Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

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Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural political mobilization, disability, lesbian and gay politics, feminism, farmers and organized interests in agriculture, Christian evangelical groups, environment, and health movements. Contributors to the collection employ a number of theoretical perspectives from political science and sociology to describe the evolution of organized groups and movements and to evaluate successes in exercising influence on Canadian politics. Each chapter provides an overview of the group or movement along with an account of its main networks and organizations, strategies, goals, successes, and failures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-04
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442606975
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 g

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Miriam Smith is Professor in the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. She is a political scientist who has published widely on LGBTQ politics in Canada and the US, among other topics. She is the author of Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (2008) and Editor of Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada (2014).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface List of Key AcronymsIntroduction: Theories of Group and Movement Organizing, Miriam Smith Part I: Political Economy1. Business Interests and Civil Society in Canada, Peter Clancy 2. Party On or Party's Over? Organized Labour and Canadian Politics, Charlotte Yates & Amanda Coles 3. Farm Groups in Canadian Politics, Grace Skogstad 4. Mobilizing On the Defensive: Anti-Poverty Advocacy and Activism in Times of Austerity, Jonathan Greene 5. Occupy: History, Physicality, Virtuality, Matt James Part II: Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion6. Ethnocultural Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights in Canada, Audrey Kobayashi 7. The Women's Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion, and Politics, Alexandra Dobrowolsky 8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement, Miriam Smith 9. Populist and Conservative Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison Part III: Nations and Nationalism10. Aysaka'paykinit: Contesting the Rope Around the Nations' Neck, Kiera L. Ladner 11. Nationalism and Protest: The Sovereignty Movement in Quebec, Pascale Dufour and Christophe Traisnel Part IV: Environment, Disability, and Health12. The Canadian Environmental Movement: Remembering Who We Are, Robert Paehlke 13. Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures, and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement, Lisa Vanhala 14. Health Social Movements: The Next Wave in Contentious Politics? Michael Orsini List of ContributorsIndex