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Small Cities, Big Issues
Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and the provision of affordable housing, combined with the offloading of social responsibilities onto municipalities, has contributed to the generalization of social issues once chiefly associated with Canada’s largest urban centres. As the investigations in this volume illustrate, while some communities responded to these issues with inclusionary and progressive actions others were more exclusionary and reactive—revealing form...
The Concept of Community from a Global Perspective
This volume presents essays analysing the ambivalent history of the globally influential political and social concept of community and the paradigms it has engendered in academia and politics. While the term ‘community’ often evokes positive sentiments, it is also linked to oppressive regimes and exclusion. A survey of the term’s use is followed by studies of the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies and of the use of the term in disciplines such as politics, applied linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. The volume concludes with an analysis of the application of the concept in politics in the UK, debates between liberals and communitarianists, utopianism, and African philosophy. Contributors are: Niall Bond, Christopher Adair-Toteff, Daniel Alvaro, Alexander Wierzock, Sebastian Klauke, Antonin Cohen, Jan Buts, Stéphane Vibert, Rémi Astruc, Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Françoise Orazi, Andrew Vincent, Astrid von Busekist, Robert Kramm, and Thaddeus Metz.
Postcollectivity
Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought. Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michał Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner.
IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. *Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. *International Coverage: the IBSS reviews schol...
Organisation communautaire
Voilà un ouvrage de base en organisation communautaire dont le contenu gravite autour de quatre grandes approches: l'approche sociocommunautaire, l'action sociale, le développement local et l'approche socio-institutionnelle. Les auteurs reconstruisent les fondements, les contours, l'histoire, les principales stratégies, les perspectives, les apports spécifiques ainsi que les conditions générales d'exercice de l'organisation communautaire depuis 1960 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Ils abordent l'organisation communautaire tout autant comme pratique de mouvements sociaux que comme profession inscrite au fil du temps dans le développement des réseaux public et associatif de santé et de services sociaux.
Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic
Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region. As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; si...
Immigrant Settlement Policy in Canadian Municipalities
Canada has one of the most successful immigration programmes in the world, a function of the policies, programmes, and services that assist newcomers. Immigrant settlement is a crucial policy field that involves governments, communities, and a range of social forces. Immigration matters are an area of shared jurisdiction, but the federal government has long been the dominant player. Provinces and municipalities, however, are now pushing for an expanded policy role, increased resources, and governance arrangements that recognize the important part they play in immigrant settlement. Drawing on in-depth interviews with government officials and front-line workers, contributors provide a comparat...
L'innovation sociale
Cet ouvrage propose de revoir le concept d'innovation en plaçant la société au centre de son analyse. Les auteurs y posent les jalons nécessaires pour aborder les innovations sociales comme facteur de changement et pour les situer dans leur contexte économique et technologique. Ils exposent ensuite les dynamiques qui témoignent de l'émergence d'innovations dans la façon de résoudre des problèmes sociaux, et explorent les modalités de diffusion de ces nouvelles pratiques.
Les organismes communautaires et la transformation de l’État-providence
S'appuyant sur un impressionnant corpus de données statistiques et documentaires ainsi que sur une quarantaine d'entrevues effectuées auprès d'acteurs des milieux gouvernementaux et communautaires, ce livre a pour ambition d'analyser l'essor des organismes communautaires - et du PSOC - à travers toutes les phases de développement de l'État-providence : de son émergence au début des années 1970 jusqu'à son déclin (du moins, dans sa forme traditionnelle) et sa redéfinition au cours des années 1990 et 2000.
