Grassroots approaches II

The Red Hill Creek Valley

Lecture 9
Monday March 7 2011

PEACE ST 1A03: Introduction to Peace Studies

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

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 Outline

• Public space
• Treaty rights
• Poverty and social class
• Car culture

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 Grass Through Concrete

• Maia Iotzova (2004)

• Documents the struggle

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 Key themes

• Support for Six • Perceptions of law

Nations changes
• Social & environmental • ‘arrest us’
Justice (civill disobedience)
• Civic duty to act

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 Citations & further reading
Walter Peace (1998), From Mountain to Lake: the Red Hill Creek valley, Conserver
Society of Hamilton

Colin Salter (2009) ‘Contested Grounds: incommensurability and the paradigms of

whiteness’, in Barbara Baird and Damien W. Riggs, The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations
and Knowledges, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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 Image sources
Peace flag, original source unknown.

Marc Riboud. Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County,
Virginia, Saturday, 21 October, 1967 — http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Elisa Iannacone. As leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Toronto, Canada, protesters took to the streets
[caption]. ‘G20 summit protests in Toronto :Your pictures’, BBC News, 27 June 2010 — http:// www.bbc.co.uk/
news/10427404

‘The U.S. vs. John Lennon’ reproduced from Jürgen Fauth’s Muckworld — http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/02/14/the-
us-vs-john-lennon/