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Over The Past 15 Years, The Citizenship Debate In Political And Social Theory Has Undergone An Extraordinary Renaissance. To Date, Much Of The Writing On Citizenship, Within And Beyond Canada, Has Been Oriented Toward The Development Of Theory, Or Has Concentrated On Contemporary Issues And Examples. This Collection Of Essays Adopts A Different Approach By Contextualizing And Historicizing The Citizenship Debate, Through Studies Of Various Aspects Of The Rise Of Social Citizenship In Canada. Focusing On The Formative Years From The Late 19th Through Mid-20th Century, Contributors Examine How Emerging Discourse And Practices In Diverse Areas Of Canadian Social Life Created A Widely Engaged, But Often Deeply Contested, Vision Of The New Canadian Citizen. The Original Essays Examine Key Developments In The Fields Of Welfare, Justice, Health, Childhood, Family, Immigration, Education, Labour, Media, Popular Culture And Recreation, Highlighting The Contradictory Nature Of Canadian Citizenship. The Implications Of These Projects For The Daily Lives Of Canadians, Their Identities, And The Forms Of Resistance That They Mounted, Are Central Themes. Contributing Authors Situate Their Histori

Author

Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E, Chunn, and Robert Menzies

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551113869

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities