Clément, Dominique

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
4-12 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H4

Office Phone: 780-492-4316
Fax: 780-492-7196

Email: dominique.clement@ualberta.ca

Internet: www.HistoryOfRights.com

Employment and Training:

Queen's University (B.A.H.)
University of British Columbia (M.A.)
Memorial University of Newfoundland (PhD)
University of Sydney, Australia (Visiting Scholar)
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Postdoctoral Fellow)
University of Victoria, B.C. (Assistant Professor & Postdoctoral Fellow) 

Research Expertise    

Human Rights  (law and activism)
Social Movements
Women's History
Law and Society
Labour studies
Canada-Australia comparative
International Politics 

General Fields

Social Policy
Historical Sociology
Research Methods
Comparative Research

For a complete profile, visit: www.HistoryOfRights.com/webmaster.html 

Recent Publications:

Books

Dominique Clément, Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008). [Winner, Canadian Sociological Association’s John Porter Book Award]

 

 

 

 

Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément and Greg Kealey, eds. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

 

 

 

Dominique Clément, ed. Alberta's Human Rights Story: The Search for Equality and Justice (Edmonton: John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, 2012).

 

 

 

 

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. ‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: The Rise and Fall of the British Columbia Human Rights State, 1953-1984 (under review)

Books (in-progress)

Dominique Clément. A History of the Women’s Movement in Canada.

Articles

  • Dominique Clément, Will Silver and Dan Trottier. “The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada.” Ottawa: Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2012.
  • Dominique Clément. “Generational Change and Writing Canadian History: Obstacles to an Inclusive National History.” Canadian Issues: Faire comprendre la réalité francophone canadienne: le defi de renforcer l'identité par l'enseignement de l'histoire (Summer 2011): 75-78.
  • 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.” (under review). 
  • Dominique Clément. “Alberta’s Rights Revolution.” British Journal of Canadian Studies (under review). 
  • Dominique Clément. “Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and the Newfoundland Human Rights State.” Acadiensis (forthcoming 2012). 
  • Dominique Clément. “The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada: From ‘Niggardly Acceptance’ to Enthusiastic Embrace.” Human Rights Quarterly (forthcoming 2012). 
  • 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: Alberta’s Rights Revolution.” In 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. “Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982.” In Lorne Tepperman, ed., Reading Sociology (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2011): 311-313. 
  • Dominique Clément. “A Sociology of Human Rights: Rights Through a Social Movement Lens.” Canadian Review of Sociology 48, 2 (2011): 121-135.
  • 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. “‘Rights Without the Sword Are But Mere Words’: The Limits of Canada’s Modern Rights Revolution,” in Janet Miron, ed., A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2009): 43-60.
  • 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 Québec Since 1945: Selected Readings (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011)] 
  • Dominique Clément. “‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: Women and the Human Rights State, 1969-1984” Radical History Review 101 (Spring 2008): 107-129.
  • 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 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.  [ISER Prize Winner] 
  • Dominique Clément. “Spies, Lies and a Commission, 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.

Website: Canada’s Rights Movement: A History (www.HistoryOfRights.com)