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QUEBEC SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION

A lot of French politicalb> parties feel it would be hypocritical if they officially supported Quebec nationalism, but continued to reject Corsican, Breton, and Basque nationalisms.
This is a paradoxical phenomenon, for the ''Parti QuÃ©bÃ©cois'' and most sovereigntists are to the politicalb> left.
This ambiguity is further enhanced since the majority of Quebec's media, both written (with the notable exceptions of the CHOI-FM libertarian Quebec_City radio station and the ''La_Presse'' and ''The Gazette'' newspapers), usually support the PQ's left to left-of-centre politics, if not the party itself.

http://www.palfacts.com/Quebec_sovereignty_movement (3151 words)



Scotland's Parliament: Devolution, the Media and Politicalb> Cultureb>

This view has a bearing on the present-day functioning of politicalb> communication in the United Kingdom because in reality the dominant model of the nation-state as a unitary politicalb> community, as a stable locus in which we speak to ourselves about politics and public affairs, is breaking down.
This dominant view of the relations between national politicalb> space and national communicative space is still supported by a well-established perspective in the theory of nationalism, which needs to be revised, and is beginning to be so.
Decentralisation is a widespread feature of contemporary politics in most EU member states, and the UK is finally aligning itself with the European trend towards 'subsidiarity', the doctrine that no politicalb> issue should be decided at a level higher than is absolutely necessary.

http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp98_3.htm (8792 words)



Cultureb> of Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quebec's rich heritage of cultureb> and history can be explored through a network of museums, which include the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée de la civilisation and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
The cultureb> of Quebec is connected to the strong cultural currents of the rest of Canada, United States, France, and Britain all at the same time.
Before any politicalb> decision could be made, politicians made sure that it would be in accordance with Catholic belief and attitudes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Quebec (4264 words)



Quebec : Politicalb> cultureb> of Quebec

Politicalb> deadlocks led to talks of a confederation, which in turn led to the creation of the Dominion of Canada with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867.
60% of the Quebec electorate voted against it.
The provincial bird of Quebec is the snowy owl.

http://www.city-search.org/po/political-culture-of-quebec.html (2092 words)



UW Press - : Nationalism and the Politics of Cultureb> in Quebec, Richard Handler

Bringing together methodologies of history, sociology, politicalb> science, and philosophy, as well as anthropology, Handler centers on the period 1976–1984, during which the independantiste Parti Québéois was in control of the provincial government and nationalistic sentiment was especially strong.
UW Press - : Nationalism and the Politics of Cultureb> in Quebec, Richard Handler
handler draws on historical and archival research, and on interviews with Quebec and Canadian government officials, as he addresses the central question: Given the similarities between the epistemologies of both anthropology and nationalist ideology, how can one write an ethnography of nationalism that does not simply reproduce—and thereby endorse—nationalistic beliefs?

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/0502.htm (305 words)



CBC - Quebec Votes 2003

Born in Ontario, Alex was drawn to the Quebec cultureb> and politicalb> scene seven years ago.
Jessica Brando has been reporting in Quebec City since 1999, often getting to live the politics of the National Assembly first-hand.
Her knowledge of Quebec politics and social life give her a unique perspective.

http://www.cbc.ca/quebecvotes2003/campaigntrail/bios.html (1193 words)



SFU Library - Quebec Government & Politics

This course examines the development of Quebec's politicalb> cultureb> and the role of institutions in the politicalb> system of Quebec.
An examination of the politicalb> cultureb> and institutions in the province of Quebec with particular emphasis on the period since 1960.
This site, which is part of ITP Nelson's extensive website Canadian Politics On the Web (http://polisci.nelson.com/canpol.html), covers a range of issues and points of view on the drive for independence in Quebec.

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/pol/classes/poli041424.htm (1844 words)



Paul Martin Time: Martin vows to resign if implicated in scandal

Martin is on a cross-Canada media blitz in an effort to save his politicalb> skin, as well as the future of his party, after Auditor General Sheila Fraser revealed corruption within the government that has stunned the country.
Grant Dorosh from Stony Plain, said he thought he was one of only two Albertans who believed Martin's claim he was out of the loop on what was going on.
I don't want to be here if in fact politics is going to be regarded as some kind of a game played by an elite few...

http://paulmartintime.ca/mediacoverage/000295.html (978 words)



Journal of Canadian Studies: Challenging times: the women's movement in Canada & the United States // Review

The truly valuable aspects of this collection for Canadian readers are the few articles which document the development of the Canadian women's movement as integrally related to Canadian politicalb> cultureb>, together with those that clear the way for recent challenges to monolithic conceptions of feminism.
Women in Quebec, she notes, were more of a politicalb> constituency than women in the rest of Canada, and had been more successful in getting their issues onto the agenda:
Challenging Times, the collection of scholarly articles edited by Backhouse and Flaherty, is the result of a conference held at the University of Western Ontario in 1989 comparing the Canadian and American feminist movements.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199401/ai_n8725597 (1048 words)



The Creation of a New Politicalb> Cultureb> within Canada

I will, however, consider briefly his treatment of the natural foundations of sovereignty since I believe his conception can be quite useful in supporting the suggestions for politicalb> reform that I will be proposing.
Direct participation in the politicalb> process of a free society should be a viable option to all Canadians regardless of class and/or status.
The new paradigm would entail a new cultureb> with its own system of values that are more altruistic, in contrast to the old and still prevailing paradigm based on self-interest and competition.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/alfiorino/meta2.htm (5833 words)



French Canadian Cultureb>: question about Quebec's cultureb>

The laws we were able to keep and with the help of the church, we were able to keep our languages and our cultureb>.
These were men that, for politicalb> and cultural reasons, fought against the British governement during these years.
Ties or bonds would include kinship, tradition, religion, language and politicalb>.

http://experts.about.com/q/2842/2952400.htm (431 words)



Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities. October 31-November 1, 2003 Room 202 of the School of Policy Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario.

Others again see the beginnings of a fundamental realignment of the socio-economic and politicalb> forces that are shaping the domestic character and politicalb> orientation of Quebec, and the nature of its relationships with Canada and the rest of the world.
What evidence is there to suggest that the nationalist forces in Quebec will not, at some appropriate time in the future, again place sovereignty at the top of the politicalb> agenda?
There is evidence to suggest that this macro-level politicalb> shift is a reflection of a different set of priorities currently occupying the imagination of Quebec society.

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=134201 (643 words)



Blogcritics.org: French cultureb> versus Québec cultureb>

Why is it that when English Canadian journalists (and most anglophones for that matter) refer to Québec, they invariably talk about the French cultureb> and the French people?
If you suggested such a thing to a Canadian, they would, I'm sure, be outraged and appalled.
And an ignorance that is both peculiar and disappointing, from a country that is commonly held up to the rest of the world as an exemplar of tolerance and sensitivity.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/05/163616.php (936 words)



Mike Pereira, Consulting and Campaign Strategy, Montreal Mergers

All fund raising must be conducted in a way that suits the politicalb> cultureb> of Quebec voters, yet is workable enough to generate funds effectively.
[Given the politicalb> cultureb> in Quebec and in Canada, some "Washington Style Politics" options may not be the best options for fundraising, as they may be too aggressive and offend those who the group is hoping to persuade.
The major coalitions are registered as non-profit groups, however, they lack the tax incentives possessed by politicalb> parties which allow donors to claim donations as "politicalb> expenses" and gain tax credit for them.

http://mike-pereira.com/consulting/merger-pq/org.htm (779 words)



TAN+N National Report -- Antoine Robitaille on Canada

In other words, it is the French cultureb> that dominates the politicalb> cultureb> of Quebec.
That's pretty radical politicalb> talk for a big corporation and right now, one would have to say: "only in Canada." At this writing, however, their claims are not sweeping the national government in Ottawa off its feet, despite the assistance of the Reform Party there.
It was based on a denunciation of the entire politicalb> party system in Canada.

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/poli_sci/tann/tann2/antoine.html (892 words)



THE EVOLVING CULTUREb> OF QUEBEC

The cultureb> of any society is comprised of many factors which include the history of the cultureb>, the struggles and hardships preceding generations endured, their religious devotion, the levels of education people attained, the art and literature which they produced and to which they were exposed.
The cultureb> of Quebec is ultimately based on the history of the people whose families have lived in Quebec through several generations.
The government and the Church were united in upholding that the family unit was the building block of a good, stable Quebec society.

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/010915-9.htm (1692 words)



cultureb>: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com

Many theories of cultureb> have been criticized for assuming, intentionally or otherwise, that all people in any one society experience their cultureb> in the same way.
There resulted a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that one had to understand an individual's actions in terms of his or her cultureb>; that one had to understand a specific cultural artifact (a ritual, for example) in terms of the larger symbolic system of which it forms a part.
This is one reason that anthropologists tend to be skeptical of theorists who attempt to study their own cultureb>.

http://www.answers.com/topic/culture (4080 words)



Society_and_Culture

Cree Nation of Mistissini - Information on the cultureb> and history of this native group in northern Quebec.
Grand Council of the Crees - Politicalb> body representing the Crees of northern Quebec.
Movement of Solidarity Quebec-Romania - Quebec organization providing humanitarian support and aid to the people of Romania.

http://botw.org/top/Regional/North_America/Canada/Quebec/Society_and_Culture (239 words)



Carl Stychin

Feminist Legal Studies V/1 (1997), 3-34: In this article, the author seeks to interrogate the relationship between national cultureb>, sexual identity politics, and rights discourse in the context of politicalb> and legal developments in Quebec.
Although the increasing centrality of rights discourse in Quebec politicalb> cultureb> creates the possibility for "progressive" legal change, cultural change may be more unpredictable given the often contradictory constructions of homosexuality within the discourses of Quebecois nationalism.
He argues that while nationalist discourse has left space to homosexuality within its imagination of a Quebec nation, creating arguably the most "progressive" society in North America in terms of lesbian and gay politics, it has also had an ambiguous relationship with the homosexual.

http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/Stychin.html (188 words)



Elder über Schöningh: "Kontrolliert die Justiz"

At issue is not whether or not a particular system is accepted, according to Schöningh, but rather "welche Identifikationsmuster dieser Bejahung oder Ablehnung zugrundeliegen, vor allem, woraus sie resultieren" (S. Seen from the perspective of the German courts and the left-wing reporting, German politicalb> cultureb> was anti-democratic and conservative.
Further, without a systematic consideration of the German Left itself, or the possibility of a plurality of politicalb> and philosophical dispositions within the judiciary, Schöningh's conclusions about a >lack< of republican politicalb> cultureb> in Weimar are at best tentative.
According to Schöningh, courtroom reportage is both a >factor< and an >indicator< of politicalb> cultureb>: it both reflects the social and politicalb> circumstances in which it was produced, and it helps to shape the politicalb> cultureb> on which it comments.

http://www.iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/elder.html (188 words)



Vietnam - Politicalb> Cultureb>

Vietnam's politicalb> cultureb> represents, therefore, the steadfast survival of what is Vietnamese in the face of a long history of outside influence; integration of historical politicalb> ideals with an imported communist organizational model has created a communist identity that is no less Vietnamese.
Vietnam's politicalb> cultureb> has been determined by a number of factors of which communism is but the latest.
Vietnam's agrarian economy also contributed to its politicalb> cultureb>.

http://countrystudies.us/vietnam/55.htm (1624 words)



Geertz, "Ideology as a Cultural System"

Further, the interest theory welded politicalb> speculation to politicalb> combat by pointing out that ideas are weapons and that an excellent way to institutionalize a particular view of realityÑ that of one's group, class, or partyÑis to capture politicalb> power and enforce it.
The reasons why this ingenious device failed are many and complex, and only a few of themÑlike the strength in certain sectors of the popi ulation of Islamic concepts of politicalb> order, which are difficult to rect oncile with Sukarno's secularismÑare themselves cultural.
57 Fallers, "Ideology and Cultureb>." The patterns of belief and value defended may be, of course, those of a socially subordinate group, as well as those of a socially dominant one, and the "apology" therefore for reform or revolution.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/geertz.html (10139 words)



Cultureb> war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cruder debates in more emotive terms were expected on the curriculum, popular cultureb>, supposed enforcement of politicalb> correctness, affirmative action as it applies to admissions, and allegations that teaching was too centred on DWEMs and WASP interpretations.
In that book, Hunter described what he saw as a dramatic re-alignment and polarization that had transformed American politics and cultureb>.
The campus cultureb> wars reflected a change in the demographics of the student population, as well as social change in society at large.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_wars (858 words)



DPD Chapter 2: The Locus of Development, the Micro-Macro Connection, and Exact Specification

This is a harder problem, but the answer still appears to be no. First, the concept of "politicalb>" in politicalb> development and politicalb> cultureb> has been drawn widely enough to embrace every social form through which people relate to one another: politicalb>, legal, economic, religious, and general social institutions.
The politicalb> cultural system, not the individual or social systems, is the locus of development.
As part of the individual system, these beliefs are like any psychic phenomenon.

http://www.d.umn.edu/~schilton/Articles/DPD2.html (4730 words)



Europe-Asia Studies: Post-Soviet politicalb> cultureb> in Russia: an assessment of recent empirical investigations

Europe-Asia Studies: Post-Soviet politicalb> cultureb> in Russia: an assessment of recent empirical investigations
Post-Soviet politicalb> cultureb> in Russia: an assessment of recent empirical investigations
The problem with such an essentialist view of politicalb> cultureb> is that it cannot account for change in institutions, behaviour, or in politicalb> cultureb> itself.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n2_v48/ai_18349142 (930 words)



Whitworth Press Release

A second scenario would be a clean election but a new government that is not inclined or not able to challenge Liberia's politicalb> cultureb> of patronage and favoritism.
He is also the author of a groundbreaking book, Popular Cultureb>, Civil Society and State Crisis in Liberia (2003, The Edwin Mellen Press), in which he challenges popular prescriptions for Liberia’s politicalb> problems.
Yoder, who has studied Liberian politicalb> and social cultureb> for two decades, has been invited by The Carter Center to participate on a team that will monitor and report on the elections.

http://www.whitworth.edu/News/2005_2006/Fall/YoderLiberiaElections.htm (691 words)



Encyclopedia: Kosovo

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of World War II to the Yugoslav wars.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Kosovo (6364 words)



Cultureb> of Conversion:

But more importantly, it was East Cornwall (including many East Cornwall Methodists), more predisposed to the influence of ‘modernisation’, that became most involved with politicalb> agitation and not the more traditional West, which was more ossified in its ‘original’ Methodist cultureb>.
West Cornwall occasionally oscillated between ‘old’ and ‘new’ politicalb> affiliations, and the beginnings of the formation of a cohesive ‘class politics’ ideology within the Cornish mining communities, with an integration between nonconformity and secular politicalb> radicalism, appeared to be emerging by the 1880s.
Even after the First World War, the persistence of a nonconformist politicalb> nucleus within local popular opinion is evident from many contemporary sources.

http://www.marjon.ac.uk/cornish-history/conf2001milden/1860s.html (928 words)



Books: Greater Serbia - Memorandum 1986

The fact that ordinary citizens and the working class are not represented in the appropriate councils in the Federal Assembly cannot simply be ascribed to favoritism for ethnic nationalisms; it is also the result of an attempt to place Serbia in a position of inequality and thereby weaken her politicalb> influence.
The physical, politicalb>, legal and cultural genocide perpetrated against the Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija is the greatest defeat suffered by Serbia in the wars of liberation she waged between Orasac in 1804 and the uprising of 1941.
Complete national and cultural integrity of the Serbian people is their historic and democratic right, no matter in which republic or province they might find themselves living.

http://www.hic.hr/books/greatserbia/sanu.htm (3853 words)



Consolidating a Democratic Politicalb> Cultureb> in Liberia Towards the 2003 Elections: Prospects and Challenges of the Liberian Media

As I leave you, let me repeat: Reducing the number of politicalb> parties in the country without the use of force and without violating the constitutional rights of any one is the best way for consolidating a democratic politicalb> cultureb> in Liberia towards the 2003 elections.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the background against which I dare propose that, only three politicalb> parties should contest the Presidency in 2003.
The proposal to reduce the politicalb> parties in Liberia needs to be rationalized and defended or condemned.

http://www.copla.org/blamoh1.htm (3451 words)

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