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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.
List of contents
Preface List of Acronyms Introduction: Theories of Group and Movement Organizing, Miriam Smith Part I: Political Economy 1. 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 Religion 6. 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 Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison Part III: Nations and Nationalism 10. 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 Health 12. The Environmental Movement in Canada: 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 Contributors Index
About the author
Miriam Smith is Professor in the Law and Society Program at York University.
Summary
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.
