Elizabeth Comack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 365558 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Comack |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Comack |
| FIRMA | COMACK E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Corporate Colonialism and the “Crimes of the Powerful” Committed Against the Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Bed Bugs and Public Health
A Canadian Exception to the Punitive Turn? Community Responses to Policing Practices in Winnipeg’s Inner City
While criminologists have made the case that a “punitive turn,” spurred on by penal populism, is being witnessed in several Western countries, some have argued that Canada is the exception to this trend. But recent developments in Winnipeg, Manitoba suggest that a made-in-America crime control strategy—zero-tolerance policing—has been imported into the Winnipeg context to combat the pressing problems of drugs, gangs, and violence in inner-city co…
Producing Feminist Knowledge
In responding to the androcentrism of mainstream epistemologies, feminists have confronted the broader issues around how we can produce knowledge which will be helpful to women. In particular, the work of standpoint feminists—while focusing our attention on creating knowledge `for' women—has been subject to the critical gaze of postmodern writers like Carol Smart. This article endeavors to add another voice to these deliberations. Informed by the…
Nine Law and Society/Sociology of Law Textbooks and Readers for the 1990s
Women in Trouble
Blue Politics
In 1985 the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, the Fraser Committee, recommended the criminalization of violent and degrading sexually explicit material on the ground that it harmed women. On two occasions (in 1986 with Bill C-114 and in 1987 with Bill C-54) the Mulroney government proposed a more restrictive approach to the regulation of pornography. Despite the support of various feminist and religious/family-oriented organizati…
Making sense of class, race, gender and social justice
The Role of Law in Social Transformation
Contemporary Marxist theorizing on law has produced a number of different ways of conceptualizing the class character of law within a capitalist society. The main focus of these approaches has largely been on the role of law in maintaining and reproducing an unequal, exploitative system. As a consequence, the issue, even the possibility of using law as a mechanism for securing substantial social change has been downplayed and, in some cases, prec…
The Role of Law in Social Transformation
Contemporary Marxist theorizing on law has produced a number of different ways of conceptualizing the class character of law within a capitalist society. The main focus of these approaches has largely been on the role of law in maintaining and reproducing an unequal, exploitative system. As a consequence, the issue, even the possibility of using law as a mechanism for securing substantial social change has been downplayed and, in some cases, prec…
Producing Feminist Knowledge
In responding to the androcentrism of mainstream epistemologies, feminists have confronted the broader issues around how we can produce knowledge which will be helpful to women. In particular, the work of standpoint feminists—while focusing our attention on creating knowledge `for' women—has been subject to the critical gaze of postmodern writers like Carol Smart. This article endeavors to add another voice to these deliberations. Informed by the…
Women in Trouble
Corporate Colonialism and the “Crimes of the Powerful” Committed Against the Indigenous Peoples of Canada
A Canadian Exception to the Punitive Turn? Community Responses to Policing Practices in Winnipeg’s Inner City
While criminologists have made the case that a “punitive turn,” spurred on by penal populism, is being witnessed in several Western countries, some have argued that Canada is the exception to this trend. But recent developments in Winnipeg, Manitoba suggest that a made-in-America crime control strategy—zero-tolerance policing—has been imported into the Winnipeg context to combat the pressing problems of drugs, gangs, and violence in inner-city co…
Blue Politics
In 1985 the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, the Fraser Committee, recommended the criminalization of violent and degrading sexually explicit material on the ground that it harmed women. On two occasions (in 1986 with Bill C-114 and in 1987 with Bill C-54) the Mulroney government proposed a more restrictive approach to the regulation of pornography. Despite the support of various feminist and religious/family-oriented organizati…
The Role of Law in Social Transformation
Contemporary Marxist theorizing on law has produced a number of different ways of conceptualizing the class character of law within a capitalist society. The main focus of these approaches has largely been on the role of law in maintaining and reproducing an unequal, exploitative system. As a consequence, the issue, even the possibility of using law as a mechanism for securing substantial social change has been downplayed and, in some cases, prec…
Making sense of class, race, gender and social justice
Blue Politics
In 1985 the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, the Fraser Committee, recommended the criminalization of violent and degrading sexually explicit material on the ground that it harmed women. On two occasions (in 1986 with Bill C-114 and in 1987 with Bill C-54) the Mulroney government proposed a more restrictive approach to the regulation of pornography. Despite the support of various feminist and religious/family-oriented organizati…
Women in Trouble
Nine Law and Society/Sociology of Law Textbooks and Readers for the 1990s
Producing Feminist Knowledge
In responding to the androcentrism of mainstream epistemologies, feminists have confronted the broader issues around how we can produce knowledge which will be helpful to women. In particular, the work of standpoint feminists—while focusing our attention on creating knowledge `for' women—has been subject to the critical gaze of postmodern writers like Carol Smart. This article endeavors to add another voice to these deliberations. Informed by the…
A Canadian Exception to the Punitive Turn? Community Responses to Policing Practices in Winnipeg’s Inner City
While criminologists have made the case that a “punitive turn,” spurred on by penal populism, is being witnessed in several Western countries, some have argued that Canada is the exception to this trend. But recent developments in Winnipeg, Manitoba suggest that a made-in-America crime control strategy—zero-tolerance policing—has been imported into the Winnipeg context to combat the pressing problems of drugs, gangs, and violence in inner-city co…
Bed Bugs and Public Health
Corporate Colonialism and the “Crimes of the Powerful” Committed Against the Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Political science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Criminology (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Feminism (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras)