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- Title
The risk of theorizing and the problem of the good of place: a reformulation of Canadian nationalism.
- Authors
Blum, Alan; McHugh, Peter
- Abstract
Nationalism is formulated as commitment to good of place, a commitment which can only originate in tradition. The aim of Canadian nationalism is thus to generate the necessity to believe in the good of Canada as an expression of Canada's nurturance by, and respect for, her tradition. Such commitment is difficult to understand and achieve now because modern life subverts tradition by trivializing all difference and particularity (what tradition is) as mere technical variation. Modernism effaces the decisive and local nature of national identity by making good of place equivalent to the coincidence of borders, resources, and exigency To achieve a place as distinct from a nation-state requires conserving not the country's resources, but rather its origin in tradition because tradition animates the state as its good source regardless of variations in migration, colonization, exploitation, or even plain political survival.
- Subjects
CANADA; NATIONALISM; NURTURING behavior; INTERNATIONAL relations; COLONIZATION; NATIONAL character; NATION-state
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1978, Vol 3, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340309