Activism & Social Movements
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some … | Deborah Stienstra | 168 | 2020 | View |
Black CopMy 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism |
Calvin Lawrence became a cop at age twenty. He was recruited by the Halifax police department at a time of heightened racial tension in the city. From the start, some fellow African Canadians … | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 272 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Building CommunityTwelve Principles for a Healthy Future |
Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve … | James S. Gruber | 354 | 2020 | View |
Disability and Social ChangeA Progressive Canadian Approach |
This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family … | Grant Larson; Jeanette Robertson | 2016 | View | |
Doing Anti-Oppressive PracticeSocial Justice Social Work |
This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific … | Donna Baines | 381 | 2017 | View |
Doing Anti-Oppressive Social WorkRethinking Theory and Practice: 4th Edition |
Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work brings together critical social work authors to passionately engage with pressing social issues, and to pose new solutions, practices and analysis in the context … | Bindi Bennett; Donna Baines; Natalie Clark | 385 | 2022 | View |
Fight to WinInside Poor People’s Organizing |
AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information … | A. J. Withers | 305 | 2021 | View |
IneligbleSingle Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance |
While the poor have always been monitored and surveilled by the state when seeking financial support, the methods, techniques, and capacity for surveillance within and across government … | Krys Maki | 224 | 2021 | View |
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty |
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty lifts up the wisdom of Indigenous scholars, activists and knowledge keepers who speak pointedly to what they are asking of non-Indigenous people. It also shares … | Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara; Gladys Rowe | 264 | 2021 | View |
Mobilizations, Protests & EngagementsCanadian Perspectives on Social Movements |
This book addresses many questions in evaluating social movements and is the first in a series being developed by The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. What lessons can we … | Marie Hammond-Callaghan; Matthew Hayday | 263 | 2008 | View |
Resist!A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analyses from the Quebec City FTAA Protests and Beyond |
In late April, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest at the Second People’s Summit of the Americas (the FTAA Summit). RESIST! is a collection of young peoples’ experiences … | Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels | 191 | 2001 | View |
From Anti-Oppressive Practice: Roots, Theory, Tensions |
This chapter describes the origins and core themes of anti-oppressive practice (aop), as well as any ongoing tensions in the relatively new theory of social work practice. | Donna Baines; Natalie Clark | 38 | 2022 | $3.80 Add |
From Black ConsciousnessFrom: Black Cop |
A brief overview of Calvin’s early life growing up in Yarmouth, N.S. Details his early experiences with racism and the 1960s black community in Nova Scotia. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |
From Fighting to WinPower and Poor People’s Organizing From: Fight to Win |
This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy … | A. J. Withers | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Resist! |
- | Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels | 3 | 2001 | $0.30 Add |
From Introduction |
- | Marie Hammond-Callaghan; Matthew Hayday | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |