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Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 5/e

Edited by: Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda Smith
Publisher: Pearson Edducation Canada, 2013

Now in its fifth edition, Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics challenges readers by exploring current political issues and ethical dilemmas. Focusing on fundamental concepts in political science, each chapter provides readers with the critical perspectives needed to analyze the major issues we face and how political science as a discipline helps us to make sense of them. The objective of this edition remains the same as previous editions: to introduce readers to the fundamentals of political science, to engage them with key and enduring debates, and to explore both conceptual continuities and shifts in a world marked by growing insecurity, political upheaval, and global tensions. Critical Concepts remains a contributed volume that draws on the expertise of many well-known and respected Canadian political scientists.

Janine Brodie. Social Literacy and Social Justice in TImes of Crisis

Written by: Janine Brodie
Trudeau Foundation Papers, Vol. IV, 1 (2012)

This text explores the relationship between social literacy, social justice, and the social sciences, historically and in the contemporary era of financial insecurity and public austerity. Ongoing financial crises have undermined the legitimacy of the market-friendly governing assumptions, which have informed policy making for more than a generation. Citizens and their governments have entered unchartered waters, but pervasive uncertainty has not dampened popular demands for equity, voice, and social justice, in fact, these have intensified. The social sciences have been too timid in entering public debates in these uncertain times. They have been remarkably successful, however, in demonstrating the social and political costs of income disparities, financial insecurity, and social inequality, three critical markers of this moment. The social sciences have a great deal to say about just societies amid the growing uncertainties of the early 21st century. It is time for social science to rediscover its original mission of imagining better societies and, with robust critique and social research, opening windows on different choices about what is equitable, politically possible, and socially responsible.

Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 4/E

Edited by: Janine Brodie and Sandra Rein
Publisher: Pearson Education Canada, 2008

Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics introduces students to the fundamentals of political science, incorporating post-modern ideas and critiques throughout, while integrating the concepts of multiculturalism, feminism, ecology, and other progressive perspectives. Critical Concepts is a contributed volume that draws on the expertise of many respected Canadian political scientists. Each chapter introduces a critical political concept, describes its importance in the study of politics, and outlines the debates that the concept has engendered in political life and for the discipline of political science. Each chapter also explores how the contemporary political environment challenges the meaning and relevance of these concepts. The fourth edition is now comprised of 27 chapters with 11 all-new chapters enhancing its currency and contemporary appeal.

Remapping Gender in the New Global Order

Edited by: Janine Brodie and Marjorie Griffin-Cohen
Publisher: Routledge, New York, 2007

This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces.

Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 2/e

Edited by: Janine Brodie
Publisher: Pearson Education, Canada, 2001

Now in its fourth edition, this popular collection of essays provides a multi-faceted introduction to the fundamentals of political science, engaging students in enduring and contemporary political debates, and exploring the conceptual shifts and uncertainties of the contemporary era.

Politics on the Margins: Restructuring and the Canadian Women’s Movement

Edited by: Janine Brodie
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, 1995

This book explores the relationship between state forms and the public face of the first and second wave of the women’s movement in Canada. It argues that the shift from a social liberal to a neoliberal state in the last decades of the twentieth century has marginalized the women’s movement and delegitimized equality-seeking claims-making in Canadian politics.

The Politics of Abortion

Edited by: Janine Brodie, Shelly A. M. Gavigan and Jane Jenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

The United States and Ireland are not the only places where the abortion rights debate currently exists. This book represents the collaboration of three established scholars (two political scientists and one lawyer) to document and analyze the abortion saga in Canada from the legalization of therapeutic abortions in 1969 to the debates over new legislation in 1990. Through the integration of political, legislative, and constitutional dimensions of the issue, this work examines the evolution of abortion policy in Canada.

The Political Economy of Canadian Regionalism

Edited by: Janine Brodie
Publisher: Toronto; Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Canada, 1990
This book develops an innovative interpretation of the political economy regional politics and regional identities in Canada. In contrast to environmental and cultural explanations of regionalism, the book argues that state development strategies or national policies have been profoundly spatial, shaping both the contours of uneven development and regional politics in Canada.