Textual Studies in Canada articles

Recent articles from Textual Studies in Canada

Introduction.(national identity)
June 22, 2004... How do we define Canada? What does it mean to be a Canadian? The articles in this edition of Textual Studies in Canada provide an unorthodox set of approaches to these questions in ascertaining different aspects of our (inter-/intra-) national identity as Canadians. For Canada, like few other...

Happenings wondrous and strange: an American view of the early years of the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms.
June 22, 2004... "Our primary objection to the Charter Revolution is that it is deeply and fundamentally undemocratic.... The growth of courtroom rights talk undermines perhaps the fundamental prerequisite of decent liberal democratic politics: the willingness to engage those with whom one disagrees in the...

Le Canada vu de "l'autre Allemagne".(text in French)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... 1. Le Canada des idees recues "Einmal Kanada, das war' schon!"--"une fois (du moins) au Canada, comment ce serait beau!": le refrain d'une chanson des annees 1950-60 donne tree bonne idee de l'image du Canada dans l'Allemagne de l'apres-guerre immediat, image d'un pays libre, d'une...

Visions of Northern Canada from abroad through the lens of international environmentalism.
June 22, 2004... Introduction--Reflexive and Academic The present work has emerged from my academic interest in the anthropology of space and place, my political interest in environmentalism, and my personal experiences in the Yukon. In my last semester as an undergraduate student at the University of...

Perception about parks and ecotourism: German and Canadian tourists compared.
June 22, 2004... 1. Background Sustainable development becomes more and more important as recognition of global and regional environmental problems grows. The concept of sustainable development in this article is based on a classical three-column model of the ecological, the economic and the social,...