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As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology. This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews from 1986 to 2012 that have been retrieved and restored from audio and visual recordings with the help of her collaborator, Jane Freeman. These speeches and interviews, available here in print for the first time, stress the increased need for discernment and principled dialogue among Canadians. Although civic life for many Canadians has changed drastically in the past five decades, the basic principles of building and maintaining peaceful communities remain unchanged. Addressing practices of education, research, and civic life, Franklin looks to the past as well as the future to suggest collective ways of cultivating discernment and of advancing human betterment. As a whole, the collection reveals the evolution of Franklin's perspective: a perspective that is further elaborated in her afterthoughts that form the book's introduction and conclusion. Although her speeches and interviews are often critical of the status quo, Ursula Franklin Speaks is a fundamentally optimistic book, grounded in the conviction of the human capacity for compassion and understanding.
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Ursula Martius Franklin is a companion of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, professor emerita at the University of Toronto, and a senior fellow of Massey College. Sarah Jane Freeman is director of the Office of English Languag
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"Ursula Franklin is one of Canada's most accomplished scientists, thinkers and activists. This collection brings together speeches and interview from 1986 to 2012, many being made available in print for the very first time. A fascinating exploration of science, technology and society and how their complex relationship -- and Ursula's perspective on them -- has evolved over time." CBC Books
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