Description
Book SynopsisTo Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadianstudies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Indiscussing this comprehensive examination of culture, Hoerderhighlights its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included bothsociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of otherethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solidfoundation was formed for the nation’s master narrative.
Against this background,
To Know Our Many Selves focuses onwhy Canadian studies can be used as a sound model for the study ofother societies in a framework of transcultural societal studies.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural orSocietal Studies
I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements ofthe Past
2. The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterland
3. Canada’s Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions
4. Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to NationalBillboards
II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on SocialSpaces
5. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making
6. Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Surveyof Canada
7. Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, EducationalInstitutions, Elite Formation
III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, NewMedia, 1920s–1950s
8. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History,Sociology
9. Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were theHumanities?
IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about InterlinkedSocieties
10. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s
11. Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s
12. Views from the Outside: The Surge of International CanadianStudies
13. Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary ResearchAchievements
V. Perspectives
14. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to TransculturalSocietal Studies
Interviews with the Author; Index
