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2. Understanding the Complexities of Contemporary Feminist Activism: How the Lives of Older Women Activists Contest the Waves Narrative.
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Chazan, May and Baldwin, Melissa
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FEMINISM ,ACTIVISTS ,AGEISM ,ACTIVISM ,HISTORY - Abstract
This paper troubles dominant understandings of North American feminist history as a series of successive, ideologically opposed, generational "waves." While several scholars have critiqued this metaphor, few have grounded their critiques in the lives, perspectives, and organizing strategies of women involved in feminist activism. This paper draws on research with older Canadian women activists involved in the Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN) to call into question three existing critiques of the waves metaphor: its implicit ageism, its simplistic categorizations, and its assumed generational discord. In so doing, it illustrates how women's lives and mobilizations are far too intricate for this framework. This paper thus contributes to understanding the complexities of contemporary feminist activism, particularly as these complexities relate to the contributions of older activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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3. Settler solidarities as praxis: understanding ‘granny activism’ beyond the highly-visible.
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Chazan, May
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SOCIAL movements ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,ACTIVISTS ,SOLIDARITY - Abstract
Across Canada, the Raging Grannies are renowned for appearing, invited or not, in spaces not typically open to older women, with outrageous ‘Granny’ costumes and satirical songs. A movement of predominantly non-Indigenous, settler women, the Raging Grannies regularly work in diverse activist coalitions in pursuit of social and environmental justice; many are seeking to ally themselves with contemporary Indigenous movements. However, while analyses have so far focused on their highly visible and iconic activist strategies, their solidarity-building efforts remain under-examined. Based on focus groups, interviews, and participant observation carried out in 2014–2015, this paper probeswhyandhowRaging Grannies are building alliances with Indigenous movements in Canada. What emerges is an important tension. While many view their irreverent and theatrical strategies as quintessential to their ‘Granny Activism,’ such tactics were unanimously deemed inappropriate for engaging with Indigenous movements. Underpinned by reflections on their own settler histories, feelings of outrage at ongoing and state-sanctioned colonial practices, fears of inadvertently reproducing colonial relations, and a sense of interconnected futures with Canada’s First Peoples, they sought different, less-visible ways of practicing their solidarities. Many chose to attend rallies dressed in their everyday clothes, provide resources to Indigenous-led protests, invite Indigenous activists to speak at their gatherings, and work through their churches to redress past harm. Their solidarity efforts incorporated small acts, often pivoting around individual members’ personal connections. This article thus depicts the Raging Grannies as more diverse in their practices than typically recognized. It also addresses an important gap in scholarship on older women’s roles in solidarity movements. Finally, it extends existing scholarship on solidarity-building, suggesting that how solidarity is understood cannot be disconnected from how it is practiced, and thus demonstrating how solidarity can be relational, performative, and contingent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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4. Canada raises activist short selling concerns.
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Wade, Oliver
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SHORT selling (Securities) ,ACTIVISTS ,FINANCIAL markets - Abstract
Canadian securities regulators have launched a public consultation paper in response to ongoing complaints about activist short sellers. Issuers and other market participants have complained to the regulators that it has become too easy for short sellers to publicly target companies in an effort to drive down their stock price and ultimately profit on the decline. In a study, the CSA found that between 2010 and September 2020, a total of 73 Canadian issuers have been the target of 116 activist short seller campaigns, with 16 campaigns still active. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
5. FEMINIST ACTIVIST STORYTELLING: TRANSFORMING IDENTITY AND BUILDING RESISTANCE.
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Chau, Annie
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FEMINISTS ,ACTIVISTS ,MASTER'S degree ,WOMEN immigrants ,ACTIVISM ,SEXISM ,HOME ownership ,ECOFEMINISM - Abstract
Copyright of Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education is the property of Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2020
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6. Saving the Canadian Fur Industry's Hide: Government's strategic use of private authority to constrain radical activism.
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Boghossian, Johnny, Marques, José Carlos, Kourula, Arno, Moon, Jeremy, Salles-Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Wickert, Christopher
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ACTIVISM ,POLITICAL opportunity theory ,ACTIVISTS ,POLITICAL persecution ,FUR - Abstract
We examine the relationship between private and public regulatory authority in contexts characterized by radical transnational activist contestation against industry practices. Employing a comparative case design, we study government responses to similar activist campaigns calling for a trade ban on Canada's sealing and fur industries. Relying on conventional public authority, the Canadian government was unable to prevent a European ban on seal skin products, leading to the collapse of its sealing industry. In contrast, its response to anti-fur trapping activists successfully employed private authority in the form of a standard-setting multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI). Doing so not only averted a ban but effectively shut down international debate over restrictions concerning the sale of products using trapped fur. Drawing from social movement theory on activist heterogeneity and political opportunity structure, we introduce a novel conceptualization of standard-setting MSIs as strategic instruments employed by governments to constrain the political opportunities for radical transnational activists. Our findings contribute to the literatures examining interactions between private and public regulatory authority, instruments of government repression and the political dynamics surrounding MSIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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7. Par-delà les champs de compétence : L'affirmation du Québec en matière de guerre et de paix.
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Massie, Justin and Lamontagne, Marjolaine
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POLITICAL parties ,SEPARATISTS ,JURISDICTION ,ACTIVISTS ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
Copyright of Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne de Science Politique is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2018
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8. The "what" and "who" of co-optation: gendered racialized migrations, settler nation-states and postcolonial difference.
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Korteweg, Anna C.
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COOPTATION ,WOMEN'S rights ,GENDER inequality ,ORGANIZATIONAL change ,ACTIVISTS - Abstract
In this article, I focus on the management of postcolonial difference and the production of belonging in a white settler nation-state in order to rethink the notion of co-optation. I first develop a theoretical framework for understanding co-optation by separating the "who" and the "what" of co-optation: actors who embody diversity in public, political debate become the "who" of co-optation, as their agency is shaped by gendered and racialized processes of subject making. The "what" of cooptation revolves around particular conceptualizations of practices, rights and freedoms, associated in this case with "gender equality," which is rendered an empty signifier in the process. I then illustrate this framework by drawing from research on the Sharia-based arbitration debate that took place in Ontario, Canada, between late 2003 and early 2006. I focus on the claims of two Canadian Muslim women activists to show that co-optation occurs as attempts to further liberation instead advance illiberal practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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9. Media Activism and the Academy, Three Cases: Media Democracy Day, Open Media, and NewsWatch Canada.
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SKINNER, DAVID, HACKETT, ROBERT, and POYNTZ, STUART R.
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MASS media education ,SCHOLARLY method ,ACTIVISTS ,MEDIA literacy ,PROJECT method in teaching - Abstract
In Canada, there is a relatively strong tradition of activist scholarship in media and communication studies. However, very little research has been undertaken on how working in the university may contextualize the ways in which academic workers participate in activist media projects. Focusing on three such projects -- Media Democracy Day, Open Media, and NewsWatch Canada -- this article draws upon elements of political economy and Bourdieu's field theory to consider how the different characters of the academic and activist fields work to enable and constrain the abilities of faculty to engage with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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