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The Slow Professor

If there is one sector that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatization of the university demands increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless ...

Making a Global City

Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities and shows how education plays a vital role in shaping and integrating immigrants in liberal democracies.

Redesigning Work

By (author) Graham Lowe & Frank Graves
Categories: Sociology

Redesigning Work is a data-rich analysis of the state of Canada’s workers and their job market… This is an important book for employers, workers and policy-makers alike. ”Honourable John ...

Closer

By (author) Sarah Barmak
Categories: Feminism and feminist theory
Series: Exploded Views

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We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated – if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. ...

Brought to Light

By (author) J. Scott Kenney
Categories: Sociology

A sociological lens on the freemasons; the author asked contemporary freemasons, "What does it mean to you today?"

Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial—thrust into public awareness ...

Human Rights in Canada

Is there such a thing as a Canadian rights culture? There are virtually no limits to how people employ rights-talk today, from the most profound violations of individual freedom to the mundane realities ...

Canadian Countercultures and the Environment

Those who moved “back-to-the-land” following the turbulent 1960s engaged with environmental issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society. This collection contributes a sustained ...

Subversive Action

Edited by Deena mandell & Nilan Yu
Categories: Social classes

Raises questions about the boundaries of social work and the use of extralegal action in the pursuit of human rights and social justice.

Mainstream conceptions of social work usually consider it to fall ...

Settler

Canada has never had an “Indian problem” but it does have a Settler problem. Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, the authors ...

Dying from Improvement

By (author) Sherene Razack
Categories: Sociology

Dying from Improvement is a major contribution to the issues of Indigenous disposability, suffering, and struggles for justice within a settler state that is dedicated to their disappearance. ” –Audra ...