Public Policy

“Social Upheaval” has been added to your cart. View Coursepack

Showing 1201–1216 of 1613 results

Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of Trust The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 4 discusses questions of personal data. Topics discussed include open access, data and privacy, data bias, open data, and municipal dashboards.	John Lorinc	17	2022	$1.70 Add
NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …		200		View
From NEW! Smart City Tech: A Primer The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 1 explores the tech needed to create a smart city. Discussing topics including what makes technology ‘smart’, ‘machine learning’ …	John Lorinc	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green Cities The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 5 explores the possibility of green cities with smart innovation. Topics discussed include post-industrial cities, climate change, pollution, urban …	John Lorinc	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Soaring From: Breaking the Word Barrier View Goose Lane Editions	Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more.	Afiena Kamminga	3	2009	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Social Democracy and a Green New Deal PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the …	Aaron Saad	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Social Democracy and Labour From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, …	Andrew Jackson	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Social Exclusion From: About Canada: Health and Illness View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Five unpacks the concept of social exclusion and its relationship to health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the experiences of marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples, people of …	Dennis Raphael	30	2024	$3.00 Add
From NEW! Social Gastronomy Giving Food a Seat at the Table From: Take Back the Tray View ECW Press		Joshna Maharaj	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From Social Inclusion From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition View Fernwood Publishing		Dennis Raphael	21	2016	$2.10 Add
From Social Inequalities in Health A Real and Persistent Problem From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	The existence of social inequalities in health is now recognized as a very real and world-wide problem; this chapter examines systematic determinants of health, which are socially produced and …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	13	2015	$1.30 Add
From Social Movements and Countervailing Power in a Time of Empire From: Identity, Place, Knowledge View Fernwood Publishing		Janet M. Conway	19	2004	$1.71 Add
From Social Upheaval From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the …	Tony Clarke	39	2008	$3.90 Add
From Social Workers, Financial Advisors, or Authoritarian Overseers? Caseworkers Reflections on Welfare Surveillance From: Ineligble View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter explores how caseworkers are situated in the welfare surveillance apparatus. Caseworkers embody surveillance, which is shaped by the sociocultural and political values of society and …	Krys Maki	37	2021	$3.70 Add
From Soft-Path Solutions From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers continues to discuss efficiency and suggests that we should focus on increasing that instead of trying to redistribute and increase our water supply.	Marq de Villiers	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From Soldiers without a Commander? From: In Defiance View Between The Lines	Social networks, the media, and their effects on the spontaneous actions of the strikers.	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	13	2015	$1.30 Add