2025

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Tenant-Centred Public Health in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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Tenant-Centred Public Health in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, the authors examine how tenant-led organizing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside became essential public health infrastructureduring the 2020 pandemic intervention beyond crisis. ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Tenant-Organized Eviction Court Watch
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Tenant-Organized Eviction Court Watch

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, Carroll examines tenant-organized eviction court-watching in Portland, Oregon. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot

From: Messy Cities

Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Canada-Libya thaw
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The Canada-Libya thaw

From: Targeting Libya

In this chapter Canadian prime minister Paul Martin’s 2004 tent meeting with Qadhafi symbolized how Canadian diplomacy, corporate interests (especially SNC-Lavalin and oil firms), and … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure

From: Messy Cities

Andrés Borthagaray writes that a combination of messy and orderly urbanism produces beneficial interaction, and uses examples of mobility infrastructure to illustrate their point. 5 $0.50 Add
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The Collective Effervescence of Messy Parks
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The Collective Effervescence of Messy Parks

From: Messy Cities

Jake Tobin Garrett writes about how the pandemic broke previous understandings of public space for Canadians, specifically examining parks. 7 $0.70 Add
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"The hottest of hot spots"
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"The hottest of hot spots"

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter looks at the period of the late 2000s, when Libya’s uneasy opening to foreign investment exacerbated internal political battles while SNC-Lavalin courted the Qadaffi sons with … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Importance of Justice and Decolonization Questions in Science Education
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The Importance of Justice and Decolonization Questions in Science Education

From: Interrupting Innovation

In this chapter, Filsinger and Sühring argue that chemistry education must centre justice, decolonization, and ethical reasoning rather than presenting the discipline as a neutral, fixed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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The Just Society and the Jamahiriya
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The Just Society and the Jamahiriya

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter explains how during the late 1960s Pierre Trudeau continued Canada’s longstanding pattern of backing corporate expansion and Cold War anti-communism abroad. In contrast, … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Mad Dog
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The Mad Dog

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … 15 $1.50 Add
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The multipolar world
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The multipolar world

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … 4 $0.40 Add
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The nationalization threat
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The nationalization threat

From: Targeting Libya

In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Need in Human Thinking
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The Need in Human Thinking

From: Thinking Systematics

In this chapter, Smith and Hayslip discuss how conventional modes of reasoning are inadequate to the crises facing humanity in the early twenty-first century. ; 25 $2.50 Add
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The New England Proposition
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The New England Proposition

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on higher education. Discussions centred on the potential for … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Political Renter Class in So-Called Australia
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The Political Renter Class in So-Called Australia

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, the authors examine the political renter class in Melbourne during the 2020 pandemic, linking Australia’s housing crisis to settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession. ; 9 $0.90 Add