negative.","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"172 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"René Lévesque. Un homme et son siècle. Une anthologie de sa pensée politique sur les enjeux internationaux et la place du Québec dans le monde","authors":"Y. Laberge","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2231784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2231784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"275 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48667693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Cooperative Disagreement: Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1993","authors":"Yvon Grenier","doi":"10.1080/02722011.2023.2221084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2221084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43336,"journal":{"name":"American Review of Canadian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"291 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45276047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}