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Social Justice Studies at the University of Victoria
To provide students with a thorough understanding of the range of ways in which scholars, researchers and activists address and engage with issues surrounding social injustices and initiatives promoting social justice in the contemporary world. To help advance UVic’s vision, which includes “employing our core strengths to benefit our external communities”, “promoting civic engagement and global citizenship” and valuing “equal rights and dignity of all persons” (UVic Strategic Plan).
01/12/2023
15 movement victories in 2022 you may not have heard about ⋆ The Breach From a fossil fuel ban in Quebec, to ending migration detention in BC jails, to a wave of unionization, social movements clocked many victories this year in Canada
01/12/2023
Writing for social justice ⋆ The Breach A writing course for organizers and emerging journalists
08/30/2022
Broken Promises | Royal BC Museum and Archives Exhibition extended until November 13, 2022. In 1942, the Government of Canada detained and interned some 21,000 people of Japanese descent living in British Columbia. Within a year, the government authorized the sale of their belongings, leaving Japanese Canadians with nothing. When the internment....
08/20/2022
First music festival highlighting BIPOC performers coming to Victoria For the first time ever, a music festival showcasing BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) artists that's organized by BIPOC community members is coming to Victoria.
08/18/2022
08/17/2022
In Memory of Paige, organized by Hawkfeather Peterson It is hard to find the right words to express here. On August 14th, we lost a powerful an… Hawkfeather Peterson needs your support for In Memory of Paige
07/19/2022
in memory of Chrissy Brett, tireless activist and community organizer
Chrissy Brett remembered as a tireless advocate for homeless people, Indigenous rights | CBC News Housing advocates are mourning the death of the Nuxalk activist known for her leadership in a series of tent city encampments in Vancouver and Victoria.
07/18/2022
Fossil Fuels and Climate Breakdown: Issues of Power and Resistance
Presenter: William (Bill) K. Carroll has been a Sociology Professor at the University of Victoria since 1981. He helped establish the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies in 2008 and was its director from 2008 to 2012. His research interests include the political economy/ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. Currently, he co-directs “Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector” which is an interdisciplinary partnership between several universities and civil-society organizations that traces the modalities of corporate power and the resistance within the global political economy by focusing on fossil capital within western Canada. He has written numerous books including The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, Corporate Power in a Globalizing World, Remaking Media (with Bob Hackett), Critical Strategies for Social Research, Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times (with R.S. Ratner) and Organizing Dissent. He has won many awards for his work including the Sociology Association’s John Porter Memorial Prize twice, the University of Victoria Faculty of Social Sciences Research Excellence Award, and the CSA’s Outstanding Contribution Award.
Readings: These readings have been provided by Professor Carroll. It is suggested that they are read before the session.
Klein, Seth, and Shannon Daub. 2016. “The New Climate Denialism: Time for an Intervention.” Policy Note. Retrieved September 22, 2016 https://www.policynote.ca/the-new-climate-denialism-time-for-an-intervention/
*Corporate Mapping Project. 2019. “Fossil Power Top 50.” https://www.corporatemapping.ca/database/fossil-power-top-50/
Heede, Richard. 2019. “It's Time to Rein in the Fossil Fuel Giants Before their Greed Chokes the Planet.” The Guardian. Retrieved April 1, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions
Coulthard, Glen. 2013. “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die.” Rabble. Retrieved April 8, 2019 http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/our-nations-to-live-capitalism-must-die
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Registration William (Bill) Carroll Date: July 20th from 10 am PT/ 11 am MT Fossil Fuels and Climate Breakdown: Issues of Power and Resistance 30-45 minutes presentation followed by 15 min Q & A Presenter: William (Bill) K. Carroll has been a Sociology Professor at the University of Victoria since 1981. He helpe...
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