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Preface List of Key Acronyms Introduction: Theories of Group and Movement Organizing, Miriam Smith Part I: Political Economy 1. Business Interests and Civil Society in Canada, Peter Clancy 2. Party On or Party's Over? Organized Labour and Canadian Politics, Charlotte Yates & Amanda Coles 3. Farm Groups in Canadian Politics, Grace Skogstad 4. Mobilizing On the Defensive: Anti-Poverty Advocacy and Activism in Times of Austerity, Jonathan Greene 5. Occupy: History, Physicality, Virtuality, Matt James Part II: Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion 6. Ethnocultural Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights in Canada, Audrey Kobayashi 7. The Women's Movement in Flux: Feminism and Framing, Passion, and Politics, Alexandra Dobrowolsky 8. Identity and Opportunity: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Movement, Miriam Smith 9. Populist and Conservative Christian Evangelical Movements: A Comparison of Canada and the United States, Trevor W. Harrison Part III: Nations and Nationalism 10. Aysaka'paykinit: Contesting the Rope Around the Nations' Neck, Kiera L. Ladner 11. Nationalism and Protest: The Sovereignty Movement in Quebec, Pascale Dufour and Christophe Traisnel Part IV: Environment, Disability, and Health 12. The Canadian Environmental Movement: Remembering Who We Are, Robert Paehlke 13. Meaning Frames, Opportunity Structures, and Rights in the Canadian Disability Rights Movement, Lisa Vanhala 14. Health Social Movements: The Next Wave in Contentious Politics? Michael Orsini List of Contributors Index

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