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[[Image:Abigail Banak.jpg|thumb|200px|Bakan at a public debate]]'''Abigail "Abbie" B. Bakan''' (born 1954<ref>[http://errol.oclc.org/laf/nr91-34296.html Library of Congress Name Authority File]</ref>) is a [[Professor]] of Political Studies at [[Queen's University]], [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. Her research focuses on employment equity, [[Marxist]] theory and "anti-oppression politics".<ref>http://www.queensu.ca/politics/faculty/regular-faculty.php?bioID=13</ref> |
[[Image:Abigail Banak.jpg|thumb|200px|Bakan at a public debate]]'''Abigail "Abbie" B. Bakan''' (born 1954<ref>[http://errol.oclc.org/laf/nr91-34296.html Library of Congress Name Authority File]</ref>) is a [[Professor]] of Political Studies at [[Queen's University]], [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. Her research focuses on employment equity, [[Marxist]] theory and "anti-oppression politics".<ref>http://www.queensu.ca/politics/faculty/regular-faculty.php?bioID=13</ref> |
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In a protest held in Toronto on July 29, 2006, Bakan criticized the Government of Prime Minister [[Stephen Harper]] for supporting "Israel's illegal action against the Lebanese and Palestinian people."<ref>[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060728/mideast_protest_060728/20060729?hub=Canada Protesters condemn Harper's stance on conflict] by CTV.ca News Staff, CTV News, July. 30 2006.</ref> In a debate held at York University on May 11, 2009, Bakan and Ryerson University professor Alan Sears spoke in support of a boycott of academic institutions. (This was incorrectly reported by some as calling for a boycott of individual [[Israel|Israeli]] academics.)<ref>[http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7222&Itemid=2 The Middle-East debate rages on at York] by Scott McLean, Excalibur Web edition, York University, May 13, 2009.</ref> Recordings of the debate can be heard [here[http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33317]]. |
In a protest held in Toronto on July 29, 2006, Bakan criticized the Government of Prime Minister [[Stephen Harper]] for supporting "Israel's illegal action against the Lebanese and Palestinian people."<ref>[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060728/mideast_protest_060728/20060729?hub=Canada Protesters condemn Harper's stance on conflict] by CTV.ca News Staff, CTV News, July. 30 2006.</ref> In a debate held at [[York University]] on May 11, 2009, Bakan and [[Ryerson University]] professor Alan Sears spoke in support of a boycott of academic institutions. (This was incorrectly reported by some as calling for a boycott of individual [[Israel|Israeli]] academics.)<ref>[http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7222&Itemid=2 The Middle-East debate rages on at York] by Scott McLean, Excalibur Web edition, York University, May 13, 2009.</ref> Recordings of the debate can be heard [here[http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33317]]. |
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Educated at [[York University]], Bakan has written and edited several books including: |
Educated at [[York University]], Bakan has written and edited several books including: |
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Abigail "Abbie" B. Bakan (born 1954[1]) is a Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on employment equity, Marxist theory and "anti-oppression politics".[2]
In a protest held in Toronto on July 29, 2006, Bakan criticized the Government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for supporting "Israel's illegal action against the Lebanese and Palestinian people."[3] In a debate held at York University on May 11, 2009, Bakan and Ryerson University professor Alan Sears spoke in support of a boycott of academic institutions. (This was incorrectly reported by some as calling for a boycott of individual Israeli academics.)[4] Recordings of the debate can be heard [here[1]].
Educated at York University, Bakan has written and edited several books including:
- Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System, co-authored with Daiva Stasiulis, University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left, co-edited with Eleanor MacDonald, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7735-2252-2
- Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada, co-edited with Daiva Stasiulis, University of Toronto Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8020-7595-9
- Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative, co-edited with David Cox and Colin Leys, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-88920-220-6
- Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7735-0745-0
References
- ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ^ http://www.queensu.ca/politics/faculty/regular-faculty.php?bioID=13
- ^ Protesters condemn Harper's stance on conflict by CTV.ca News Staff, CTV News, July. 30 2006.
- ^ The Middle-East debate rages on at York by Scott McLean, Excalibur Web edition, York University, May 13, 2009.
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