(Re)imagining history and subjectivity : (dis)incar-nations of racialised citizenship
Date
2012
Authors
Shields, Rachel
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociology, c2012
Abstract
This thesis explores the ways in which modern history-writing practices reiterate
race-based categories of citizenship. To investigate these practices across time, I
have examined discourses produced by the United Farm Women of Alberta
(UFWA) in 1925, and discourses produced by the contemporary magazine
American Renaissance (AR). The UFWA were concerned with the promotion and
definition of citizenship, and in so doing laid race as a foundation of Canadian
identity. AR is a magazine that concerns itself with white nationalism in the
contemporary United States. Drawing upon Avery Gordon and Wendy Brown’s
theories of history and haunting, I have situated these discourses in imaginative
relation to one another, illuminating the “past” in the present. I have also critically
examined how I am complicit in reproducing the historical practices under study;
as an architecture of history, haunting helps to imagine alternatives for the study
of history and social life, particularly our own.
Description
vii, 160 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Keywords
United Farm Women of Alberta -- History , Nationalism -- Canada -- Historiography , Nationlism -- United States -- Historiography , Nationalism and historiography , Racism -- Political aspects -- Historiography , Racism -- Political aspects -- Canada , Racism -- Political aspects -- United States , Citizenship -- Canada -- History , Citizenship -- United States -- History , Dissertations, Academic