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  • Abolitionist Voices

    Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm

    The Work and Legacy of Steven Box

    Edited by David Gordon Scott, Joe Sim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection revisits Steven Box’s book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which examined corporate crime, police crime, rape and sexual assault and female crime and analyses the continuities and discontinuities since 1983 in relation to crime, the state and the exercise ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Envisioning Abolition

    Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries

    Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It considers how these radical thinkers can provide insights into our present condition, both by highlighting the harms of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Spenser in the Moment

    Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser’s musical qualities, and the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

    "[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Family Abolition

    Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

    by M. E. O'Brien ...
    “An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary ‘beloved community’ for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!”--Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family“Stunningly urgent and timely...Through an exhilaratingly accessible narrative, O’Brien moves effortlessly between history, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Racial Contract

    The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • What is Gender History?

    by Sonya O. Rose ...
    Series series What is History?
    This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the field and elucidates current debates and controversies. She highlights the significance of race, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Liberty

    The authoritative text on the libertarian political positionIn recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position.Rothbard’s ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Become Ungovernable

    An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living

    by H.L.T. Quan ...
    Series series Black Critique
    'Phenomenal ... Offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept****of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial,****heteropatriarchal capitalism'—Angela Y. Davis'Embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practice—an abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice'—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Reconstruction

    Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

    A "compelling study" of how the idea of white supremacy persists long after the Civil Rights Act—"as thoughtful as it is fierce" (David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History).We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keywords for Radicals

    The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle

    "An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus