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SOCI 4113

Special Topics

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Upon completion of this course, students
  • change in the Canadian North and the main social processes at work in the region
  • main socio-historic processes behind their development
  • and explain recent changes that these communities are experiencing
  • the Canadian North’s main economic activities as well as explain how
  • and why changes in these activities are currently impacting northern communities
  • the major social challenges that Northern communities face and explain
  • their origins
  • address issues and questions related to the Canadian North
Fall 2025 · Critical Thinkers, Critical Times / Special Topics

Topics

  • Session 10 Criticisms of settler colonialism in Canada
  • Fung, A. 2021. "Is Settler Colonialism Just Another Study of Whiteness?". Canadian
  • Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques Au Canada 53:115-31
  • Petray, Theresa. 2012. "Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories
  • of Indigenous Issues." in Theorising Indigenous Sociology: Australian
  • Perspectives. , edited by D. Howard-Wagner, D. Habibis and T. Petray. Sydney
  • Australia: University of Sydney e-Press
  • process?” Canadian Geographies-Geographies Canadiennes
  • Session 11 and 12 Presentations
Fall 2025 · Special Topics in Gender and Social Justice / Special Topics

Readings

  • Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory and Kimberly Nixon”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19 (2) (2007), 305-334.
  • Samuel Singer, “Trans Rights Are Not Just Human Rights: Legal Strategies for Trans Justice”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 35 (2) (2020), 293-315.
  • Lori Chambers and Jen Roth, “Prejudice Unveiled: The Niqab in Court”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 29 (3) (2014), 381-396.
  • Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, “Islamophobia in Canada: Measuring the Realities of Negative Attitudes Towards Muslims and Discrimination”, Canadian Review of Sociology (2018):
  • L. Levitt, “Impossible assimilations, American liberalism, and Jewish difference: Revisiting Jewish secularism”, American Quarterly 59 (3) (2007), 807-832.
  • Lori Chambers, “Boil Water Advisories and Federal (In)Action: The Politics of Potable Water in Pikangikum First Nation”, Journal of Canadian Studies 51 (2) (2017), 289-310.
  • Shiri Pasternak, Sue Collins and Tia Dafnos, “Criminalization at Tyendinaga: Securing Canada’s Colonial Property Regime through Specific Land Claims”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 28 (1) (2013), 65-82.
  • Michaela McGuire and Danielle Murdoch, “In-Justice: An exploration of dehumanization, victimization, criminalization and the over-incarceration of Indigenous women”, Punishment and Society 24 (4) (2021):
  • Constance Backhouse, “Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case”, McGill Law Journal 68 (4) (2023), 493-507.
  • Sabaa Khan, “From Labour of Love to Decent Work: Protecting the Human Rights of Migrant Caregivers in Canada”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 24 (1) (2009), 23-46.
  • David Murray, “The Challenge of Home for Sexual Orientation and Gendered Identity Refugees in Toronto”, Journal of Canadian Studies 48 (1) (2014), 132-152.
  • Jenny Francis, “Human rights violations as humanist performance: Dehumanizing criminalized refugee youth in Canada”, The Canadian Geographer 6 (1) (2019), 129-144.
  • Leah Hamilton and James Mulvale, “’Human Again’: The (Unrealized) Promise of Basic Income in Ontario”, Journal of Poverty 23 (7) (2019):
  • Terry Skolnik, “Homelessness and Unconstitutional Discrimination”, Journal of Law and Equity 15 (2019), 69-94.
  • Jessica Braimoh, Erin Dej, and Carrie Sanders, “‘Somebody’s street’: Eviction of Homeless Encampments as a Reflection of Interlocking Colonial and Class Relations”, Journal of Law and Social Policy 36 (2023), 12-22:
  • Cardona, Nevin Heard, and Tiffani Johnson, “Structuring Poverty: How Racism Shapes Child Poverty and Child and Adolescent Health”, Academic Pediatrics 21 (8) (2021), S108- S116:
  • Doret Phillips and Gordon Pon, “Anti-Black Racism, Bio-Power and Governmentality: Deconstructing the Suffering of Black Families Involved with Child Welfare, Journal of Law and Social Policy 28 (1) (2018), 81-101.
  • Naiomi Walqwan Metallic, “A Human Right to Self-Government over First Nations Child and Family Services and Beyond”, Journal of Law and Social Policy 28 (2) (2018), 4-42.
  • Hamish Stewart, “Parents, Children and the Law of Assault”, Dalhousie Law Journal 32 (1) (2009), 1-34.
  • Lara Karaian, “Pregnant Men: Repronormativity, Critical Trans Theory and the Re(conceive)ing of Sex, Gender, and Pregnancy in Anti-Discrimination Law”, Social and Legal Studies 22 (2) (2013), 211-230.
  • Jocelyn Downie and Udo Schuklenk, “Social Determinants of Health and Slippery Slopes in Assisted Dying Debates”, Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (10) (2021), 662-669.
  • Marc-Antoine Marquis and Antoine Payot, “Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada”, Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care 54 (1) (2024):
  • Adelina Iftene and Jocelyn Downie, “End of Life Care for Federally Incarcerated Individuals in Canada”, McGill Journal of Law and Health 14 (1) (2020), 1-50. Human Rights in My Community assignment is due today.
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  • 24 (4) (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211001685. ↗
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  • 23 (7) (2019): https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2019.1616242. ↗
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  • Relations”, Journal of Law and https://doi.org/10.60082/0829- ↗
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  • Health Care 54 (1) (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cppeds.2023.101453. ↗
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