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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds: Like Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds: Like Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Polarization is dangerous because it interrupts lines of communicationand leads to gridlock. It stops us from tackling urgent problems because without consensus we cannot take effective action. … 10 $1.00 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds: The Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds: The Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

When we look at the miserable state of public discourse today and how we are polluting the public square, it’s plain to see that many people believe the problem derives from evil on … 9 $0.90 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds: Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds: Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds: Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds: Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … 9 $0.90 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds: Why We Want to be Misled with Dan Kahan

Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds: Why We Want to be Misled with Dan Kahan

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Group values impact risk perceptions and how our interpretation of scientific evidence is shaped by our cultural affiliations. Cultural cognition describes the tendency of individuals to conform … 8 $0.80 Add
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Smoke
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Smoke

From: My Mother, My Translator

Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada. 9 $0.90 Add
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Snow of a Different Kind
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Snow of a Different Kind

From: Eyes Have Seen

In this chapter, Anderson examines the 1969 occupation of Sir George Williams University in Montreal, sparked by Caribbean students’ complaint about a professor’s biased grading. 5 $0.50 Add
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So Much Time Spent in Bed

So Much Time Spent in Bed

A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity

From: Care Work

A letter to Gloria — a Chicana scholar of cultural, feminist, and queer theory — from the author about being a queer femme of colour writer and chronically ill femme. 7 $0.70 Add
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So What’s Stopping You?

So What’s Stopping You?

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 9 concludes with a call to action, discussing topics including democratic reform and citizen influence, Neoliberalism, communal goals and future cultural changes. 18 $1.80 Add
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Soaring

Soaring

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more. 3 $0.30 Add
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Social Capital and Local Development

Social Capital and Local Development

A New Paradigm?

From: Illusion or Opportunity

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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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 … 21 $2.10 Add
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Social Exclusion
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Social Exclusion

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

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 … 30 $3.00 Add
Social Inclusion

Social Inclusion

Canadian Perspectives

How is the concept of social inclusion evolving in policy terms? Are we moving toward a common understanding or definition? What does social inclusion mean for issues like poverty and the growing … ; 264 View
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Social Inclusion, Anti-Racism and Democratic Citizenship

Social Inclusion, Anti-Racism and Democratic Citizenship

From: Social Inclusion

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