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Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

by Dominique Clément
Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

by Dominique Clément

Overview

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. This book offers a unique perspective on infamous human rights controversies and argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grassroots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780774814805
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dominque Clement is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

University of Washington Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Canada’s Rights Revolution

3 The Forties and Fifties: The First Generation

4 Social Movement Organizations: A Brief Introduction

5 The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

6 La Ligue des droits de l’homme

7 The Canadian Civil Liberties Association

8 The Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association

9 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

Matt James

Rights advocacy is a topic of immense practical and historical significance. Dominique Clément does Canadian researchers a great service with this impressive historical analysis of leading social—movement organizations that have made rights advocacy their stated aim. This is important and original scholarship, to be sure.

From the Publisher

"Canada's Rights Revolution is a major contribution to the historical and sociological literature on human rights in Canada. It is comprehensive, well organized, and makes a persuasive argument about the nature of human rights activism through the framework of social movements theory."—Brian Howe, author of Restraining Equality: Human Rights Commissions in Canada

"Rights advocacy is a topic of immense practical and historical significance. Dominique Clément does Canadian researchers a great service with this impressive historical analysis of leading social—movement organizations that have made rights advocacy their stated aim. This is important and original scholarship, to be sure."—Matt James, author of Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics

Brian Howe

Canada's Rights Revolution is a major contribution to the historical and sociological literature on human rights in Canada. It is comprehensive, well organized, and makes a persuasive argument about the nature of human rights activism through the framework of social movements theory.

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