Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada provides a set of case studies that cover a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics as fields of social movement politics. Newer groups that have become more important in recent years are also included: anti-poverty organizing; race, disability, and lesbian and gay politics; Christian evangelical groups; and health social 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. The diversity of approaches is one of the strengths of the volume. 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. 

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" Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada will be of great value to students of sociology and political science alike. Miriam Smith has assembled an excellent team of emerging experts and established scholars who cover a wide range of issues—from ethnicity, gender, religion, and nationalism to environment, disability, and health. Soundly grounded in critical traditions such as political economy, this is a collection that does analytic justice to the complexity and dynamism of movement politics in contemporary Canada." - William K. Carroll, University of Victoria

Special Combined Price: Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada may be ordered together with A Civil Society? Collective Actors in Canadian Political Life at a special discounted price. In order to secure the package price, the following ISBN must be used when ordering: 978-1-55402-779-8.

Miriam Smith is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at York University. Her areas of interest are Canadian and comparative politics and public policy, in particular, public law, social movements, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements in Canada. She is the author of Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995 (University of Toronto Press, 1999); co-editor with François Rocher of New Trends in Canadian Federalism, second edition (Broadview Press, 2003); author of A Civil Society? (Broadview Press, 2005); and co-editor with Michael Orsini of Critical Policy Studies (University of British Columbia Press, 2007).

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Acknowledgements 

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. The Working-Class Movement in Canada: An Overview, David Camfield

3. Organized Labour in Canadian Politics: Hugging the Middle or Pushing the Margins? Charlotte Yates

4. Boardrooms and Barricades: Anti-Poverty Organizing in Canada, Jonathan Greene

Part II: Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion

5. Ethnocultural Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights in Canada, Audrey Kobayashi

6. The Women's Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion and Politics, Alexandra Dobrowolsky

7. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement, Miriam Smith

8. Populist and Conservative Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison

Part III: Nations and Nationalism

9. Aysaka'paykinit: Contesting the Rope Around the Nations' Neck, Kiera L. Ladner

10. Nationalism and Protest: The Sovereignty Movement in Quebec, Pascale Dufour and Christophe Traisnel

Part IV: Environment, Disability, and Health

11. The Environmental Movement in Canada: Retreat or Resurgence? Judith I. McKenzie

12. Barrier by Barrier: The Canadian Disability Movement and the Fight for Equal Rights, Sally Chivers

13. Health Social Movements: The Next Wave in Contentious Politics? Michael Orsini

Notes on Contributors

Index

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