ENGL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Boston King, Stout, Avail
24 Jan 2017
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Imagining community narratives of settlement & white civility. Have to make sure threats to civil society are kept out. Code of conduct (here specific to canadian sensibility) Orderly state, community of citizens collectively, civil society (equality, liberty, fraternity) Temporal notion of progress connected with modernity and colonialism. Uncivilized through instruction, training, and conversion to christianity. These civilizing missions often turned into full-blown colonialism . Civility is a form of conduct that can be demonstrated by cultivated, polite behaviour (most commonly modeled on the figure of the bourgeois gentlemen, who displays energy, will power, far-sightedness, work ethic, industry enterprise) Education in civility shepherds people onto the path of progress. Until they join residential schools, restricted to reservation. Civility is a form of internal management and self identity and external management. It gives civil subjects a mandate for managing the circumstances of those perceived as uncivil inside and outside of the civil society.
