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“jennifer adese”

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  • Aboriginal™

    The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition

    by Jennifer Adese ...
    In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term “Aboriginal” and its displacement by the word “Indigenous.” In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term’s express purpose was to speak to specific “aboriginal rights”. Yet in the wake of the Constitution’s passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A People and a Nation

    New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies

    by Jennifer Adese, Chris Andersen ...
    In A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are themselves Métis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Métis nationhood and peoplehood. Multidisciplinary chapters on identity, politics, literature, history, spirituality, religion, and kinship networks orient the conversation toward Métis experiences today.The chapters within ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Celebrity

    Entanglements with Fame

    Edited by Jennifer Adese, Robert Alexander Innes ...
    Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people.It questions and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Truth Telling

    Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

    by Michelle Good ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER High Plains Book AwardFINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyFINALIST for the Indigenous Voices AwardLonglisted for the First Nation Communities READAbold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.With authority and insight... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • As We Have Always Done

    Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

    by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Red Skin, White Masks

    Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

    by Glen Sean Coulthard ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    WINNER OF:Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationCanadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson PrizeStudies in Political Economy Book PrizeOver the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

    The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

    by Frances Widdowson, Albert Howard ...
    By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Colonial Problem

    An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada

    by Lisa Monchalin ...
    Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" and encourages readers to view the crimes and injustices affecting Indigenous peoples from a more culturally ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Canada's Indigenous Constitution

    by John Borrows ...
    Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy, and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Education

    Nourishing the Learning Spirit

    by Marie Battiste ...
    Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • This Is Not a Peace Pipe

    Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy

    by Dale Turner ...
    How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal and political discourses of the state, respecting both indigenous philosophies and Western ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Surviving Canada

    Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

    Edited by Kiera L. Ladner, Myra J. Tait ...
    Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal (ARP Books) is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how—even 150 years after Confederation—the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD