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| The Making of Our Home and Native Land: Textbooks, Racialized Deictic Nationalism and the Creation of the National We | |
| Smith;Bryan | |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 学位授予单位 | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| 英文摘要 | This thesis project explores the ways that we/us/our, they/them, you/your and other grammars/pronouns position readers in relation to a nationalizing we. Building on the work of Michael Billig and his articulation of a theory of banal nationalism, I argue that curricular materials, authorized grade eight Ontario textbooks specifically, reflect and represent a national we that gets racialized—essentialized, arbitrarily defined and divided and continually reproduced—through the use of a grammar that permeates the representations of geography, language arts, science and mathematics discussions in curricular textbooks. Using a theory of racialized deictic nationalism, one that points to the representation of a racialized us that reproduces and reflects seemingly natural nationalized populations, I argue that the texts both actively operate to contain the imagined spaces of the nation and describe it as our space exclusive of a them through the subtlety of grammar. As a means of contesting the ease with which a racialized deictic nationalizing grammar is used, I analyze a Wikipedia article as an exploration of a potential space for re/writing notions of the racialized deictic national we. While the analysis of the Wikipedia article and the “behind the scenes” discussion highlights the difficulties of escaping the trappings of a racialized deictic national us, the analysis serves to show that individuals do hold differential conceptions about who we are and how seemingly static notions of us don’t accurately reflect us. I conclude with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of this project. |
| 英文关键词 | Textbooks Nationalism Racialization |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32334 |
| 来源机构 | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/249166 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Smith;Bryan. The Making of Our Home and Native Land: Textbooks, Racialized Deictic Nationalism and the Creation of the National We[D]. Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa,2015. |
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