Political Science
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life |
Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … | Garry Neil | 256 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Canadian PolicingWhy and How It Must Change |
Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change is a comprehensive and critical examination of Canadian policing from its colonial origins to its response to the February 2022 blockades and … | Kent Roach | 276 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Capitalism and DispossessionCorporate Canada at Home and Abroad |
This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at … | David P. Thomas; Veldon Coburn | 289 | 2022 | View |
Care and ConsequencesThe Impact of Health Care Reform |
Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, … | Diana L. Gustafson | 325 | 2000 | View |
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the LeftRecasting the Leftist Imagination |
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, … | A.T. Kingsmith; Julian von Bargen; Niko Block; Robert Latham | 272 | 2020 | View |
NEW! China UnboundA New World Disorder |
While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is … | Joanna Chiu | 385 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Cities MatterA Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist |
Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 152 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Civilizing the StateReclaiming Politics for the Common Good |
Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations are tearing apart the social contract and … | John Restakis | 226 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Class ActionHow Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force |
In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions … | Andy Hanson | 276 | 2021 | View |
Class Dynamics of Agrarian ChangeAgrarian Change & Peasant Studies |
Agrarian political economy investigates the social relations of production and reproduction, property and power in agrarian formations, and how they change. Using Marx’s theory of … | Henry Bernstein | 154 | 2010 | View |
NEW! CobaltCradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower |
The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern … | Charlie Angus | 336 | 2022 | View |
Conflict Is Not AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … | Sarah Schulman | 304 | 2016 | View |
Cops, Crime and CapitalismThe Law-and-Order Agenda in Canada |
Framed within a Marxist class analysis that highlights the way in which state power and capitalist social relations are racialized and gendered, Gordon’s study locates law and order … | Todd Gordon | 175 | 2006 | View |
NEW! Corporate RulesThe Real World of Business Regulation in Canada |
This book offers documentation for the first time of how corporations have captured Canadian government agencies set up to protect the public. Twenty-one authors, experts in their fields, … | Bruce Campbell | 328 | 2022 | View |
Crisis in Canada’s PolicingWhy Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces |
In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at … | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 224 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Critical Social Work Praxis |
What we think must inform what we do, argue the editors and authors of this cutting-edge social work textbook. In this innovative, expansive and wide-ranging collection, leading social work … | Brenda Anne-Marie LeFrançois; Sobia Shaheen Shaikh; Teresa Macías | 592 | 2022 | View |