Activism & Social Movements

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! I Want a Better Catastrophe Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor New Society Publishers	An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown …	Andrew Boyd	422	2023	View
Identity, Place, Knowledge Social Movements Contesting Globalization Fernwood Publishing	Grassroots organizations have long been involved in the education and mobilization of local populations. Through the development of coalition formation, broad-based campaign-organizing and …	Janet M. Conway	304	2004	View
Illusion or Opportunity Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change Fernwood Publishing	The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is …	Henry Veltmeyer	142	2007	View
In The Business of Change How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual New Society Publishers	Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the …	Elisa Birnbaum	195	2018	View
Insurgent Love Abolition and Domestic Homicide Fernwood Publishing	Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through …	Ardath Whynacht	161	2021	View
Intrinsic Hope Living Courageously In Troubled Times New Society Publishers	Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, …	Kate Davies	203	2018	View
NEW! John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool James Lorimer and Company	John Lennon was the world’s biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of …	Greg Marquis	250	2020	View
Mobilizations, Protests & Engagements Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements Fernwood Publishing	This book addresses many questions in evaluating social movements and is the first in a series being developed by The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. What lessons can we …	Marie Hammond-Callaghan; Matthew Hayday	263	2008	View
No Choice The 30-Year Fight for Abortion on Prince Edward Island Fernwood Publishing	In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed a law legalizing abortion in Canada. But making abortion legal did not guarantee women access to these services. In many communities around the …	Kate McKenna	124	2018	View
NEW! NOlympians Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond Fernwood Publishing	NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining …	Jules Boykoff	208	2020	View
Organizing the 1% How Corporate Power Works Fernwood Publishing	Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But …	J.P. Sapinski; William K. Carroll	184	2018	View
Persistent Poverty Voices From the Margins Between The Lines	It’s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground …	Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	184	2010	View
Quiet No More New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe James Lorimer and Company	Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of …	Joel D. Harden	264	2013	View
Resilience Imperative Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy New Society Publishers	We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	400	2012	View
Resist! A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analyses from the Quebec City FTAA Protests and Beyond Fernwood Publishing	In late April, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest at the Second People’s Summit of the Americas (the FTAA Summit). RESIST! is a collection of young peoples’ experiences …	Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels	191	2001	View
NEW! Resisting Eviction Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing Fernwood Publishing	Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property …	Andrew Crosby	188	2023	View