Knowledge Commons | David Pettinicchio | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/davidpet/activity/ Activity feed for David Pettinicchio. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 843f0df77cdb27f1d04e2fd3287c229c David Pettinicchio deposited Relational Inequality and the Structures that Disadvantage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779984/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:45:26 -0400 This chapter reviews the different dimensions of disadvantage associated with disability while emphasizing the social structures that create and maintain such disadvantages. We review quantitative research demonstrating disadvantage in education, employment, income, wealth, and economic security, while noting the drawbacks of deficit accounts that…[Read more]

]]> 0 c72ea56dbe72ed701bd28680bb421e5d David Pettinicchio deposited Migration and ethnic nationalism: Anglophone exit and the ‘decolonisation’ of Québec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764458/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:15:10 -0500 This article explains the effects of ethnic nationalism on Anglophone and Francophone migration. The rise of Québec ethnic nationalism in the 1960s dismantled the cultural division of labour, which created new opportunities for Francophones but threatened Anglophones' traditional dominance over the Québec economy. This had negative consequences f…[Read more]

]]> 0 f73c23e9900a4015085dc8789e8c3fe8 David Pettinicchio deposited STRATEGIC ACTION FIELDS AND THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: HOW DISABILITY RIGHTS BECAME PART OF THE POLICY AGENDA https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764454/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:06:33 -0500 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, disability rights found a place on the U.S. policy agenda. However, it did not do so because social movement groups pressured political elites or because politicians were responding to changes in public preferences. Drawing from recent work in neo- institutionalism and social movements, namely the theory of…[Read more]

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