Identity In Quebec Research Articles

Local Tales of Sufism in Quebec: Secular Politics of Moderation and the Production of Charismatic Muslims

Through exploring the representations and political participation of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi order of Montreal, this article analyses the relationship between Sufism, secularity, and political authority in Quebec in ongoing debates around religious “moderation” and State neutrality laws post-9/11. I offer an in-depth but necessarily bounded ethnographic account of this Sufi group in an attempt to expose a process of localisation and instrumentalisation of a particular Muslim identity in Quebec reflecting local pressures of religious reformation. I will argue that the charisma attached to the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi order, as articulated by politicians as well as non-Muslim Montrealers, is one that has emerged most particularly in the past 15 years and is embodied in the current local leader of the community, Shaykh Omar Koné. Yet, this charisma operates within centuries-old Orientalist discourses about Sufism and Islam, and most notably is validated in Quebec through recent secular politics of “moderation” and State neutrality bills as heritage of the 1960 Quiet Revolution. Writing as a French-Canadian, in this article, I will offer an insight into the construction of a Sufi consciousness in Quebec, a tale that I trace through multiple accounts, though primarily through my interactions at the Montreal Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Centre and with their imam, Shaykh Omar Koné from 2014 to 2017.

Between nationalism and regionalism: Higher education policy and national/regional identity in Quebec and Wallonia

AbstractThis article explores the nexus between nationalism/regionalism and higher education policy at the subnational scale. Relying on a Critical Discourse Analysis, the study investigates how notions of national/regional identity are discursively embedded in the higher education policy discussions of Quebec and Wallonia. A comparative approach based on the distinct logics of subnational politics in both cases is used. Whereas Quebec is considered a quintessential example of ‘subnationalism’, the Walloon case is defined as a political regionalist movement. The findings reveal the permeation of substate identity interests in both Quebec and Wallonia's higher education policy discussions, underscoring parallels between them despite their diverging characters. At the same time, the discourse analysis sheds light on important distinctions in the manner in which this identity discourse is articulated. By juxtaposing identity politics in ‘nationalist’ and ‘regionalist’ movements, the study aims to bridge their conceptualisation and critically reflect on the categorisation of subnational movements.

The Malaise of Education Workers and Changing Professional Identity in Quebec

Au Québec, si la formation, le diplôme, la qualification légale d’enseigner et l’affiliation à un ministère de l’Éducation ont longtemps été des piliers d’une identité collective enseignante forte et valorisante, il en est aujourd’hui autrement suite aux nombreux changements sociaux, économiques et éducatifs qui affectent le travail de l’enseignant et remettent parfois en cause sa propre légitimité. D’aucuns admettent que la profession d’enseignant s’est complexifiée et alourdie au fil des ans et que son prestige social est en déclin. À cet égard, les difficultés actuelles d’attrait et de rétention des enseignants ainsi que le fort taux d’abandon durant les cinq premières années de carrière sont sans doute révélateurs d’un malaise collectif et de crises individuelles profondes. Dans ce texte, nous désirons interroger et discuter, à partir des perspectives d’enseignants du Québec, les aspects critiques de leur expérience de carrière.

Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren, Language, Citizenship, and Identity in Quebec. Foreword by Gérard Bouchard. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xiv + 260 pp. 1 4039 4975 1

Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren, Language, Citizenship, and Identity in Quebec. Foreword by Gérard Bouchard. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xiv + 260 pp. 1 4039 4975 1

Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren, Language, citizenship and identity in Quebec. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv, 260. Hb $80.00

Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren, Language, citizenship and identity in Quebec. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv, 260. Hb $80.00

Popular Music and Identity in Quebec

Introduction In his book Banal Nationalism, Michael Billig demonstrates that nationalism is by no means a peripheral phenomenon, present in ethnic separatist movements but removed from common states. (1) Instead, citizens are perpetually reminded of their national identities by symbols such as flags, coins, national anthems, and political discourse. are constantly bombarded with competing political discourse regarding whether Quebec is a nation or a distinct society and whether form a people, but such explicitly political discourse is not really nationalism. Billig writes: The metonymic image of banal nationalism is not a flag which is consciously waved with fervent passion; it is the flag hanging unnoticed on the public building. (2) Perhaps the most visible arena of symbolic conflict occurs in the battles over flags in Quebec, but popular culture is another arena where differences between Quebecers and Canadians manifest themselves. Others have noted the importance of popular culture in reinforcing a Quebecois identity. In particular, the development of language television has led to the emergence of a class of Quebecois celebrities and television shows that appeal almost exclusively to Quebecers. Louis Balthazar writes that television has enabled to see a new image of themselves transmitted--an image that serves to reinforce a common identity, one that excludes Francophones outside of Quebec. (3) Furthermore, most of these shows probably have little audience among Anglophones within Quebec, who have a far greater choice of television options in their own language. Thus, television may serve to reinforce linguistic differences. This article will consider how popular music also influences perceptions of national identity in Quebec. Francophone have increasingly identified themselves as rather than as French or simply as Canadian. (4) Self-identification as Quebecois(e) has been linked to support for sovereignty. For example, in one survey of college students, 82 percent of those students who considered themselves to be more Quebecois(e) than Canadian supported sovereignty, whereas only 4 percent of those considering themselves to be more Canadian than Quebecois(e) and only 12 percent of those sharing both identities equally supported sovereignty. (5) At the societal level, the constant reinforcement of a Quebec-centered identity is undoubtedly crucial for sustaining an environment where sovereignty is viewed as a reasonable alternative. In Quebec, where two identities are in competition, the ever-present markers of Quebecois, rather than Canadian, identity are an important asset for those who argue that Quebec should be sovereign, and the question of how a Quebec-centered identity has become ascendant within Quebec deserves study. Music and National Identity Benedict Anderson famously describes nations as and emphasizes the importance of newspapers in defining such communities by providing their readers with a shared stock of common national referents. (6) More recently, Tim Edensor has argued that radio and television are critical in situating individuals within a national imagined community. (7) Popular songs tell about social groups--stories that form part of a narrative that helps individuals find their place in the world and develop a political identity, creating what Bruno Roy describes as the collective imagination of a group. (8) Maureen Whitebrook writes that persons understand their own lives as stories and that without the structure of life would be unintelligible. (9) A song that tells a compelling story about one's group may have more impact than would an account in a history book. For example, the (sometimes) fictional individuals whose are told in songs often serve as role models for how real individuals should act. …

Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec by Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren

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Nations and NationalismVolume 13, Issue 4 p. 755-756 Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec by Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren MICHAEL KEATING, MICHAEL KEATING European University InstituteSearch for more papers by this author MICHAEL KEATING, MICHAEL KEATING European University InstituteSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 November 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2007.00320_11.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume13, Issue4October 2007Pages 755-756 RelatedInformation

Evolving Racial Identity and the Consolidation of Men's Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec

This article explores the evolution of ‘racial’ identity in Quebec and the ways in which it was intertwined with considerations about manhood. It suggests that growing concerns about manhood in an urban and industrial environment, coupled with the suspicion that women were turning their backs on motherhood, led some French-Canadian men to redefine their racial identity in ways that would bolster their masculine and patriarchal authority. So long as blood was said to be central to French-Canadian racial identity, women, in their roles as child-bearers, and thus physical reproducers of the race, could expect to exert at least a symbolic influence over the direction of the race. But as traditional gender roles appeared to come under attack in the 1920s and 1930s, some men grew increasingly uncomfortable with the ‘revenge of the cradle’ ideology that tied men's political and economic influence to women's ability to produce as many children as possible. Anxious about becoming too dependent on women's bodies and armed with international developments in race theory, French-Canadian men began to downplay the role that biology played in one's racial identity and to promote a cultural definition of racial belonging. In this way, men diminished women's role in racial regeneration, and in the process regained control over their economic, political, and ‘racial’ destinies.

Evolving Racial Identity and the Consolidation of Men's Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec

This article explores the evolution of ‘racial’ identity in Quebec and the ways in which it was intertwined with considerations about manhood. It suggests that growing concerns about manhood in an urban and industrial environment, coupled with the suspicion that women were turning their backs on motherhood, led some French-Canadian men to redefine their racial identity in ways that would bolster their masculine and patriarchal authority. So long as blood was said to be central to French-Canadian racial identity, women, in their roles as child-bearers, and thus physical reproducers of the race, could expect to exert at least a symbolic influence over the direction of the race. But as traditional gender roles appeared to come under attack in the 1920s and 1930s, some men grew increasingly uncomfortable with the ‘revenge of the cradle’ ideology that tied men's political and economic influence to women's ability to produce as many children as possible. Anxious about becoming too dependent on women's bodies an...

Imagi/Nation: Fennario, Friel and the Staging of Language and Identity in Quebec

Imagi/Nation: Fennario, Friel and the Staging of Language and Identity in Quebec

A History for the Future: Re-writing Memory and Identity in Quebec (review)

A History for the Future: Re-writing Memory and Identity in Quebec (review)

Lionel Groulx's L'Appel De La Race Revisited

Abbe Lionel Groulx is known for his powerful contribution to the historiography and the nationalist movement in Quebec. He is generally regarded as the spiritual father of 'la revolution tranquille' that moved Quebec into the modern age. Among the few fictional works that he wrote, L'appel de la race occupies a unique place in his writing. It is a 'homecoming' popular novel which describes in the form of a narrative how an 'assimil ated' French-Canadian lawyer returns to his roots and discovers his true identity by rejecting the anglophone environment he has embraced. But this process involves many painful experiences and also reveals, in Groulx's depiction, the intrinsic contradictions of the factual historical situation involving the emergence of the modern collective identity in Quebec that was paralleled by secularisation.

Mouvement des femmes et questions identitaires dans le Québec contemporain

This essay examines the contribution made by women and the women's movement to debates on the question of identity in Quebec. First, it analyzes the role played by the women's movement in Quebec society, then focuses on the contribution of women to debates over identity throughout the twentieth century, up to and including the 1995 referendum. Finally, women's voting patterns in relation to sovereignty are examined, as are the strategies that have been elaborated to target the female electorate.

Business Ethics and National Identity in Quebec: Distinctiveness and Directions

This essay will not present a survey of business ethics literature in Quebec; it will rather try to analyze the nature and meaning of this distinc tiveness for both practice and theory. The critical difference is that, unlike the US where it is defined largely in individual terms, in Quebec business ethics is tightly linked to one central issue, the preservation of a "national identity". Therefore, understanding the obligations of business people and firms requires to put them within a societal context. The paper includes five parts. In the first part, we broadly contrast the American and the Quebec discourses on ethics, providing a framework for the analysis of business ethics in Quebec. The next three parts discuss the details of the framework. In the last part, we apply this framework to a sample of recent business ethics issues and discuss their meaning for both theory and practice.

Mapping Identity in Quebec: France Theoret

Patricia va ecrire son premier roman. Cette fois, elle a du temps et toute l'energie de ses trente ans pour s'y adonner. Desire-t-elle risquer encore un autre livre defemme ? Cette idee porte atteinte a son integrite. Elle la depassera si elle parvient a faire taire en elle la voix de ses maitres. [Patricia is going to write her first novel. On this occasion, she has time and all the energy of her thirty years to devote to it. Does she wish to risk another woman's book? This idea attacks her integrity. She will get beyond it if she manages to quiet within her the voice of her masters.] -France Theoret, La raison appropriee