Hegemony Contests: Challenging the Notion of a Singular Canadian Hockey Nationalism
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Allain, Kristi A.
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2019
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Sports media, athletes, and the public alike have framed Canadian professional men’s hockey as an important symbol of the nation as a whole, while scholars have devoted considerable energy to pointing out that this celebrated hockey symbol tends to marginalize those in Canada who are not white, male, straight, and/or able-bodied. Yet various linguistic, racial, and ethnic minorities play and celebrate hockey in Canada, and indeed use hockey to express their own subordinated nationalisms. Their styles of play and the meanings they bring to the game have issued counter-hegemonic challenges to white, male, Anglo-Canadian hockey hegemony. Exploring the “hockey nationalisms” of Indigenous, Québécois, Acadian, and Central/Eastern European populations as case studies, this article argues for a reconsideration of Canadian hockey nationalism from below.
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Allain, K. A. 2019. Hegemony Contests: Challenging the Notion of a Singular Canadian Hockey Nationalism. American Review of Canadian Studies 49(4): 511-529.
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Taylor & Francis
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1943-9954