Québec Studies

Author : Stéphan Gervais,Christopher John Kirkey,Jarrett Rudy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199014620

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Quebec Questions by Stéphan Gervais,Christopher John Kirkey,Jarrett Rudy Pdf

What is Quebec's relationship with the rest of Canada? What makes Quebec culture distinct? What is Quebec's place on the international stage? Quebec Questions guides students through the process of examining these and other fundamental questions that underlie key debates and issues in Quebec.Bringing together compelling insights from leading scholars of various specialties, this intriguing collection encourages a multidisciplinary approach to thinking about Quebec from various historical, social, cultural, political, and economic perspectives. Featuring six new chapters as well asextensive updates throughout, the second edition of Quebec Questions offers readers an up-to-date, thoughtful, and passionate exploration of la belle province.

Author : André Senécal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015050041956

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A Reader's Guide to Quebec Studies by André Senécal Pdf

Author : Mathieu Marion,Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400901131

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Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science by Mathieu Marion,Robert S. Cohen Pdf

By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy began to be taught later, during the second half of the 19th century. The major influence on English-speaking philosophers was, at least initially, that of Scottish Empiricism. On the other hand, the strong influence of the Catholic Church on French-Canadian society meant that the staff of the facultes of the French-speaking universities consisted, until recently, almost entirely of Thomist philosophers. There was accordingly little or no work in modern Formal Logic and Philosophy of Science and precious few contacts between the philosophical communities. In the late forties, Hugues Leblanc was a young student wanting to learn Formal Logic. He could not find anyone in Quebec to teach him and he went to study at Harvard University under the supervision of W. V. Quine. His best friend Maurice L' Abbe had left, a year earlier, for Princeton to study with Alonzo Church. After receiving his Ph. D from Harvard in 1948, Leblanc started his profes sional career at Bryn Mawr College, where he stayed until 1967. He then went to Temple University, where he taught until his retirement in 1992, serving as Chair of the Department of Philosophy from 1973 until 1979.

Author : Frédérick Bastien
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836852

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Breaking News? by Frédérick Bastien Pdf

In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens via television. Viewership for news and current affairs television programs has dropped dramatically. Meanwhile, the rise of programming that blends information with entertainment – infotainment – on French Canadian television has provided new opportunities for today’s politicians. Breaking News? traces the development of infotainment and exposes the impact of these kinds of programs on modern political communication. Though not without its controversies, infotainment ultimately makes a positive contribution to democratic life by piquing the audience’s interest in public affairs and motivating it to pay more attention to political news in general.

Author : André Senécal
Publisher : [Québec] : Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère des affaires internationales
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Québec (Province)
ISBN : 2550191250

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A Reader's Guide to Québec Studies by André Senécal Pdf

Author : Dominique Clift,Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0773504141

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The English Fact in Quebec by Dominique Clift,Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos Pdf

Author : Patricia Smart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773552654

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Writing Herself into Being by Patricia Smart Pdf

WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.

Author : Michael D. Behiels,Matthew Hayday
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773538900

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Contemporary Quebec by Michael D. Behiels,Matthew Hayday Pdf

In the last seventy years, Quebec has changed from a society dominated by the social edicts of the Catholic Church and the economic interests of anglophone business leaders to a more secular culture that frequently elects separatist political parties and has developed the most comprehensive welfare state in North America. In Contemporary Quebec, leading scholars raise provocative questions about the ways in which Quebec has been transformed since the Second World War and offer competing interpretations of the reasons for the province's quiet and radical revolutions.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264985223

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OECD Skills Studies The Geography of Higher Education in Québec, Canada by OECD Pdf

This review assesses the “geography of higher education” in Québec through the examination of ten case study HEIs.

Author : Éric Bélanger,Cameron D. Anderson,R. Michael McGregor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487540098

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Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections by Éric Bélanger,Cameron D. Anderson,R. Michael McGregor Pdf

While Quebec is well known for its provincial-level party politics and thriving nationalism, voting behaviour and electoral campaigning at the municipal level have failed to gain much attention to date. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections seeks to transform the state of municipal elections research in Quebec through a systematic study of the 2017 Montreal and Quebec City elections. Drawing upon data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, the authors demonstrate not only the importance of Quebec municipal politics, but the many ways that municipal elections research can inform our broader understanding of voting behaviour in the province. This volume considers the features particular to the Quebec local context, such as the importance of language and nationalism, the effects of local party labels for down-ballot races, and the role of ideology. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections represents the largest-ever collection of work on local elections in the province’s history, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the municipal voter in Quebec.

Author : Rodney Haddow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442627017

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Comparing Quebec and Ontario by Rodney Haddow Pdf

In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the differences, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions.

Author : Manon Tremblay
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774859059

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Quebec Women and Legislative Representation by Manon Tremblay Pdf

Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's population, yet they continue to occupy a minority of seats in its National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To explain why this is, Manon Tremblay examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an in-depth portrait of women's under-representation and its main causes. Her innovative account not only documents the significant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

Author : Stéphane Castonguay
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774866330

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Le gouvernement des ressources naturelles: science et territorialités de l'État québécois, 1867–1939 by Stéphane Castonguay Pdf

The Government of Natural Resources explores government scientific activity in Quebec from Confederation until the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role. By tracing the history of geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services, Stéphane Castonguay reveals how the exploitation of natural resources became a tool of government. As it shaped territorial and environmental transformations, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. This thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development reaches well beyond provincial borders, changing the way we think of science and state power.

Author : Garth Stevenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773567757

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Community Besieged by Garth Stevenson Pdf

In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation. He describes their relations with Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale and their ambivalent response to the Quiet Revolution. New political issues - language policy, educational reform, sovereignty, and the constitution - undermined the old system of elite accommodation in Quebec, causing conflicts between anglophones and francophones and creating a new sense of anglophone identity that transcends religious differences. The changing relations of Quebec anglophones with the major political parties, as well as the role of newer entities such as Alliance Quebec and the Equality Party, are also examined. Stevenson concludes with a look at the future of anglophones in Quebec. Based in part on interviews with more than sixty English-speaking Quebecers who have played prominent parts in Quebec's political life, Community Besieged is a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the political life of this unique minority at both the federal and provincial level.

Author : Jocelyn Maclure
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773571112

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Quebec Identity by Jocelyn Maclure Pdf

In articulating an alternative narrative Maclure reframes the debate, detaching the question of Quebec's identity from the question of sovereignty versus federalism and linking it closely to Quebec's cultural diversity and to the consolidation of its democratic sphere. In so doing, he rethinks the conditions of authenticity, leaves space for First Nations' self-determination and takes account of globalization. This edition has been expanded for English-Canadians with additional references as well as a glossary of names, institutions, and concepts.