We Are not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity
Author:   Claude Denis
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   2nd ed.
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9781551111186


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 October 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Claude Denis
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781551111186


ISBN 10:   1551111187
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Introduction:  Joseph Peters, in the court of public opinion Nationalisms Colonialism Individual Freedom Self-government Gender Equality Pluralisms Limit-experience Conclusion:  Expect aurora borealis Bibliography Index

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This is an innovative study of an encounter between a Coast Salish Aboriginal community and the dominant institutions of Canadian state and society.


...encourages the reader to imagine the complex potentialities of Native self-government....opens up a number of fascinating issues....With this ground-breaking work, Denis has made a valuable contribution to scholarship.--University of Toronto Quarterly An impressive book!--Paul Tennant, University of British Columbia This is an innovative study of an encounter between a Coast Salish Aboriginal community and the dominant institutions of Canadian state and society. Along the way, Claude Denis challenges the taken for granted assumptions and claims to superiority of liberal modernity. Reflexive, interdisciplinary and highly original scholarship.We are not You reorients understandings of the political project we call canada into new more hopeful directions.--David Schneiderman, University of Alberta


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Claude Denis is a Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

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