Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism

Authors

Margot Young, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow
Susan B. Boyd, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow
Gwen Brodsky
Shelagh Day

Author Notes

Emeritus Faculty [Susan B. Boyd] & Current Faculty [Margot Young]

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Description

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice. Through their analysis of rights advocacy and the interconnectedness of law and politics, the contributors also demonstrate that the fight for social and economic justice is vibrant and of critical importance.

[From UBC Press | Poverty - Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism, Edited by Margot Young, Susan Boyd, Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day]

ISBN

9780774812870, 9780774812887, 9780774856010

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

UBC Press

City

Vancouver

Keywords

Canadian Politics, Law, Law & Society, Political Science, Social Policy, Socio-legal Studies