Racialized hegemony and nationalist mythologies
Representations of war and peace in high school history textbooks, 1945–2005
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Montgomery (0000-0003-0227-2918, University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-37 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17400200500532094 |
| OpenAlex | W2003660151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper examines the ways in which high school Canadian history textbooks authorized from 1945 to the present have represented national participation in wars and peace‐making/keeping operations. I explore how national mythologies of Canada as a kinder, more tolerant, or less violent national body permeate the narratives of national history textbooks, but also position Canada, in racialized terms, as a nation superior to all others and thus burdened with the fantasized responsibility to uplift implicitly inferior spaces, nations and peoples elsewhere on the planet. I illustrate that these textbooks do not simply tell the history of the modern state of Canada and its relationship to war and war‐related issues (i.e., peace‐making/keeping), but rather redundantly disseminate racialized representations of Canada as a glorious and exceptional ‘living organism’ that matures through the development of such redeeming qualities as respect for humanity, morality, compassion, heroism and tolerance. I argue that these patriotic and presumably benign representations of war and peace assist in the hegemonic maintenance of white power, privilege and governance
Hegemony · Literature · Morality · Mythology · Narrative · National identity · Nationalism · Peace movement · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |