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With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples - notably Japan and Quebec - Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Quebec society through the lens of the small nation1. A Small Nation in Search of Normalcy: Modern Quebec and its Significant Others
2. The return from Europe and the return from America as heuristic figures of the small nation in Quebec
3. The Value of an Intercultural Citizenship Regime for Small Nations: The Case of Quebec
4. Between vulnerability and adaptability: rethinking financial interventionism in Quebec as a "small nation"
Part II: Re-examining Japan from a small-nation perspective
5. Japan, a Small Nation Feigning to be Something Greater: Redefining Universality with Special Reference to the Religious and the Secular and a Counter Intellectual History
6. Imagining a Small Nation in an Empire: K¿toku Sh¿sui and His "Small-Nationism"
7. The Foundational Violence of Sovereignty: The Racist Logic of "Rescuing" the Ainu
8. Inventing "Independence": A Short Intellectual History of Post-war Okinawa
Part III: Diversity: Small nations in subnational contexts
9. Small Nations, Empires, and the Commonwealth: Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in Global Perspective
10. Philosophy in Hong Kong after 1949: Tang Chun-i, Lao Sze-kwang and Cheung Chan-fai
11. "The Other America" and the Quest for Economic Justice: Race, Gender, and the Struggle over Guaranteed Income in the Late 20th Century United States
12. People or Nation? East European Jews' Struggle over Their Categorization before the Holocaust
Epilogue Size Matters: Small Nations' Existential Pursuits of Power, Happiness, and Purpose
About the author
Kiyonobu Date is Professor in the Department of Area Studies at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Jean-François Laniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université Laval, Canada.
Summary
With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system.
