The Disciplinary Boundaries of Canadian Identity After September 11: Civilizational Identity, Multiculturalism, And the Challenge of Anti-Imperialist Feminism

Part of a special issue on race, racism, and empire in the Canadian context. Canadian identity has been reconfigured since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Following the attacks, the Right launched a concerted campaign to rearticulate Canadian identity as part of “the West” and as an all...

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Main Author: Arat-Koc, Sedef (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2005
In: Social justice
Year: 2005, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 32-49
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
University of British Columbia
National Action Committee on the Status of Women (Organization)
Thobani, Sunera
Feminists
Speeches, addresses, etc
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Canadians
Nationalism
Minorities
Multiculturalism
Feminism
Nationalism > Canada
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Summary:Part of a special issue on race, racism, and empire in the Canadian context. Canadian identity has been reconfigured since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Following the attacks, the Right launched a concerted campaign to rearticulate Canadian identity as part of “the West” and as an ally of the U.S. These new, rigid borders of Canadian identity made national belonging more difficult for people of color than it had been under liberal multiculturalism, as well as defining and limiting the boundaries of acceptable discourse. The disciplinary nature of Canada's post-September 11 identity is demonstrated by the demonization of feminist Sunera Thobani following a speech she gave in October 2001 in which she critiqued U.S. foreign policy.
ISSN:2327-641X