Jamie Swift

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Jamie Swift is a Canadian journalist, author, and activist. His body of work has focused largely on issues of social justice, economy, environment, globalization, and politics.

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Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec where, in 1968, he pursued a degree in African Studies at McGill University. [1] Upon moving to Toronto in the mid-seventies, Swift became involved in the social activist community and subsequently began his writing career. In 1977, he published his first book, The Big Nickel: Inco at home and abroad, which examined the effect of nickel production in third world countries. [2]

Over the course of his career, Swift has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail , [3] The Montreal Gazette , The Kingston Whig Standard , and Briarpatch . Throughout the 1990s, he was a regular contributor on CBC's radio series Ideas . [4] [5] Most recently, Swift has co-written a book with noted Canadian historian Ian McKay entitled Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety, released in May 2012. He currently lectures at the Queen's School of Business [6] in Kingston, Ontario. [7]

Awards

In 1996, Swift was awarded the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Public Service Journalism. He received the award from Governor General Roméo LeBlanc in a ceremony on May 6, 1996 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. R [4]

Selected works

The Big Nickel: Inco at Home and Abroad (1977) ISBN   978-0919946057
Cut and Run: The Assault on Canada's Forests (1983) ISBN   978-0919946316
Conflicts of Interest: Canada and the Third World (1991) ISBN   978-0921284413
Wheel of Fortune: Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations (1995) ISBN   978-0921284895
Civil Society in Question (1999) ISBN   978-1896357249
Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Fourth Edition (2003) ISBN   9781896357775
Walking the Union Walk: Stories from the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union (2003) ISBN   978-1896357744
Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire (2004) ISBN   978-1-896357-88-1
Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins (2010) ISBN   978-1-897071-73-1
Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety (2012) ISBN   978-1-926662-77-0

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References

  1. ↑ "Jamie Swift". The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved April 13, 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Henderson, Patricia. "Open Books: Eight local authors share their stories". Kingston Life. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Swift, Jamie. "A Shock to the System". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  4. 1 2 "1995 Michener Awards Page". The Michener Awards Foundation. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ ""Ideas" Catalog" (PDF). CBC. pp. 10, 14, 18, 71, 73, 86, 101, 103, 106. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "Swift, Jamie". Faculty List. Queen's School of Business. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Jamie Swift Profile". Kingston WritersFest. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
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