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Introduction : "Tigers without teeth?" -- State mangement of civil society and the judiciary -- The development of China's environmental and HIV/AIDS crises -- Civil society responses to HIV/AIDS and environmental pollution -- HIV/AIDS carriers settling for discrimination -- Litigating for pollution victims' rights -- Who may defend the "Public Interest?" -- Conclusion : helping tigers grow teeth

Political scientists who study economic institutions often focus on how resistant they are to change. Instead of dramatic change they see path dependencies and national 'varieties' of capitalism. But what happens when economic globalizations gradually upends traditional economic arrangements?

Political scientists who study economic institutions often focus on how resistant they are to change. Instead of dramatic change they see path dependencies and national 'varieties' of capitalism. But what happens when economic globalizations gradually upends traditional economic arrangements?

"Hallyu," a term meaning "Korean Wave," refers to the ever-expanding cache of exportdrivenKorean cultural products that, since the 1990s, has primarily included dramas, pop music,film, and animation (Yong 2016, 3). As an industry that generated 6 billion USD in 2016(Korea.net 2019), and that commands roughly 35 million fans worldwide (The Korea Herald2016), Hallyu has become a formidable economic force that other domestic industries havefound lucrative alliances with (Choi 2015, 37-38). Further, the substantial direct support thatHallyu has received from the South Korean government since 2008 and that which has led to thebroadening of the Hallyu repertoire to include new forms such as games, food, electronics, andlanguage (Yong 2016, 5; Choi 2015, 44) makes South Korea and its cultural industry acompelling case study for observing how cultural forms become naturalized as they convergewith economics and government agendas. This thesis is an investigation into the categories of"popular culture" and "subculture" as viable sociological frameworks for understanding themechanics of how particular cultural forms become privileged while others become neglected.Utilizing interviews and observations that I collected during my one month stay at a Koreanlanguage university in Seoul, I demonstrate how Hallyu has been able to achieve hegemonicstatus as Korea's granted cultural expression, and how this achievement has occasioned otherKorean cultural industries to align themselves with Hallyu. I also explore the possibilities formarginalized actors within this hegemonic arrangement to manipulate elements of the dominantculture in order to meet their own needs.

"Most accounts of the provincial role in Canadian immigration focus on the experience of Quebec. In Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada, Mireille Paquet shows that, between 1990 and 2010, all ten provinces became closely involved in immigrant selection and integration. This considerable change to the Canadian model of immigration governance corresponds to a broader process of federalization of immigration, by which both orders of government became active in the management of immigration. While Canada maintains its overall positive approach to newcomers, the provinces developed, and continue to develop, their own formal immigration strategies and implement various selections and integration policies. This book argues that the process of federalization is largely the result of provincial mobilization. In each province, mobilization occurred through a modern iteration of province building, this time focused on immigrants as resources for provincial economies and societies. Advocating for a province-centred analysis of federalism, Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada provides key lessons to understanding the contemporary governance of immigration in Canada."--

Madeleine GagnonMadeleine Gagnon has made a mark on Quebec literature as a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer. Since 1969, she has published more than thirty books while at the same time teaching literature in several Quebec universities. Nancy Huston has described Madeleine Gagnon as someone in whom the boundary between inner and outer life is porous; her words are poetry and her ear for the words of others is poetry too. Everything she takes in from the world is filtered, processed, transformed by the insistent rhythms of the songs within her.Phyllis AronoffPhyllis Aronoff lives in Montr

Accommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emerged that seeks a balance between the needs of minorities and those of the majority. In Interculturalism, sociologist and historian Gérard Bouchard presents his vision of interculturalism as a model for the management of diversity. A pluralist approach which recognizes the existence of a cultural majority whose rights must also be acknowledged, interculturalism constitutes an important alternative to multiculturalism both in Canada and internationally. Written by one of Quebec's leading public intellectuals and the co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation, Interculturalism is the first clear and comprehensive statement in English of an approach being discussed around the world. A translation of Bouchard's award-winning French-language work, L'Interculturalisme: Un point de vue québécois, this book features a new foreword by philosopher Charles Taylor and an afterword by the author written specifically for the English-language edition. -- Provided by publisher

"While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society. Even after his imprisonment during the Second World War, the fanatical Adrien Arcand continued his correspondence with those in the frontlines of anti-semitism. Until his death in 1967, he pursued his campaign of propaganda against communists and Jews. Hugues Théorêt describes a dark period in Quebec's ideological history using an objective approach and careful, rigorous research in this book, which won the 2014 Canada Prize (Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities)."--