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Canada’s Rights Revolution Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82 1st Edition

Author(s)

Dominique Clément

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780774858434, 9780774814799, 9780774814812, 9780774814805

Publisher

UBC Press

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PDF and EPUB

Description

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 – the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ligue des droits de l’homme, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association – that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. In addition to offering a unique perspective on some of the most infamous human rights controversies of the period – the Gastown riot, the campaign to counteract police violence in Toronto, compulsory treatment of drug addicts, the October crisis of 1970, and the rights of prisoners and welfare recipients – Canada’s Rights Revolution 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.

Availability: In Stock

Canada’s Rights Revolution Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82 1st Edition

SKU: 9780774814812

Original price was: $34.95.Current price is: $10.49.

Access Canada’s Rights Revolution Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82 1st Edition Now. Discount up to 90%

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Additional information

Full Title

Canada’s Rights Revolution Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82 1st Edition

Author(s)

Dominique Clément

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780774814812, 9780774814799, 9780774814805, 9780774858434

Publisher

UBC Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 – the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ligue des droits de l’homme, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association – that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries. In addition to offering a unique perspective on some of the most infamous human rights controversies of the period – the Gastown riot, the campaign to counteract police violence in Toronto, compulsory treatment of drug addicts, the October crisis of 1970, and the rights of prisoners and welfare recipients – Canada’s Rights Revolution 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.