About ‘More Resources’
Here you can find external resources related to, or expanding on, the material presented in this chapter. Currently included are links to websites, links to online video clips, and suggested readings that you can find in your school or local library. If you would like access to the password-protected video library that accompanies the text, your professor can give you the username, password, and URL needed (and if your professor is not sure how to access the video library, he or she can contact an Oxford University Press sales representative for details).
Website links
Assembly of First Nations/Assemblée des Premières Nations (AFN/APN)
Multimedia links
Videos from the Idle No More movement covering their protests and event organizations to highlight indigenous issues including land rights, sovereignty, climate change, and treaty obligations:
The Real News coverage of Quebec’s Maple Spring:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8315
Readings: Politics and Social Movements
Bashevkin, S. (2009). Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
In this important new addition to Canadian political sociology, the author argues that Canadians are unsettled by women politicians—in fact, by women in positions of authority in general. Exploring this discomfort, Bashevkin points out the many barriers and difficulties women face in politics.
Carroll, W.K. (Ed.) (1997). Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). Toronto, ON: Garamond.
This is a collection of leading articles and essays on social movements in North America. It is useful in that it applies theory to real-life examples, and shows the value of theoretical approaches when analyzing collective action. Carroll includes articles that showcase the women’s movement, the environmental movement, Indigenous rights movements, LGBT movements, and others.
della Porta, D., Andretta, M., Mosca, L., & Reiter, H. (2006). Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
This work analyzes the perspective on global social movements from the points of view of activists, organizers, and demonstrators. The authors travelled to the G8 Summit in Genoa with protestors to gain an understanding of how global protest emerges. Interactions between protestors and elites are analyzed, concluding with a discussion of new models of global activism.
Nash, K. (2010). Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics and Power (2nd ed.).Etobicoke, ON: Wiley-Blackwell.
This book provides a theoretical and comprehensive overview of political sociology, beginning with the political traditions of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Foucault. Nash then examines several social movements, theories and issues of globalization, democracy, and citizenship. This second edition provides new material on global governance, human rights, and global media and global social movements.
Stanbridge, K., & Ramos, H. (2012). Seeing Politics Differently: A Brief Introduction to Political Sociology. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
This book provides a brief overview of how power works in society and demonstrates how politics are part of everyday life, not just the “stuff” of politicians and governments. The authors suggest that we should always question who holds power in our society and where it comes from, along with stressing the importance of thinking, as individuals and groups, about how to effect social and political change.
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