Author: Max Foran
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Keywords: unbound, social, cultural, studies, west, stampede, brand, myth, calgary, icon
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2008-07-30
ISBN-10: 1897425031
ISBN-13: 9781897425039

This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience - from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western C

Author: Max Fora
Publisher: Au Pre
Keywords: calgary, press, sprawl, urban, discourses, expansive
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-04-02
ISBN-10: 1897425139
ISBN-13: 9781897425138

A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary, "Expansive Discourses" looks at the city’s development after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the city had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs.In "Expansive Discourses", Foran examines the complexity of their debates from a historical perspective, why each party acted as it did, and where each can be criticized.About the Auth

Authors:Bart Beaty, Derek Brito,
Publisher: UBC Pre
Keywords: popular, culture, canadian, contexts, communicate, iii, canadians
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-12-15
ISBN-10: 1897425597
ISBN-13: 9781897425596

The contributors to this third volume of How Canadians Communicate focus on the question "What does Canadian popular culture have to say about the construciton and negotiation of Canadian national identity?" They show how popular culture is negotiated across the different terrains where a sense of national identity is built, by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities, and citizenships. Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations, and these contributors are out to prove it. About the Editors Bart Beaty is an associate profe