"Regent Park is our Fallujah"
Subtitle: constructing an activist praxis within local contestations of war and globalization in Toronto.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Description: This is a ten-month activist research study in which the author collaborates with fourteen anti-globalization and anti-war activists in Toronto to historicize and analyze their movements. The concept of objectivity in social sciences is critiqued as being impossible to attain and is contrasted with a feminist standpoint and activist research model that acknowledges and builds on the subjectivity of the researcher and the activists who participated in the interviews.The author constructs an activist praxis particular to a cross-section of Toronto's activist community who identify as part of a grassroots direct action group opposing war and globalization. The researcher analyzes how these activists understand power and social change; how they define and locate their struggles against war and globalization; how collaboration and conflict are manifested within their movements; and how these movements are constructed within a "multiple-oppression" framework.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, page: 0699.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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