Simon Vickers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5812028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Vickers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Vickers |
| SIGNATURE | VICKERS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Historian/Archivist |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ricardo Tranjan, The Tenant Class
Trefann Court Revisited
In the late 1960s, a group of working-class residents and professional activists in Trefann Court, Toronto, convinced City Hall to abandon a proposal for the urban renewal of their neighbourhood. In the years since, activists and historians have celebrated Trefann Court as a defining blow to technocratic urban planning and the launch point for the career of reform politician John Sewell. Drawing on the archive left by Graham Fraser, the author of…
From Balconville to Condoville, but Where Is Co-opville? Neighbourhood Activism in 1980s Pointe-Saint-Charles
Historians of postwar Canada have relegated neighbourhood activism to specific periods of city-wide mobilization. In Montréal, for example, authors who participated in or studied urban social movements describe a rapid decline in activism following the first sovereignty referendum in 1980. This periodization of activism has privileged the experiences of a mostly middle-class left who circulated in activist networks spanning the city and has large…
Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec by Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin
Reviewed by: Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec by Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin Simon Vickers Warren, Jean-Philippe and Andrée Fortin – Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec. Québec: Les éditions du Septentrion, 2015. Pp. 266. In their new book on counter-culture in Quebec, Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin introduce a welcome layer to the story of Quebec’s New Left in the 1960s and 1970s. To date, mo…
From Balconville to Condoville, but Where Is Co-opville? Neighbourhood Activism in 1980s Pointe-Saint-Charles
Historians of postwar Canada have relegated neighbourhood activism to specific periods of city-wide mobilization. In Montréal, for example, authors who participated in or studied urban social movements describe a rapid decline in activism following the first sovereignty referendum in 1980. This periodization of activism has privileged the experiences of a mostly middle-class left who circulated in activist networks spanning the city and has large…
Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec by Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin
Reviewed by: Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec by Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin Simon Vickers Warren, Jean-Philippe and Andrée Fortin – Pratiques et Discours de la Contreculture au Québec. Québec: Les éditions du Septentrion, 2015. Pp. 266. In their new book on counter-culture in Quebec, Jean-Philippe Warren and Andrée Fortin introduce a welcome layer to the story of Quebec’s New Left in the 1960s and 1970s. To date, mo…
From Balconville to Condoville, but Where Is Co-opville? Neighbourhood Activism in 1980s Pointe-Saint-Charles
Historians of postwar Canada have relegated neighbourhood activism to specific periods of city-wide mobilization. In Montréal, for example, authors who participated in or studied urban social movements describe a rapid decline in activism following the first sovereignty referendum in 1980. This periodization of activism has privileged the experiences of a mostly middle-class left who circulated in activist networks spanning the city and has large…
Trefann Court Revisited
In the late 1960s, a group of working-class residents and professional activists in Trefann Court, Toronto, convinced City Hall to abandon a proposal for the urban renewal of their neighbourhood. In the years since, activists and historians have celebrated Trefann Court as a defining blow to technocratic urban planning and the launch point for the career of reform politician John Sewell. Drawing on the archive left by Graham Fraser, the author of…
Ricardo Tranjan, The Tenant Class
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Neighbourhood (mathematics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)