Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History
Description
Human Rights in Canadian History offers a nuanced reassessment of Canada's history and historiography of human rights.
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Persons
Jennifer Tunnicliffe is a human rights historian with a particular interest in how domestic and transnational activism shapes cultural attitudes and legislative approaches to rights and freedoms. She teaches in the department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Stephanie Bangarth is a Professor in History at King’s University College, at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches courses on human rights advocacy and history in Canada and the United States and immigrant experience in North America.
Content
Introduction by Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth
Chapter . Reflections: Current Trends in Historical Writing on Human Rights in Canada by James W. St. G. Walker
Part I. Human Rights for Whom?
Chapter 2. A Child's Right to be Civilised? Human Rights, Children's Rights, and Indigenous Rights by Jasmine Holding Brown
Chapter 3. Whose Rights Count? Antiracist Activists, Feminists, and Canada's Human Rights Codes from the early 95 s to the early 97 s by Ruth Frager
Chapter 4. On the Edge of Freedom: The Re-enslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia by Franco Paz and Harvey Amani Whitfield Part
II. Incarceration, Criminalization, and Human Rights in Canada
Chapter 5. Internment is a Family Affair: One Pro-Communist Ukrainian-Jewish Extended Family 82 7 s Experiences with Political Incarceration in World War II Canada by Rhonda Hinther
Chapter . 822 Injurious Effects on Mind and Body 822 : Solitary Confinement and the Limitations of Rights in Canadian Penitentiaries by Janet Miron Chapter 7. Performative Justice? Canada 82 7 s Response to Alleged War Criminals in the Country, the Case of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Vladimir Katriuk by Katelyn Arac
Part III. Human Rights Activists and Activism in Canada
Chapter 8. The Battle of Church Street: Queers, Police, and the Streets of Toronto, 98 by Tom Hooper
Chapter 9. From Demanding Exclusion to Joining the Human Rights Community: Labour, Human Rights, and Immigration Policy in 94 s Canada by David Goutor
Chapter . Universal Rights in Local Contexts: Postwar Human Rights Debates in Quebec ( 945 82 ) by Paul- 2 tienne Rainville
Part IV. Canada, Foreign Policy, and Transnational Human Rights Approaches
Chapter 2. Inside Out: The Rights Revolution and Canadian Foreign Policy since 948 by Asa McKercher
Chapter 3. 822 Eyes on the Prize 822 : Canada, Human Rights, and South African Apartheid in the Transition Years by Daniel Manulak
Chapter 4. Pacific Flows: Asia, Canada, and Human Rights Norms Diffusion by David Webster