Poverty - Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism

Klappentext Margot Young is an associate professor and Susan Boyd holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day are directors of the Poverty and Human Rights Centre in Vancouver. Zusammenfassung While poverty persists as a major social problem! Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty and its consequences as issues of human rights and citizenship. This volume examines the ideas and practices of human rights! citizenship! legislation! and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

Product details

• Authors: Margot (EDT)/ Boyd Young
• Assisted by: Susan Boyd (Editor), Susan B. Boyd (Editor), Gwen Brodsky (Editor), Shelagh Day (Editor), Margot Young (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9780774812870
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1287-0
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Law and Society; Law and Society (Hardcover); Law and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas