Between Colliding Worlds: The Ambiguous Existence of Government
Agencies for Aboriginal and Women's Policy, Jonathan Malloy,
Toronto: University of Toronto Press/IPAC, 2003, pp. x, 217.
This book explores the complex relationship between “special
policy agencies” created to address the needs of specific social
groups, and the social movements that arise to advocate for these groups.
Its main premise is that special policy agencies exist in a state of
permanent—and highly useful—ambiguity, forming a conduit that
enables the conflicting worlds of social movements and governments to
articulate their highly distinct agendas in a manner comprehensible to
both “worlds.”