Sociology
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Brief History of the Earth’s ClimateEveryone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change |
A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global … | Steven Earle | 210 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Abortion to AbolitionReproductive Health and Justice in Canada |
The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive … | Martha Paynter | 176 | 2022 | View |
![]() Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students |
Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been … | Benita Bunjun | 250 | 2021 | View |
![]() Africentric Social Work |
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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() Dangerous Enemy SympathizersCanadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 |
From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, … | Andrew Theobald | 178 | 2019 | View |
![]() Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Decolonize Self-Care |
Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 284 | 2023 | View |
![]() Decolonizing AcademiaPoverty, Oppression, and Pain |
Poetic, confrontational and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the … | Clelia O. Rodríguez | 148 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Decolonizing Equity |
Institutions everywhere seem to be increasingly aware of their roles in settler colonialism and anti-Black racism. As such, many racialized workers find themselves tasked with developing equity … | Billie Allan; OmiSoore Dryden; V.C. Rhonda Hackett | 225 | 2022 | View |
![]() Engage, Connect, ProtectEmpowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders |
While concern about the state of our land, air, and water continues to grow, there is widespread belief that environmental issues are primarily of interest to wealthy white communities. Engage, … | Angelou Ezeilo | 256 | 2019 | View |
![]() Finding Our NicheToward a Restorative Human Ecology |
Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios—people and nature thriving together—are possible. No doubt contemporary … | Philip A. Loring | 168 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! Frequently Asked White Questions |
Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who … | Ajay Parasram; Alex Khasnabish | 128 | 2022 | View |
![]() Indigenous Women’s Theatre in CanadaA Mechanism of Decolonization |
Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving … | Sarah Mackenzie | 192 | 2020 | View |
![]() Living in Indigenous Sovereignty |
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty lifts up the wisdom of Indigenous scholars, activists and knowledge keepers who speak pointedly to what they are asking of non-Indigenous people. It also shares … | Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara; Gladys Rowe | 264 | 2021 | View |
![]() No More Nice GirlsGender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules |
A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching … | Lauren McKeon | 384 | 2020 | View |