Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to...
Canada
- Auteur:Brownlee, JamieSommaire:
- Auteur:Pannozzo, LindaSommaire:
In About Canada: The Environment, award-winning author Linda Pannozzo examines the philosophical, economic and ideological landscape of our current environmental worldview. She connects our faith in the free market and our adherence to...
- Auteur:Whiteside, HeatherSommaire:
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s,...
- Auteur:Stienstra, DeborahSommaire:
In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences.
- Auteur:Stettner, Shannon, Burnett, Kristin, Hay, TravisSommaire:
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in the country. In this volume, some of Canada’s foremost researchers challenge current...
- Auteur:Adese, JenniferSommaire:
In Aboriginal TM, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to specific "...
- Auteur:Knafla, Louis A., Westra, HaijoSommaire:
Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distinguished group of scholars whose work is showcased here, however, shows that our...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
This volume addresses a wide range of topics related to Aboriginal resource use, ranging from the pre-contact period to the present. The papers were originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at the University of Winnipeg. Co-...
- Auteur:Frideres, James S.Sommaire:
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, eighth edition, provides a current, comprehensive introduction to Native Studies. Using both the majority and minority perspectives, it chronicles the changes that have taken place over the past century and...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
This volume features differing views of past, present, and possible future roles for Aboriginal people in the Canadian political and electoral system. The studies address the issues facing Aboriginal people and the efforts to increase...
- Auteur:Isaac, ThomasSommaire:
Thomas Isaac looks at the broad picture of trends that are developing in the law and the background, highlighting aspects of Canadian law that impact Aboriginal peoples and their relationship with the wider Canadian society. While...
- Auteur:Knopf, KerstinSommaire:
Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While...
- Auteur:Yasuda, AnitaSommaire:
Each book in the Aboriginal Biographies series provides a look at an individual well known in their field, providing a glimpse into the inspiration, achievements, and successes that define these great Canadians.
- Auteur:Jones, ElSommaire:
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism...
- Auteur:Isitt, Benjamin, Malhotra, RaviSommaire:
Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York, in 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that...
- Auteur:Harrington, JenniferSommaire:
A beautifully illustrated A to Z board book featuring Canadian animals.
- Auteur:Sioui, JeanSommaire:
Résumé La poésie aide à résister. La vérité s'appelle tradition, humour, sagesse. Jean Sioui, aîné de la communauté wendat, met lumière et couleurs sur la réalité : « Mes pensées rencontrent celles de mes ancêtres....
- Auteur:Bidini, DaveSommaire:
On the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, a personal and poetic journey into the heart of hockey in Canada. As summer turned to fall in 1972, Canada was redefining itself and its place in the world. Politically, a spirited...
- Auteur:Whitlock, NathanSommaire:
A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who...
- Auteur:Soderstrom, MarySommaire:
Montréal, avenue du Parc, rue Saint-Viateur. Des passants se croisent, vont et viennent, anonymes dans la foule. L’art subtil de Mary Soderstrom consiste à nous faire pénétrer dans l’intimité de ces inconnus qui semble, au premier abord...