National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415631122 ISBN 13: 9780415631129

Verlag: Routledge, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

National myths are now seriously questioned, if not collapsing, in a number of societies. This collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today's rapidly-changing society. Can - or must - nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to re-think the fabrics and the future of our societies?

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Gérard Bouchard is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Académie des lettres du Québec. He is Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Trained in sociology and history, he has spent over twenty years conducting empirical, multidisciplinary research in various fields of the social and historical sciences. At the same time, he has headed the BALSAC Project, a computerized population register covering the whole population of Quebec up to the 1960s. He is now doing comparative research on social myths and collective imaginaries, for a Canada Research Chair. He has been awarded a number of prestigious distinctions, including the French Légion d'Honneur.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415631122
• ISBN 13: 9780415631129
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Bouchard Gérard
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