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(Ab)Using Power

The Canadian Experience

Edited by Susan C. Boyd
By (author) Dorothy E. Chunn & Robert Menzies
Categories: Social Science
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Paperback : 9781552660478, 286 pages, March 2001
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Table of contents

  • : Editors’ Introduction (Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn and Susan Boyd)
  • : PART I: THE STATE
  • : Active Citizenship is the Best Defence Against Abuse of Power (Judy Rebick)
  • : From the Welfare State to the No-Second-Chances State (Ted Schrecker)
  • : Closing the Nation’s Ranks: Racism, Sexism, and the Abuse of Power in Canadian Immigration Policy (Sunera Thobani)
  • : PART II: THE POLITICAL ELITE
  • : The Somalia Affair: A Personal Account of Speaking Truth to Power (John Dixon)
  • : So you don’t like our Cover Story-Well we have others: The Development of Canada’s Signals Intelligence Capacity through Administrative Slight of Hand, 1941-2000 (Stuart Farson)
  • : The Devine Regime in Saskatchewan, 1982-1991: The Tory Caucus Fraud and Other Abuses of Power (J.F. Conway)
  • : PART III: CORPORATIONS
  • : Abusing Corporate Power: Death of a Concept (Laureen Snider)
  • : Westray and After: Power, Truth, and News Reporting of the Westray Mine Disaster (John McMullan)
  • : Consumers to the Rescue? Campaigning Against Corporate Abuse of Labour (Judy Fudge)
  • : PART IV: PROFESSIONS
  • : Psychological-Illusions: Professionalism and the Abuse of Power (Tana Dineen)
  • : Drugged, Exploited, Labeled, Blamed: How Psychiatry Oppresses Women (P. Susan Penfold)
  • : The ‘Fuck Your Buddy’ System and its Adversaries (Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
  • : PART V: CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE
  • : Racism in Justice: The Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (Toni Williams)
  • : Unredressed Wrong: The Extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada (Dianne L. Martin)
  • : Women’s Imprisonment and the State: The Praxis of Power (Gayle K. Hori)
  • : References

Description

This book about crime, law, power, and social issues in Canada includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners, journalists, and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life and represents the first systematic effort in Canada to integrate a variety of topics related to power into a single collection aimed at identifying and exploring common themes, issues, problems, and remedies.