Between The Lines

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“Too Asian”? Racism and Post-Secondary Education	The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the …	Davina Bhandar; Jeet Heer; Michael C.K. Ma; RJ Gilmour	224	2012	View
A Beauty that Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala	When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of “peace” has come to the …	W. George Lovell	288	2019	View
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place	Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their …	Katherine McKittrick	272	2007	View
Degrees of Failure University Education in Decline	In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show …	Randle W. Nelsen	152	2017	View
Disarming Conflict Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield	Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that …	Ernie Regehr	232	2015	View
Feminist City A Field Guide	Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think …	Leslie Kern	216	2019	View
Home and Native Land Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada	Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The …	Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar	256	2011	View
In Defiance	On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will …	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	186	2015	View
Languages of the Unheard Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy	“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of …	Stephen D'Arcy	232	2013	View
Persistent Poverty Voices From the Margins	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
The Culture of Nature North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Second Edition	Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson’s innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work …	Alexander Wilson	352	2019	View
Unearthing Justice How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry	The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its …	Joan Kuyek	408	2019	View
Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest	In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials …	Tom Malleson	256	2011	View
Women and Work Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction	With #MeToo dominating headlines and an unprecedented number of women running for office, the fight for women’s equality has perhaps never been higher on the political agenda. Around …	Susan Ferguson	192	2020	View
Worth Fighting For Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror	Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important …	Catherine Gidney; Lara Campbell; Michael Dawson	336	2015	View
From From: Home and Native Land Preview	Examines the policy of multiculturalism within a settler society, and whether the current debates are disruptive or just another form of assimilation. Includes a discussion of the effects of the …	Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar	14	2011	$1.40 Add