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The Future of Career
The fragmented nature of modern working life is leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of the term 'career'. Few people now expect to have a lifetime of continuous employment, regardless of their qualifications or the sector they work in. This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the concept of career, reviewing its past and considering its future. International specialists in psychology, sociology, counselling, education and human resource management offer a multi-layered examination of career theories and practice, identifying the major changes taking place in the world of work that are challenging and extending the meaning of the word career. The overall aim is to redefine it in ways that are relevant to the newly emerging network society of the 21st century. The chapters are wide-ranging, exploring topics such as the changing contexts of career, individual career experiences, women's careers, multicultural issues, and implications for practice and policy-making.
Innovation and the Social Economy
Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social economy system has been developed that is recognized worldwide for its ability to foster innovative solutions to economic disparity and sustainability issues. In the wake of a global crisis that has emphasized the growing gap between economic and social concerns, what can other regions gain from this model? Through robust theoretical and in-depth empirical studies, this book offers the first opportunity to English-language readers to learn about the Québec experience of a social economy system. It takes stock of recent developments in the province relating to policy planning, governance, financing, local development, and legal frameworks. Innovation and the Social Economy also emphasizes this system’s potential for exploring alternative practices of production, consumption, and distribution that can foster social transformation.
Critical Political Studies
A collective picture of modern capitalism suggests that economic prospects, political costs, and implications for human development and freedom under this system are grim indeed. However the possibility of an alternative viewpoint, and an alternative system, provide grounds for optimism. The authors in Critical Political Studies challenge the neo-liberal, pro-market ideology that has arisen in the age of the so-called "post-communist" new world order, wrestling with the implications of globalization, democratization, and the politics of radical social change.
Sustainability Frontiers
Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainability Frontiers is an international, academic non-governmental organization based in Canada and the United Kingdom. It engages in research and innovation in the broad fields of sustainability and global education challenging dominant assumptions and current orthodoxies as it seeks to foster learner empowerment and action. It places particular emphasis on climate change, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding and their implications for the nature and directions of sustainability education.
Community Forestry in Canada
In recent decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives are lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done to document their tangible outcomes or draw connections between their ideals of local control, community benefit, ecological stewardship, and economic diversification and the realities of community forestry practice. This book brings together the work of over twenty-five researchers to provide the first comparative and empirically rich portrait of community forestry policy and practice in Canada. Tackling all of the forestry regions from Newfoundland to British Columbia, it unearths the history of community forestry, revealing surprising regional differences linked to patterns of policy-making and cultural traditions. Case studies celebrate innovative practices in governance and ecological management while uncovering challenges related to government support and market access. The future of the sector is also considered, including the role of institutional reform, multiscale networks, and adaptive management strategies.
Canadian Perspectives on Community Development
Founded in a perspective that speaks to the diversity of contexts and processes used across Canada, this work is nevertheless firmly grounded in theory, offering an in-depth analysis geared toward advanced study in community practice. This depth is further strengthened by the diversity of topics represented in this collective work: community work in various regions of the country exploring issues of poverty and environmental activism; community work with immigrants and refugees, and with trans communities; feminist community organizing as well as organizing with persons with disabilities and with members of linguistic communities; and, finally, artsbased community work with the elderly. This...
L'Afrique qui se refait
L'«afro-pessimisme», préjugé répandu s'il en est! L'Afrique, continent à la dérive? Que faut-il penser alors des initiatives socioéconomiques des communautés qui émergent un peu partout: regroupements villageois, mutuelles d'épargne et de crédit, gouvernements locaux investis dans le développement de leurs quartiers, entreprises culturelles, associations nationales du secteur dit informel, coopération internationale de proximité.? Comment l'Afrique se refait-elle au Burkina Faso, au Congo-Brazzaville, en Guinée, au Mali, au Niger, au Sénégal et en Afrique du Sud?
Entreprises collectives
L'auteur fournit dans cet ouvrage les indispensables repères pour comprendre, mais aussi analyser de façon critique les entreprises collectives selon leurs enjeux théoriques, politiques, territoriaux, démocratiques et de solidarité internationale. Il met à profit une vingtaine d'années de travaux de recherche et une longue expérience d'engagement dans ce domaine.
L'économie sociale dans les services à domicile
Cet ouvrage présente les résultats d'une recherche effectuée sur le développement du secteur de l'aide domestique, et plus particulièrement sur les divers modes de régulation que l'on retrouve au sein des entreprises qui le composent. Ces entreprises sont analysées selon quatre dimensions : les rapports sociaux de consommation et la participation des usagers; les rapports de travail et la place des employées; les rapports de genre et la participation des femmes et la contribution de ces entreprises aux dynamiques territoriales et au développement local. Cette analyse permet également d'identifier les défis majeurs qu'auront à relever les acteurs impliqués dans le développement de ce secteur au cours des prochaines années.
La contre-culture au Québec
Ce livre entend combler une lacune, celle de la méconnaissance de la contre-culture au Québec, un phénomène majeur qui, au cours d’une décennie particulièrement effervescente, a traîné dans son sillage des milliers de jeunes gens que l’extrême gauche ou le néonationalisme – des courants rivaux, si l’on peut dire – n’attiraient pas. Assez étrangement, peu d’études existent sur ce mouvement, sa sensibilité particulière et ses manifestations symboliques, d’où l’intérêt de cet ouvrage qui vise précisément à dresser le panorama de ses artistes et de leurs productions les plus marquantes, de l’Infonie au Jazz libre du Québec, en passant par Victor Lévy-Beaulieu, Josée Yvon, Mainmise ou le Front de libération homosexuel. À partir de la contribution de spécialistes de divers domaines – musique, littérature, théâtre, cinéma, art visuel, sociologie –, le livre fait le point sur ce vent de contestation qui a balayé l’Amérique des années 1960 et 1970 et sur ce qu’il a semé dans un Québec « hors de la carte », selon les mots de Raôul Duguay, l’un des plus célèbres représentants de la mouvance québécoise.
