Research is ceremony

Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put i...

Truly tribal

Nineteen Indigenous ancestral skin markers from fifteen Nations and cultures around the world discuss their reclamation of traditional tattooing practices.

Extractivisms

Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usuall...

Human development

Capitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to survive both the conditions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet model of socialism and the renewed assa...

Venezuela’s health care revolution

Established under late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Misión Barrio Adentro (MBA) — Venezuela’s adaptation of the Cuban social medical model — utilizes a free, universal health care system to serve and educate rural, poor and marginalized populations and to broaden the very praxis and ideology...

Settler, 2nd edition

Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. What does it mean to be Settler, and why does it matter?

Speculative harvests

In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of ...

Inuit qaujimajatuqangit

The Inuit have experienced colonization and the resulting disregard for the societal systems, beliefs and support structures foundational to Inuit culture for generations. While much research has articulated the impacts of colonization and recognized that Indigenous cultures and worldviews are ce...

Dis/consent

Sexual violence is prevalent in our society. We know this directly because of the courage survivors have shown in facing their perpetrators in courts, online and in the public eye. But society is hesitant, incapable or unwilling to hold offenders to account: they keep their jobs — or get promoted...

What lies across the water

Winner of the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction East Coast Literary AwardWhat Lies Across the Water recounts the events leading up to the arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban anti-terrorism agents wrongfully arrested and convicted of “conspiracy to commit” espionage against the United States. In...

Decolonizing sport

Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize.

Counterrevolution

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment is emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban and is captivating and mobilizing large numbers of people. In an increasing number of countries, the extreme right has already capt...

Psychedelic capitalism

Interrogating the consequences of psychedelic capitalism, Brownlee and Walby point to what could be gained from a just and equitable psychedelic future rooted in the public interest.

Genocide in canada

This book exposes deeply flawed genocide denialism surrounding residential schools, examining how Canada sought to resolve the “Indian problem” through genocide.

De-colonizing journeys

Twenty-two contributors share their experiences of unsettling colonialism through engaging in circle work, an Indigenous method of de-colonizing education.

Heart work and hard choices

A hopeful and critical study of how community-based service providers navigate emotional, ethical, and structural challenges in their work supporting criminalized women.

Reimagining assessment in social work

Social work assessment is political. How we understand its power is at the heart of ethical social work practice.

Seeing ourselves

Fifth edition of a multi-perspective analysis of the meaning of ethnic diversity in Canada.

Revolution on the move

An oral history of grassroots activism that reclaims Latinas’ political contribution to Toronto, highlighting feminist agency, anti-oppression struggles, and social justice activism.

The politics of lonely

Friendship is hard because everything is hard. This book examines social structures to demonstrate how people mend an unravelling social fabric.

Children are medicine

Celebrate the love and healing that children generate – they truly are medicine.

Ravenous

Breigh is a pregnant elder millennial whose livestreamed quest for momfluencer fame spirals into depravity. An incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.

A feel for thinking

A pocket book on big ideas in social justice for those seeking refuge in learning.

Colonized classrooms

This powerful analysis of reconciliation in higher education exposes the limits of progress and calls institutions toward accountable and transformative change.

Métis methodologies

Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.

The long sixties

Inspiring stories from seven Canadians who have spent sixty plus years fighting for social justice and transformative change.

Social perspectives on death and dying, 4th edition

A leading Canadian text on death and dying, now in its 4th edition — updated and expanded to help readers explore mortality with clarity, compassion, and cultural insight.

Not your cash cow, not your scapegoat

This book places the international student within the larger context of edugration, or student migration, to examine the everyday vulnerabilities arising from this immigration status.

Revolutionary science

As climate and inequality deepen, this book shows how agroecology offers hope rooted in ecology, culture, and collective struggle.

The bylaw state

Cities weaponize bylaws to manage, regulate, and police the mobility and conditions of unhoused people living in encampments amid a massive housing crisis.

Thin blue rage

Thin Blue Rage analyzes police as a social movement through exploring policing’s ideological dimensions, communications practices, political campaigning, and violence work.

The letters

A powerful witnessing, gathering, and tracing of the circulation of letters to inquire into the writing of life in the often destabilizing and troubled waters of the EDI university.

No more fridays

A witty, humorous and slightly magical novel about navigating the end of high school after losing a parent to ALS.

The transformative power of adult education

How adult basic education strengthens families and builds capacity for community change — transforming society from the ground up.

Screening justice

What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose to Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally?Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on crime and justice in Canada. Crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping Canadian sensi...

Restless ideas

Tony Simmons illustrates how social theory provides us with the skills for more informed observation, analysis and empathic understanding of social behaviour and social interaction.

Solving poverty

Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educatio...

Building a better world, 4th edition

A key introduction to the history, role, strategies and contributions of unions and the labour movement in Canada, now with a discussion of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the collective power of workers.

Caught in the eye of the storm

A historical account of a public housing community struggling and persevering in the face of stigmatization, oppression and urban revitalization.

Working for the common good

In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments.Throughout their political careers, Agnes Macphail, Thérèse Casgrain, Grace MacInnis, Pauline Jewett, ...

Poor housing

Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they ...

If this is freedom

If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the difficulties of a hardscrabble existence and continued discrimination ...

Under her skin

Tucked away in her tattoo studio in the port city of Halifax, Shaz draws meaning and symbolism onto the bodies of her clients. After the ransacking of her home, the brutal attack on her friend and the sudden appearance of her white father, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her li...

Human misunderstanding

Human Misunderstanding is the latest work by award-winning poet Kathy Mac. The first of the book’s three long poems compares a fictional child soldier (a hero) with a real child soldier (a victim). The second juxtaposes eighteenth century philosophy with one person’s search for another in downtow...

Revitalizing the classics

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 thin...

Staying alive while living the life

MacDonald and Roebuck have written an excellent book on the causes and conditions of youth homelessness in Canada. A key contribution of this work is that they not only explore the challenges that young people are faced with in this situation, but the strengths, assets and resilience they bring w...

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One box

A Balikbayan box with much more than t-shirts and toothpaste — One Box is filled with promises of reunification.

Locating law, 3rd edition

Praise for the second edition:“This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. … Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in just...

Constructing ecoterrorism

Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial comple...