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My primary research focus is on social and political change in Canada, and the ability of powerless and marginalized people to challenge state power and the hegemony of law. In particular, I am interested in the impact of rights discourse on social movements. In my recent book titled Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982, I explored the emergence of human rights and civil liberties associations in Canada and examined issues such as the impact of the baby boom generation on social movements, state funding of social movements, ideologies of rights and the failure to create a national rights association. The book also details numerous human rights controversies in Canadian history, notably national security regulations, denominational education, narcotics, the creation of civilian review boards for police, censorship, welfare regulations and other topics. I am currently writing two books: a study of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission and a history of the women's movement in Canada. In addition, I am working on projects that deal with single mothers on welfare in Ontario and British Columbia since WWII; the history of the Jewish Labour Committee as a case study in the institutionalization of the labour movement; policing in Toronto; and the impact of local conditions on provincial human rights commissions in Canada. Finally, I have also begun work on a study of the relationship between international human rights institutions and Canadian law, social movements and foreign policy.
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Dominique Clément. Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008). Click here to order a copy.
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Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément and Greg Kealey, eds.. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). Click here to order a copy.
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Dominique Clément and Gerry Gall, eds. Alberta's Human Rights Story: The Search for Equality and Justice (Edmonton: John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, 2011). |
Dominique Clément. ‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: The Women’s Movement and the Human Rights State in British Columbia, 1953-1984 (under submission).
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Dominique Clément. "The Rights Revolution in Canada and Australia: International Politics, Social Movements, and Domestic Law" (in-progress).
Dominique Clément. "Social Movements and Human Rights Law in Canada, 1954 to 1984" (in-progress).
Dominique Clément. “’Freedom’ of Information in Canada: Implications for Historical Research.” (in-progress).
Dominique Clément. "Alberta's Rights Revolution." British Journal of Canadian Studies (under review)
Dominique Clément. "The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada: From “Nigardly Acceptance” to Enthusiastic Embrace."Human Rights Quarterly (forthcoming 2012).
Dominique Clément. "Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and the Newfoundland Human Rights State.” Acadiensis (forthcoming 2012).
Dominique Clément. “A Sociology of Human Rights: Rights Through a Social Movement Lens.” Canadian Review of Sociology 48, 2 (2011): 121-135.
Lara Campbell and Dominique Clément. “Time, Age, Myth: Towards a History of the Sixties.” in Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément and Greg Kealey, eds. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Dominique Clément. “Human Rights Milestones in Alberta.” In Dominique Clément and Gerry Gall, eds., Alberta Legacies: Human Rights Milestones (Edmonton: John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, 2011).
Dominique Clément. “Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982.” In Lorne Tepperman ed., Reading Sociology (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Dominique Clément. “’Self-Perpetuating Grievance Machines’: Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia, 1953-1984.” In Sara Carter, Alvin Finkel and Peter Fortna, eds., The West and Beyond (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010): 297-325.
Dominique Clément. “‘Generations and the Transformation of Social Movements in Post-war Canada.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 42, 84 (2009): 361-388.
Dominique Clément. “The October Crisis of 1970: Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures Act.” Journal of Canadian Studies 42, 2 (Spring 2008): 160-186. Reprinted in Quebec Since 1945: Selected Readings (MQUP, 2011).
Dominique Clément. “The Human Rights State: The Women’s Movement and the Human Rights Paradigm, 1969-1984” Radical History Review 101 (Spring 2008): 107-129. (posted with permission of Radical History Review and Duke University Press)
Dominique Clément. “‘Rights Without the Sword Are But Mere Words’: The Limits of Canada’s Modern Rights Revolution.” in Janet Miron, ed., True North Strong and Free? A History of Human Rights in Canada (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2008): 43-60.
Dominique Clément. "An Exercise in Futility? Regionalism, State Funding and Ideology as Obstacles to the Formation of a National Social Movement Organization in Canada." BC Studies 146 (Summer 2005): 63-91.
Dominique Clément. "‘It is Not the Beliefs but the Crime that Matters:’ Post-War Civil Liberties Debates in Canada and Australia." Labour History (Australia) 86 (May 2004): 1-32.
Dominique Clément. "Searching for Rights in the Age of Activism: The Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association, 1968-1982." Newfoundland Studies 19, 2 (Spring 2003): 347-372.
Dominique Clément."The Royal Commission on Espionage, 1946-8: A Case Study in the Mobilization of the Canadian Civil Liberties Movement." Left History 7, 2 (2001): 53-79.
Dominique Clément."The Royal Commission on Espionage and the Spy Trials of 1946-9: A Case Study in Parliamentary Supremacy." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 11 (2000): 151-172.
“Andrews S. Thompson - In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in Canada.” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010). Canadian Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).
“Joan Sangster - Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.” (London: Pluto Press, 2009) Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme (Vol.28, No. 2/3, 2011).
“Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherford, eds. - New World Coming: The Sixties and Global Consciousness” (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009) Canadian Historical Review (forthcoming)
“Stephanie Bangarth – Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008) Canadian Historical Review (Vol.91, No.1, 2010).
“William Tetley – The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View” (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006) British Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol.20, No.2, 2007).
“Matt James - Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006) Canadian Journal of Law and Society (Vol.22, No.1, 2007).
“Derek Fudge - Collective Bargaining in Canada: Human Rights or Canadian Illusion, 2nd edition” (Black Point: Fernwood Publishing, 2006) British Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol.20, No.1, 2007).
“Amy Knight - How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies” (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005) Intelligence and National Security (Vol.21, No.2, 2006).
“Gary Teeple - The Riddle of Human Rights (Aurora: Garamond Press 2004) Labour/Le Travail (No.57, Spring 2006).
“Ross Lambertson- Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960,” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) American Review of Canadian Studies (Vol.36, No.1, Spring 2006).
“Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, and David Headon, eds , - From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada” (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004) Canadian Historical Review (Vol. 87, No.1, March 2006).
"Leo Driedger- Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities" (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2003), American Review of Canadian Studies (Vol.35, No.4, Winter 2005).
"Reg Whitaker and Steve Hewitt, Canada and the Cold War" (Toronto: James Lorimer, 2003) Canadian Historical Review (Vol. 85, No., December 2004).
"Christopher MacLennan, Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960" (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003) Labour/Le Travail (Vol.54, Fall 2004).
"Tom Warner - A History of Queer Activism in Canada” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) Australian Canadian Studies (Vol.20, No.2, 2002).
"Laurel Sefton MacDowell - Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J.L. Cohen"(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)" Labour/Le Travail (Vol. 50, Fall 2002).
David Churchill, Dominique Clément, Karen Dubinsky, Ian Hudson, Esyllt Jones, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Mark Leir, Steven Maynard, Sean Mills, Debra Parkes, Adele Perry. People's Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Publishing, 2012).
Dominique Clément, Will Silver and Dan Trottier. Research Report to obtain expert knowledge on and the analysis of the evolution of Canadians’ conceptions of human rights in the twentieth century. (Ottawa: Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2012).
Dominique Clément. “Generational Change and Writing Canadian History: Obstacles to An Inclusive National History” Canadian Issues: Canada’s Diverse Histories (Winter 2010).
Dominique Clément, " Should the First Nations of Canada have their own form of citizenship?" Unpublished Essay. Special Collections Division of the Library, University of British Columbia. February, 1999 (William Black Memorial Prize winner).
Anne Bailey, Dominique Clément, Patricia Demers, Paul Ledwell, Jennifer McRobert, Robert O'Kell, Doug Owram, Kathy Sanford, The Academy as Community: A Manual of Best Practices for Meeting the Needs of New Scholars (Ottawa: Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Task Force on New Scholars, 2004).
www.HistoryOfRights.com
Canada's Rights Movement: A History is a site dedicated to the history of the human rights movement in Canada. It is a teaching and research portal for the study of social movements dedicated to human rights. In addition to providing valuable information on key human rights controversies in Canadian history, the site provides access to extensive primary documents on events, individuals and organizations. The site also contains detailed reading lists, links to other resources, and up to date information on conferences, publications, funding and individual in Canada working in this field.
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