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  • Dispatches from Disabled Country

    by Catherine Frazee ...
    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    “Disability is not our worst-case scenario – our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice.For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with – a prism of insight and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt ...
    Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The End of Bias: A Beginning

    The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

    by Jessica Nordell ...
    **Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • How to Raise an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.“Kendi’s latest . . . combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism affects every step of a child’s life. . . . Like all ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Mad World

    The Politics of Mental Health

    by Micha Frazer-Carroll ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    ‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health CommunismMental health is a political issue, but we ... Read more

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  • Fostering Nation?

    Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage

    by Veronica Strong-Boag ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s most disadvantaged Aboriginal and newcomer girls and boys.Gender, class, race, and (dis)ability are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Women and Gendered Violence in Canada

    An Intersectional Approach

    by Chris Bruckert, Tuulia Law ...
    Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women’s experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play, and excludes discussions of workplace and state violence. By drawing on a range of theoretical ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Education isn't Dead, it Just Smells Funny

    by Roger Slee ...
    Positing inclusive education as a cornerstone of democracy, social equality and effective education, this unique book offers a timely response to the recent conservative backlash which has dismissed inclusive education as a field of research and practice which has become outdated and unfit for purpose.With profound insight and clarity, Slee delves deep into the architecture of modern-day schooling ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Why I Burned My Book

    by Paul Longmore ...
    Series series American Subjects
    This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Biopolitics of Disability

    Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

    by David T. Mitchell ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD