America’s Deadliest Export:

Democracy–The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

William Blum

“As in the past, in this remarkable collection Bill Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and does not pull his punches. They land, backed with evidence and acute analysis. It is a perspective on the world that Westerners should ponder, and take as a guideline for action.” — Noam Chomsky “A fireball of terse information — one of our best muckrackers.” — Oliver Stone Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe… (more information)

Climate@Work

Edited by Carla Lipsig-Mummé

Climate change is having an increasingly significant impact on work in Canada, and the effect climate change has, and will continue to have, on work concerns many Canadians. However, this fact has not been seriously considered either in academic circles, in the labour movement nor especially by the Canadian government. Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence… (more information)

Continental Crucible

Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America

Edur Velasco Arregui, Richard Roman

The crucible of North American neo-liberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the ways in which the capitalist classes in Canada, Mexico and the United States used free trade agreements to consolidate their agendas and organize themselves continentally. The failure of traditional… (more information)

Critical Inquiries

A Reader in Studies of Canada

Edited by Lynn Caldwell, Darryl Leroux, Carrianne Leung

“As a critical Canadian studies unmasks, unearths, repositions, rereads, reworks and remakes, it also works to produce new modes of relational logics and conditions in which the intimacies that European colonial expansion produced for us might be refashioned.” — Rinaldo Walcott, from the Foreword This book takes a bold, critical approach to Canadian studies, framing Canada as an ongoing colonial project. The contributors assess how policy programs, such as multiculturalism… (more information)

Cuba and Its Neighbours

Democracy in Motion

Arnold August

”This book, a tour de force from an expert who clearly knows his field well, is one that goes out of its way to make us think about what we understand by ‘democracy’ and how we should view new manifestations in the ‘Third World.’ ”- Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham. ”A must-read for anybody seriously interested in Cuba and in the overall question of democracy and its practices.” - Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir, Tufts University ”A trailblazing… (more information)

Demonstrations

Olivier Fillieule, Danielle Tartakowsky

Demonstrations are without a doubt the most common form of political expression, more so in democratic nations — where its legitimacy competes, relatively happily, with more conventional forms of participation such as the vote — than in non-democratic countries, where demonstration accompanies attempts to revolt and overthrow. In this book, which includes updated information from the original French version, the authors offer a sociological and historical analysis of this political… (more information)

Everything Is So Political

A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers

Edited by Sandra McIntyre

Brimming with wild imagination and stunning variety, this is one of those beautiful literary anthologies that comes along once a generation, that we’ll look back upon as the beginning of a whole new vision of Canadian fiction.” — Lee Henderson, author of The Man Game The stories within Everything Is So Political explore the intersection between politics and the contemporary short story. From the overt to the subtle, this collection tackles a broad range of topics… (more information)

Failure to Protect

Moving Beyond Gendered Responses

Edited by Rosemary Carlton, Julia Krane, Simon Lapierre, Cathy Richardson, Susan Strega

Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children — and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices that engage mothers and hold them responsible for violence in the home, while excusing or ignoring the male offender, are common. Moreover, these actions most often play out on the shoulders of marginalized… (more information)

From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

Kari Levitt

“The essays in this book provide a carefully crafted picture of ‘the life and times of Karl Polanyi,’ along with the relevance of his analysis for those of us living in different times.” — Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia Four years into the unfolding of the most serious economic crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi’s prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated market capitalism on peoples,… (more information)

Geopolitical Economy

After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire

Radhika Desai

Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis. Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony, globalisation and empire which dominate academic international political economy and international relations, revealing their ideological origins in successive failed US attempts at world dominance through the dollar. Desai revitalizes revolutionary… (more information)

Hungry for Change

Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question

A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

”A must-read for anyone who cares about understanding food and the planet today.” — Raj Patel “This readable, inspiring book is a wonderful introduction to what will surely be one of the defining social struggles of our times: the struggle over food.” — Jim Stanford, economist, Canadian Auto Workers “If you want to understand how the… (more information)

Latin America’s Turbulant Transitions

The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism

M. Fox

“As the millennium opened, the World Social Forum met in Brazil with the slogan ‘A New World is Possible,’ part of a global reaction to the prevailing practices of neoliberal globalization that held that ‘There is No Alternative.’ The remarkable developments in Latin America in the years since demonstrate that a new world may be in the making, not just in Latin America but perhaps reaching well beyond. The insightful and informative studies collected here reveal what… (more information)

Making Peace With the Earth

Vandana Shiva

In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalization in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact. Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world’s devastated eco-landscape, one of genetic engineering, industrial development and land… (more information)

Mind the Gaps

Canadian Perspectives on Gender and Politics

Roberta Lexier, Tamara Small

The gender gap refers to the differences in public opinion and political participation between men and women: the proportion of seats held by women in Canadian legislatures appears to have plateaued or even declined at all levels of government, and gendered differences in political behaviour and participation impact public policy, political outcomes and democratic fairness in Canada. Mind the Gaps provides a multifaceted examination of the role of gender in traditional politics, social movement… (more information)

Moving Forward, Giving Back

Transformative Aboriginal Adult Education

Edited by Jim Silver

Aboriginal people who choose to improve their education as adults often face many challenges, most of which arise from the ongoing impact of colonialism and of racialized poverty. Yet in Winnipeg’s low-income inner city, a variety of innovative and effective Aboriginal adult education initiatives have emerged. Drawing upon the voices and experiences of Aboriginal adult learners themselves, this book describes the initiatives and strategies that have proven successful and transformative for… (more information)

Peasants and the Art of Farming

A Chayanovian Manifesto

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Many impressive studies on the changing nature of the global food system have been published, and nearly all address changes at the macro level. The far less visible changes occurring at the micro level have received relatively little attention, especially in the realm of critical rural studies. This book is a reflection of the far reaching and complex transformations of food systems that have occurred as a result of liberalization and globalization. This book focuses on the structure and dynamics… (more information)

Revitalizing the Classics

What Past Social Theorists Can Teach Us Today

Tony Simmons

Revitalizing the Classics is a lively introductory text that relates classical social theories to contemporary social events. This updated definition of “the classics” avoids the Eurocentrism and androcentrism of many textbooks of social theory by including both non-European and women social thinkers. Besides highlighting the work of Ibn Khaldun and first wave feminist scholars, this book utilizes interactive figures, original source sidebars and current illustrative examples to provide… (more information)

Tailings of Warren Peace

Stephen Law

Tailings of Warren Peace is a gripping tale that eerily reflects a disturbing reality in global politics. It takes the reader on a scintillating and mysterious journey that twists and turns from Canada to Guatemala, war to peace, and loss to love. This book is a celebration of the human spirit. “ — Garry Leech, author of Beyond Bogota ”Tailings of Warren Peace manages to wind disparate threads into a ripping yarn, wound around personal stories … While the characters… (more information)

Television and the Earth

Not A Love Story

Jennifer Ellen Good

Habitat loss, the extinction of species, severe droughts, rapidly diminishing polar ice, hugely powerful and destructive storms — how have we arrived at such a precarious point in the environmental history of our planet? In Television and the Earth: Not a Love Story, Jennifer Ellen Good argues that one of the fundamental reasons for the wholesale neglect and destruction of our environment is television — or, more precisely, the stories told on television. Stories have always been vital… (more information)

The Lost Teachings / Panuijkatasikl Kina’masuti’l

Dozay (Arlene) Christmas, Michael James Isaac

Illustrated by Dozay (Arlene) Christmas; Translated by Yolanda Denny ”Once again, Michael James Isaac and Dozay Christmas have demonstrated that art and story telling are important means for promoting love of one’s own culture and appreciation across cultures. This beautifully illustrated and wonderfully told narrative is a valuable resource for helping children, and adults, grow in ways that claims and reclaims a balance among individual, community, and societal character building… (more information)

The Poetics of Land and Identity Among British Columbia Indigenous Peoples

Christine J. Elsey

The Poetics of Land and Identity is about the meaning of land for the many diverse First Nations within British Columbia. The work offers a study of the folklore and symbolic traditions within many Aboriginal regions and illustrates how these traditions emphasize the importance of orality and poetics as the defining factor in the value of land. Christine J. Elsey offers a deft, scholarly discussion of these “storyscapes,” providing us with a point of access for understanding First Nations… (more information)

To Live and Die in America

Class, Power, Health and Health Care

Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson

“A cogent and penetrating analysis of health outcomes in America, outlining the historical role played by unions in contributing to public health services. A must-read for all who embrace the goals for fairness shared by the 99 percent.” — Paul Moist, National President, Canadian Union of Public Employees To Live and Die in America details how the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialized world and at the same time spends significantly more… (more information)

Wild Children — Domesticated Dreams

Civilization and the Birth of Education

Layla AbdelRahim

“[This book] is a monument to our sense and original thinking.” — John Taylor Gatto, author of Weapons of Mass Instruction “This book provides an extremely stimulating analysis of the divisions and debilities engineered upon kids. … Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams is a hugely important work!” — John Zerzan, author of Running on Emptiness An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary… (more information)