HISTORY 765 / Canadian Sport History

3 unit(s)

N. Bouchier

This seminar explores sport in Canada, focusing on its importance in the lives of Canadians and its complex role in larger processes of cultural and economic production. It investigates the connection of sport to broader themes in Canadian history, such as social class, ethnic, civic, and gendered identity formation, the capitalist economy, popular culture, discourses about respectability, ideas of social capital, and nation building.