Sport, Identity and Social Division in Canada
Issue #
35 2007
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Courtney W. Mason - The Glengarry Highland Games, 1948-2003: Problematizing the Role of Tourism, Scottish Cultural Institutions, and the Cultivation of Nostalgia in the Construction of Identities
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Heather Mair - Curling in Canada: From Gathering Place to International Spectacle
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Russell Field - Manufacturing Memories and Directing Dreams: Commemoration, Community, and the Closing of Maple Leaf Gardens
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Janice Forsyth - The Indian Act and the (Re)Shaping of Canadian Aboriginal Sport Practices
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Dawn E. Trussell - Children’s Sport Participation in Canada: Is it a Level Playing Field?
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P. David Howe - Integration of Paralympic Athletes into Athletics Canada
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Judy Davidson - Homophobia, Fundamentalism, and Canadian Tolerance: Enabling Gay Games III in Vancouver
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William Bridel - Considering Gender in Canadian Sport and Physical Activity
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Jack Jedwabv - Giving Hockey’s Past a Future: When Identity Meets Demography in Canadian Sports
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Trevor W. Harrison - Anti-Canadianism: Explaining the Deep Roots of a Shallow Phenomenon
Abstract:
In the midst of dynamic socio-economic and cultural conditions, the Glengarry Highland Games were revived in a rural community of Eastern Ontario in 1948. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, this festival became the lifeblood of a movement perpetuating Scottish Highland cultural practices and (re)producing “Scottishness” as the dominant cultural currency in an ethnically diverse county. Using primary evidence in the forms of oral histories, newspapers, and archives, this paper examines how the expansion of spaces and opportunities to celebrate Scottish cultural practices has influenced the social construction of regional and cultural identities in Glengarry County from 1948 to the 21st century.Hide -