Regional Subnationalism in Canada and the Social Meaning of New Organisations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Adria (0000-0001-6622-5884, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-170 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-8078 • E-ISSN: 0269-9222 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/bjcs.21.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2021523501 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The modernist view is that nationalism is the political alignment of a national culture with a state. Of particular relevance to modernist approaches to nationalism is the role of technology, including sociotechnical technologies such as organisations, in shaping nations and nationalism. This paper uses the literature of nationalism to argue that new organisations enjoying the indirect or direct support of governments have a substantial role in the development of subnational identities, especially in those subnational contexts characterised by political alienation from a national state. Subnational contexts include provinces, states, and other regional political regimes in a political relationship with a nation state. New organisations constitute a 'demonstration effect', which means that they show the benefits of an enhanced subnational culture for individuals and groups. Subnationalism is the alignment of regional economic and cultural projects with aspirations for an increase in political and economic autonomy. The case of the creation of Nova Corporation in 1954 is examined to reveal the demonstration effect within Alberta, Canada. The social effect of the new organisation, along with other public projects of its kind, was to strengthen the subnational culture and its link to the provincial state
Alienation · Autonomy · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Canadian Identity and History · Central European national history · European Cultural and National Identity · Public Administration
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Society and Politics in Alberta
Internal Problem Resolution and Third Party Emergence
Institutions of Higher Education and the Nationalist State
The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology
Contested Classrooms
The Development of Corporatism in Liberal Democracies
Is there Nationalism after Ernest Gellner? An exploration of methodological choices
Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit
Canadian Communication Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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