Meaning Systems of Two Identity Concepts: Acadie versus Acadien

Keppie, Christina

doi:10.1080/02722011.2013.819368

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“…It would appear so, for on the IDLM, Acadian identity is very much shaped by their notion of territory/environment, "notre petite place." 95 If we are to take the results of the study by Keppie (2013) as precedent, Madelinots would likely not all agree to being part of l' Acadie actuelle despite a strong self-identification as either Acadien or a Québécois-Acadien hybrid (although the current study was unable to determine this). Sixty percent (60%) of surveyed Québécois Acadians by Lefebvre have indicated that Acadie is found in the Maritimes, a perspective shared to an even higher degree among New Brunswick French-speakers.…”

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Living Testimonies from Acadians of Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Keppie

2020

Port Acadie

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The enigmas of Acadie and Acadien have long been focal points of discussion and debate in Acadian Studies, particularly in New Brunswick, where regional ideologies persist despite a collective understanding of the impact of globalization on Acadians as a cultural minority. Unfortunately, not much place has been granted to other Acadian communities in this discussion, such as the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, whose residents are among the one million individuals of Acadian heritage currently living in Quebec. Despite outward efforts by organizations such as the Congrès mondial acadien to promote Acadie as an inclusive community, it continues to be defined and shaped by its New Brunswick elite. The current study gives voice to those Acadians less heard – les Madelinots – through a qualitative analysis of data from the 2004 collection ArtcaDit: témoignages vivants sur l’identité acadienne. This study illustrates the ideological attachment of the Madelinots to their environment and shared past over the identity pole of language, around which much discussion of acadianité is currently centered in Acadian Studies.

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Living Testimonies from Acadians of Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Keppie

2020

Port Acadie

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The Effects of the Congrès mondial acadien 2014 on la grande Acadie

Keppie

2016

International Journal of Canadian Studies

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This article analyzes Acadie's most celebrated organization, the World Acadian Congress, a civil society platform established over 20 years ago as a means of building bridges between Acadians from around the world. Despite the most recent attempt in 2014 to promote Acadie in a manner that would stimulate community building through economic cooperation, I argue that, in scholarship primarily, the congress is (naturally) a product of the history of the New Brunswick Acadian national ideology and that despite an idealistic desire to embrace a movement of cultural change that would see all diasporic Acadians in social agreement, the organization continues to rest on the modernizing ideology in a manner that benefits chiefly the Acadian territorial/hegemonic beacon of New Brunswick. To counter this natural, yet hegemonic, trend, I follow the call of certain Acadian elites by proposing that scholarship in Acadian studies leads the way by diversifying itself to include more expanded representation of la grande Acadie (the full diaspora) so that Acadians and Acadian enthusiasts may better understand their role and options in the new economy and establish educational institutions more firmly within the debate platform of Acadie as a civil society.

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Celebrating Acadian milestones in 2004

Keppie¹

2018

British Journal of Canadian Studies

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Meaning Systems of Two Identity Concepts: Acadie versus Acadien

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Living Testimonies from Acadians of Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Living Testimonies from Acadians of Îles-de-la-Madeleine

The Effects of the Congrès mondial acadien 2014 on la grande Acadie

Celebrating Acadian milestones in 2004

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