Academic Publications

Books

Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean, eds. 2022. The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Link

David Carment and Nimijean, Richard, eds. 2021. Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020. Palgrave Macmillan. Link

Nimijean, Richard, and David Carment, eds. 2019. Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics. Routledge. Link


Articles in Refereed Journals

“The Accidental Canadianist: How My Career in Canadian Studies All Began.” The Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 4 (August 2024): 139–144. Link

“Migrant Spirit Contested: Competing Visions of Canada’s National Identity in the 2015 Federal Election.” TransCanadiana 9 (2017): 335–352. Link

“A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec.” Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies, n° 78 (2015): 25–48 (co-authored with Anne Trépanier). Link

“The Politics of Branding Canada: The International–Domestic Nexus and the Rethinking of Canada’s Place in the World.” Mexican Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 11 (2006): 67–85.

“Articulating the ‘Canadian Way’: Canada™ and the Political Manipulation of the Canadian Identity.” British Journal of Canadian Studies vol. 18:1 (2005): 26–52. Link

“And What About Students? The Forgotten Role of Students in the Scholarly Communication Debate.” Canadian Journal of Communications, vol. 22, No. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn 1997): 179–196. Link


Chapters in Edited Books

Nimijean, Richard. 2024. “The Elephant Still Twitches: Trudeau’s Management of Canada–U.S. Relations in the America First Era.” In The Trudeau Record, edited by Laura Macdonald, Katherine Scott, and Stuart Trew, 255–267. Halifax: Lorimer. Link

Nimijean, Richard. 2022. “Spatial Dislocation and Canadian Studies, or Thinking About Canada 6000 Kilometres from Home.” In The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 167–204. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Link

Kirkey, Christopher, and Richard Nimijean. 2022. “Spatial Dislocation, Canadian Expats, and National Identity.” In The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, edited by Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean, 3–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Link

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. “Divided in a Dangerous World.” In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 3–21. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Link

Marland, Alex, and Richard Nimijean. 2021. “Rebranding Brand Trudeau.” In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 55–76. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Link

Nimijean, Richard, David Carment, and Sydney Stewart. 2021. “Will Canada Forge its Own Path in a Turbulent World?” In Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020, edited by David Carment and Richard Nimijean, 319–334. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Link

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2020. “Assessing Canada’s Liberal Internationalism.” In Canadian Political, Social and Historical (Re)visions in 20th and 21st Centuries, edited by Marcin Gabryś et al., 13–44. Berlin: Peter Lang. Link

“Where Is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada.” In Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions?, edited by David Carment and Christopher Sands, 39–59. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

“Marketing the Maple Leaf: The Curious Case of National Flag of Canada Day.” In Celebrating Canada. Volume I, eds. Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 405–436 (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin). Link

“Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State.” In Publicity and the Canadian State, ed. Kirsten Kozolanka. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 172–194. Link

“Natura paradoxală a identităţii canadiene.” In Canada anglofonă – Limbă şi indentitate, ed. Rodica Albu. Iasi: Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 2008, pp. 55–68. Link

“Can Movements ‘Move’ Online? Online Activism, Canadian Women’s Movements and the case of PAR-L.” In Mobilizations and Engagements: Social Movements in Canada, eds. Marie Hammond Callaghan and Matthew Hayday. Black Point: Fernwood, 2008, pp. 62–80 (co-authored with L. Pauline Rankin). Link

“From Analysis to the Formulation of Policy Options.” In Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada, eds. J. Adam Holbrook and David A. Wolfe. Kingston: Queen’s University School of Policy Studies, 2000, pp. 127–138 (co-authored with Réjean Landry). Link

“Saint John, New Brunswick as an Emerging Local System of Innovation.” In Local and Regional Systems of Innovation, eds. John de la Mothe and Gilles Paquet. Boston: Kluwer, 1998, pp. 277–302. Link

“Global Economic Restructuring and the Evolution of Canadian Federalism and Constitutionalism.” In New Trends in Canadian Federalism, eds. Miriam Smith and François Rocher. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1995, pp. 211–233 (co-authored with François Rocher). Link


Non-refereed Articles

“Introduction: Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal vol. 24, no. 2 (June 2018): 127–138. Link

“Editor’s Message,” (with Heather Smith), Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (September 2016): 1–2. Link

“Introduction,” special issue of the International Journal of Canadian Studies vol. 50 (2014): 5–13 (co-authored with Anne Trépanier). Link

“Harper’s Axe Hits Canadian Studies Abroad.” Inroads 32 (Winter 2013): 14–18.

“Rebranding the Oil Sands.” Inroads vol. 29 (Fall/Winter 2011): 76–85.

“The Resurgence of Can-Am Liberalism: A Study in Ambiguity.” CanadaWatch (Spring 2009): 50–51.

“Canadian Studies and the Harper Foreign Policy Agenda.” Inroads vol. 22 (Winter/Spring 2008): 23–27.

“The Ongoing Crisis of Canadian Studies.” CanadaWatch (Fall 2007): 14–16.

“Brand Canada: The Brand State and the Decline of the Liberal Party.” Inroads vol. 19 (May 2006): 84–93. Link

“The Paradoxical Nature of the Canadian Identity.” Teaching Canada, vol. 23 (February 2005): 25–31. Link


Book Reviews

Necessary Travel: New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective, ed. Susan Hodgett and Patrick James. American Review of Canadian Studies 51 (2): 357–359, 2021.

Michael Harris, Party of One. CCPA Monitor vol. 21, no. 8 (March 2015): 37–38.

“Is the Canadian University System in Crisis?” Review of Côté and Allahar, Ivory Tower Blues. Inroads Newsletter 1 (March 2008): 28–33.

Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel, Selling Diversity, and Eva Mackey, The House of Difference. British Journal of Canadian Studies vol. 17, no. 1 (2004): 128–130.

Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired. Canadian Public Administration 45:1 (Spring 2002): 127–129.

Andrew F. Johnson and Andrew Stritch, eds., Canadian Public Policy: Globalization and Political Parties. American Review of Canadian Studies 29:4 (Winter 1999): 687–690.

Jean Crête et al., Politiques provinciales comparées. Canadian Journal of Political Science XXVIII:4 (December 1995): 760–763.

Robert Dalpé et Réjean Landry, La politique technologique au Québec. Canadian Journal of Political Science XXVII:4 (December 1994): 822–823.

Ben Martin and John Irvine, Research Foresight. Science, Technology and Politics 1990 Yearbook: 159–160.


Technical Reports

Stimuler l’innovation par le développement de milieux créateurs (with Réjean Landry and Moktar Lamari). Ottawa: Développement économique Canada, 1999.

Système régional d’innovation en Estrie. Sherbrooke: Groupe d’action pour l’avancement technologique de l’Estrie, 1998.


Journals — Special Issues Edited

Guest editor of a special issue of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, on “Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World” (June 2018). Link

Guest editor (with Heather Smith) of a special issue of the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, on “Teaching and Researching Canada” (2016). Link

Guest editor (with Anne Trépanier) of a special issue of the International Journal of Canadian Studies vol. 50 (2014) on “Where is Québec in Canadian Studies.” Link