Themes

Temporality,

Time

History, Tradition

Timeless Past, or specific origins

Origin or creation stories

Present - Now

Future - New

Radicalism and conservatism

Canada and the US

Spatiality,

embodiment

occupy physical space, place,

abstract notion matter when they are made concrete

the spiritual in the physical

land

environment

geography

regionalism

localism

face to face

Arctic

Performance,

we are what we do

ritual, ceremony, standard operating procedures, predictable, recognizable

metaphor presumes a stage, audience, scripts, roles also back stage

perform Canadian/American identity

also of course disseminate brand America/Canada – NY and Hollywood, NFB and cultural trust

and Otherness

us-them

inclusion-exclusion

identity is often articulated in relation to something we are not

we draw boundaries around our conception of self and collective identity

Canada- US – immigration, multiculturalism

Cdn flag on backback when travelling abroad