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  • Down and Out in the New Economy

    How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today

    by Ilana Gershon ...
    "Gershon explores the subtle violence that ensues when, in order to get a job, you have to apply branding and marketing techniques to your own personality." —David Graeber, international bestselling author of DebtToday, if you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile on LinkedIn. And an enticing personal brand. Or something like that—contemporary how-to books tend to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pandemic Workplace

    How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

    by Ilana Gershon ...
    A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and to think more deeply ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Breakup 2.0

    Disconnecting over New Media

    by Ilana M. Gershon ...
    The Breakup 2.0 is intriguing and illuminating. By exploring how college students use Facebook, cell phones, and IM, Gershon deepens our understanding of these media, of young people's lives, and of our evolving definitions of public and private. It's an original and enlightening book.— Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, author of *You Just Don't Understand and You Were Always Mom's Favorite! ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • No Family Is an Island

    Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora

    by Ilana M. Gershon ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Pandemic Workplace, The

    How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

    by Ilana Gershon ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and to think more deeply ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Living with Animals

    Bonds across Species

    Edited by Natalie Porter, Ilana M. Gershon ...
    Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides—a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A World of Babies, an edited collection of imagined Dr. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

    by Lynn Åkesson, Lisa M. Anderson-Levy, Caroline B. Brettell, Rosa De Jorio, Allen S. Ehrlich, Kathy-Lee Galvin, Ilana Gershon, Barry S. Hewlett, David Jacobson, William Jankowiak, Louise Lamphere, Joan H. Liem, Susanne Lundin, Richard E. Maddy, Judith S. Modell, Cynthia Robin, Joan B. Silk, Karen Sinclair, Robert S. Weiss ...
    Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • A World of Work

    Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs

    by Jean Lave ...
    Ever wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible look at different types of work around the world delivers a wealth of information and advice about a wide array of jobs and professions. The value of this book is twofold: For young people or middle-aged people who are undecided about their ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Mutual Aid

    Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

    by Dean Spade ...
    Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Hiding from Humanity

    Disgust, Shame, and the Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Fed Up

    Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

    by Gemma Hartley ...
    A bold dive into the emotional labor women have shouldered for far too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all.Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. In relationships, we initiate the hard conversations. At home, we shoulder the mental load required to keep our households running. At work, we moderate our tone, explaining patiently and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Maternal Theory

    Essential Readings

    by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD