Social Welfare

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some …	Deborah Stienstra	168	2020	View
About Face Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada Breakwater Books	About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face …	Douglas Gosse	424	2019	View
Africentric Social Work Fernwood Publishing	This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their …	David Este; Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa; Wanda Thomas Bernard	272	2021	View
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against …	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	102	2007	View
Crip Kinship The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid Arsenal Pulp Press	The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to …	Shayda Kafai	201	2021	View
Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice Social Justice Social Work Fernwood Publishing	This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific …	Donna Baines	381	2017	View
Field Excercises How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities New Society Publishers	There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and …	Stephanie Westlund	242	2014	View
Fight to Win Inside Poor People’s Organizing Fernwood Publishing	AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information …	A. J. Withers	305	2021	View
NEW! Inside Out The Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism New Society Publishers	Providing a roadmap to workplace and organizational change, Inside Out is packed with practical tools for working collectively towards racial justice and dismantling institutional racism. This …	Caprice D. Hollins	282	2022	View
NEW! Kaandossiwin, 2nd Edition How We Come to Know Indigenous re-Search Methodologies Fernwood Publishing	Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe …	Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)	369	2022	View
Rock Paper Sex The Oldest Profession in Canada’s Oldest City Breakwater Books	St. John’s is known as a flourishing port city, a cultural gem, and popular tourist destination: a picturesque city of pubs and restaurants, music and colourful houses. But a thriving sex …	Keri Cull	232	2017	View
From Fighting to Win Power and Poor People’s Organizing From: Fight to Win Preview Fernwood Publishing	This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy …	A. J. Withers	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Foreword From: Inside Out Preview New Society Publishers	Forward from Leticia Nieto, Psychotherapist, Anti-Oppression Trainer, Socionomist, and Professor at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington.	Caprice D. Hollins	3	2022	$0.30 Add
From Foreword by Patty Berne From: Crip Kinship Preview Arsenal Pulp Press	Foreword by Patty Berne.	Shayda Kafai	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From Introduction From: Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	4	2005	$0.40 Add
From Introduction From: About Face Preview Breakwater Books	The Introduction outlines the questions that this anthology seeks to answer: Who suffers from addictions in Canada, How can we better understand addictions, What are the steps forward in the …	Douglas Gosse	4	2019	$0.40 Add