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Canada’s Rights Revolution

Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

by (author) Dominique Clément

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Category
General, Social History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774814805
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774814799
    Publish Date
    May 2008
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774858434
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $26.99

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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 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.

About the author

Dominique Clément is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Human Rights in Canada: A History (WLU Press, 2016), Canada’s Rights Revolution, and Equality Deferred, as well as the co-editor of Alberta's Human Rights Story and Debating Dissent. He is the author of numerous articles on human rights, social movements, women’s history, foreign policy, and labour history.

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Awards

  • Winner, John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association

Editorial Reviews

This book is a good introduction to civil liberty and human rights advocacy, and to important issues facing Canadian social movements. It is well suited to upper level undergraduate courses and for those researching and teaching on the history of Canadian mobilization. It also has the potential to spark debate over Canadian SMO dependence on federal government funding.