Philip Resnick

Professor

Office: Buch C310
Office phone: 604-822-4354
Email: resnick@interchange.ubc.ca

Philip Resnick (M.A. McGill, Ph.D, Toronto) combines an interest in political theory with Canadian politics and comparative politics. His books include: Letters to a Québécois Friend; The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State; Toward a Canada-Quebec Union; Thinking English Canada; Twenty-First Century Democracy; The Politics of Resentment: B.C. Regionalism and Canadian Unity; and The European Roots of Canadian Identity. His current research focuses on the nature of North American identity.

 

Recent Publications



 “René Lévesque et le Canada anglais,” in Alexandre Stefanescu, ed., René Lévesque: mythes et réalités,  Montreal: vlb éditeur, 2008

 “Secular Utopias and Religious Credos:  One Cascadia or More,” in Douglas Todd, ed., Cascadia: An Elusive Utopia, Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2008

 “Hubris and Melancholy in Multinational States,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 14:4, Oct., 2008

 “North American Identity,” Inroads, #23, Spring, 2008

"Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism," in Alain Dieckhoff and Christophe Jaffrelot, eds., Revisiting nationalism: concepts, structures, processes, London: Hurst, 2005. 

Co-editor with Gerald Kernerman, Insiders and Outsiders: Alan Cairns and the Study of Canadian Politics, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.

 "On Accommodating National Differences within Multinational States," in Ramon Maiz & Ferran Requejo, eds., Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism, London: Routledge, 2005

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