Competing Ideologies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From RiotingFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
This chapter argues that in many cases rioting may serve as a vehicle for fostering social inclusion and civic equality. Rioting has a unique capacity to allow the voiceless to interrupt business … | Stephen D'Arcy | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different |
Livingstone discusses the current unprecedented chance to create a better world and breaks down the ingredients of most effective major social change processes: critique and protest; an … | D.W. Livingstone | 45 | 2023 | $4.50 Add |
From NEW! Appendices |
Livingstone reviews some of the surveys discussed in previous chapters. | D.W. Livingstone | 6 | 2023 | $0.60 Add |
From Armed StruggleFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
“Armed struggle” refers to intentionally using armed force to kill or injure people. Some groups, like Direct Action in Canada, injured people accidentally, but did not target them … | Stephen D'Arcy | 32 | 2013 | $3.20 Add |
From Duped and HowA Case Study: Foreign-Funded Radicals |
Never has there been a greater disparity between what scientists say we should be concerned about and what members of government and the oil and gas industry are doing. In this case study I … | James Hoggan | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
From Duped and HowAssault on Democracy with Alex Himelfarb |
Himelfarb believes that the Right prefers to shut down public discourse and that modern life makes it easy for this to happen. Issues of the common good often don’t make it to the table. It … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
From Duped and HowSilencing the Voices of Others with Jason Stanley |
Stanley explained there are a number of rhetorical and linguistic tactics that are being used now to silence people, and one of the most blatant is the misappropriation of words such as ethical … | James Hoggan | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
From Duped and HowGaslighting Blurs our Reality with Bryant Welch |
Welch said that today’s gaslighters work in the public square to create confusion and prey on public vulnerability, using sophisticated forms of manipulation, mind games and PR spin. … | James Hoggan | 6 | 2016 | $0.60 Add |
From Duped and HowSummary: The Polluted Public Square |
I found the attacks on scientists and the volume of propaganda used to cloud environmental issues puzzling. I found myself becoming angrier about the deception and lack of fair play than I was … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Canada and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968From: 1968 in Canada |
In 1968, Czechoslovakia experienced its Prague Spring as a gradual political liberalization took place in this previously tightly controlled Communist nation. During the Prague Spring, political … | Andrea Chandler | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From “The Assassination”From: Fighting For Space |
Citing financial mismanagement, BCs provincial government removed Townsend, Evans, and the entire leadership of the Portland Hotel Society. The organization was stripped of its autonomy, and the … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
From Fentanyl ArrivesFrom: Fighting For Space |
Since 2011, there has been a spike in drug overdose deaths in Vancouver. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid is ten time stronger than heroin and fifty times more potent than morphine. The fight goes on. | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
From EpilogueFrom: Fighting For Space |
How did a group mostly composed of unemployed heroin users change the face of Canadian drug policy and health-care for addiction? It was not easy. | Travis Lupick | 21 | 2017 | $0.42 Add |