Research Catalog

Title

The Ursula Franklin reader : pacifism as a map / Ursula Franklin ; with an introduction by Michelle Swenarchuk.

Author

Franklin, Ursula M., 1921-2016.

Publication

Toronto : Between the Lines, 2006.

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Details

Description

ix, 370 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Peace
• Technology > Social aspects
• Social justice
• Women and war
• Feminism
• Pacifisme
• Paix
• Technologie > Aspect social
• Justice sociale
• Féminisme
• Participation politique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pacifism -- Women and feminism -- Technology -- Nature and ecology -- Citizens and government -- Education -- The signposts on Ursula Franklin's pacifist map of the world -- A brief overview of pacifist and quaker belief and action -- pt. 1. The pursuit of peace: Pacifism as a map -- The nature of conscience and the nature of war -- Reflections on theology and peace -- The indivisibility of peace -- Quaker witness in a technological society -- What of the citizen -- Women and militarism -- Nuclear peace -- Peace as an ongoing issue -- Peace, technology and the role of ordinary people -- Global justice chez nous -- How the world has changed -- On the first anniversary of September 11 -- pt. 2. Here and now: the technological world -- Environments versus nature -- Earth without a creation myth: the view from China -- Silence and the notion of the commons -- Liberty technology and hope -- New issues of access to justice raised by modern technology --^
• New threats to human rights through science and technology : the need for standards -- pt. 3. Coping with the changing the technological world -- New approaches to understanding technology -- All is not well in the house of technology -- Every tool shapes the task; communities and the information highway -- Beyond the hype: thinking about the information highway -- Will women change technology or will technology change women -- Stormy weather: reflections on violence as an environment -- Commemoration for the Montreal massacre victims -- Legitimate expectations -- What is a green energy policy, and what would we have if we had one -- Citizen politics new dimensions to old problems: reflections for Jane Jacobs -- Citizen politics: advocacy in the urban habitat -- Planning and the religious mind: "Der mensch denkt gott lenkt"-- On speaking truth to planning -- pt. 4. Teaching and learning -- Reflections on science and the citizen -- The second scientist -- The sandbox and the tools --^
• The real world of mathematics, science, and technology education -- Letter to a graduate student, from Ursula Franklin -- Looking forward, looking back -- Personally happy and publicly useful -- Teaching as activism; equity meets environmentalism.

ISBN

• 1897071183
• 9781897071182

LCCN

^^2007405401

OCLC

71003152

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library