CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Unemployment Benefits, Shared Experience, Modernism
11 Oct 2012
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Canadian studies have its origins of a left-nationalist movement. Protect canada from being taken over by the. United states, how this early movement of canadian studies was about keeping people together. Problems with canadian studies- jill vickers wrote an important paper on canadian studies the 1960-1970 wave of canadian studies was influenced by anti-modernism (skepticism towards technology, moving away from countries and into the cities. Diffuse cultural movement that is skeptical towards execrated technology finds value in things like traditional lifestyles, local cultures. Suspicious of globalization, saying expansion of cultures destroys local cultures), that creeped into american society. People who do canadian studies map anti- modernism into anti-americanism; usa is synonymous to the spread of culture. Canadian studies was about preserving the local culture (we have global culture and local culture, local is about things that stand in opposition to global culture, fast food is global, local could be a random cafe.
