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By (author) David Miller
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Categories: Environmental policy and protocols

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, ...

Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada

This textbook introduces readers to theories and critiques of traditional approaches to deviance and conformity. Using vivid and timely examples of contemporary social regulation and control, the book ...

Disfigured

By (author) Amanda Leduc
Categories: Sociology
Series: Exploded Views

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? | If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? ...

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

The contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives. By providing examples and case studies of neoliberalism in action, ...

Feminist City

By (author) Leslie Kern
Categories: Human geography

Feminist City combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing ...

Making Surveillance States

Edited by Robert Heynen & Emily van der Meulen
Categories: Sociology

Making Surveillance States opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges us to rethink the presumed ...

BlackLife

By (author) Rinaldo Walcott & Idil Abdillahi
Categories: Social theory
Series: Semaphore

What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the violence that is the foundation of the Canadian nation state? BlackLife discloses the ongoing destruction of Black ...

Shaped by Silence

The powerful stories of five survivors from Canada, Australia, and Ireland whose lives where shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order ...

Vancouverism

Larry Beasley, former co-chief planner or the city of Vancouver and a leader at the heart of the action, tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. Writing ...

Our Rural Selves

Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates ...