Making Knowledge Count: Advocacy and Social Science

✍ Scribed by Peter Harries-Jones

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Largely due to the impact of human rights legislation, especially in Canada, the radical dissent of the 1960s has been replaced by the more co-operative framework of social advocacy. Political activity is no longer necessarily radical or rooted in social class but instead expresses broad themes of cultural aspiration. Consequently, social activists and social scientists need a new understanding of the role of dissent in society. Peter Harries-Jones and the contributing authors provide that understanding in Making Knowledge Count.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Knowledge Count
PART ONE: ADVOCACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Human Rights Advocacy in a Repressive Context: Chile, 1973-89
The Policy Maker and the Advocate: Case Studies in Refugee Policy
Advocacy and Race Relations
PART TWO: SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT AND THE ADVOCATE
"Town"/"Gown" and Community Relations: Case Studies of Social Empowerment
Developing a Labour Point of View: Advocacy and the Labour Movement
Critical Pedagogy and Education for Work
PART THREE: FROM ADVOCACY TO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Day Care, Trade Unions, and the Women's Movement: Trade Union Women Organize for Change
Why Is the Feminist Movement Still Politically Marginal?
PART FOUR: THE OBSERVERS AND THE OBSERVED — ADVOCACY AND METHOD
Advocating Peace
Advocacy as a Form of Social Science
Policy Research, Advocacy, and Human Rights in Canada
Index
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Contributors