Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
17
result(s) for
"Alberta Civilization."
Sort by:
The Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta
A case study of educational restructuring in Alberta during the 'Klein revolution' ? the period of dramatic political and economic change introduced by Premier Ralph Klein?s Conservative government of the 1990s.
eBook
Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power.
eBook
Five Days in August
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.Five Days in Augustboldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb, they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II.
Gordin posits that although the bomb clearly brought with it a new level of destructive power, strategically it was regarded by decision-makers simply as a new conventional weapon, a bigger firebomb. To lend greater understanding to the thinking behind its deployment, Gordin takes the reader to the island of Tinian, near Guam, the home base for the bombing campaign, and the location from which the anticipated third atomic bomb was to be delivered. He also details how Americans generated a new story about the origins of the bomb after surrender: that the United States knew in advance that the bomb would end the war and that its destructive power was so awesome no one could resist it.
Five Days in Augustexplores these and countless other legacies of the atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they have spawned.
eBook
Indirection argumentative et mythologie grecque dans l’essai d’Albert Camus
Les essais d’Albert Camus sont truffés de références mythologiques. L’invocation de la mythologie grecque, notamment, interpelle : entre l’illustration d’une pensée et l’étayage argumentatif d’un point de vue, le texte essayistique de Camus est jalonné de références mythologiques grecques multiples. Cela ne peut être fortuit et incite à rechercher les raisons d’une procédure appliquée au temps et à la civilisation « modernes ». Si on considère que le recours à la mythologie est une espèce d’expression indirecte, il y a lieu également de s’interroger sur la portée d’une parole directe. Quelle efficacité (ou inefficacité) peut avoir dans ce cas l’une et l’autre ?
Journal Article
Tattooing and Civilizing Processes: Body Modification as Self-control
Malgré la révolution en cours dans le tatouage en Amérique du Nord, les universitaires restent attachés à l'idée que les « fanatiques du tatouage » seraient des inadaptés sociaux. Dans cet article, des données obtenues au cours d'une observation participante de trois ans parmi des fanatiques du tatouage au Canada ouvrent la porte à une critique des interprétations psycho‐sociales privilégiées du tatouage comme étant une conduite irrationnelle, impliquant des risques (voir Carroll et coll., 2002; Roberts et Ryan, 2002). À la lumière de la sociologie figurationnelle (Elias, 1983; 1994; 1996), le tatouage est ici vu comme un acte de communication à caractère sociable et régi affectivement plutôt que comme un cas pathologique d'automutilation. Despite the ongoing revolution in the use of tattoos in North America, academic understandings of tattooing remain grounded in conceptions of “tattoo enthusiasts” as social misfits. In this paper, data from three years of participant observation with tattoo enthusiasts in Canada help critique preferred social‐psychological interpretations of tattooing as irrational, “risk‐taking behaviour” (see Carroll et al., 2002; Roberts and Ryan, 2002). Through the lens of figurational sociology (Elias, 1983; 1994; 1996), tattooing is interpreted in this paper as a pro‐social and affectively regulated act of communication, rather than a pathological instance of self‐injury.
Journal Article
Individual- and Community-level Determinants of Support for Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Canada
This paper examines individual- and community-level determinants of support for immigration and cultural diversity. The analysis tests individual-level hypotheses derived from scarce resources, contact and educational progressivism theories, and also considers the effects of a number of community-level variables. No support is found for contact or scarce resources theory but, in line with educational progressivism theory, more educated urban Albertans are shown to be more supportive of cultural diversity.
Journal Article
El alejandrinismo en la poesía de Luis Alberto de Cuenca
The poetry written by Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Madrid, 1950) is characterized by its great ability to link different traditions, texts and ages. This feature has distinguished his work since the early seventies and it has remained part of his last texts. The purpose of this current paper is to analyse the versatility of his poems, to suggest a possible model to wich this understanding of culture can be referred to: the alexandrianism. To do so, we will make reference to some basic terms from helenistic period. Later, we will observe the recovery of the alexandrian model by some pieces of poetry entitled “variations''. Finally, we will explain some thematic tendency to the “minorness”, that also could be explained by the alexandrian model. La poesía de Luis Alberto de Cuenca (Madrid, 1950) se caracteriza por su gran capacidad de vincular diversas tradiciones, objetos textuales y épocas. Este rasgo ha distinguido a su poesía desde sus inicios en la década del setenta y se ha mantenido constante en su poesía de madurez. Este trabajo se propone indagar en torno de esta apertura del texto poético, para proponer un posible modelo al cual puede remitirse esta comprensión de la cultura: el alejandrinismo. Para ello, recuperaremos algunas nociones básicas del periodo helenístico para, posteriormente, observar cómo es la recuperación del modelo alejandrino en unas composiciones poéticas que llevan el título de variaciones. El análisis de la apropiación de este modelo permitirá explicar, además de la citación de referentes propios del periodo histórico, una inclinación temática y compositiva hacia lo menor.
Journal Article
Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter
Le tourisme cultural amérindien est un secteur de L'industrie touristique canadienne potentiellement en forte croissance, qui connaît un vif succès auprès des visiteurs européens, surtout les Allemands. Le présent article recourt à L'analyse du discours pour examiner les rencontres touristiques qui se déroulent dans les différents lieux touristiques amérindiens du sud de L'Alberta. Il analyse la construction de L'«indianite» et de la culture amérindienne par les guides amérindiens et les visiteurs étrangers. Il appert que ces constructions sont façonnées par le discours primitiviste qui, ironiquement, renforce la notion de «noble sauvage» héritée des Lumières. Nous discutons L'idée selon laquelle le discours primitiviste, malgré ses aspects colonialistes et essentialistes, peut représenter une stratégie de résistance envers un système social perçu comme une source d'oppression par plusieurs Premières Nations. Aboriginal cultural tourism is a potentially high‐growth segment of the Canadian tourism industry that is currently enjoying widespread demand among Europeans, especially German visitors. This paper uses a discourse analysis approach to examine the tourist encounter at various Aboriginal tourist sites in southern Alberta. It analyses the negotiation of “Indianness” and Indian culture by both Native interpreters and foreign visitors. These negotiations are shown to be informed by the primitivist discourse that, ironically, reinforces the Enlightenment notion of the “noble savage.” We argue that, despite its colonialist and essentialist aspects, the primitivist discourse can nevertheless function as a strategy of resistance to a social system viewed by many First Nations as politically oppressive.
Journal Article