Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism (Law & Society Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774812877 ISBN 13: 9780774812870

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice. Through their analysis of rights advocacy and the interconnectedness of law and politics, the contributors also demonstrate that the fight for social and economic justice is vibrant and of critical importance.

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Margot Young is an associate professor and Susan Boyd holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day are directors of the Poverty and Human Rights Centre in Vancouver.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774812877
• ISBN 13: 9780774812870
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 389
• Herausgeber: Young Margot, Boyd Susan B., Brodsky Gwen, Day Shelagh
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