While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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Resisting the State
Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
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The freedoms and liberties that every community, workplace and individual in Canada enjoys are due to the many struggles and social movements in our country’s history. Yet the stories, accounts and histories of the movements to overcome racism, sexism and poverty, for example, remain largely untold, thanks to the single, simplistic national story taught to the masses in school. Deftly combining history with accounts from activists and participants in social movements, two new books from Scott Neigh introduce us to the untold histories of two crucial issues in contemporary Canadian society that challenge all of us to engage in the struggles that will shape our shared tomorrow.
In Resisting the State, Neigh draws attention to the broad range of struggles against the Canadian state, detailing the histories of these movements and providing readers with a richer understanding of the Canadian state and why so many people – including military draftees, welfare recipients, workers, Indigenous people, psychiatric survivors, immigrants and refugees – have struggled against the Canadian state and continue to do so.
Scott Neigh got involved in social movements when he was an undergraduate in the 1990s, and over the years he has participated in many different ways in many different struggles. These days, most of his involvement centres on building movement infrastructure, particularly related to grassroots and independent media. Neigh is a writer and media-maker, and that work got him thinking about listening and how it relates to social movements. Much of his work has involved listening to and amplifying the voices of people who are part of grassroots struggles for justice and liberation. He has written and edited movement-focused grassroots journalism for 25 years. He did an oral history project in which he interviewed 50 long-time activists from across so-called Canada and published two books based on that work. For ten years, he was the host and producer of Talking Radical Radio, which broadcast on community stations across the country. In the course of his work on the show, he did more than 500 in-depth interviews with activists, organizers and other change-makers. He lives with his partner, their son, and their two cats in Hamilton, Ontario.
- ISBN-13
- 9781552665206
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing
- Imprint
- Fernwood Publishing
- Publication date
- 1 August 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
- Language
- English
