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Poverty : Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law and Society SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774856010
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PovertyDDC classification:
  • 344.7103/25
LOC classification:
  • KE3500.Z85 -- P68 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reading Gosselin -- 1 Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases -- 2 But It's for Your Own Good -- 3 Social Rights and "Common Sense": Gosselin through a Media Lens -- Part 2: Social Citizenship and the State -- 4 Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship -- 5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights -- 6 Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen -- 7 The "Made in Québec" Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights -- 8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union -- Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts -- 9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control -- 10 Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance -- 11 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal -- 12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go? -- Part 4: Legal Theory after Gosselin -- 13 Taking Competence Seriously -- 14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights -- 15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on "Justice as Fairness" as a "Bedrock Value" of the Canadian Democratic Project -- Part 5: Legal Activism Revived -- 16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation -- 17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case -- 18 The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reading Gosselin -- 1 Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases -- 2 But It's for Your Own Good -- 3 Social Rights and "Common Sense": Gosselin through a Media Lens -- Part 2: Social Citizenship and the State -- 4 Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship -- 5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights -- 6 Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen -- 7 The "Made in Québec" Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights -- 8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union -- Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts -- 9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control -- 10 Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance -- 11 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal -- 12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go? -- Part 4: Legal Theory after Gosselin -- 13 Taking Competence Seriously -- 14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights -- 15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on "Justice as Fairness" as a "Bedrock Value" of the Canadian Democratic Project -- Part 5: Legal Activism Revived -- 16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation -- 17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case -- 18 The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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