“In the business of changing lives”: Examining the activist knowledge-practices of consumer businesses

Authors

  • Danielle Landry

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/srkb3v49

Author Biography

  • Danielle Landry

    Danielle Landry is a PhD candidate in sociology at York University. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the activist knowledge-practices of psychiatric consumer/survivor businesses in Ontario in the 1990s. Most recently, her work has been published in Relations industrielles/ Industrial Relations, Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability & Society, and Studies in the Education of Adults. She has taught a variety of in-person, online, and hybrid courses in both Mad Studies and Disability Studies at Ryerson University. She was the 2020 recipient of the Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award.

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Published

2021-08-31

How to Cite

“In the business of changing lives”: Examining the activist knowledge-practices of consumer businesses. (2021). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/srkb3v49