Particulièrement novateur dans les études sur les liens entre religion et politique au Québec, cet ouvrage s’attache aux logiques de ceux qui ont compté parmi les principaux acteurs de la laïcité ...québécoise : les catholiques. Qui sont-ils ? Quels discours ont-ils porté dans les débats laïques des cinquante dernières années et comment ont-ils appuyé le processus de laïcisation du Québec ou s’y sont-ils opposés ? Rendant compte autant de la diversité des positionnements ecclésiaux, moraux et sociopolitiques des catholiques québécois que des rapports de force qu’ils ont engagés avec l’État depuis la Révolution tranquille, cet ouvrage ouvre résolument de nouveaux horizons de recherche sur la laïcité au Québec en portant une attention particulière à ceux qui, au gré des débats sociaux, politiques et juridiques, contribuent à la façonner.
Through robust theoretical and in-depth empirical studies, this book offers the first opportunity to English-language readers to learn about the Québec experience of a social economy system.
Comparing Quebec and Ontario Haddow, Rodney
Comparing Quebec and Ontario,
2014., 20150317, 2015, 2015-03-17, 2015-03-27
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Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies? Is their ability to do so less now than it ...was before the advent of globalization? InComparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow brings these questions and the tools of comparative political economy to bear on the growing public policy divide between Ontario and Quebec.
Combining narrative case studies with rigorous quantitative analysis, Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the divide, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions.
An important contribution to ongoing debates about globalization's "golden straightjacket,"Comparing Quebec and Ontariois an essential resource for understanding Canadian political economy.
Despite a burgeoning interest in transatlantic and regional studies, the long-standing cultural connections between francophone communities on both sides of the Atlantic have received little critical ...attention. Transatlantic Passages presents essays, interviews, and images that address the often-neglected cultural commerce integral to understanding historical and contemporary identities in Quebec and francophone Europe.
Two of the world's most pressing needs—biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World—are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. ...Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including contemporary practices and attitudes, to shed light on prospects for the future. During prolonged fieldwork among Peru's Quechua peasants and villagers in the mountains near Cuzco, Zimmerer found convincing evidence that much of the region's biodiversity is being skillfully conserved on a de facto basis, as has been true during centuries of tumultuous agrarian transitions.
Diversity occurs unevenly, however, because of the inability of poorer Quechua farmers to plant the same variety as their well-off neighbors and because land use pressures differ in different locations. Social, political, and economic upheavals have accentuated the unevenness, and Zimmerer's geographical findings are all the more important as a result. Diversity is indeed at serious risk, but not necessarily for the same reasons that have been cited by others. The originality of this study is in its correlation of ecological conservation, ethnic expression, and economic development.
Noted historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive into editorials devoted to Jews and Judaism in Quebec's daily Le Devoir in the first half of the twentieth century. Long one of the most discussed ...historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history, these editorials are of great significance as they are representative of the reaction of the nationalist Francophone elite to the Jewish presence in Montreal, to German Nazi State anti-Semitism and to the Shoah. Pierre Anctil proposes a new reading of the editorials published in the pages of Le Devoir from 1910 to 1947--from the founding of the newspaper by Henri Bourassa until the death of its second director, Georges Pelletier. During that time, some two hundred editorials were devoted to Jews and Judaism, of which Anctil has selected sixty for inclusion in this volume. Although many of the editorials conveyed the clearly anti-Semitic views of Le Devoir's editorialists and of Quebec society at large, a number of the editorials did express positive views of Jewish activities and accomplishments in Quebec society. Readers will find this to be an in-depth analysis and nuanced treatment of an important aspect of Canadian Jewish history.
First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Québec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb ...book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and analytical, with a sharp eye for the social meaning of public events. Clift covered Quebec politics as a daily journalist for almost 25 years. He has succeeded in sweeping across events he covered to reduce them to their most substantial conflict." Dominique Clift's perceptive analysis traces two antagonistic trends in recent Quebec history: the growth of nationalism, which reached its high point with the election of René Lévesque in 1967, and the development of individualism at the expense of group solidarity.
Out of the Studio Osborne, John; Smeaton, Peter
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Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the
nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among
them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies
of the ...history of photography: the Smeaton brothers. Out of the
Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles
Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of
their "photographic gallery" in 1861, they developed a reputation
in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events
taken in challenging outdoor settings. Smeaton pictures of the
aftermath of the Great Fire of Quebec in 1866 helped bring an
understanding of the disaster to an international audience; images
featuring the gold mining industry were displayed at the Exposition
universelle in Paris the following year. When Charles travelled to
Europe in 1866, he accomplished a feat previously thought
impossible, taking the first successful photographs in the Roman
catacombs. John moved to Montreal in 1869, where he worked for
newspapers and developed techniques for the direct transfer of
photographs into print without the necessity of intermediary
engravings. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive
biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the
Smeaton brothers and their legacy of images across two
continents.
Already translated into fifteen languages from the original French, Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty is an essential text on the theory of multinational federalism and the politics of ...minority nations.
Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its ...aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both nations saw their cultural struggles as interconnected and worked to build transnational alliances as meaningful discourses of cultural identity. In Connected Struggles, Maurice Demers considers how and why groups from Mexico and Quebec actively sought to establish close cultural and political links. Drawing on extensive research in government, religious, and university archives in Mexico and Canada, Demers delves into the actors, their rationales, and the processes and meanings of such alliances. He proposes a reinterpretation of North-South collaboration in the Americas by analysing how the bonds created by Quebec's and Mexico's civil societies and religious communities influenced diplomatic relations, showing not only the Catholic origins of this solidarity, but its conservative - even reactionary - roots. Demers explains how the foreign ministries in Canada and Mexico both used and denounced these linkages, depending on the political gains to be made. Documenting the emergence of solidarity between French Canadians and Mexicans, Connected Struggles contributes to the understanding of the influence of civil societies in the history of international relations.
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