Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural political mobilization, disability, lesbian and gay politics, feminism, farmers and organized interests in agriculture, Christian evangelical groups, environment, and health 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. 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.
Preface
List of Key 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. Party On or Party's Over? Organized Labour and Canadian Politics, Charlotte Yates & Amanda Coles
3. Farm Groups in Canadian Politics, Grace Skogstad
4. Mobilizing On the Defensive: Anti-Poverty Advocacy and Activism in Times of Austerity, Jonathan Greene
5. Occupy: History, Physicality, Virtuality, Matt James
Part II: Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion
6. Ethnocultural Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights in Canada, Audrey Kobayashi
7. The Women's Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion, and Politics, Alexandra Dobrowolsky
8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement, Miriam Smith
9. Populist and Conservative Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison
Part III: Nations and Nationalism
10. Aysaka'paykinit: Contesting the Rope Around the Nations' Neck, Kiera L. Ladner
11. Nationalism and Protest: The Sovereignty Movement in Quebec, Pascale Dufour and Christophe Traisnel
Part IV: Environment, Disability, and Health
12. The Canadian Environmental Movement: Remembering Who We Are, Robert Paehlke
13. Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures, and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement, Lisa Vanhala
14. Health Social Movements: The Next Wave in Contentious Politics? Michael Orsini
List of Contributors
Index
