Reclaiming Democracy

Building on the ideas of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose contributions as public intellectuals committed to social justice span almost five decades, Reclaiming Democracy features discussions by eminent scholars about social ethics, political economy, and democracy. Reclaiming Democracy traces their influence on critical social thought. The essays, which focus in part on the Caribbean, provide an intellectual perspective to ground the growing opposition to dominant institutions by social movements struggling against injustice around the world.Contributors include Samir Amin (Third World Forum, Senegal), Lloyd Best (Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies), Duncan Cameron (University of Ottawa), Ursula Franklin (University of Toronto), Norman Girvan (University of West Indies), Denis Goulet (University of Notre Dame), Arvind Sharma (McGill University), Carolyn Sharpe (Saint Paul's University), Mel Watkins (University of Toronto), and Michael Witter (University of the West Indies).International scholars pay tribute to two leading Canadian intellectuals