Take Back The Fight

Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

Nora Loreto

Two dedes of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in nada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that an organized social movement n have in democratic society. They have never benefited from the knowledge, the debates, the actions, the mass mobilizations or the leadership that all accompany a social movement and instead organize in decentralized silos. As a result, government and corporate leaders… (more information)

Finding Our Niche

Toward A Restorative Human Ecology

Philip A. Loring

Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to use harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios—people and nature thriving together—are possible. No doubt contemporary western society is steeped in the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism, and as a result, many people have come to believe that humanity is fundamentally flawed, that the story of our species is destined to be nasty, brutish, and short. But what if this narrative could be dismantled? In Finding… (more information)

Land-Water-Sky / Nd¨¨-T?-Yat¡¯a

Kat??¨¤

A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-T?-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Kat??à. Set in nada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride… (more information)

Warrior Life

Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Pamela Palmater

In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise. Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second… (more information)

Conquer the Clutter

Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Overcome Hoarding

Elaine Birchall, Suzanne Cronkwright

Why does Cliff, a successful lawyer who regularly wins landmark ses, step over two-foot piles of paper whenever he opens his front door? Why do Joan and Paul ask Children’s Services to take their three children instead of decluttering their home? Why does Lucinda feel intense pressure to hold onto her family’s heirlooms even though she has no room for them? They have hoarding disorder, which an estimated 2% to 6% of the adult population worldwide experience. Conquer the Clutter… (more information)

Jude and Diana

Sharon Robart-Johnson

The only mention of sisters Jude and Diana in Nova Scotia’s official history relates to their deaths: a slave-owning family was brought to trial for murder in 1801. They were acquitted. Sharon Robart-Johnson honours these archival glimpses of enslaved people by re-creating the fullness of Jude and Diana’s lives. Through Robart-Johnson’s meticulous research, we experience eighteenth-century Yarmouth and Shelburne, where politil debates about abolishing slavery were only… (more information)

What¡¯s Wrong with Rights?

Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

Radha D’Souza

What’s Wrong with Rights? addresses the paradox of rights on the politil left. On the one hand, the left is critil of pitalist triumphalism in the wake of so-lled ‘globalisation’; on the other hand, this critique is often couched in the idea of rights–to water, to housing, to free speech, to assembly. Yet, what becomes of this discourse when pitalist triumphalism itself rides on the crest of rights? When the rights discourse itself is an integral part of the international… (more information)

Viola Desmond¡¯s nada

A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

Graham Reynolds, Wanda Robson

In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross misrriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon. Most nadians are aware of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond’s act of resistance occurred nine years earlier. However, many nadians are still unaware of Desmond… (more information)

DisAbility and Social Change

A Progressive nadian Approach

Edited by Grant Larson, Jeanette S. Robertson

This edited collection uses a critil theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disAbilities, family members, researchers, ademics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work, human services, child and youth re and disAbility studies. Chapters include first-person accounts from persons with disabilities, perspectives of families and historil perspectives, as well as… (more information)

Sacred Feminine

An Indigenous Art Colouring Book

Jackie Traverse

Sacred Feminine is a colouring book by Cree artist Jackie Traverse. The beautiful and intrite works of art within depict images of strength, resilience and empowerment. With each image, the artist explains the symbolism and meaning represented. The first of its kind, Sacred Feminine is intended to edute, heal and edute readers and colourers of all ages. (more information)

What Is Modern Israel?

Yakov M. Rabkin

Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What Is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology — Zionism — is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advote for the state of Israel, the author points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, thus explaining the particular support Israel musters in the United States. Drawing on many overlooked pages of history, including… (more information)

Blood of Extraction

nadian Imperialism in Latin Ameri

Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews rried out throughout Latin Ameri, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of nadian mining companies in Latin Ameri and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways nadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the nadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin… (more information)

Three Worlds of Social Democracy

A Global View

Edited by Ingo Schmidt

Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead? The Three Worlds of Social Democracy explores the historil and theoretil path of the social democratic parties from their inception to the present day through a series of essays by high-profile experts in the field. Looking at the international picture, the book highlights the movement’s spread to the postcolonial and post-communist countries of the Global East and South such as Eastern Europe, Latin Ameri,… (more information)

There¡¯s Something In The Water

Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

Ingrid R.G. Waldron

In There’s Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in nada, using Nova Scotia as a se study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting… (more information)

Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)

A 60s Scoop Adoptee¡¯s Story of Coming Home

Colleen rdinal

During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in nada were removed from their biologil families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households. Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal and provotive narrative of Colleen rdinal’s journey growing up in a non- Indigenous household as a 60s Scoop adoptee. rdinal speaks frankly and intimately about instances of violence and abuse throughout her… (more information)

Artificial Hearts

The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medil Technology

Shelley McKellar

Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century Amerin medil community’s view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this imperfect technology beginning in the 1950s and leading up to the present day. McKellar profiles generations of researchers and devices as she traces the heart’s development and clinil… (more information)

Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

Resting Leftist Imagination

Edited by Niko Block, A.T. Kingsmith, Robert Latham, Julian von Bargen

What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that awaits us in the 2020s, particularly… (more information)

Identifying as Arab in nada

A Century of Immigration History

Houda Asal

While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociologil studies – their history in nada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in nada begins to rectify this invisibilization by exploring the migration from Machrek (the Middle East) to nada from the late 19th century through the 1970s. Houda Asal breathes life into this migratory history and the people who made the journey, and examines the public, collective existence they… (more information)

More Powerful Together

Conversations With Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders

Jen Gobby

How n social movements help bring about large-sle systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved with climate justice, anti-pipeline, and Indigenous land defense movements in nada for many years. As a researcher, she has sat down with folks from these movements and asked them to reflect on their experiences with movement building. Bringing their incredibly poignant insights into dialogue with… (more information)

Indigenous Women¡¯s Theatre in nada

A Mechanism of Decolonization

Sarah MacKenzie

Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in nada, most critil and ademic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in nada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critil gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century nada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique… (more information)

Black Matters

Afua Cooper, Wilfried Raussert

Halifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historil facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness… (more information)

Border and Rule

Global Migration, pitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

In Border and Rule, one of North Ameri’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, pitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly… (more information)

People’s Senate for nada

Not A Pipe Dream!

Helen Forsey

This little book is written for nadians who re about our democracy and the future of our planet. The Senate, surprisingly, could make major contributions to both. A People’s Senate for nada explains how we n make that happen. What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics, truly committed to “sober second thought” and dedited to the common good? What if Senate appointments focused on experience, integrity and creativity, and flowed from a non-partisan… (more information)

About nada: Corporate Crime

Laureen Snider

When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and yet our prisons are filled with people who commit “street theft.” In order to understand why governments, regulators, unions, activists and community groups have such a difficult time… (more information)

Socialist Register 2016

The Politics of the Right

Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch

The fifty-second edition in the highly popular Socialist Register series focuses on the politil forces and parties of the Right, seeking to shed light on their social base, organizational strength and range and influence on mainstream parties and opinions. Subsequent chapters look at the degree to which the Right has penetrated state institutions, the impact of the free movement of pital and the liberalization of domestic markets. Finally, contributors to The Politics of the Right examine… (more information)

From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

We Owe it to Our Grandchildren

J. Tom Webb

This book is about the need for an alternative to pitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that corporations are given rte blanche to turn natural resources into profit, is an alternative possible? Tom Webb argues that a massive shift to social enterprise, primarily co-operatives, is required. More than 250 million people around the world work for co-operatives, and co-operatives impact the lives… (more information)

Busted

An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in nada

Susan C. Boyd

nada’s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does nada’s history of drug prohibition say about its future? Busted is an illustrated history of nadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how nada’s drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by race, class and gender discrimination. This history demonstrates… (more information)

Policing Black Lives

State Violence in nada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard

Delving behind nada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of over four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in nada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery… (more information)

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists

The Origins of the Women¡¯s Shelter Movement in nada

Margo Goodhand

In the supposedly enlightened ‘60s and ‘70s, violence against women didn’t make the news. It didn’t exist. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of nadian women quietly opened the country’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600. In Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists, journalist Margo Goodhand tracks down the “rogue feminists” whose work forged an underground… (more information)

Policing Indigenous Movements

Dissent and the Security State

Andrew Crosby, Jeffrey Monaghan

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in nada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction. But their success has also meant an increase in the surveillance and policing of Indigenous peoples and their movements. In… (more information)

Legalizing Theft

A Short Guide to Tax Havens

Alain Deneault

When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are prerious, it is beuse of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains austerity policies. Moreover, states have legalized these offshore schemes that contravene the very principle of taxation. With formidable efficy and clarity, and in the wake of the Paradise Papers leak, Alain Deneault… (more information)

R Is for Reparations

Global Afrikan Congress–Nova Scotia Chapter (GAC-NS)

Coming out of the innovative Book-in-a-Day event facilitated by the Global Afrikan Congress – Nova Scotia Chapter, R Is for Reparations invites readers to listen to the voices of young activists as they share their hopes and dreams about the global demand for redress, compensation and restitution for the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade. This book is drawn from the voices of the children who participated in the Book-in-a-Day event and rode on an imaginary Underground Railroad Freedom… (more information)

Frontline Farmers

How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

Annette Aur¨¦lie Desmarais

Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in nada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of nada’s food systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm? Frontline Farmers introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek… (more information)

Siegebreakers

Justin Podur

Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy, has decided that his conscience n no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion, Ari reaches out to the Amerin… (more information)

Holoust to Resistance, My Journey

Suzanne Berliner Weis

Holoust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in Communist-run orphanages, where she gained a belief in peace and brotherhood. Adoption by a New York family led to a tumultuous youth haunted by domestic conflict, fear of nuclear war and anti-communist repression, consignment to a detention… (more information)

Text Messages

Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling

Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy’s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy’s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage… (more information)

ohpikinawasowin/Growing a Child

Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Indigenous Families

Edited by Ralph Bodor, Avery lhoun, Leona Makokis, Stephanie Tyler

Western theory and practice are over-represented in child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around. Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child welfare in nada. By understanding the problem as the prevalence of the Western universe in child welfare services rather than Indigenous peoples, efforts to understand and support Indigenous children and families are fundamentally transformed… (more information)

Settler

Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century nada

Adam J. Barker, Emma Battell Lowman

nadians, despite our reputation for liberalism, multiculturalism and friendliness, remain deeply entangled in the violence of colonialism. The “Indian problem” continues to occupy the attention of politil leaders across the nation, and from the comment sections of online news sites to the streets of Edmonton or Thunder Bay, nadians too often respond with violence, prejudice and fear. In Settler, Barker and Battell Lowman declare that nada does not have an “Indian… (more information)

Vigilant Eye

Policing nada from 1867 to 9/11

Greg Marquis

In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronologil approach of traditional institutional history with the critil approaches of social history, legal history and criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of nineteenth-century British North Amerin policing and traces the development of the three models of law enforcement that would shape the future: the lol rural constable, the municipal police department and the paramilitary territorial constabulary… (more information)

Belongings

The Fight for Land and Food

Sally Miller

Land used to produce food is at the core of disputes, violent conflicts and despair across the world. As farmers increasingly n no longer afford to grow food and as one in ten nadians faces food insecurity each year, it is clear that our culture-specific land systems lie at the heart of the current food and farm crises. Solutions must be implemented to ensure food security and food sovereignty in nada and the world. In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises… (more information)

Mapping My Way Home

Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Afri

Stephanie J. Urdang

Born in pe Town, South Afri, Urdang learned to hate the apartheid regime from her socialist parents. At the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate its grotesque iniquities, she chose self-exile and emigrated to the United States. From the perspective of an anti-apartheid activist, a feminist and journalist, she tracked and wrote about the slow, inexorable demise of apartheid, as well as the victory over Portuguese colonialism in Afri. She trekked through the liberated zones… (more information)

Alt-Right

From 4Chan to the White House

Mike Wendling

This book is a vital guide to understanding the racist, misogynist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump’s successful election mpaign. To some, the movement appears to have burst out of nowhere, but journalist Mike Wendling has been tracking the Alt-Right for years. He reveals the role of technologil utopians, reactionary philosophers, the notorious 4chan bulletin boards, and a range of bloggers, vloggers and tweeters, and the extreme ideas they attempt… (more information)

No Choice

The 30-Year Fight for Abortion on Prince Edward Island

Kate McKenna

In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed a law legalizing abortion in nada. But making abortion legal did not guarantee women access to these services. In many communities around the country, women have had to travel great distances and at great personal expense to exercise their legal right to an abortion. Others have taken matters into their own hands, often with devastating consequences. In No Choice, Kate McKenna offers a firsthand account of Prince Edward Island’s refusal… (more information)

About nada: Disability Rights

2nd Edition

Deborah Stienstra

Including people with disabilities fully into nadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some bodies. It requires deep changes in the attitudes, cultural images and policies that make people with disabilities invisible, set them aside, undermine or reject their contributions and value, and justifies their neglect, abuse and death. This shift involves the simple recognition and honouring of… (more information)

More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom

Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Edited by Elaine Coburn

More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom is about Indigenous resistance and resurgence across lands and waters claimed by nada. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors describe and analyze struggles against contemporary colonialism by the nadian state and, more broadly, against the global colonial-pitalist system. Resistance includes Indigenous survival against centuries of genocidal policies and the on-going dispossession and destruction of Indigenous lands and waters. Resurgence… (more information)

Expose, Oppose, Propose

Cognitive Praxis in the Struggle for Global Justice

William K. rroll

Since the 1970s, economic globalization has fuelled concerns that democracy is being hollowed out. Transnational social movements have developed as advotes of a “democratic globalization” that enriches human relations across space by empowering communities and citizens to participate in the full range of decisions that shape and govern their lives. Alongside and in support of these movements, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have emerged: think tanks that provide… (more information)

Forever Loved

Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in nada

Edited by Jennifer Brant, D. Memee Lavell-Harvard

In October 2004 Amnesty International released a report titled Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to the Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in nada, in response to the appalling number of Indigenous women who are victims of racialized and sexualized violence. This report noted over 500 missing or murdered Indigenous women. Tragilly, since this initial report the numbers have risen. Noting that Indigenous women are eight times more likely to die as a result of violence… (more information)

Burnley Rocky Jones Revolutionary

An Autobiography by Burnley ?Rocky? Jones

Burnley Rocky Jones, James W. St.G. Walker

Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley “Rocky” Jones is one of nada’s most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as nada’s Stokely rmichael, Jones was tirelessly dedited to student movements, peace activism, Black Power, anti-racism, women’s liberation and human rights reform. He was a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, brought the Black Panthers to nada, taught at Dalhousie and founded his own law firm… (more information)

About nada: The Environment

Linda Pannozzo

The environmental history of nada is a bleak one. Resource extraction — of furs, fish, wood, minerals, gas and oil — has always put profits before conservation. Settlers exploited both the land and the Indigenous peoples for commercial gain, and big business continues that policy with forests, fish, minerals, tar sands and pipelines. As the Earth veers toward a biologil tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become srcer and as climate change threatens… (more information)

About nada: Public-Private Partnerships

Heather Whiteside

In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in nada since the early 1990s, but they are now so common that they have become the standard way in which multimillion-dollar projects and services are delivered across the country. There are now more than two hundred P3 projects in this country, with contract lengths from twenty to ninety… (more information)

On Building a Social Movement

The North Amerin mpaign for South Afrin Liberation

John S. Saul

“In his characteristilly engaging conversational style, combining intimate first-hand knowledge and lightly-worn scholarship with strong opinions, John Saul takes the reader vividly into the heart of the nadian and Amerin movements that supported the anti-apartheid and liberation struggles in southern Afri.” — Colin Leys, co-editor, The Socialist Register “Solidarity is the soul of the workers’ movement. This is a book about one of history’s… (more information)

Propaganda System

How nada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Ademia Sell War

Yves Engler

The latest book from renowned author Yves Engler reveals why most nadians believe their country is a force for good in the world, despite a long history of supporting empire, racism and exploitation. In A Propaganda System, Engler details the vast sums Global Affairs nada, Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence spend on promoting a one-sided version of nada’s foreign policy, which ignores the unsavoury history. Engler traces the history of the nadian government… (more information)

Reading ‘pital’ Today

Marx after 150 Years

Edited by rlo Fanelli, Ingo Schmidt

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian politil economy and especially Marx’s great work pital. 150 years after the book’s original publition, are there readings of pital that n help us find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary change? In this wide-ranging new volume, leading thinkers reflect on pital’s legacy, its limitations and its continuing relevance for today, highlighting issues including ecology, gender, race, labour, communism, the… (more information)

We n Do Better

Ideas for Changing Society

David mfield

The view that pitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal pitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes our climate to the breaking point and as far-right politics dominate the media. Solutions are needed. Fast. In We n Do Better, David mfield lays out a theoretil basis for politil… (more information)

Prerious Employment

uses, Consequences and Remedies

Edited by Wayne Lewchuk, Stephanie Procyk, John Shields

This edited collection introduces and explores the uses and consequences of prerious employment in nada and across the world. After contextualizing employment prerity and its root uses, the authors illustrate how prerious employment is created amongst different populations and describe the accompanying social impacts on racialized immigrant women, those in the non-profit sector, temporary foreign workers and the children of Filipino immigrants. (more information)

Coming Back to Jail

Women, Trauma, and Criminalization

Elizabeth Comack

Published some two dedes ago, Elizabeth Comack’s Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women’s abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for inrcerated women in those twenty years? Are experiences of abuse continuing to have an impact on the lives of criminalized women? How do women find the experience of imprisonment in a new facility? Drawing on the stories of forty-two inrcerated… (more information)

Economics for Everyone, 2nd Edition

A Short Guide to the Economics of pitalism

Jim Stanford

This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how pitalism works (and how it doesn’t). Economics for Everyone, now in its second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideologil way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. This book is a must read for those working for a fairer world and… (more information)

Constructing Ecoterrorism

pitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights

John Sorenson

Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethil and politil challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of pitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it. Informed by both critil animal studies and critil terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes… (more information)

Megacity Malaise

rlo Fanelli

This study is among the first in nada to document the transformation of municipal governance and public services from Keynesian to neoliberal public policy at the urban sle. Focusing on the neoliberal transformation of cites in Ontario from 1954 to 2014, with special attention to Toronto, it begins with a theoretil analysis of the remaking of municipal public finances and intergovernmental transfers, exposing the social and politil uses of urban fisl crises. This study makes the… (more information)

Doing Respectful Research

Power, Privilege and Passion

Susan A. Tilley

Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critil, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three themes overlap and inform chapter discussions: developing a critil reflexivity, understanding the distance dynamic and engaging in respectful research praxis. The text illustrates how power, privilege and passion influence decisions about what gets researched, who is positioned as researcher or… (more information)

News We Deserve

The Transformation of nada’s Media Landspe

Marc Edge

The News We Deserve: The Transformation of nada’s Media Landspe documents the most under–reported story in nadian news: the behind–the–scenes takeovers, mergers, share swaps, regulatory maneuvers, and private ambitions that have reshaped the content and business models of today’s print and online newspapers to privilege corporate profits and politil influence over the goal of informing citizens. A generation of laissez–faire government attitudes… (more information)

Revolutionary Learning

Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge

Sara rpenter, Shahrzad Mojab

Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in edution and learning. Moving beyond previous books on Marxism and edution, this groundbreaking text explores the core philosophil concepts that build the Marxist analysis of learning, extending its critique with signifint implitions for critil edution scholarship, research and practice by drawing upon work by feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial scholars. The… (more information)

Doug Knockwood, Mi¡¯kmaw Elder

Stories, Memories, Reflections

Freeman Douglas Knockwood

Freeman Douglas Knockwood is a highly respected Elder in Mi’kmaw Territory and one of nada’s premier addictions recovery counsellors. The story of his life is one of unimaginable colonial trauma, recovery and hope. At age 6, Knockwood was placed in the Shubenadie Residential School, where he remained for a year and a half. Like hundreds of other Mi’kmaw and Maliseet children, he suffered horrible abuse. By the time he reached his twenties, he was an alcoholic. He contracted… (more information)

World Turned Upside Down?

he Socialist Register 2019

Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch

The latest edition of the Socialist Register explores a range of pressing issues and asks what we n expect from the recent social and politil changes occuring across the globe. (more information)

Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice

Social Justice Social Work, 3rd Edition

Donna Baines

This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historil and theoretil roots and the specific contexts of anti-oppressive social work practice. Key to this practice is the understanding that the problems faced by an individual are rooted in the inequalities and oppression of the socio-politil structure of society rather than in personal characteristics or individual choices. Moreover, the contributors… (more information)

Anansesem

Telling Stories and Storytelling Afrin Maternal Pedagogies

Adwoa Ntozake Onuora

Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling Afrin Maternal Pedagogies is a composite story on Afrin-nadian mothers’ experiences of teaching and learning while mothering. It seeks to celebrate the Afrin mother’s everyday experiences and honor her embodied and cultural knowledges as important sites of meaning making and discovery for the Afrin child. Through the Afro-indigenous art of Anansi storytelling, memoir, creative non-fiction and illustrations, the author takes you on… (more information)

More Harm Than Good

Drug Policy in nada

Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. rter, Donald MacPherson

In More Harm Than Good, rter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critil look at the current state of nadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of nada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on nadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critil sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights not only from individuals who are on the front lines of drug policy in nada… (more information)

Unsettled Expectations

Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization

Eva Mackey

What do lol conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic se studies about land rights conflicts in nada and the U.S. to argue that critil analysis of present-day disputes over land, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand how colonization is reproduced today and how to challenge it. Employing theoretil approaches from Indigenous… (more information)

Mapping Geographies of Violence

Edited by James J. Brittain, Heather A. Kitchin Dahringer

The contributors to Mapping Geographies of Violence explore the multi-layered meaning of violence and the various ways it occupies our daily lives, be they overt, institutional, structural or covert. With an eye towards social justice, each chapter offers a discrete definition of violence and provides readers with a range of theoretil orientations, from social psychology, symbolic interactionism and Marxism to discourse analysis. From these perspectives, several examples of violence are… (more information)

Change a Life, Change your Own

Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethil Subjects

Peter Ove

“Change a Life. Change Your Own.” “For less than a dollar a day.” “For the cost of one coffee a day.” With these slogans, and their accompanying images of poor children, some of the world’s largest development organizations invite the global North to engage in one of their most prominent and successful fundraising techniques: child sponsorship. But as Peter Ove argues in Change a Life, Change Your Own, child sponsorship is successful not beuse… (more information)

Listening to the Beat of Our Drum

Stories of Indigenous Parenting in Contemporary Society

Edited by rrie Bourassa, Darlene Juschka, Elder Betty McKenna

Listening to the Beat of Our Drum: Stories of Parenting in a Contemporary Society is a collection of stories, inspired by a wealth of experiences across space and time from a kokum, an auntie, two-spirit parents, a Metis mother, a Tlinglit/Anishnabe Métis mother and an allied feminist mother. This book is born out of the need to share experiences and story. Storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of passing on teachings and values that we have in our Indigenous communities… (more information)

Mothers of the Nations

Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance

Edited by Kim Anderson, D. Memee Lavell-Harvard

The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed. This volume explores issues surrounding and impacting Indigenous mothering, family and community in a variety of contexts inter­nationally. It addresses diverse subjects, including child welfare, employing… (more information)

Anarchists in the Boardroom

How Social Media and Social Movements n Help Your Organisation to be More Like People

Liam Barrington-Bush

Change how we organise. Change the world. There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media. Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations to both stay relevant in the times ahead and live our values through the ways that we organise? ‘Anarchists in the Boardroom’ is a journey through worker-run factories, Occupy enmpments, a… (more information)

Debriefing Elsipogtog

The Anatomy of a Struggle

Miles Howe

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and sought legal recourse against the deal — and the threat of hydraulic fracturing it brought with it — but the province responded only with diminished regulations and increased police presence. In the spring of 2013,… (more information)

nada in Afri

300 Years of Aid and Exploitation

Yves Engler

Yves Engler continues his groundbreaking analyses of past and present nadian foreign policy. The author of The Black Book of nadian Foreign Policy, and other works that challenge the myth of nadian benevolence, documents nadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the “scramble for Afri” and European colonialism. The book reveals Ottawa’s opposition to anticolonial struggles, its support for apartheid South Afri and Idi Amin’s coup, and its role… (more information)

Solving Poverty

Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg’s Inner City

Edited by Jim Silver

Poverty in nada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past dede, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many ses also poor housing, poor health, low edutional achievement, high levels of neighbourhood violence, racism, colonialism and social exclusion. As a result many poor people experience low levels of self-esteem and self-confidence and may… (more information)

One Bead at a Time

a memoir, as told to Sharron Proulx-Turner

Beverly Little Thunder, Sharron Proulx-Turner

One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and nada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little… (more information)

Creating an Ecologil Society

Toward a Revolutionary Transformation

Fred Magdoff, Chris Williams

Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is pitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that pitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. pitalism’s imperative—to make profits at all costs and expand without end—is destabilizing the Earth’s climate, while increasing human misery and inequality on a planetary… (more information)

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit

What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True

Edited by Joe Karetak, Shirley Tagalik, Frank Tester

The Inuit have experienced colonization and the resulting disregard for the societal systems, beliefs and support structures foundational to Inuit culture for generations. While much research has articulated the impacts of colonization and recognized that Indigenous cultures and worldviews are central to the well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities, little work has been done to preserve Inuit culture. Unfortunately, most people have a very limited understanding of Inuit culture, and… (more information)

Understanding Violence and Abuse

An Anti-Oppressive Practice Perspective

Heather Fraser, Kate Seymour

In Understanding Violence and Abuse, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour examine violence and abuse from an anti-oppressive practice perspective and make connections between interpersonal violence and structural, institutional and cultural violence. Using se studies from nada, the U.K., the U.S., Australia, Bangladesh, India and elsewhere, the authors discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street violence, white privilege, war, shame, Islamophobia and abuse in intimate relationships… (more information)

Boomerang Ethics

How Racism Affects Us All

Joseph Mensah, Christopher J. Williams

The fact that racism has adverse effects on Blacks and other minorities is obvious. But what is not so obvious are the hidden impacts of racism on all members of society, including white people. Joseph Mensah and Christopher J. Williams argue that ethics of altruism and social justice are inadequate to curb racism beuse they neglect the impact of racism on whites. Just like a boomerang, acts of hatred and racism against people of colour and even unsolicited and sometimes unconscious exertions… (more information)

Game Misconduct

Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Professional athletes suffer tremendous damage to their bodies over the course of their reers. Some literally lose years from their lives beuse of their injuries. Why do athletes sacrifice themselves? Is it the price of being a professional? Is it all for the fans, or the money? What’s clear is that the physil and emotional tolls of being a professional athlete may not be worthwhile. In Game Misconduct, Nathan Kalman-Lamb takes us into the world of professional hockey players… (more information)

On This Patch of Grass

City Parks and the Politics of Occupied Land

Glen Coulthard, Daisy Couture, Sadie Couture, Selena Couture, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Matt Hern, Erick Villagomez

Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial mpgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land are good for everyone. But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as “natural oases,” and urban parks as “pure nature&… (more information)

Cuba & U.S. Relations

Obama and Beyond

Arnold August

The evolution of the relationship between Cuba and the United States is much more complited from the Cuban perspective than it is made to appear in mainstream media and politil thinking. In this book, Arnold August highlights critil views from Cuba that are generally unfamiliar to non-Cubans. August outlines and analyzes current interactions and the future perspectives between the two neighbours. Included with August’s reful analysis are interviews with five of Cuba’… (more information)

Nta¡¯tugwaqanminen

Our Story: Evolution of the Gespege¡¯wa¡¯gi Mi¡¯gmaq

Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmawei Mawiomi

Nta’tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi’gmaq of the Gespe’gewa’gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole occupants of it prior to European settlement and occupied it on a continuous basis. This book was written through an alliance between the Mi’gmaq of Northern Gespe’gewa’gi (Gaspé Peninsula), their Elders and a group of eminent researchers in the… (more information)

About nada: Poverty

Jim Silver

For a country as wealthy as nada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About nada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and n profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are nada’s neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physil health. Silver also highlights the ways… (more information)

What Moves Us?

The Lives and Times of the Radil Imagination

Edited by Max Haiven, Alex Khasnabish

Emerging from the Radil Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, nada, What Moves Us? brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement- based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radil imagination and radil social change. Combining politil biography with movement-based histories, these activists provide critil insights into the opportunities and challenges that confront struggles for social justice… (more information)