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MAIS 635: Equality in Context is a course that explores ideas about equality in the context of a number of scholarly disciplines, social movements, and globalization.

Textbook

Hurrell, A. & Woods, N. (1999). Inequality, globalization, and world politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Baker, J., Lynch, K., Cantillon, S., & Walsh, J. (2009). Equality: From theory to action (2nd ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Unit 1

Part I

Required Readings

Gosepath, Stefan. 2001. Equality. In The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Palo Alto, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University.

Supplementary Readings

Clayton, Matthew, and Andrew Williams, eds. 2002. The ideal of equality. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Dworkin, Ronald. 2000. Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Unit 2

Required Readings

Government of Canada. 1982. Canadian charter of Rights and Freedoms (Schedule B, Consitution Act, 1982). Government of Canada.

James, C. E. 2003. About equity programs. In Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Cuture (3rd ed.) (169–198). Thompson Educational Publishing.

Ventura, Caterina. 1995. From outlawing discrimination to promoting equality: Canada’s experience with anti-discrimination legislation. International Migration Papers 6. Geneva: Employment Department, International Labour Office. Please read Parts 1–3 (pp. 1–9). This site has been linked to information maintained by The International Labour Organization at http://www.ilo.org/.

Please read two of the below.

Amnesty International. 2004. Stolen sisters: A human rights response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous women in Canada. Amnesty International.

Bauder, Harald. 2003. Equality, justice and the problem of international borders: The case of Canadian immigration regulation. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 2 (2): 167–182. This site has been linked to information maintained by ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies at http://www.acme-journal.org.

CBC News. The Supreme Court and same-sex marriage. CBC News Online, June 14, 2005.

Crichlow, Wesley. 2002. Western colonization as disease: Native adoption and cultural genocide. Critical Social Work 3 (1).

D'Aubin, April, Yvonne Peters, and Gary Annable. 2003.   Disability Rights in Canada: A Virtual Museum.

Moorcroft, Lois. 2005. Newfoundland women want pay equity too. Canadian Dimension 39 (2) (March/April): 6–7.

Supplementary Readings

Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. 1982. None is too many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948. Toronto: Lester Orpen Dennys Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Adams, Howard. 1989. Prison of grass: Canada from a Native point of view. Saskatoon: Fifth House. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Avery, Donald H. 1995. Reluctant host: Canada’s response to immigrant workers, 1896–1994. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Backhouse, Constance. 1999. Colour-coded: A legal history of racism in Canada, 1900–1950. Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Bracken, Christopher. 1997. The potlatch papers: A colonial case history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Carnegie, Herb H., and Robert Payne. 1997. A fly in a pail of milk: The Herb Carnegie story. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Das Gupta, Tania. 1996. Racism and paid work. Toronto: Garamond Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Day, Richard J. F. 2000. Multiculturalism and the history of Canadian diversity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Foster, Cecil. 1996. A place called heaven: The meaning of being Black in Canada. Toronto: Harper Perennial Canada. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Galabuzi, Grace-Edward. 2001. Canada’s creeping economic apartheid. Toronto: Canadian Social Justice Foundation for Research and Education. Use WorldCat to find this book in a library near you.

Henry, Annette. 1998. Taking back control: African Canadian women teachers’ lives and practice. Albany: State University of New York Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Jakubowski, Lisa Marie. 1997. Immigration and the legalization of racism. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Kelley, Ninette, and Michael Trebilcock. 1998. The making of the mosaic: A history of Canadian immigration policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Kinsman, Gary. 1996. The regulation of desire: Homo and hetero sexualities. 2nd ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Monture-Angus, Patricia. 1995. Thunder in my soul: A Mohawk woman speaks. Halifax: Fernwood Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Palmer, Hazelle, ed. 1997. “…but where are you really from?”: Stories of identity and assimilation in Canada. Toronto: Sister Vision Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Razack, Sherene H. 1998. Looking white people in the eye: Gender, race, and culture in courtrooms and classrooms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Satzewich, Vic, ed. 1998. Racism and social inequality in Canada: Concepts, controversies, and strategies of resistance. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 3

Part II

Required Readings

Arneson, Richard. 2002. Egalitarianism. In The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Palo Alto, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University.

Arneson, Richard. 2002. Equality of opportunity. In The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Palo Alto, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University.

Swift, Adam. 2002. Justice, luck and the family: Normative aspects of the intergenerational transmission of economic status. Early version of article printed in Unequal chances: Social background and economic success, edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa A. Osborne (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). This site has been linked to information maintained by Equality Exchange at http://mora.rente.nhh.no/projects/EqualityExchange/.

Nathanson, Stephen. Equality, Sufficiency, Decency: Three Criteria for Economic Justice,” by Stephen Nathanson

Supplementary Readings

Clayton, Matthew, and Andrew Williams, eds. 2002. The ideal of equality. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Cohen, Gerald Allan. 2000. If you’re an egalitarian, how come you’re so rich? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Dugger, William M., ed. 1996. Inequality: Radical institutionalist views on race, gender, class, and nation. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Use WorldCat to find this book in a library near you.

Dworkin, Ronald M. 2000. Sovereign virtue: The theory and practice of equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Mason, Andrew, ed. 1998. Ideals of equality. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Miller, David. 1999. Principles of social justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Miller, David, and Michael Walzer, eds. 1995. Pluralism, justice, and equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Nussbaum, Martha C., and Amartya Sen, eds. 1999. The quality of life. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Pojman, Louis P., and Robert Westmoreland, eds. 1997. Equality: Selected readings. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Rawls, John. 1971. A theory of justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Rawls, John. 2001. Justice as fairness: A restatement. Edited by Erin Kelly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Roemer, John E. 1998. Equality of opportunity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Sen, Amartya. 1995. Inequality reexamined. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 4

Required Readings

Rawls, J. 1997. Justice and equality. In Equality: Selected Readings, edited by Louis P. Pojman and Robert Westmoreland (183–190). Oxford University Press.

Nussbaum, Martha. 2001. The enduring significance of John Rawls. Chronicle of Higher Education 47 (45) (July 20): B7–9.

Supplementary Readings

Clayton, Matthew, and Andrew Williams, eds. 2000. The ideal of equality. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Mason, Andrew, ed. 1998. Ideals of equality. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Miller, David, and Michael Walzer, eds. 1995. Pluralism, justice, and equality. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Pojman, Louis P., and Robert Westmoreland, eds. 1997. Equality: Selected readings. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Roemer, John E. 1998. Equality of opportunity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 5

Part III

Required Readings

Walzer, M. (1983). Complex equality. In Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (3–30). Basic Books.

Gutman, A.  Justice Across the Spheres.   In Miller, D. and Walzer, M. (1995) Pluralism, Justice, and Equality (Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003).

Moller Okin, Susan.  Politics and the Complex Inequalities of Gender. In Miller, D. and Walzer, M. (1995) Pluralism, Justice, and Equality (Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003).

Supplementary Readings

Equality Exchange.

Miller, David, and Michael Walzer. 1995. Pluralism, justice, and equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Walzer, Michael. 1983. Spheres of justice: A defense of pluralism and equality. New York: Basic Books. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 6

Required Readings

Lipsitz Bem, S. 2000. The conundrum of difference. In Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, ed. Maurianne Adams et al. (228–232). Routledge.

Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Displacing the distributive paradigm. In Justice and the Politics of Difference (15–38). Princeton University Press.

Fraser, Nancy. 2000. Rethinking recognition. New Left Review 3 (May–June): 107–120.

Singer, Peter. 1989. All animals are equal. In Animal rights and human obligations, edited by Tom Regan and Peter Singer. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Williams, Patricia. 2005. Race, gender, and Patricia Williams. Broadcast on The Connection, WBUR Boston and National Public Radio, January 13, 2005.

Supplementary Readings

Adams, Maurianne, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Rosie Castañeda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, and Ximena Zúñiga, eds. 2000. Readings for diversity and social justice. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Barnes, Colin, Mike Oliver, and Len Barton, eds. 2002. Disability studies today. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press/Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Cavalieri, Paola, and Peter Singer, eds. 1996. The great ape project: Equality beyond humanity. New York: St. Martin’s Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Cochran, David Carroll. 1999. The color of freedom: Race and contemporary American liberalism. Albany: State University of New York Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Davis, Leonard J. 1995. Enforcing normalcy: Disability, deafness, and the body. New York: Verso. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Fraser, Nancy. 1997. Justice interruptus: Critical reflections on the “postsocialist” condition. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Kittay, Eva Feder. 1999. Love’s labor: Essays on women, equality, and dependency. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Lewis, Gail. 2000. “Race,” gender, social welfare: Encounters in a postcolonial society. Malden, MA: Polity Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Nussbaum, Martha C. 2000. Sex and social justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Regan, Tom. 2001. Defending animal rights. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Smith, Patricia, ed. 1993. Feminist jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Taylor, Charles. 1994. Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition. Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Williams, Patricia J. 1991. The alchemy of race and rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Williams, Patricia J. 1998. Seeing a color-blind future: The paradox of race. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Young, Iris Marion. 2000. Inclusion and democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 7

Part IV Required Readings

McDermott, Ray, and Hervé Varenne. 1995. Culture as disability. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 26 (3) (September): 324–348.

Supplementary Readings

Diani, Mario, and Doug McAdam, eds. 2003. Social movements and networks: Relational approaches to collective action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, eds. 1999. How social movements matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper, eds. 2003. The social movements reader: Cases and concepts. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Lent, Adam. 2001. British social movements since 1945: Sex, colour, peace and power. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Meyer, David, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, eds. 2002. Social movements: Identity, culture and the state. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping track: How schools structure inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds. 2004. The Blackwell companion to social movements. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Zunes, Stephen, Lester R. Kurtz, and Sarah Beth Asher, eds. 1999. Nonviolent social movements: A geographical perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 8

Supplementary Readings

Adams, Maurianne, Lee Ann Bell, and Pat Griffin, eds. 2007. Teaching for diversity and social justice. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Apple, Michael W. 2006. Educating the “right” way: Markets, standards, God, and inequality. 2nd ed. New York: RoutledgeFalmer. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Diani, Mario, and Doug McAdam, eds. 2003. Social movements and networks: Relational approaches to collective action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, eds. 1998. From contention to democracy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, eds. 1999. How social movements matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper, eds. 2003. The social movements reader: Cases and concepts. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

James, Carl E. 2003. Seeing ourselves: Exploring ethnicity, race, and culture. 3rd ed. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond borders: Advocacy networks in international politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Lent, Adam. 2001. British social movements since 1945: Sex, colour, peace and power. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

McLaren, Peter. 2000. Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Meyer, David, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, eds. 2002. Social movements: Identity, culture and the state. New York: Oxford University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven. 2000. Women and human development: The capabilities approach. New York: Cambridge University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping track: How schools structure inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Sevenhuijsen, Selma. 1998. Citizenship and the ethics of care: Feminist considerations on justice, morality and politics. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds. 2004. The Blackwell companion to social movements. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Waters, Sarah. 2003. Social movements in France: Towards a new citizenship. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Zunes, Stephen, Lester R. Kurtz, and Sarah Beth Asher, eds. 1999. Nonviolent social movements: A geographical perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Unit 9

Part V Required Reading

French, H. 2004. Linking globalization, consumption, and governance. In State of the World 2004: The Consumer Society (144–161). World Watch Institute/W. W. Norton & Company. You can find this reading on page 144 of the PDF.

Supplementary Readings

Barber, Benjamin. 2001. Jihad vs. McWorld. New York: Ballantine Books. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998. Globalization: The human consequences. New York: Columbia University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

Focus on the Global South.

Klein, Naomi. 2000. No logo: Taking aim at the brand bullies. Toronto: Vintage Canada. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Klein, Naomi. 2002. Fences and windows: Dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate. New York: Picador. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Madeley, John. 2000. Hungry for trade: How the poor pay for free trade. London: Zed Books. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Shiva, Vandana. 2002. Water wars: Privatization, pollution, and profit. Toronto: Between the Lines. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2002. Globalization and its discontents. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

WorldWatch Institute. 2007. Vital signs 2007-2008: The trends that are shaping our future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Click here to read about this book on the WorldWatch Institure website.

YaleGlobal Online.

Unit 10

Required Readings Please read two of the below.

Rosemann, Nils. 2005. Financing the human right to water as a millennium development goal. Law, Social Justice & Global Development (LGD) 9 (1) (October).

Weissman, Robert. 2003. Grotesque inequality: Corporate globalization and the global gap between rich and poor. Multinational Monitor 24 (7 & 8) (July/August).

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 2005. Education for all global monitoring report 2006: Literacy for life. Paris: UNESCO.

Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS), University of California, Santa Cruz. 2007. Global inequalities in health. In The University of California atlas of global inequality. CGIRS, University of California, Santa Cruz.

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). 2006. The state of the world’s children 2007. New York: UNICEF.

Supplementary Readings

Amnesty International USA. 2001. Broken bodies, shattered minds: Torture and ill-treatment of women. New York: Amnesty International USA Publications. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The claims of culture: Equality and diversity in the global era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Carroll, William, Radhika Desai, and Warren Magnusson. 1996. Globalization, social justice, and social movements: A reader. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Horton, Keith, and Haig Patapan, eds. 2004. Globalisation and equality. New York: Routledge. This book is particularly recommended. It is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Kitching, Gavin N. 2001. Seeking social justice through globalization: Escaping a nationalist perspective. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Mishra, Ramesh. 1999. Globalization and the welfare state. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

O’Brien, Robert, Anna Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, and Marc Williams. 2000. Contesting global governance: Multilateral economic institutions and global social movements. New York: Cambridge University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Paehlke, Robert. 2003. Democracy’s dilemma: Environment, social equity, and the global economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Parpart, Jane L., Shirin M. Rai, and Kathleen Staudt, eds. 2003. Rethinking empowerment: Gender and development in a global/local world. New York: Routledge. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Pietillä, Hilkka. 2002. Engendering the global agenda: The story of women and the United Nations. Geneva: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko. 2002. World poverty and human rights. Malden, MA: Polity Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Roche, Douglas. 1999. Bread not bombs: A political agenda for social justice. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Sarkar, Saral K. 1999. Eco-socialism or eco-capitalism? A critical analysis of humanity’s fundamental choices. New York: Zed Books. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Tan, Kok-Chor. 2000. Toleration, diversity, and global justice. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.

Tan, Kok-Chor. 2004. Justice without borders: Cosmopolitanism, nationalism and patriotism. New York: Cambridge University Press. This book is available from the Athabasca University Library.