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OverviewThis book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians, and with continuing relevance to policy-making processes. As the first major work on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions that arose in Canada and spread across North America to oppose free trade, it captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life. Focusing on an analysis of the Action Canada Network, Jeffrey Ayres adopts a political-process model to link the emergence of popular sector movements and transnational networks to constraints posed by the Canada-US FTA and NAFTA. His extensive use of popular writings and interviews highlights the personal reflections of coalition members and provides an intimate perspective on their strategies and actions. As a contribution both to the study of recent developments in Canadian politics and to our understanding of emerging transnational contention in North America, Defying Conventional Wisdom will appeal to readers across a wide spectrum of interests and backgrounds. University of Toronto Press gratefully acknowledges that this book was sponsored in part by the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. and by the Government of Canada. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey AyresPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.342kg ISBN: 9780802080899ISBN 10: 0802080898 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 19 September 1998 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'For students of Canadian politics, this is one of the few books that analyzes free trade politics in terms of the dynamic interplay between the so-called popular sector and the governing institutions, the state, and other social and political actors... Ayres has made a major contribution in advancing our thinking about social movements, and his discussion of transnational and popular democracy makes this book very useful for scholars interested in collective campaigns that transcend national borders.' 'For students of Canadian politics, this is one of the few books that analyzes free trade politics in terms of the dynamic interplay between the so-called popular sector and the governing institutions, the state, and other social and political actors... Ayres has made a major contribution in advancing our thinking about social movements, and his discussion of .transnational and popular democracy. makes this book very useful for scholars interested in collective campaigns that transcend national borders.' The Journal of Politics "'For students of Canadian politics, this is one of the few books that analyzes free trade politics in terms of the dynamic interplay between the so-called popular sector and the governing institutions, the state, and other social and political actors... Ayres has made a major contribution in advancing our thinking about social movements, and his discussion of ""transnational and popular democracy"" makes this book very useful for scholars interested in collective campaigns that transcend national borders.' The Journal of Politics" 'For students of Canadian politics, this is one of the few books that analyzes free trade politics in terms of the dynamic interplay between the so-called popular sector and the governing institutions, the state, and other social and political actors... Ayres has made a major contribution in advancing our thinking about social movements, and his discussion of transnational and popular democracy makes this book very useful for scholars interested in collective campaigns that transcend national borders.' The Journal of Politics Author InformationJeffrey Ayres is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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