Political Science Civics & Citizenship
Insiders and Outsiders
Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2005
- Category
- Civics & Citizenship, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, General, Civil Rights, Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774810692
- Publish Date
- Jul 2005
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774810685
- Publish Date
- Dec 2004
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774851350
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period. Few scholars have helped shape so many key debates in such a wide range of topics in Canadian politics, from the electoral system and federalism, to constitutional and Charter politics, to questions of Aboriginal citizenship.
This volume contains engaging and critical analyses of Cairns’ contributions by a diverse group of scholars -- political scientists, legal scholars, historians, and policymakers, many of them leaders in their own fields. It includes assessments of his role as a public intellectual, his interpretation of Canada’s electoral system, his views on federalism and on Canadian unity, his approach to Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations, and his writings on citizenship and diversity. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Canadian politics, history, and society, especially those examining ssues such as the Charter of Rights, Aboriginal politics, federalism, multiculturalism, political institutions, and political change. It should also be of interest to a larger public that follows the Canadian political scene, and that shares Cairns’ concerns with broad questions of citizenship, diversity, and national unity.
About the authors
Philip Resnick began writing poetry in Montreal, stopping for a time when he embarked on an academic career at the University of British Columbia. His marriage to Andromache (Mahie), who was Greek, resulted in numerous stays in Thessaly, in the city of Volos, and in a village on adjacent Mount Pelion. These stays rekindled his poetic inspiration and resulted in the publication of a number of collections in the late 1970s and 1980s. Philip has continued to write ever since and has published numerous poems in magazines and journals, as well as a 2015 collection Footsteps of the Past and 2018 collection Passageways. As a political scientist at the University of British Columbia for over forty years until his retirement in 2013, Philip has published widely on political topics. He makes his home in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Itineraries
An Intellectual Odyssey
Passageways
Footsteps of the Past
The Labyrinth of North American Identities
European Roots of Canadian Identity
The European Roots of Canadian Identity
The Politics of Resentment
British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity
Twenty-First Century Democracy
The Masks of Proteus
Canadian Reflections on the State
