This research area emphasizes the study of more substantial aspects of political modernity (the definition of citizenship, the construction of national memory, the question of foundation, the 鈥榚thos鈥 of the democratic individual, the nature and range of collective belonging, the relationship between culture and politics, the symbolic institution of the social, etc.), from a truly multidisciplinary vantage point integrating the contributions of classical and contemporary thought in politics, sociology and anthropology.
Democracy, political and social thought
At a time when Western political thought tends to approach issues of democracy, citizenship and pluralism from the angle of legal and political theory, this research area emphasizes the study of more substantial aspects of political modernity.
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Director
- , Associate Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa
Research Associates
- , Professor, 脡cole de travail social, Universit茅 de Moncton
- , Assistant professor, Department of philosophy, Memorial University
- , Professor, D茅partement de science politique, UQAM
- , Professor, D茅partement de science politique, UQAM
- Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, Professor, Science politique, Universit茅 de Reims Champagne-Ardenne