| A People's Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada Contributor(s): Jones, Esyllt (Editor), Perry, Adele (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1894037561 ISBN-13: 9781894037563 Publisher: Arp Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship - History | Canada - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 971 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.8" W x 9.7" (0.50 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2009, Stephen Harper's Conservative government changed the contents of the official citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants. The new version contained a lot more military history and plenty of information about the monarchy, but little about public programs such as medicare or education, or our rich history of social justice movements. Ignoring the work and democratic struggles of generations of newcomers, it presumes that new immigrants need to be taught how to "take responsibility" for their families. In short, the official guide outlines an exceptionally narrow, conservative view of Canadian politics and society. In People's Citizenship Guide, a group of progressive scholars offer an alternative citizenship guide: a lively, political, humane--and more honest--alternative to Stephen Harper's version of the story. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Esyllt: - Adele Perry is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the Department of History, University of Manitoba. She is the author of On the Edge of Empire (2001), a co-editor of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, and is working on a book length study of an elite Creole/Metis family and circuits of migration and rule in the nineteenth-century British empire. Esyllt Jones studies the history of health, disease, and social movements, and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. Author of Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg (UTP, 2007), she is also a member of the ARP editorial collective. |