HIST 3838 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Canadian Pacific Railway, Sovetsky Sport, Proxy War
13 Apr 2016
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Privileged place of sport in the construction of images and myths of national identity, or national imagination. National imagination is what animates and motivates the nation. The significance of sport and the national may include some, yet exclude others as we shall see in regard to hockey. Mythologies and images of national identity have been created to support specific political and economic agendas from the time of confederation to the present day. National identity is not only something that must be active produced but it must also be continually reproduced and updated if it is to sustain its capacity to motivate. If these forums represent the national imagination, one might expect them to stand for canadianness in all of its diversities language, religion, region and ethnicities. Hockey invented canadians as much as canadians invited hockey. World fairs and expositions of the 19th century provided the most significant venues for the display of scientific, technological and cultural progress.
