This thesis explores the use of museum spaces in disrupting settler notions of Canadian identity. By identifying the ways in which multiculturalism is written into historical narratives of Canada, these chapters address how the inclusion of a multicultural presence helps curate a Canadian national identity. Drawing on discourses of multiculturalism, race theory, nation-building and some aspects of visual culture, this thesis identifies the ways in which museologies allow for these narratives to be constructed and reconstructed through specific examples within museums. Through the identification of various tropes in the construction of a Canadian national identity – relationship to land and territory, immigration, the nation's colonial past...
This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture an...
This essay considers the intentions of the twenty-first century narrative history museum in relation...
The current thesis aimed to contribute to a national psychology for Canada by examining majority gro...
As Canada prepares for its 150th birthday, within the context of its colonial legacy, silenced histo...
As Canada prepares for its 150th birthday, within the context of its colonial legacy, silenced histo...
In aiming to dispossess Indigenous peoples from their land and destroy their cultures, settler colon...
The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) was constructed as a national-popular symbol which would u...
The history of collection at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Mont...
This thesis examines contemporary Canadian art practices, which aim to challenge the notion of multi...
In 1992, when this dissertation was completed, Canadian museums (among many others) were in a state ...
This chapter explores how heritage institutions, particularly museums, contribute to practices of de...
Canada’s contemporary multiculturalism is unstably founded on an incomplete dominant historical narr...
Canada’s contemporary multiculturalism is unstably founded on an incomplete dominant historical narr...
1 online resource (iv, 128 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), map (colour)Includes abstract.In...
This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture an...
This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture an...
This essay considers the intentions of the twenty-first century narrative history museum in relation...
The current thesis aimed to contribute to a national psychology for Canada by examining majority gro...
As Canada prepares for its 150th birthday, within the context of its colonial legacy, silenced histo...
As Canada prepares for its 150th birthday, within the context of its colonial legacy, silenced histo...
In aiming to dispossess Indigenous peoples from their land and destroy their cultures, settler colon...
The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) was constructed as a national-popular symbol which would u...
The history of collection at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Mont...
This thesis examines contemporary Canadian art practices, which aim to challenge the notion of multi...
In 1992, when this dissertation was completed, Canadian museums (among many others) were in a state ...
This chapter explores how heritage institutions, particularly museums, contribute to practices of de...
Canada’s contemporary multiculturalism is unstably founded on an incomplete dominant historical narr...
Canada’s contemporary multiculturalism is unstably founded on an incomplete dominant historical narr...
1 online resource (iv, 128 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), map (colour)Includes abstract.In...
This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture an...
This thesis examines the conflicted relationships between the construction of a national culture an...
This essay considers the intentions of the twenty-first century narrative history museum in relation...
The current thesis aimed to contribute to a national psychology for Canada by examining majority gro...