Culture in the Contemporary Period (1867 – today) Monday March 22nd, 2015 HIST 404
AGENDA Daily Document Review: Currents of Thought
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Aboriginalism An attitude of consideration of Aboriginal peoples’ cultural characteristics
1970s: Aboriginal peoples started to assert their conception of the nation. Hydro projects in the 1960s and 1970s required flooding the land they required to maintain their traditional ways of life. Traditional ways of life = identity The Aboriginal peoples asserted themselves and asked the government to recognize their rights, points of view, interests and cultural characteristics.
Feminism from the 1960s to the 1980s Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. Feminism from the 1960s to the 1980s
1960: Reformist feminism appeared again. The Reformist feminists demanded the improvement of the status of women and exerted pressure to have laws changed to ensure equality between men and women. Radical feminism also appeared. Radical feminists demanded a profound change in the structures of society and that women should fight for freedom from oppression. From the end of the 1970s, feminist demands were enhanced by demands of other groups in society fighting for equality.
New Currents of Thought (1980s and 1990s) Neoliberalism: An ideology that advocates a laissez-faire approach to the economy and calls state interventionism into question. Alter-globalization: A social, political and cultural movement whose aim is to create connections between individuals on a global scale. New Currents of Thought (1980s and 1990s)
A new form of liberalism – neoliberalism- found expression after 1980 In Quebec, supporters of neoliberalism were concerned with the province’s competitiveness on the global economic scale. Alter-globalists favoured cultural as well as economic, political and artistic exchanges and sought to institute measures to ensure that exchanges would respect the environment, identities and social and cultural groups as well as individual rights.