Political Science
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From  Surrogate Motherhood: A Gift of Life or Maternity Denied? |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses surrogacy. She discusses ways in which it gives women agency over how they use their bodies. She also discusses how surrogacy can … | Silvia Federici | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Survivors StoriesMarie From: The Hope that Remains |
Marie was thirteen during the genocide and was saved along with her sister by Hutu women they knew. She explains finding her remaining family, recovering from her injuries and eventually making a … | Christine Magill | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Tapping the Veins of EcuadorFrom: Blood of Extraction |
- | Jeffery R. Webber; Todd Gordon | 45 | 2016 | $4.50 Add |
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From  Techno-nationalism and Meso-innovation Systems: A Cognitive Dynamics ApproachFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Too many forces at work in the world economy would appear to suggest that, as globalization proceeds, national disintegration occurs, and sub-national components gain more importance. | Gilles Paquet | 18 | 2005 | $1.62 Add |
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From  Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian MulticulturalismFrom: 1968 in Canada |
From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … | Michael Temelini | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Administrative Independence of the Federal CourtsA Case for Reform |
This chapter argues that judicial independence is a pillar of our constitutional democracy and as such is a principle anchored in the Canadian state structure and recognized as essential to the … | Martine Valois | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
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From  The AftermathA New War on Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In the Conclusion, Forte ends with an extension of one of the key themes in this book, namely that the war against Libya was also a war against Africa. He examines critical perspectives on regime … | Maximilian C. Forte | 42 | 2012 | $4.20 Add |
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From  The Construction of Domestic Work in Nineteenth-Century England and the Patriarchy of the WageFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter examines the history of our current understanding of "domestic work/women’s labour" and the effects of this relatively recent construction on women. | Silvia Federici | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Disorienting Disability Support MazeFrom: Persistent Poverty |
- | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The Divided House of LabourFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson examines the Canadian Labour Congress, which appointed him senior economist on May Day 1989. He suggests that the CLC is a fragile body compared with central labour … | Andrew Jackson | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The dynamics of democracyFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft offers a brief analysis of how a modern democracy functions through its institutions which go far beyond elected legislative bodies. | Kevin Taft | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  The eco-divideFrom: SOS |
Chapter 5 explores the relationship between the environment and politics, discussing ecological socialism, the rise of environmental consciousness, ‘greening’ the Left, and more. | Richard Swift | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Evolution of ‘Race’ and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism |
Adolph Reed and Touré F. Reed locate the foundations of the far-right today in the United States in the marginalization of progressive politics, examining the link between economic justice … | Adolph Jr. Reed; Touré F. Reed | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! The Hour You Are Most Alone |
In “The Hour You Are Most Alone” the author explores the darkest point in their life. Discussing their mental health, depression, abuse, cyclical poverty, suicidal ideation, recovery, … | Lori Fox | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Modern North, 1945–1985From: North of Superior |
Most historians agree that the end of the Second World War ushered in a new era in Canada. The economic and social upheaval that had dominated the 1930s became a thing of the past, and the 1950s … | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
