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Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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The concept and implementation of community service orders are presented as a practical alternative to imprisonment. The chapter also puts forward the rationale for the call for more viable and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Back to the Future

The Colloquium in Context: The Democratization of Culture and Cultural Democracy

From: Accounting for Culture

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There is a worrisome amnesia confronting the cultural sector in Canada today, as though the collective "hard drive" of the sector has been wiped clean of past policy and research experience. 8 $0.96 Add
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Persistence of Vision: Memory, Migration, and Citizenship – Free Trade or the Failure of Cross-Culturality?

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Persistence of vision is all about the eye, the way it follows a film, remembers an image, holds on to it, until the next one appears to replace it, so that we are never conscious of the stutter … 5 $0.50 Add
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"Back on April Eleventh" 1969

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"De retour le 11 avril," translated by Alan Brown as "Back on April Eleventh," first appeared in Liberté in the March-April 1969 issue, and was later reprinted in Point … 13 $0.78 Add
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Canada One Hundred Years from Now: A Federation of Nations?

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

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Canada’s distinctiveness rests not in its multi-ethnic and multicultural composition but in its enduring national cleavages and confrontations. That distinctiveness is the cause of a … 21 $1.68 Add
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The Igbo Indigenous Justice System

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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This chapter examines the indigenous justice system of the Igbo of southeast Nigeria from restorative, transformative, and communitarian principles. 22 $2.20 Add
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The Impact of Globalization on Citizenship: Decline or Renaissance?

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Politics and citizenship still matter. The question dividing theorists of citizenship and globalization is: Which city are we citizens of? 28 $2.80 Add
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"The Goldfish" 1970

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"Le poisson rouge" ("The Goldfish," as Sheila Fischman has translated the tide), first appeared in the anthology Nouvelles du Québec, edited by Katherine Brearley and … 16 $0.96 Add
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Metaphors and Maps: Imagining Canada into the Twenty-first Century

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

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In their introduction to Painting the Maple – a 1998 collection of essays that, as the metaphor in the title suggests, investigates some of the ways that race and gender influence our … 9 $0.72 Add
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Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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Two questions about the penal abolitionist perspective are whether it represents is a theory of crime and whether it can or does address the nature of crime. Here I will illustrate that penal … 40 $4.00 Add
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"A Blue Rose Perfume" 1974

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"Un parfum bleu-rose," translated here as "A Blue Rose Perfume" by Basil Kingstone, first appeared in 1974 in the Montreal magazine Liberté. It is a simple story—a … 14 $0.84 Add
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The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X)

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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Following a long line of academic literature, and growing through activist affiliations, this chapter outlines penal abolitionism as it was presented to the Nigerian community in efforts to … 32 $3.20 Add
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"Part II of Children of My Heart" 1979

From: The Quebec Anthology

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Although Ces enfants de ma vie (1977), translated by Alan Brown in 1979 as Children of My Heart, has also been called both memoir and novel, it transcends genre classification, just as its author … 28 $1.68 Add
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"The Good Old Days" 1981

From: The Quebec Anthology

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Though perhaps less overtly political than many of Major’s other works, "The Good Old Days" is definitely a story about disillusionment— a theme that runs through all of … 14 $0.84 Add
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"The Secret Voice" 1982

From: The Quebec Anthology

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Le Surveillant was translated in 1990 as The Secret Voice by Matt Cohen, and it is from this collection that the title story has been taken. "The Secret Voice" exemplifies … 6 $0.36 Add
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"Beach Blues" 1983

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"Beach Blues," translated here by Sheila Fischman, is another of the linked stories that make up Sans coeur et sans reproche, which follows the lives of two young people from childhood … 28 $1.68 Add