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  • Japan-Bashing

    Anti-Japanism since the 1980s

    by Narrelle Morris ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ‘Japan-bashing’, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first major book-length study of ‘Japan-bashing from a multinational perspective, one that attempts to place ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

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  • Decolonizing Solidarity

    Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

    by Clare Land ...
    In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands

    The Idealistic Canadians Who Built the NDP

    by Lynn Gidluck ...
    As an idealist and a visionary, Jack Layton connected with millions of Canadians who saw that he was a different kind of political leader. So did Tommy Douglas, chosen as the greatest Canadian ever by CBC's television audience.The New Democratic Party and its predecessor, the CCF, have often chosen leaders who resonated with the Canadian public. In fact, the vision and the ideals of the leaders of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Scrum Wars

    The Prime Ministers and the Media

    by Allan Levine ...
    The image of the scrum – a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters – is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald’s day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister’s office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition.The scrum ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jobs and Justice

    Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945

    by Carmela Patrias ...
    Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority workers, the urgent need for their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Measuring the Mosaic

    An Intellectual Biography of John Porter

    by Rick Helmes-Hayes ...
    Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick Helmes-Hayes provides a detailed account of Porter's life and an in-depth assessment of his extensive writings on class, power ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cold War Comforts

    Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity

    by Tarah Brookfield ...
    Series Book 18 - Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament movement as means to protect their families from the consequences of nuclear war. To help children ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • The Fate of Labour Socialism

    The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future

    by James Naylor ...
    Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first “orange wave,” their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country’s ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Observing the Outports

    Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

    by Jeff Webb ...
    The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw the province’s transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Development

    by Anthony Payne, Nicola Phillips ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the various ways in which this important concept has been used in social and political analysis over the past 200 years. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Knowledge Production

    Navigating Humanity within a Western World

    by Marcus Woolombi Waters ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become interdisciplinary in its approach and move beyond its current label of ‘Indigenous Studies’ ... Read more

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  • Projecting Canada

    Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board

    by Zoë Druick ...
    Series Book 1 - Arts Insights Series
    Based on newly uncovered archival information and a close reading of numerous NFB films, Projecting Canada explores the NFB's involvement with British Empire communication theory and American social science. Using a critical cultural policy studies framework, Druick develops the concept of "government realism" to describe films featuring ordinary people as representative of segments of the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD