The construction of collective imaginaries through reading campaigns : – An analysis of One City One Book and Canada Reads
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Résumé
This thesis examines the construction of collective imaginaries in reading campaigns, specifically the campaigns One City One Book and Canada Reads. Ten different campaigns (seven in USA; two in Ireland and one in Canada) are includedin the analysis – comprising 176 books in total. They range in time span from 1998– 2025. The research is quantitative in approach with focus on data such as author gender, ethnicity, and age. Distant reading approaches in combination with close reading are applied to analyse the summaries of the included books. The results are further analysed through a postcolonial and intersectional approach and through Bouchard’swriting on collective imaginaries. The main findings of the thesis are that its results largely mirror that of earlier studies on specifically the One City One Book programs regarding how gender, ethnicity and author age are represented. As this thesis studied later campaigns than previous research it further shows that the One City One Book reading campaign seems to have developed in quite a similar fashion across time and space in the US at least. Yet, this thesis finds that more female and ethnically diverse authors feature in this dataset than in comparison to earlier research, suggesting a tendency to move towards more gender and racial equality. Another important finding is that the representation of demographic identities in combination with the identified themes and topics suggest an important ambition to address the dark past of slavery and oppression as well as ongoing structural racism in both USA and Canada.The thesis also identifies that the collective imaginaries created through the campaigns are quite similar regardless of time and region, with focus on universal values like love, family, and identity, underscoring how we humans are more similar than dissimilar. Yet some geographical differences appear, for example the creation of the collective imaginary focusing on the American Dream in USA and that of the imaginary of place in the Dublin (in Ireland) campaign. The thesis further shows how the constructed collective imaginaries in general are more positive than the reality of the everyday societies in which they operate.
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Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
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