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Political Philosophy, From a Canadian point of view, starting with a deep dive into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of bilingualism politics in New Brunswick. Then five on the political philosophy of the United States and then five on China - the summary of some of the things I learned after a couple of decades teaching in the political science dept at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ep. 4 Warrior Priests and Existentialists - The Forging of the Acadian Self-Privileging Infrastructure
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We continue our tour of the institutions of French super-representation and super-funding in Moncton with La Place de la Cathédrale - the Acadian nationalist office building in the basement of the Monument de la Reconnaissance - the church with a neo-feudal design funded by the Acadians in homage to their rights as a people, a good occasion to disc…
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Ep. 3 The University as Segregation Machine
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Continuing the tour of institutions of political representations that French speakers have that English do not we visit the University of Moncton, or as it calls itself, the Université de Moncton - French university in a bilingual city - compare this to Historic Black Colleges in the U.S. - but these are private, not public - the university as segr…
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Some key dates in Acadian history; Longfellow's Evangeline; a Tale of Acadie - Parkman's Response - Faragher's Response to Parkman - The changing nature of the Evangeline myth after the Acadians become politically powerful (dominant?) - Acadians not an oppressed minority - la survivance, and resistance to assimilation - the importance of distinguis…
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Ep. 1 Introduction - Back to Acadia, With California on My Mind
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Introduction to the podcast and to me - 10 episodes touring 10 institutions in Moncton that the French have but nobody else does - this as a way of talking about bilingualism in New Brunswick over the past 50 years and the "cultural equality" we are supposed to have post Crown v. Beaulac (1999) - Me? Masters at McGill in Political Science, a PhD at…
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