期刊名称：The Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
语种：English
出版社：University of Toronto
摘要：In this paper, I critique Kay Anderson's (2000) article "Thinking ‘Postnationally’: Dialogue across Multicultural, Indigenous, and Settler Spaces," which considers the politics of identity construction in the multicultural nation-state. I argue that, by combining all immigrants into a category called "ethnic," Anderson is creating an arbitrary category that is essentially meaningless, as it implies that members of different backgrounds conceive of themselves in this manner. I also suggest that Anderson's proposal of "postnational thinking" is both unrealistic and unlikely to address the problems she identifies in multicultural societies. By extending Anderson's insights from Australian society to the Canadian context, I conclude that cross-cultural dialogue would best address the disenfranchisement of minorities in Canadian culture.
