Will Langford
Biographic Data
| ID | 242920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Langford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Langford |
| SIGNATURE | LANGFORD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Freedom from Medicare: Maternal Activists, Organized Business, and Popular Mobilization against the Welfare State During the Saskatchewan Doctors’ Strike, 1962
In July 1962, Saskatchewan doctors went on strike in a refusal to work under the Medicare Care Act, which introduced universal health insurance in the province. The much-studied conflict between organized medicine and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government has been understood as a decisive moment in the history of public healthcare in Canada. Less studied, but equally important, the doctors were supported by a larger protest movement…
Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard . Linda M. Ambrose
Apartheid Internationalism: Canadian Activism in Defence of White Rule in Southern Africa, 1965–94
From 1965 to 1994, some Canadians participated in transnational activism aimed at supporting or excusing white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia. Their ideas, arguments, and interconnections contributed to “apartheid internationalism,” a form of internationalism without central organization yet forged through a common cause and specific (and sometimes covert) political networks. The Canadian fraction of the movement was internally divers…
Tyler A. Shipley, Canada in the World: Settler Colonialism and the Colonial Imagination (Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2020)
A common situation? Canadian technical advisors and popular internationalism in Tanzania, 1961-1981
In the 1960s and 1970s, technical advisors participated in postcolonial development efforts and popular internationalism. This article addresses the politics of technical assistance as an entry point for exploring the wider shared histories of Tanzania and Canada. It shows how Canadian advisors reflected on ujamaa, race, and their relationships with Tanzanians. And it charts how lived experiences shaped their commitments abroad as well as back at…
Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West by Mansoor Ladha
Reviewed by: Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West by Mansoor Ladha Will Langford Mansoor Ladha. Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017. 252 pp. Notes. $26.95 hc. Muhindi, Calgary-based journalist Mansoor Ladha explains in his new memoir, is a Swahili word for members of the Indian diaspora (16). For Ladha, it is also an apt identity for those who were born in East Africa,…
Jean Lagassé, Community Development, and the “Indian and Métis Problem” in Manitoba in the 1950s–60s
In the late 1950s, social worker Jean Lagassé oversaw a major survey of Indigenous peoples in Manitoba. His final report adapted the concept of “culture” to the “Indian and Métis problem” and proposed a program of community development to promote integration through acculturation. In doing so, he advocated an integrationist conception of citizenship that emerged as the dominant liberal paradigm for thinking about Canada. Community development was…
Canada’s global villagers: Cuso in development, 1961-1986
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,” John F. Kennedy famously implored Americans in his 1961 inaugural presidential address. The Peace Corps perhaps be
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959-1977
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959–1977 Will Langford (bio) Friendship Centres were, and are, social service providers and social and cultural institutions directed toward Aboriginal peoples in Canadian cities and towns.1 They were the product of ameliorist Indigenous and non-Indigenous community social action and government intervention in response to the postwar migration of Aboriginal peoples to urban areas. Discussions of post–World War II Ab…
Thinking small: The United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr
Journal Article Thinking small: the United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr Get access Thinking small: the United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2015. 272pp. Index. £26.00. ISBN 978 0 67428 994 9. Available as e-book. Will Langford Will Langford 1Queen's University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Th International conference on public education, (Unesco/BIE) Geneva, July 1956
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959-1977
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959–1977 Will Langford (bio) Friendship Centres were, and are, social service providers and social and cultural institutions directed toward Aboriginal peoples in Canadian cities and towns.1 They were the product of ameliorist Indigenous and non-Indigenous community social action and government intervention in response to the postwar migration of Aboriginal peoples to urban areas. Discussions of post–World War II Ab…
Th International conference on public education, (Unesco/BIE) Geneva, July 1956
Thinking small: The United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr
Journal Article Thinking small: the United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr Get access Thinking small: the United States and the lure of community development. By Daniel Immerwahr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2015. 272pp. Index. £26.00. ISBN 978 0 67428 994 9. Available as e-book. Will Langford Will Langford 1Queen's University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Jean Lagassé, Community Development, and the “Indian and Métis Problem” in Manitoba in the 1950s–60s
In the late 1950s, social worker Jean Lagassé oversaw a major survey of Indigenous peoples in Manitoba. His final report adapted the concept of “culture” to the “Indian and Métis problem” and proposed a program of community development to promote integration through acculturation. In doing so, he advocated an integrationist conception of citizenship that emerged as the dominant liberal paradigm for thinking about Canada. Community development was…
Canada’s global villagers: Cuso in development, 1961-1986
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,” John F. Kennedy famously implored Americans in his 1961 inaugural presidential address. The Peace Corps perhaps be
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959-1977
Friendship Centres in Canada, 1959–1977 Will Langford (bio) Friendship Centres were, and are, social service providers and social and cultural institutions directed toward Aboriginal peoples in Canadian cities and towns.1 They were the product of ameliorist Indigenous and non-Indigenous community social action and government intervention in response to the postwar migration of Aboriginal peoples to urban areas. Discussions of post–World War II Ab…
Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West by Mansoor Ladha
Reviewed by: Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West by Mansoor Ladha Will Langford Mansoor Ladha. Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017. 252 pp. Notes. $26.95 hc. Muhindi, Calgary-based journalist Mansoor Ladha explains in his new memoir, is a Swahili word for members of the Indian diaspora (16). For Ladha, it is also an apt identity for those who were born in East Africa,…
A common situation? Canadian technical advisors and popular internationalism in Tanzania, 1961-1981
In the 1960s and 1970s, technical advisors participated in postcolonial development efforts and popular internationalism. This article addresses the politics of technical assistance as an entry point for exploring the wider shared histories of Tanzania and Canada. It shows how Canadian advisors reflected on ujamaa, race, and their relationships with Tanzanians. And it charts how lived experiences shaped their commitments abroad as well as back at…
Tyler A. Shipley, Canada in the World: Settler Colonialism and the Colonial Imagination (Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2020)
Apartheid Internationalism: Canadian Activism in Defence of White Rule in Southern Africa, 1965–94
From 1965 to 1994, some Canadians participated in transnational activism aimed at supporting or excusing white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia. Their ideas, arguments, and interconnections contributed to “apartheid internationalism,” a form of internationalism without central organization yet forged through a common cause and specific (and sometimes covert) political networks. The Canadian fraction of the movement was internally divers…
Freedom from Medicare: Maternal Activists, Organized Business, and Popular Mobilization against the Welfare State During the Saskatchewan Doctors’ Strike, 1962
In July 1962, Saskatchewan doctors went on strike in a refusal to work under the Medicare Care Act, which introduced universal health insurance in the province. The much-studied conflict between organized medicine and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government has been understood as a decisive moment in the history of public healthcare in Canada. Less studied, but equally important, the doctors were supported by a larger protest movement…
Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard . Linda M. Ambrose
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