Intercultural Citizenship, Civic Nationalism, and Nation Building in <scp>Q</scp>uébec: From Common Public Language to <i>Laïcité</i>

Dupré, Jean-François

doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2011.01132.x

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“…Canadian society as a whole manifests an “open secularism” [ 109 ]. The Canadian public generally supports the concept that individuals of faith, hold faith as part of an integrated individual identity and should not be prohibited from publically communicating that faith identity to others [ 110 , 111 ].…”

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Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

ul-Ain

Whiting

2017

Animals

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Simple SummaryThe question of how to kill animals for food has persisted unresolved in the Anglo-American and European social and political discourse for more than a century. Scientific informed narrative has been directed at “documenting” the experience of the slaughtered animal in the last few seconds of life. Other narratives include wide social informed narratives of cultural, historical and religious meanings of food. Slaughter by rapid exsanguination is examined as an “essentially contested” concept as a response to the resiliency of this question in modern society.AbstractThe phrase “essentially contested concept” (ECC) entered the academic literature in 1956 in an attempt to better characterize certain contentious concepts of political theory. Commonly identified examples of contested concepts are morality, religion, democracy, science, nature, philosophy, and certain types of creative products such as the novel and art. The structure proposed to identify an ECC has proven useful in a wide variety of deliberative discourse in the social, political, and religious arenas where seemingly intractable but productive debates are found. Where a strongly held moral position is contradicted by law, a portion of the citizenry see the law as illegitimate and do not feel compelled to respect it. This paper will attempt to apply the analytic structure of ECC to the concept of animal wellbeing at the time of slaughter specifically a “good death.” The results of this analysis supports an understanding that the current slaughter debate is a disagreement in moral belief and normative moral theory. The parties to the dispute have differing visions of the “good.” The method of slaughter is not an essentially contested concept where further discourse is likely to result in a negotiated resolution. The position statements of veterinary organizations are used as an example of current discourse.

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Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

ul-Ain

Whiting

2017

Animals

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“…Cette mise à l'avant-plan des valeurs de laïcités comme élément central à la fois de la définition du « nous » Québécois/e et des frontières de cette nation constitue dans les faits un phénomène relativement récent, le fruit d'une redéfinition de l'identité québécoise. Comme l'indique Jean-François Dupré (2012 : 239), si la laïcité était perçue auparavant comme un jalon important dans l’évolution historique du Québec, elle est maintenant présentée comme une « pierre angulaire » de la culture québécoise que les immigrant/es doivent intégrer. Pour Dupré, un tel discours s'inscrit dans une volonté chez certain/es intellectuel/les et politicien/nes de remettre le groupe majoritaire d'origine canadienne-française au cœur de l'identité et des institutions politiques québécoises.…”

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Diversités sexuelles et construction nationale : Une exploration des frontières de l'homonationalisme au Québec

Lapointe

Turgeon

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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Résumé Cet article fait l'analyse des discours homonationalistes dans un contexte qui a été peu exploré à ce jour, soit celui d'une nation minoritaire (le Québec) à l'intérieur d'un État multinational (le Canada). Dans la mesure où le nationalisme se construit souvent en opposition avec un « Autre », nous tentons de cerner qui est cet « Autre » dans l'homonationalisme québécois. En particulier, nous explorons si cet « Autre » peut également prendre la forme de la nation majoritaire par l'entremise d'une analyse d'articles publiés entre 1990 et 2017 dans différents journaux québécois (La Presse, Le Devoir et le Journal de Montréal). Nos résultats démontrent que si c'est le « Canada anglais » qui était plus susceptible dans la première moitié des années 2000 d’être « l'Autre » du nationalisme sexuel québécois, depuis la fin des années 2000, ce sont davantage les musulman/es (ici et ailleurs) et les immigrant/es qui font l'objet d'une altérisation dans les discours homonationalistes au Québec.

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“…In Catalonia, for example, challenges related to religious diversity have served as an impetus for the development of governmental agencies, normative frameworks, and legal initiatives that bolster the region's autonomy and claims to distinctiveness vis-à-vis Spain (Astor 2014(Astor , 2020Burchardt 2020;Griera 2016). Scholarship on Québec has likewise shown how general frameworks for regulating religious difference and the underlying principles around which they revolve (i.e., laïcité and reasonable accommodation) reflect efforts to augment political and cultural distinctiveness vis-à-vis Canada (Burchardt 2017(Burchardt , 2020Dupré 2012;Peker 2017;Zubrzycki 2012Zubrzycki , 2013Zubrzycki , 2016.…”

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Nationalist Mobilization, Ethno-Religious Contention, and Legal Innovation in a Stateless Nation: Explaining Catalonia’s 2009 “Law on Centers of Worship”

Astor

2021

Religions

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This article analyzes the development and framing of Catalonia’s “Law on Centers of Worship”, an innovative law dedicated exclusively to the regulation of religious temples that was passed by the regional Parliament in 2009. The law was a legal novelty in Spain, as well as in Europe, where regulations pertaining to places of worship are typically folded into regional or municipal laws and ordinances dealing with zoning and construction. My analysis highlights how the law aimed not only to address the challenges generated by the proliferation of places of worship serving religious minorities, but also to legally reinforce and symbolically affirm Catalonia’s political autonomy and cultural distinctiveness vis-à-vis Spain. I place particular emphasis on how the temporal confluence of heightened nationalist mobilization, on the one hand, and tensions surrounding ethno-religious diversification, on the other, contributed to the development of a legal innovation that integrated the governance of religious diversity within the broader nation-building project. This article’s findings illustrate the role of historical timing and conjunctural causality in shaping the dynamic nexus between religion, law, and politics.

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Intercultural Citizenship, Civic Nationalism, and Nation Building in Québec: From Common Public Language to Laïcité

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

Is a “Good Death” at the Time of Animal Slaughter an Essentially Contested Concept?

Diversités sexuelles et construction nationale : Une exploration des frontières de l'homonationalisme au Québec

Nationalist Mobilization, Ethno-Religious Contention, and Legal Innovation in a Stateless Nation: Explaining Catalonia’s 2009 “Law on Centers of Worship”

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