Editors:
- Examines how Canada is interpreted and constructed by Canadian expatriate scholars
- Features chapters by Canadian expats combining theory and lived experience
- Expands conceptions of Canadian identity
Part of the book series: Canada and International Affairs (CIAF)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad
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Exile, Scholarship, and Rethinking Canada and the Canadian Identity
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Multiple Layers of Externality
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Remaining Unmoored—Externality and Uncertainty
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Disciplinary Focus and the Question of Externality
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About this book
Migration and the impact that immigrants have on Canada is and always has been central to a robust understanding of Canadian identity. However, despite claims that “the world needs more Canada,” Canadians, their governments, and scholars pay much less attention to the estimated 3 million Canadian expatriates who live elsewhere. The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad features Canadian scholars who live and work outside Canada (or have recently returned to Canada) and who write and think deeply about identity construction. What happens when that Canadian is a scholar whose teaching, research and scholarship, professional development, and/or community engagement focuses directly on Canada? How does being abroad affect how we interpret Canada? In short, in what ways does “externality” affect how Canadian expat scholars intellectually approach, construct, and identify with Canada? This engaging volume is ideal for university students, scholars, government officials, and the general public.
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Editors and Affiliations
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State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USA
Christopher Kirkey
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School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Richard Nimijean
About the editors
Christopher Kirkey is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, USA, and serves as President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS). He is a co-editor, with Michael K. Hawes and Andrew C. Holman, of Canada in 1968: A Year and Its Legacies (2021).
Richard Nimijean is a member of the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a co-editor, with David Carment, of Canada Among Nations 2020: Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad
Editors: Christopher Kirkey, Richard Nimijean
Series Title: Canada and International Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86574-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86573-3Published: 21 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86576-4Published: 22 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86574-0Published: 20 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7187
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7195
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory, Diplomacy