peace st 1a03 (2010/11) lecture 9: grassroots approaches to peace ii

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Lecture 9Monday March 7 2011

PEACE ST 1A03: Introduction to Peace Studies

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Grassroots approaches IIThe Red Hill Creek Valley

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Outline

Public space

Treaty rights

Poverty and social class

Car culture

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Maia Iotzova (2004)

Documents the struggle

Grass Through Concrete

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Key themes

Support for Six

Nations Social & environmental

Justice

Civic duty to act

Perceptions of law

changes arrest us

(civill disobedience)

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Citations & further reading

Walter Peace (1998), From Mountain to Lake: the Red Hill Creek valley, Conserver

Society of Hamilton

Colin Salter (2009) Contested Grounds: incommensurability and the paradigms of

whiteness, in Barbara Baird and Damien W. Riggs, The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nationsand Knowledges, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Image sources

Peace flag, original source unknown.

Marc Riboud. Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County,

Virginia, Saturday, 21 October, 1967 http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Elisa Iannacone. As leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Toronto, Canada, protesters took to the streets

[caption]. G20 summit protests in Toronto : Your pictures, BBC News, 27 June 2010 http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/10427404

The U.S. vs. John Lennon reproduced from Jrgen Fauths Muckworld http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/02/14/the-

us-vs-john-lennon/

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