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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
About Canada: Media	Canada enjoys a long-held reputation for producing high-quality media, from National Film Board documentaries to the CBC to children’s programming. But in recent years, funding cuts, …	Peter Steven	176	2011	View
About Canada: Poverty	For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and …	Jim Silver	192	2014	View
About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships	P3s fundamentally transform public infrastructure, public services, labour relations, public sectors and the everyday lives of Canadians. While contracting out services is supposed to save money, …	Heather Whiteside	142	2016	View
About Canada: Queer Rights	Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada …	Peter Knegt	144	2011	View
About Canada: The Environment	As the Earth veers toward a biological tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become scarcer and as climate change threatens our survival, how is Canada responding? …	Linda Pannozzo	176	2016	View
Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students	Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been …	Benita Bunjun	250	2021	View
Activism That Works	Activism That Works shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements, from Oxfam Canada, to the Calgary Raging Grannies, to the Youth Project of Halifax, as they contemplate their own …	Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson	192	2011	View
NEW! Advocating for Palestine in Canada Histories, Movements, Action	Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these …	Emily Regan Wills; Jeremy Wildemen; Michael Bueckert; Nadia Abu-Zahra	241	2022	View
Africentric Social Work	This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their …	David Este; Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa; Wanda Thomas Bernard	272	2021	View
Agrarian Change, Migration and Development Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies	The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration …	Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise	160	2016	View
NEW! Agriculture and the Generation Problem Agrarian Changes and Peasant Studies	Despite predictions that they are destined to disappear, smallholder or family farms still number more than 500 million worldwide, and account for more than 90 percent of all the world’s …	Ben White	160	2020	View
Agroecology Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies	Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and …	Miguel A. Altieri; Peter M. Rosset	160	2017	View
Alternative Trade Legacies for the Future	Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions …	Gavin Fridell	175	2013	View
An Ideal Prison? Critical Essays on Women's Imprisonment in Canada	In a series of critical essays, the contributors stimulate reflection and discussion. They explore the effects of punishment and penality on women’s lives, the impact of feminist reforms on the …	Kelly Hannah-Moffat; Margaret Shaw	168	2000	View
Anti-Racism Education Theory & Practice	Dei argues that analyzing the intersections of race, class, gender and sexual oppression is essential if we are to fully address educational equity, social justice and change. He examines how we …	George J. Sefa Dei	158	1996	View
Anti-Racist Feminism Critical Race and Gender Studies	This collection adds to our understanding and critical engagement of how gendered and racially minoritized bodies can and do negotiate their identities and politics across several historical …	Agnes Calliste; George J. Sefa Dei	190	2000	View