Public Policy
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From PortapiqueFrom: Insurgent Love |
This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020. | Ardath Whynacht | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From Poverty is RediscoveredFrom: When Poverty Mattered |
- | Paul Weinberg | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
From Ready to RallyMarshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, … | Seth Klein | 40 | 2020 | $4.00 Add |
From Regenerative Design |
Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö … | Andrés R. Edwards | 18 | 2010 | $1.80 Add |
From Religious Fundamentalism vs. the EnvironmentFrom: Canada after Harper |
Joyce Nelson finds a close link between this political inaction and the adherence to religious fundamentalism by the Prime Minister and his closest allies. | Joyce Nelson | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
From Rio to KyotoThe Road Not Taken From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From Rivers and Lakes in TroubleFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. | Marq de Villiers | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
From Running on emptyClimate and environment |
The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of … | James Wilt | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
From Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 30, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses … | Rudyard Griffiths | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Struggling to SurviveThe New Democratic Party and Labour in the Neoliberal Era |
Will neoliberalism remain hegemonic in a world recovering from a pandemic and prone to populist reactions to free market neoliberalism? In 2020, business acceptance of massive deficits, … | Alan Ernst; Bryan Evans | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From Systemic DiscriminationPolice and Race |
In this chapter, the author outline the "broken windows" theory of policing, and how this has had disproportionate impacts on racialized people. | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 45 | 2021 | $4.50 Add |
From Teaching Is A Group ActivitiyFrom: Freedom To Learn |
Teaching is inherently a group activity and that makes all the difference. Humans (students in this case) respond differently in groups than in individual situations. Some important variables of … | Art Willans; Cari Williams | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! The Allende of the NorthFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter examines the Dave Barrett NDP government of British Columbia, which was in power from 1972-1975. Jackson later worked with the BC NDP caucus as they tried to resist the resurgent … | Andrew Jackson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From The Douglas Legacy and the Future of MedicareFrom: Medicare |
Discusses Tommy Douglas’s lasting legacy as a political leader through his introduction of universal health care | Greg; Marchildon | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |