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  • Universality and Social Policy in Canada

    Series series The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
    Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Microdystopias

    Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment

    This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to ... Read more

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  • Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics

    Intersectionality and Impact

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge and real-world impact is increasingly important in academic research. Drawing on empirical research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and broad international perspectives, this ... Read more

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  • Adapting the Beat Poets

    Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on Screen

    Series series Film and History
    In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years, the key texts of Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac have ... Read more

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  • Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship

    A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)

    Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded CommunityUniversity Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians withDisabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-PrincipalResearchers. Of the over 90 CURA grants awarded by SSHRC over the years, it is one of onlya very few that were community led. This ... Read more

    $2.20 USD

  • Pauvreté invalidante et Citoyenneté habilitante

    Un projet du Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences

    Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal(2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par leCRSH et dirigé par le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences (CCD), sous l’égide des deuxchargés de recherche principaux Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters. Sur les quatre-vingt- dix(90) subventions ARUC accordées ... Read more

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  • Three Bio-Realms

    Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada

    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance of biotechnology in shaping relations between the state, science, the economy, and the citizenry, ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy

    No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its development in the mid 1970s, to the period of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, Second Edition

    A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical analysis of how these policies first arose and the implications they pose for future policy ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Weary Warriors

    Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

    As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated ... Read more

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    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

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