Unbecoming Nationalism

From Commemoration to Redress in Canada
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-88755-841-2
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Canada’s recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using 'unbecoming' as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene Vosters examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects to reveal and unravel the threads connecting reverential military commemoration, celebratory cultural nationalism, and white settler-colonial nationalism.

Vosters brings readings of institutional, aesthetic, and activist performances of Canadian military commemoration, settler-colonial nationalism, and redress into conversation with literature that examines the relationship between memory, violence, and nationalism from the disciplinary arenas of performance studies, Canadian studies, critical race and Indigenous studies, memory studies, and queer and gender studies. In addition to using performance as a theoretical framework, Vosters uses performance to enact a philosophy of praxis and embodied theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vosters, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction - Lest We Forget: The Contested Terrain of Canadian Commemoration
- Chapter 2 The Canadian War Museum: Imagining the Canadian Nation through Military Commemoration
- Chapter 3 Unbecoming Canadian Militarism’s Forgetful Narratives: Unravelling the Uniform’s Ambiguous Meanings
- Chapter 4 The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Collisional Encounters of Unbecoming Canadian Nationalisms
- Chapter 5 Unbecoming Canada 150: By Many Means Necessary

Über Autor(innen)

Helene Vosters is an artist-activist-scholar. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University, an MFA in Queer and Activist Performance from the New College of California, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Coordinator with Transforming Stories, Driving Change, a research and performance initiative at McMaster University.