“A Good Canadian Boy”
Crisis Masculinity, Canadian National Identity, and Nostalgic Longings in Don Cherry's Coach's Corner
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20494331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristi A Allain (0000-0003-2716-3259, Thomas University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Pages | 107-132 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1180-3991 • E-ISSN: 1923-5291 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ijcs.52.107 |
| OpenAlex | W2296681466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this article, I examine the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry and his weekly television segment on Hockey Night in Canada called Coach's Corner. Through a content analysis of three seasons of Coach's Corner (2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09), I examine Cherry as a marker (and maker) of nostalgic remembering. The press and the public both revere and revile his performance of manliness, and the style of masculinity that he advocates, as a throwback to simpler days. For Cherry, these simpler times, which contrast with the idea of a current-day masculinity in crisis, privileged the “self-made man” who, through hard work, could make a way for himself in the world. In this article, I argue that Cherry's articulations of morality are linked to discourses of masculinity in crisis, taking the form of a nostalgic privileging of an anachronistic style of masculinity that locates an appropriate sense of masculine style within a particular class consciousness, namely the working class, and a particular geographic locale, namely small-town Canada
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Masculinity · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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On Thin Ice
Brown skin, white ice
Conflicts in Sporting Masculinity
Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos
We Are All Broncos”
The Hat-Trick of Racism
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back
Hegemony Contests
What does a hockey player look like
Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism
Off the ice
Caught Between a Culture of Risk and Precaution
The specialization of informal social control in a selective community
Men and Masculinities
Yearning for yesterday
Qué pasa con Kansas?
The Canadian Hockey Player Problem
The Invention Of Tradition
Practical Nostalgia and the Critique of Commodification
Seeing Ourselves
Sociology of Nostalgia
Real Fast and Tough”
The Decline of Males
Imagined communities
Angry White Men
What's the Matter with Kansas
Exploring Male Femininity in the `Crisis
If You Don't Speak French, You're out
Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Memory and nostalgia
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |