Contested Collectives: The Struggle to Define the 'We' in the 1995 Québec Referendum

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Title
Contested Collectives: The Struggle to Define the 'We' in the 1995 Québec Referendum
Abstract
Using as text the campaign posters, speeches, activities and partisan news coverage during Quebec's 1995 referendum, the author traces the way the concepts of "peoplehood" and "nationness" were altered and expanded. She argues that by the time the referendum was over, new meanings for these terms had been renegotiated. The notion of a "Québécois people" was popularly validated, and a renaissance of Canadian national spirit was in evidence. The position of Quebec as immigrant and "ethnic" communities was left ambiguous.
Publication
Southern Communication Journal
Volume
Vol. 64
Issue
no. 2
Pages
106-122
Date
1999
Language
en
Citation
Sklar, Alissa. “Contested Collectives: The Struggle to Define the ‘We’ in the 1995 Québec Referendum.” Southern Communication Journal Vol. 64, no. 2 (1999): 106–122.
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