Western Civilization

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, and European civilization, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western World that originated in or are associated with Europe. The term also applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization, or influence. For example, Western culture includes countries in Northern America, such as Canada and the United States, or Australasia, such as Australia and New Zealand, whose language and demographic ethnicity majorities are of …

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Wilson Center Canada · 18 March 2024 English

ideology,” support for oil pipelines, liberalization of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger of a new immigration politics in Canada.5 Recent

of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial …

undeniably “good” and “just”—“the values of Western civilization.” The shallowness and weakness of this this concept notwithstanding,7 “Western civilization” does serve to create the appearance of an alliance to the “nations of civilization” (i.e., “Western civilization”), despite Canada’s role in preventing Palestinian


DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 February 2024 English

Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada’s political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately …

a program focused on the great texts of Western civilization. Here his politics began to shift rightward


FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 4 January 2024 English

A Personal Declaration of Opposition to The Abuse of Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms by The State I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom …

‘One of the indispensable institutions of Western civilization is the rule of law. That rule is central


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 17 November 2023 English

Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s …

not make them fundamentally different. Western civilization and the Christian world of meaning were


FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 2 November 2023 English

Human rights codes emerged in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War and during the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States. [...] Specifically: …

society are some of the oldest elements in Western civilization. Enlightenment thinkers were often bracingly


Yellowhead Institute · 25 October 2023 English

“Israeli forces have killed and under the rubble; 2 million deliberately cut o from food, injured thousands of Palestinian civilians in the OPT water, fuel, and electricity, unrelieved by the …

so is illuminated the barbarism of this “Western civilization” that attempts to launder its own atrocities


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. He was an exemplary figure in twentieth-century intellectual work on exile who experienced both Nazi …

beleaguered defenders of the Christian heritage of Western civilization, the last bulwark against the onslaught affective sensitizing ideas that postulate that Western civilization is in a state of terminal crisis. The name


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English

In the nineteenth century France became fixated on infant sleep. Pictures of sleeping babies proliferated in paintings, posters, and advertisements for cradles and toys. Childcare manuals and medical writings insisted …

reconstruction of the pictorial memory of western civilization,57 Halbwachs asserted that group-based


CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 13 July 2023 French

tia’s Board of Public Charities, the arm’s-length government Over the months elapsing between the end of the strike in Octo- agency which had oversight of the hospital. [...] A Statement …

civilization must be respected in a citadels of western civilization. Under his direction, and largely way that


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