Conflicts of Interest: Canada and the Third World

by Jamie Swift (Editor), Brian Tomlinson (Editor)

Overview

Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada’s role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted as a course text at the college and university level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926662640
Publisher:	Between the Lines
Publication date:	05/01/1991
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	349
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jamie Swift is the author of several books on politics, history, and social justice. Brian Tomlinson is a past co-ordinator of the Latin America Program at CUSO-Ottawa.

Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of numerous books. He works on social justice issues for the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Terminology

Introduction
Jamie Swift

One Development in the 1990s: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Economic Relations with the Third World
Brian Tomlinson

Two The Debt Crisis: A Case of Global Usury
Jamie Swift & The Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice

Three Women and Development Revisited: The Case for a Gender and Development Approach
Betty Plewes & Rieky Stewart

Four Wheat At What Cost? CIDA and the Tanzania-Canada Wheat Program
Charles Lane

Five Canadian NGOs and the Politics of Participation
Brian K. Murphy

Six The Environmental Challenge: Towards a Survival Economy
Richard Swift

Seven Missiles and Malnutrition: The Links Between Militarization and Underdevelopment
Esther Epp-Tiessen

Eight A Native View of Development
Pam Colorado

Nine Mass Media Worldviews: Canadian Images of the Third World
Eleanor O’Donnell

Ten Manufacturing Legitimacy: Ideology, Politics, and Third World Foreign Policy
Anton L. Allahar

Bibliography
Henry Veltmeyer

Contributors

Index