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HETERARCHY v PLURALISM (opens the original)
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Yes, yes: It's nomenclature refining time again! To the many new readers who have come aboard in recent months, presumably to partake of the current deep dive into Canadian history, this bonus post’s hair-splitting over nomenclature may seem peculiar, even a trifle obscure. However, older readers will know that the Canadian history is but an elaborate case study of a much farther reaching theoretical and historical project. And indeed a continuous effort at nomenclature refinement has been a hal
PART 2: THE RED RIVER REBELLION (opens the original)
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In the last post we examined George Stanley’s argument that — while the precise nomenclature was not available to him — the Red River rebellion of 1869 was largely an instance of the phenotype wars. A temporal society living off the land, and rooted in communities and settlements of that land, exercising customary legal and cultural practices, was penetrated by a spatial revolution, spearheaded by space conquering technologies of the railway and the global market, demanding a Schmittian-style ne
PART 1: THE RED RIVER REBELLION (opens the original)
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At first blush, it seems hard to imagine a more clear-cut illustration of the phenotype wars in full conflict mode than in the case of what is commonly called the Red River Rebellion. (And there was to be an intriguing reprise a decade and a half later, with its own peculiarities, as we’ll come to eventually.) That presentation though has been complicated by an effort to rescue the Métis from the deplorable fate of European colonialism’s anthropological definitions: whether that be in the form o
PART 4: CONFEDERATION’S PHENOTYPE WARS (opens the original)
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As with our last post, again here we’ll primarily rely upon Paul Romney’s exceptional exploration of the politics of Canadian constitutional history.1 The discussion will be organized around three thematic disputes within the debates over the formation of a Canadian federation, which coloured and informed a good deal of the contested conceptual terrain of this battle of the phenotype wars. These three themes were: 1) the meaning of imperial feder
PART 3: CONFEDERATION’S PHENOTYPE WARS (opens the original)
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This is an installment to a series on phenotype wars fought over the forming of Canadian Confederation. For an index to the series, see here. As we’ve already seen in an earlier post, the idea of uniting the British North American colonies was one that dated from well back. And that just such a project should take the form of federalism was already the preferred option of Lord Durham in the 1830s. It was a couple decades fu
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