The Montreal Citizens' Movement comes to power

Leveillée, Jacques; Léonard, Jean-François

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1987.tb00067.x

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“…Centralization reemerged on the heels of the FLQ Crisis, as the PQ began to reorganize Francophone society. Incorporating all outstanding mobilized bases within a broader more socially democratic program, the PQ linked with all three labor unions, reaching the local level by transforming labor's coalition of urban citizens' forums, such as the Montreal Citizens' Movement, into political arms of the party (Güntzel, 2000;Leveillee & Leonard, 1987). In parallel, while making great efforts to distance itself from extremist elements, the party appropriated the bases of the remaining separatist and ultra-nationalist organizations, incorporating all members who had explicitly and publically rejected violence as a viable strategy, including one of the FLQ's ideological founder's Pierre Vallieres, under its organizational umbrella (Milner, 1974).…”

Section: Institutionalized Ethnonationalism: the 1980 Referendum On Smentioning

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Fighting by the Rules: A Comparative Framework for Exploring Ethnic Mobilization Patterns in Democratic Contexts

Norwich

2015

Ethnopolitics

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This article tackles the question: given that ethnic movements in democracies often exhibit similar grievances and claims, what explains variations in their patterns of ethnic mobilization? Specifically, why do some ethnic movements turn to violence while others remain non-violent, and why do some demonstrate relative sustainability over long historic periods while others experience temporary flare-ups followed by long periods of demobilization? Utilizing new research in contentious politics, this study advances a dynamic approach to the examination of ethnic mobilization, arguing that variations in mobilization patterns are best analyzed according to the extent of a movement's institutionalization. Illustrating the utility of this analytical framework with an in-depth analysis of the case of the Francophone Québécois, this article develops the concept of a spectrum of institutional ethnonationalism in order to explain diverse mobilization patterns.

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Section: Institutionalized Ethnonationalism: the 1980 Referendum On Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Fighting by the Rules: A Comparative Framework for Exploring Ethnic Mobilization Patterns in Democratic Contexts

Norwich

2015

Ethnopolitics

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Local state policy and ‘new‐build gentrification’ in Montréal: the role of the ‘population factor’ in a fragmented governance context

Rose

2010

Population Space and Place

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This paper contributes to the debate on the role of public policy in gentrification through a case study of three phases of proactive promotion of residential intensification, especially to increase homeownership in central neighbourhoods in the City of Montréal (Québec, Canada). This case is used to explore the following questions: Where municipalities seek to enact ‘urban revitalisation’ by using housing policy tools to manipulate the size and composition of the resident population, what are the influences of local/regional fiscal and jurisdictional contexts? How are these articulated with the city's economic development trajectory? How do neoliberal policy turns emanating from scales beyond municipal jurisdiction influence the balance worked out in the domain of local housing policy between, on the one hand, local states' preoccupation with ‘fiscal pragmatism’ and local investment climates, and on the other hand, the demands they face to use their powers to reduce social inequalities within their territory? In the urban geographical literature, municipal involvement in new‐build gentrification is seen as an expression of a broader turn to urban neoliberalism and the concomitant entrepreneurial turn by the local state. The paper shows that exploring the influence of discourses around the ‘population question’ can add depth, nuance and complexity to such analyses. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class

1994

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Whereas authors have frequently alluded to an adversarial politics among the new middle class of professional and managerial workers, surveys and electoral returns confirm a generally conservative disposition in this group as a whole. In this paper I seek to specify a social location for left—liberal politics among a distinctive cadre of social and cultural professionals, the cultural new class. This cadre also bears a distinct geographical identity, with an overconcentration in the central cities of large metropolitan areas, not least in their gentrifying districts. The part played since 1968 by the cultural new class in these gentrifying districts in redefining the urban politics of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver is examined. In particular, the role of a gentrifying middle class in challenging a postwar hegemony of growth boosterism practised by the conservative regimes in all three cities, and their parallel attempt to sustain an alternative regime of reform politics, are assessed.

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The Montreal Citizens' Movement comes to power

Cited by 4 publications

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Fighting by the Rules: A Comparative Framework for Exploring Ethnic Mobilization Patterns in Democratic Contexts

Fighting by the Rules: A Comparative Framework for Exploring Ethnic Mobilization Patterns in Democratic Contexts

Local state policy and ‘new‐build gentrification’ in Montréal: the role of the ‘population factor’ in a fragmented governance context

Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class

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