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How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English
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David R. Cameron
Richard Simeon
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 3/30/2009
ISBN: 9780774815031
$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2010
ISBN: 9780774815048
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About the Book
Canada is an officially bilingual country. But how do the voluntary associations that make up civil society manage linguistic diversity? In the 1960s, a study by Vincent Lemieux and John Meisel for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission revealed that Canadian associations were often paralyzed by internal conflicts over language. Language Mattersexamines whether this remains the case.
The contributors present case studies or life histories of diverse associations, ranging from business organizations and municipal associations to groups concerned with equality and social justice. Several replicate Lemieux and Meisel’s pioneering enquiry; others look at newer groups. Each contribution examines key turning points in the given association’s history and explores how its mandate, leadership, relationship to the federal and provincial governments, and shifting options in the political arena -- independence, sovereignty association, or symmetrical and asymmetrical federalism -- shaped its response to linguistic diversity.
Voluntary associations have found diverse ways to accommodate linguistic differences in a manner acceptable to Canada’s two great linguistic communities. Language Matters provides a deeper understanding of the language dynamic in Canada and offers solutions to groups and governments trying to manage difference.
About the Author(s)
David R. Cameronis chair and professor of political science at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Richard Simeon is professor of political science and law at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
1. Language and the Institutions of Civil Society / David Cameron and Richard Simeon
2. French-English Relations in Comprehensive Business Associations / William Coleman and Tim Mau
3. Canada’s English and French Farm Communities / Grace Skogstad
4. Municipal Associations / Don Stevenson and Richard Gilbert
5. Associations in the Voluntary Health Sector: The Heart and Stroke Foundations of Canada and the Huntington Societies of Canada and Quebec / Richard Simeon
6. From Biculturalism to Bilingualism: Patterns of Linguistic Association in the Canadian Council on Social Development / Jane Jenson and Rachel Laforest
7. Managing Linguistic Practices in International Development NGOs: The World University Service of Canada / Cathy Blacklock
8. Two Voices for Human Rights: Amnesty International / Michel Duquette and Sylvie Dugas
9. Accommodation at the Pinnacle: The Special Role of Civil Society’s Leaders / Richard Simeon and David Cameron
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Reviews
David Cameron and Richard Simeon, two of Canada’s foremost scholars of federalism, have produced a fascinating glimpse into how Canadian civil society has adapted to linguistic duality. The result is as varied and complex -- and ultimately as successful -- as Canada itself ... [They make] an important contribution, not only to the understanding of language policy, but also to comprehension of how the country manages to negotiate the often spiky contours of the language divide.
-- Graham Fraser, Commissioner of Official Languages, address to the European Union ambassadors, 16 September 2008
I do not know of any other study of voluntary associations done on such a scale. This book will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics, political science, and management and conflict studies, not to mention people in the associations studied. Language Matters is of marked significance, academically, socially, and politically.
-- Jean Laponce, author of Languages and Their Territories
Humanities scholars and social scientists are less inclined to build on, and extend, earlier work in their fields than are researchers in the hard sciences. This volume provides a notable exception. Inspired by one of the studies of the Bilingualism & Biculturalism Commission, Language Matters compares the use of French and English in several quite diverse voluntary associations and points to similarities and contrasts between Canada in the 1960s and today. The findings are highly revealing and, in some respects, quite encouraging.
-- John Meisel, co-author of Ethnic Relations in Canadian Voluntary Associations
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Political Science
Sociology
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