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Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been … 250 View

Bombardier Abroad

Patterns of Dispossession

In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that … 164 View

Decolonizing Academia

Poverty, Oppression, and Pain

Poetic, confrontational and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the … 148 View

Degrees of Failure

University Education in Decline

In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … 152 View

Someone To Talk To

Care and Control of the Homeless

Someone To Talk To is an empassioned account of life on the mean streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Homeless and near-homeless persons recount in agonizing detail their experiences … 135 View
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Bombardier, The Canadian State, And Dispossession

From: Bombardier Abroad

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Centring the Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

From: Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

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In the introductory chapter, the editor of the collection describes this book as a collaboration between herself and racialized students. The editor also discusses some of the experiences these … 30 $3.00 Add
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Introduction

From: Someone To Talk To

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Unlearning

From: Decolonizing Academia

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“It’s in the Past, Get over It!” Is It in the Past?

From: Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

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This chapter examines the impact of colonial policies in the context of Indigenous childhood and education. 24 $2.40 Add
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Homelessness and the Welfare State

The Welfare State in Historical Perspective

From: Someone To Talk To

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Introduction

From: The Case for Basic Income

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In the book’s introduction, the authors suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the failure of free-market fundamentalism. They believe that livable basic income would enhance freedom … ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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The China-Tibet Case

From: Bombardier Abroad

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Historical Context of China-Tibet Relations – The Qinghai-Tibet Rail Project and Bombardier – Problmes with the Project – Canadian Activism, Bombardier’s Position, and … 38 $3.80 Add
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Wealth versus Commonwealth

From: Resilience Imperative

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For the last 200 years, the ideology of unregulated markets, free-flow-ing capital, and minimalist government has waxed and waned. The unbridled markets of the 1920s gave way to state investment … ; 36 $3.60 Add
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What/Who Kills?

From: Decolonizing Academia

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Context and Method

The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver

From: Someone To Talk To

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