Mapping, naming and remembering: Globalization at the end of the twentieth century

This article contends that struggles over maps, names, and stories about the past are a crucial aspect of globalization. Specific results are never driven simply by macro sociological and economic structural processes. They follow, rather, from the politics out of which such struggles emerge, includ...

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Published in:	Review of international political economy : RIPE 1995-01, Vol.2 (1), p.96-116
Main Author:	Jenson, Jane
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aboriginal nationalisms Aborigines ABORIGINES (ALL NATIONS) Borders Canada Citizenship Communities Economic development Factors Globalization GLOBALIZATION, ON A GLOBAL SCALE Government Indigenous Populations Internationalization Keynesianism Linguistic Minorities Mapping Naming NATIONALISM Nationalist movements POLITICAL ECONOMY Political Movements Quebec Self Determination Social movements Sovereignty Theme Section: The Power of Representation in International Political Economy
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Summary:	This article contends that struggles over maps, names, and stories about the past are a crucial aspect of globalization. Specific results are never driven simply by macro sociological and economic structural processes. They follow, rather, from the politics out of which such struggles emerge, including revitalized and modernized nationalist movements. This article examines three movements active in Canadian politics today - Québécois 'English-Canadian', and Aboriginal nationalisms. It does so in order to illustrate how globalization has created new possibilities for nationalist movements to make claims for expanded rights, including those of citizenship. In particular, the article argues that in recent constitutional debate a central concern of these three nationalist movements was the capacity of the national state to regulate within the territory of Canada. In making claims for recognition -that is, in the politics of naming - the movements challenged traditional notions of sovereignty and the capacity of the Canadian state to exercise it. All three proposed a reconfiguration of space, by agitating for greater sovereignty and for different transnational linkages. Therefore, the story of these three nationalist movements illustrates the ways in which globalization both generates challenges to existing practices of states and nationalist movements and opens space for new political practice.
ISSN:	0969-2290 1466-4526