Between the lines: locating critical theory at the intersection of trade and cultural policy in Canada

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dc.contributor.authorBergstrom, Heidi
dc.contributor.supervisorLawson, James Charles Barkley
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-22T00:11:00Z
dc.date.available2018-12-22T00:11:00Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018-12-21
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the early 2000’s Canada and France were at the forefront of what appeared to be a counter-hegemonic movement in the rapid creation of the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at UNESCO to perceived US cultural hegemony at the World Trade Organization. However, the final Convention lacks the fundamental protections it set out to create and reinforces the commodification of culture and the promotion of cultural industries, rather than challenging commodification or supporting arts and culture. This thesis uses Marxian critical theories to interrogate the nature and form of the Canadian government’s involvement in the creation of the Convention and posits Gramscian evidence of the presence of behaviours of hegemony and resistance to hegemony, the formation of a Weltanschauung (common sense world view) led by organic intellectuals in civil society and demonstrates important instances of trasformismo (absorption of counter-hegemonic ideas) at work.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10452
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectcultural policyen_US
dc.subjectinternational cultural policyen_US
dc.subjectinternational trade lawen_US
dc.subjectUNESCOen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleBetween the lines: locating critical theory at the intersection of trade and cultural policy in Canadaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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