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- Title
From Social Security to Public Safety: Security Discourses and Canadian Citizenship.
- Authors
Brodie, Janine
- Abstract
This article explores the development of security discourses and, in particular, what I term the citizen-state security bargain in Canada since Confederation. The analysis focuses on how various security discourses have lent legitimacy to the state and helped to fashion a sense of national community and citizen identity. A historical tracking of Speeches from the Throne illustrates the ways in which the mid-twentieth-century enunciation of the citizen-state bargain as social security has been progressively surpassed and circumscribed by individualized pronouncements of public safety.
- Subjects
CANADA; CITIZENSHIP; SOCIAL security; PUBLIC safety
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009, Vol 78, Issue 2, p687
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/UTQ.78.2.687