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Public-Private Partnerships

What Counts as Evidence of Claimed Value?

From: Divided

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This chapter challenges a Saskatchewan government minister’s claims that those who question the value of the use of P3s are blinded by ideology and that available value-for-money reports … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Social Work Activism Within Neoliberalism

A Big Tent Approach?

From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice

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This chapter considers the challenges of social work practice amidst neoliberal globalization. It explores different types of activism, and the project of building a broader conceptualization of … 17 $1.70 Add
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Unimaginable but Undeniable – Genocide in Canada

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From: Indigenous Nationhood

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A Bottom-Up Approach to the Creation of a Marine Protected Area in San Felipe, Mexico

Gender Relations, Governance Mechanisms and Globalization

From: Changing Tides

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Detourne Down for What‽

Culture Jamming in the Age of General Anxiety

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

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Détournement as Active Force – The Age of General Anxiety – A Self-Jamming System – Communalizing the Public Secret 12 $1.20 Add
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Finding Foucault: Critical Ideas to Transform How We Think and Act

Section 7: Poststructuralism: Language, Discourse, Power

From: Critical Social Work Praxis

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This chapter focuses on the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926–1984), a preeminent French philosopher and historian well known for challenging the key tenets of Marxism and structuralism and … 13 $1.30 Add
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From Big Bad Worl to Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

The Uranium Industry Manipulates Its Image to Stay Afloat and Faces Resistance along the Way

From: Divided

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This chapter discusses how current controversies around giant uranium company Cameco are manifestations of extractivism. It also explores how, to counter the resistance it has faced over the last … 16 $1.60 Add
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Multiculturalism The Bilingual Limits of Canadian Multiculturalism

The Politics of Language and Race

From: Gender, Race & Canadian Law

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On Becoming an “Other”

From: Experiencing Difference

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Reflection as Resistance

YouTube, Digital Stories and Critical Reflexivity

From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice

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Drawing on the author’s own practices as well as examples from other social workers, this chapter explores the relationship between neoliberalism, digital media-based critical reflection, … 16 $1.60 Add
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Section 3 Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

Funding for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women - A Let Down by All Parties

From: Indigenous Nationhood

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Taking Fair Trade to the People

Education and Advocacy for Social Change

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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In this chapter, the author explores the different forms of activism and advocacy that have been employed to bring about positive change in trading relationships. 9 $0.90 Add
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You Can Always Count On an Anthropologist

(To Set You Straight, Crooked or Somewhere In-Between)

From: Gendered Intersections

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A Post-Structural Praxis: Contesting the Subordinating Practices of Community Engagement

Section 7: Poststructuralism: Language, Discourse, Power

From: Critical Social Work Praxis

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The author draw on excerpts from her study of the social relations of community-based research to illustrate what a poststructural analysis offers to community-engaged praxis. Poststructuralism … 19 $1.90 Add