Canan, Penelope, 1946-
Person
Dates
- Usage: approximately 1971 - 1980
Biography
Citation:
Dr. Canan joined the University of Central Florida Department of Sociology in 2006, having served on the faculty of Sociology at the University of Denver from 1983-2006, and the faculties of Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii from 1978-1983. Prior to her arrival at UCF, Canan worked in Tsukuba, Japan as the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, one of the Earth Systems Science Partnerships of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), the International Program on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IHDP), the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), and Diversitas. This two-year appointment was sponsored by Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies.Dr. Canan graduated with Honors in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969 and was granted an M.A. (1972) and a PhD in Sociology (1977) from the University of Denver. Dr. Canan retired from the UCF Sociology Department in December 2012. VitaFound in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Penelope Canan and George W. Pring's Research on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
Collection
Identifier: M204
Abstract
The Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) Collection documents the SLAPP involvement of the College of Law and Department of Sociology at the University of Denver. Included are materials describing the nature of a SLAPP lawsuit, research materials on SLAPP lawsuits throughout the United States, and research on possible future subjects of lawsuits.
Dates:
1980-1998
Political Claims, Legal Derailment, and the Context of Disputes, 1990
Item
Identifier: M204.0024.0002.00005
Abstract
This article is about claims manipulation and the influence of context on the careers and outcomes of disputes. We exlore eleven cases in which civil tort action was used when citizen opponents petitioned the government (lawsuits called SLAPPs or "strategic lawsuits against public participatiom"). Rather than being totally contingent on interactional and situational factors, these disputes followed two general trajectories of transfomations, depending on whether they arose from an "internal"...
Dates:
Publication: 1990