Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada's settler colonial project and its...
Essays
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Author:Summary: - Author:Coates, Colin M., University of Calgary PressSummary:
Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the...
- Author:Byron Williston, DesRoches, C. Tyler, Jankunis, FrankSummary:
Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays cover various subjects, including ecological...
- Author:Camlot, Jason, McLeod, KatherineSummary:
The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which...
- Author:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSummary:
Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time...
- Author:Abele, FrancesSummary:
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of...
- Author:Blay, ZebaSummary:
Carefree Black Girls is an exploration and celebration of black women's identity and impact on pop culture, as well as the enduring stereotypes they face, from a film and culture critic for HuffPost . In 2013, Zeba Blay was one of...
- Author:Melton, Glennon DoyleSummary:
Glennon Melton believes that by shedding our weapons and armor, we can stop hiding, competing, striving for the mirage of perfection, and ultimately build a better life in our hearts, homes, and communities. Readers will find a wise and...
- Author:Brunet-Dragon, SarahSummary:
Depuis des millénaires, nos rapports au monde et aux autres sont déterminés par les histoires que nous échangeons, celles que nous nous transmettons d'une génération à l'autre, celles que nous oublions, refoulons ou nions, celles...
- Author:Lilley, Sasha, McNally, David, Yuen, Eddie, Davis, JamesSummary:
Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound. Governments warn that no alternative exists to taking the bitter medicine they prescribe. Catastrophism...
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In a period characterized by growing social inequality, precarious work, the legacies of settler colonialism, and the emergence of new social movements, Change and Continuity presents innovative interdisciplinary research as a guide to...
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This book is published in conjunction with the first retrospective of artist Christi Belcourt's work: "UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth--Christi Belcourt--A Retrospective with Isaac Murdoch," curated by Nadia Kurd. The book traces...
- Author:Eco, UmbertoSummary:
A posthumous collection of essays about the modern world from one of Europe's greatest, and best-selling, literary figures Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist...
- Author:Rankine, ClaudiaSummary:
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional...
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The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with...
- Author:Struthers, J.R. (Tim)Summary:
This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise's writing in more than 25 years -- and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published essays by, among others,...
- Author:Hatch, Ron, Hatch, VeronicaSummary:
A comprehensive account of Clayoquot Sound and the protest movement: rainforest ecosystems; the April 1993 land-use decision; co-opted forestry science; the Peace Camp and the Blockades; civil disobedience; the police, the courts and...
- Author:Swanson, KerrySummary:
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
- Author:Swanson, KerrySummary:
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminder that language, self and reality are...
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