Fernwood Publishing 2022 Rights Catalogue

R I G H T S C ATALO G U E 20 22

19922022

Insurgent Love

Abolition and Domestic Homicide Ardath Whynacht When loved ones transgress into violence, how do we seek justice and safety outside of policing and prisons?

9781773634838 | 144pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World domestic homicide; family violence; incarceration; misogyny

Domestic homicide involves violence at the most intimate level — the partner or family relationship. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.

Ardath Whynacht is an activist and writer who works for and with survivors of state and family violence. She teaches sociology at Mount Allison University and lives on unceded Mi’kmaw territory.

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Contents

Prologue • Domestic Homicide and Abolition? • Butcher • Settler Colonialism and Intimate Terrorism • Portapique • Occupation - Racial Capitalism and the Familicidal Heart • Desmond • Insurgent Love - Transformative Justice for Domestic Homicide • Epilogue • Acknowledgements • References

“As a Black feminist organizing against gender-based violence, this book is of profound importance because it argues for an alternate path to eradicating domestic homicide and violence. Carceral feminism has failed us; the police can’t protect us. As an abolitionist committed to ending all forms of violence, as a survivor of domestic and family violence, how do we move towards transformative approaches that centre healing for ALL our communities? This book is an opportunity to start engaging in these important conversations.”

— Marlihan Lopez, co-vice-president for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and program and outreach co-ordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute “What is most significant about this book is the author’s engagement with intimate violence and abolition. Generally, there is a tendency in the field of abolition to glaze over intimate and other personal violences or to focus almost exclusively on state violence at the expense of the other.

Establishing links between state and intimate violence is an important framework for abolitionist and anti-violence work as a way to engage these kinds of brutalizing hardships, and without drawing on ongoing carceral legacies and colonial logics.”

— Vicki Chartrand, associate professor and director of the Centre for Justice Exchange

19922022

Growing and Eating Sustainably Agroecology in Action

Dana James and Evan Bowness Foreword by Hannah Wittman See agroecology — ­ stories and photos — as it is done by Brazilian farmers, in the country that leads the world in this agriculture, which is ecologically sustainable and meets people’s food needs.

9781773634821 | 128pp | 6 x 9 Rights sold: Portuguese agroecology, food sovereignty, food justice, organic agriculture Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents

Foreword (Hannah Wittman) • Introduction (Evan Bowness, Dana James and CEPAGRO) • Pre-Transition: Eating, Purchasing and Waste • Early Transition: Mixed Farms, Organic Produce and Agritourism • Mid-to Late Transition: Rural-Urban Connections • The Future of Food Systems: Fully Agroecological Practices

The industrial food system, from production to consumption and waste, is a major contributor to environmental, social and economic problems. A few powerful multinational corporations have consolidated control of agricultural markets and wealth while many farmers struggle to make a living and millions of people go hungry every day. Consumer access to healthy and culturally appropriate food remains largely an option for only those who can afford it. Responding to these destructive practices, global agrarian movements are calling for a transition to agroecology. Agroecological farming follows ecological principles for growing food in a way that respects diverse sociocultural contexts, connects urban eaters and rural growers and attends to power dynamics.

Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements have long been at the forefront of pushing for more sustainable and just food systems. Through stories and photographs of people, landscapes, farms and farming practices, and urban spaces, this book communicates how to advance systemslevel agroecological transitions by linking rural and urban areas and connecting diverse agroecological experiences.

Dana James is a PhD candidate, Vanier Scholar and Public Scholar at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research explores agroecological farming and participation in agrarian social movements in Brazil.

Evan Bowness is an environmental sociologist and urban political ecologist, UBC Public Scholar and PhD candidate at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

“An engaging blend of the practical and the political. This book has something for everybody!”

— Katie Ward, president of the National Farmers Union “In times of crisis, uncertainty and irrationality, there is nothing better than a book ‘upwards,’ full of light and life. A pleasant, delightful and straightforward read.”

— Sergio Schneider, Rural Development/Food Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil “This book represents a creative and important contribution to anyone doing education and implementing agroecology as a transformative approach.”

— V. Ernesto Méndez, professor of agroecology, University of Vermont

19922022

The Fair Trade Handbook Building a Better World, Together

Gavin Fridell, Zack Gross and Sean McHugh, eds.

Foreword by Sean McHugh This handbook brings together leading fair traders, activists, advocates and commentators in Canada and internationally, reflecting on the shortfalls of conventional business, production and global trade and how we can change our policies, practices and behaviours.

Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between different viewpoints. Canadian researchers in particular have advanced a transformative vision of fair trade, rooted in the cooperative movement and arguing for a more central role for Southern farmers and workers. Contributors to this book look at the issues within global trade, and assess fair trade and how to make it more effective against the broader structures of the capitalist, colonialist, racist and patriarchal global economy.

9781773634883 | 240pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World solidarity; justice; charity; coffee; sugar; human rights; Southern farmers Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents Foreword - Sean McHugh • Introduction - Gavin Fridell, Zack Gross, and Sean McHugh • Graphic story - Bill Barrett and Curt Shoultz • Part 1: Fair Trade in an Unfair World - A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Laura Macdonald, Nadia Ibrahim, Monika Firl, Roxana Olivera, Nelson Melo Maya and Joey Pitoello • Part 2: Fair Trade in Action - Darryl Reed, Jerónimo Pruijn, Jennie Coleman, Madison Hopper, Sarah Niman, Martin Van den Borre, Erin Bird, Jennifer Williams • Part 3: Pursuing Global Justice - Sean McHugh, Nell Jedrzejczyk, Elena Lunder, Sergi Corbalán, Mara Fridell, Ian Hudson, Mark Hudson, Sujata Dey, Gavin Fridell, Kate Ervine, Zack Gross • Conclusion - Gavin Fridell, Zack Gross, and Sean McHugh

The debates and discussions are set within a critical development studies and critical political economy framework. However, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, as it translates the key issues for a popular audience.

Gavin Fridell is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University and the author of numerous books and articles on fair trade and free trade, including his latest book Coffee.

Zack Gross has been a Prairie-based international development activist for more than fifty years. He is a member of the board of Fairtrade Canada and advisory board of the Canadian Fair Trade Network.

Sean McHugh is the founder and executive director of the Canadian Fair Trade Network and represents Canada on the International Fair Trade Towns Committee.

“This fantastic volume shows just what can be built from a sustained and fruitful partnership between the right kind of entrepreneurs, activists, academics and community-builders. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about the ongoing impact of this movement on business-as-usual!”

— Adam Sneyd, University of Guelph “This book reminds us that unfair trade, falsely called ‘free trade’ has its roots in colonialism.

Trade driven by limitless corporate greed is at the roots of the multiple crises we face — diseases, climate change, extinction, injustice and inequality. Fair-trade is a movement for decolonization.

It is based on solidarity, not exploitation.It puts people and planet before profits. It is creating a liveable and just world for all.”

— Vandana Shiva, Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author

19922022

Living in Indigenous Sovereignty Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara, with Gladys Rowe This book offers inspiration and guidance for non-Indigenous peoples who wish to live honourably in relationship with Indigenous Peoples, laws and lands. A much-needed book in our time.

In the last decade, the relationship between settler Canadians and Indigenous Peoples has been highlighted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the Idle No More movement, the Wet’suwet’en struggle against pipeline development and other Indigenous-led struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization. As a result of these efforts, increasing numbers of Canadians are beginning to recognize how settler colonialism continues to shape relationships on these lands today. With this recognition often comes the question many settler Canadians are now asking, what can I do?

Living in Indigenous Sovereignty lifts up the wisdom of Indigenous scholars, activists and knowledge keepers who speak pointedly to what they are asking of non-Indigenous Peoples. It also shares the experiences of thirteen white settler Canadians who are deeply 9781773632384 | 264pp | 6 x 9 engaged in solidarity work with Indigenous peoples. Together, these stories offer inspiration and guidance for settler Canadians who wish to live honourably in relationship with Rights available: World indigenous resistance; decolonization, activism; social Indigenous Peoples, laws and lands. If Canadians truly want to achieve this goal, Carlson and Rowe argue, they will pursue a reorientation of their lives toward “living in Indigenous movements sovereignty” — living in an awareness that these are Indigenous lands containing relationships, laws, protocols, stories, obligations and opportunities that have been Read a short excerpt on our webiste understood and practised by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial.

Contents Foreword (Aimée Craft, Leona Star and Dawnis Kennedy) • Acknowledgements • Contributors • Introductions • Settler Colonialism and Resistance • Introducing the Narratives • Monique Woroniak • Murray Angus • Steve Heinrichs • Franklin Jones • Orienting Toward Indigenous Sovereignty • Joy Eidse • Adam Barker • Susanne McCrea • Kathi Avery Kinew • Rick Wallace • What Indigenous Peoples Have Asked of Us • John Doe • Silvia Straka • Dave Bleakney • Victoria Freeman • Honourings • Conclusions • Afterword • References • Index

Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara is a settler assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University.

Gladys Rowe is a Swampy Cree scholar and a member of Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba.

“A powerful decolonial reflection and call to action for settler peoples to learn how to work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples in ways that are decolonizing not recolonizing. Guided by teachings from Indigenous elders, scholars, and activists about the importance of creating relationships with kindness, humility, mutual respect and reciprocity, non-Indigenous readers can find inspiration in the life stories of settlers who speak frankly about their ongoing struggles to do this work in a good way.”

— Paulette Regan, author of Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada and senior researcher/lead writer of “Reconciliation,” Volume 6 of the TRC Final Report “This is the most comprehensive book on anti-colonial practice focused on non-Indigenous peoples.

It draws on leading scholars and advocates from across the country and incorporates a breadth of concepts that create a solid and encompassing foundation for creating change. By incorporating these ideas, perspectives, experiences and practices, non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples will be well prepared for our work and parallel journey ahead.”

— Michael Anthony Hart, vice provost (Indigenous Engagement), professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, author of Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin and Wicihitowin

19922022

Black Matters Poetry by Afua Cooper, Photographs by Wilfried Raussert Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences.

The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness in the African diaspora around North America and Europe. The result is a work that amplifies Black beauty and offers audible resistance.

9781773632957 | 84pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World poetry; black voices

AWARDS

Winner, Portia White Prize (2020) Winner, J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (2021) Long-listed, Pat Lowther Memorial Award (2021) Short-listed, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award (2021)

Jupiter Wise speak of your odyssey from Boston to Charlottetown in the sloop that nearly went down off the coast of Maine You had no fear but felt a secret glee in your heart as you saw the whites panic Let them feel the fear of death, for once

Afua Cooper, Halifax’s seventh Poet Laureate, is the author of five books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Copper Woman and Other Poems and two novels, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montreal and My Name is Phillis Wheatley. She has also recorded two poetry CDs, including the forthcoming Love and Revolution. A founder of the Canadian dub poetry movement, Afua Cooper was instrumental in organizing, between 2004 and 2009, three international dub poetry festivals.

Dr. Wilfried Raussert is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar. He works across the boundaries of music, literature, photography, art, and literary criticism. He is chair of North American and Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is director of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, author and editor of 20 scholarly books, including Art Begins in Streets Art Lives in Streets, Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities, and Traveling Sounds: Music, Migration and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond.

“This artful text is the emphatic means by which Afua Cooper and Wilfried Raussert arrive at this historical moment. Crafted on an anvil of brilliant collaboration in the wild and overlapping histories of the modern world, the marks of Black life are revealed everywhere. This far-seeing work is a beautiful visual object that imagines us beyond the narrow spaces of coloniality. Black Matters intervenes at every turn.”

— Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst and Voodoo Hypothesis “If Black lives matter, what sort of matter is Blackness? To address this question, Afua Cooper and Wilfried Raussert bring vision and text together. In this beautifully sculpted book they stretch the skein of Blackness around grief, love, strength, persistence and revelation.”

— Robbie Shilliam, author of Decolonizing Politics and The Black Pacific “How fortunate we are to have the record of this collaborative generosity and what a potent and timely conversation to be having. This is the agility of art: extending back into history with the vitality of a future fortified by dignity while remaining firmly rooted in the present. What combusts is inspiration — the sustainability of art in practice and how it makes sense of this time we’ve been brought together in. I’m so grateful for the contribution this book will make, the poignant energy it is composing for the living archive we’re making as we go.”

— Sue Goyette, Halifax Poet Laureate and author of Ocean

19922022

Atacama Carmen Rodríguez Atacama is the story of two fictional characters of disparate backgrounds but connected by a profound understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments and by their unwavering commitment to social justice.

9781773634777 | 240pp | 5 x 8 Rights available: World political struggle; feminism; art and society; trauma and survival; friendship; class struggle Read a short excerpt on our webiste Carmen Rodriguez is the author of multiple works, including Guerra Prolongada/Protracted War, a bilingual volume of poetry; a body to remember with/De cuerpo entero, a collection of short stories; and Retribution, a novel. Rodríguez has worked extensively as an educator and journalist, including work in adult literacy and popular education, particularly with Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized communities in the Americas.

Firmly rooted in historical events, Atacama covers themes related to class, gender, trauma, survival and the role of art in society. Set in the first half of the twentieth century and beautifully crafted, it is the story of two people of disparate backgrounds — Manuel Garay, the oldest son of a communist miner/union leader and an anarchist organizer of workingclass women; and Lucía Céspedes, the only daughter of a fascist army officer and a socialite.

A fateful turn of events leads to Lucía befriending Manuel and his family, inextricably connecting them to a common denominator: Ernesto Céspedes — Lucía’s father. Manuel and Lucía forge a childhood friendship that grows as they come of age and realize that their lives are not only linked by Ernesto Céspedes’ actions, but also by a deep understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments, their commitment to social justice and their belief in the power of writing and art. Atacama may be set a century ago but resonates loudly with today’s changing times.

“Atacama presents two of the 20th century’s great struggles for democratic freedom, in Chile and in Spain. Carmen Rodríguez has written a real page-turner — complete with an unexpected ending.”

— Cynthia Flood, fiction writer and award-winning author of My Father Took a Cake to France and Red Girl Rat Boy, among others “From the mining camps of northern Chile to a dance studio in Valparaíso, and on to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and Pablo Neruda’s office in a Parisian consulate… Carmen Rodríguez’s new novel, Atacama, is wide-ranging and ambitious.”

— Jon Beasley-Murray, professor of Latin American studies and author of Posthegemony “This is an extraordinary book. While it spans over seventy years of a personal drama, it also portrays—both accurately and poignantly — Chile’s reality in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as that of the Spanish Civil War. — John M. Kirk, professor of Latin American studies and author of eighteen books, including Cuba at the Crossroads and José Martí, Mentor of the Cuban Revolution “Atacama may be a novel, but it’s written with the authority of memoir, the directness of history and the magic of poetry. A story of heroism and depravity in politics, and the struggle of two young people caught between the two.”

— Susan Crean, cultural critic and author of The Laughing One and Finding Mr. Wong “Poignant, layered and absorbing, Atacama demonstrates that biology doesn’t have to shape destiny and that it is possible to choose individual values over the complex bonds of family.”

— Ava Homa, author of Echoes from the Other Land and Daughters of Smoke and Fire

19922022

Finding Our Niche

Toward a Restorative Human Ecology Philip A. Loring Philip A. Loring explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favour of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.

Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios — people and nature thriving together — are possible. There is no doubt that contemporary Western society is steeped in the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism, and as a result, many people have come to believe that humanity is fundamentally flawed, that the story of our species is destined to be nasty, brutish and short.

But what if this narrative could be dismantled?

9781773632872 | 192pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World environment, colonialism; sustainability Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents Introduction • Alienation • Pristine •Keystone • Engineer • Novel • Sentinel • Finding Our Path • Epilogue • Notes • References • Index

AWARDS

Winner, Nautilus Book Award - Ecology & Environment (2021) Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards - Best Regional Non-Fiction, Canada East (2021)

In Finding Our Niche, Philip A. Loring does just that. He explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favour of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.

Drawing on numerous cases around the world, from cattle ranchers on the Burren in Ireland, to clam gardeners in British Columbia, to protectors of an accidental wetland in northwest Mexico, Loring brings the reader through a difficult journey of reconciliation, a journey that leads to a more optimistic understanding of human nature and the prospects for our future. Interwoven are Loring’s personal struggles to reconcile his identity as a white settler living and working on stolen Indigenous lands.

In a moment when our world is hanging in the balance, Finding Our Niche is a hopeful exploration of humanity’s place in the natural world, one that focuses on how we can heal and reconcile our unique human ecologies to achieve more sustainable and just societies.

Philip A. Loring is an anthropologist who holds the Arrell Chair in Food, Policy and Society at the University of Guelph. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics.

“Finding Our Niche is an important read for anybody seeking to understand the root causes of escalating and converging global environmental and social crises. The unflinching analysis of our collective predicament is an integral part of a deeply personal and highly engaging narrative of Loring’s quest to reimagine our links with the places we inhabit, relationships with the original stewards of those places, and the inextricable links to all our relations.”

— Gleb Raygorodetsky, award-winning author of The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change

19922022

More Powerful Together Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders

Jen Gobby How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change?

How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved with climate justice, anti-pipeline and Indigenous land defence movements in Canada for many years. As a researcher, she has sat down with folks from these movements and asked them to reflect on their experiences with movement building.

Bringing their incredibly poignant insights into dialogue with scholarly and activist literature on transformation, Gobby weaves together a powerful story about how change happens.

9781773632261 | 250pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World environment; activism Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents Introduction • Confronting Climate Change and Inequality in Canada • Understanding the Crises and Envisioning the Worlds We Want • The Movements’ Theories of Change • Identifying the Barriers to Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Canada • Overcoming Barriers and Strengthening the Movements’ Transformative Power • Conclusion: Towards Relational Theories of Change and Relational Practices of Movement Building • References • Appendix • Index

In reflecting on what’s working and what’s not working in these movements, taking inventory of the obstacles hindering efforts and imagining the strategies for building a powerful movement of movements, a common theme emerges: relationships are crucial to building movements strong enough to transform systems. Indigenous scholarship, ecological principles, and activist reflections all converge on the insight that the means and ends of radical transformation is in forging relationships of equality and reciprocity with each other and with the land.

It is through this, Gobby argues, that we become more powerful together.

Jen Gobby is an activist-scholar based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). She is founder of the MudGirls Natural Building Collective, organizes with Climate Justice Montreal, completed her Ph.D at McGill and is now post doctorate fellow at Concordia University.

“This type of research is very valuable. It is important to have a frank discussion about environmental damage and, in particular, how it adversely affects the indigenous communities in North America. The author has clearly opened an essential dialogue regarding these matters.”

— Matthew de Lacey Davidson, The Miramichi Reader “More Powerful Together is a timely and important book for anyone looking to learn about how change can happen. This book was an important reminder to me, as someone who works in environmental education and conservation, to consider how forms of domination may be present within the work I am doing.”

— Zoe Matties, Anabaptist Witness

19922022

Twilight Capitalism

Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System Murray E.G. Smith, Jonah Butovsky and Joshua Watterton The Covid-19 crisis has brought our society to a precipice, and Marx’s laws of value and profitability are indispensable to interpreting the advanced state of decay of world capitalism. What should we do next?

Twenty-first-century capitalism has little more to offer than a menu of despair: pandemics, deepening inequality, worsening depression, run-away climate change, intensifying authoritarianism and escalating militarism. Twilight Capitalism offers a wide-ranging analysis of the origins, implications and scope of the “combined” social crisis of 2020 and beyond. A compelling case is made that Karl Marx’s critical analysis of capitalism, along with his program of class-struggle socialism, is essential to understanding and addressing the most important social, economic and ecological problems of our time.

Murray E.G. Smith is a professor of sociology at Brock University.

9781773632872 | 192pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World capitalism & alternatives, economics, class, inequality & oppression, globalization Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents

Pandemic, Slump and Uprising in the Twilight of Capitalism • Twilight Capitalism: The Economic Dimension • Marx’s Theories of Value, Capital and Crisis • Valorization Crisis and the Path to Global Depression • Marx’s Law of Profitability • Marxist versus Radical Heterodox Economics: In Defence of the Labour Theory of Value • From Twilight Capitalism to Socialist Revolution? • Imagining Socialism

Jonah Butovsky is an associate professor of sociology at Brock University.

Joshua Watterton is pursuing a PhD in geography at York University.

“Over the next few years, we will be treated to many studies addressing the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on global capitalism. It is a great relief that one of the first books to emerge links the present capitalist crisis to the underlying crisis-ridden tendencies of global capitalist economy— providing invaluable empirical and theoretical context along the way, and emphatically reminding us that the problem is nothing other than capitalism itself. The incandescence of this work must illuminate discussions for years to come.”

— Thom Workman, author of If You’re in My Way I’m Walking “Twilight Capitalism: Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored by Murray EG Smith, Jonah Butovsky and Josh Watterton, these Canadian-based Marxist economists have delivered a comprehensive and often original analysis of global capitalism in the 21st century.”

— Michael Roberts, economist

19922022 Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students Benita Bunjun, ed.

Through the multiple genres of essay, art, poetry and photography, this book intelligently examines the experiences of racialized students in Canadian academe, emphasizing the crucial kinship relations they forge.

Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this whitesettler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been forbidden from academic spaces and who still feel out of place, must navigate these repressive structures in their educational journeys. Through the genres of essay, art, poetry and photography, this book examines the experiences of and effects on racialized students in the Canadian academy, while exposing academia’s lack of capacity to promote students’ academic well-being. The book emphasizes the crucial connections that racialized students forge, which transform an otherwise hostile environment into a space of intellectual collaboration, community building and transnational kinship relations.

Meticulously curated by Dr. Benita Bunjun, this book is a living example of mentorship, reciprocity and resilience.

9781773634371 | 250pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World education, class, inequality & oppression, indigenous resistance & decolonization, race & racism Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents A Note from Marginalized Students to Most Faculty Beverlee MacLellan • Centring the Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students Benita Bunjun • Intersections and Contradictions Timi (Omotimilehin) Idris • “It’s in the Past, Get Over It!” Is It in the Past?

Vanessa Mitchell • Nobodies to Everybody: Pervasive Appropriation and Marginalized Students Fallen Matthews • Where Are the Black Female Faculty? Employment Equity Policy Failures and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness Isalean Phillip • Decolonizing Intentions Tammy Williams (Apukji’i E’pit) • My Long Search for Safe Spaces for Black Learners Wayne Desmond • Spoken Word Saved My Life – Poetry as a Form of Resistance Zain Meghji • Taking a Stand: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge Dorothy Christian (Cucw-la7) • Envisioning an Intersectional Resilience Mentorship Program for Indigenous and International Students Tammy Williams (Apukji’i E’pit) • Brown Folks Jotika Chaudhary Samant • Towards Healing: Lessons in Surviving Academia from a Queer Brown Femme Jotika Chaudhary Samant • Settler-Migrant Relationships: A Brown Woman’s Journey Nathalie Lozano-Neira • The Embodied Transformation of a Racialized International Student on Coast Salish and Mi’kmaq Territories Ahrthyh Arumugam • A Way of Being: The Making of Transnational Kinship Relations in Institutions of Higher Learning Benita Bunjun and Yvonne Brown • Unbecoming: Decolonizing the Settler Gaze Diane Obed • Contributors • Index

Benita Bunjun is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies, where she coordinates the Racialized Students Academic Network. Her research examines organizational and institutional power relations with a focus on colonial encounters within academic spaces.

“This edited collection makes visible what racialized students are experiencing in Canadian universities, including dealing with in-class micro-aggressions, yearning to be taught by full-time faculty members representing their own diverse backgrounds, witnessing the appropriation of ideas of non-white scholars by white scholars in academia, and unpacking how white-settler mentality is shaping their lives within Canadian post-secondary institutions. Initiatives, spaces and programs through which racialized students organize, support and mentor each other are also well highlighted.”

— Jean Michel Montsion, associate professor, York University

19922022 Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left Recasting Leftist Imagination Robert Latham, Julian von Bargen, A.T. Kingsmith & Niko Block, eds.

This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.

What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover wisdom from the past. In so doing, we have the opportunity to plot a new way forward. The authors of this edited collection do just this: putting forward a diversity of approaches and issues to strategize for the work that awaits us in the 2020s, particularly in the struggle against capitalism, climate change and the far right.

9781773632292 | 286pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World capitalism & alternatives, economics, class, inequality & oppression, globalization

Contents

Contributors • Introduction (Niko Block) • Section 1 — Engaging the Working Class • Organizing the Contending Masses: From a Struggle With to a Struggle Against Capitalism (Robert Latham) • Augmentation and Organization (Jordan House) • Can Studying Workers’ Class Consciousness Help to Raise it? (Bertell Ollman) • Section 2 — Organizing Class and Identity • Psychological Wage and the Trump Phenomenon (Paul Kellogg) • “Rising Powers” and Authoritarian Populism: Beyond Northern Left Perspectives (Sedef Arat-Koç & Aparna Sundar) • Migration “Crises” and the Left: In Search of the Political (Özgün E. Topak) • Navigating Contemporary Struggles: Class Composition and Social Reproduction (Elise Thorburn & Gary Kinsman) • Class-Based Organizing in an IdentityBased World (Assya Moustaqim-Barrette) • Section 3 — Building Parties or Movements? • Experiences on the Socialist Left: Winning, Losing and Continuing (Herman Rosenfeld) • What’s Left After the Breakup of the CPGB? (Bruce Curtis & Justin Paulson) • Building Political Infrastructure for the Present (Lina Nasr El Hag Ali) • Class Struggle in the Marketplace of Ideas: Towards a Leftist Framework of Civil Liberties (Julian von Bargen) • Section 4 — Advancing EcoSocialism • The Anthropocene and Us: Grounds for an Augmented Left? (David Ravensbergen) • Environmental Contradictions: The Need for an Ecosocialist Paradigm on the Brazilian Left (Sabrina Fernandes)

Working within five major thematic areas, the contributors examine how to engage working-class people in anti-capitalist struggles, undermine reactionary currents of ethno-nationalism while supporting anti-colonial movements, strategically build power inside and outside the state apparatus, demand new forms of resistance to address environmental crises and promote solidarity and ecological responsibility. This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.

Robert Latham, Julian von Bargen, A.T. Kingsmith and Niko Block are affiliated with the Department of Politics at York University.

“Some of the best pieces [in this book] are the one’s dealing with culture as a terrain of struggle.

These explore a number of left strategies to undermine the cultural nationalism that the populist right has fallen back on, with some success, to separate the economic elite from the supposed cultural elite that looks down on ordinary people. This is part of the populist right’s strategy for portraying themselves as the perpetual outsiders and redirecting the discontent with the system against the supposed cultural arrogance of intelligentsia and the other—mostly already disadvantaged minorities. The essays also explore the technocratic notion of post politics and the way it is used to depoliticize spheres of struggle from taxes to immigration. There is an excellent contribution by Ozgun Topak on repoliticizing the migration crisis to break out of the racist and liberal philanthropic treatment of migrants as either criminals or victims.”

— Richard Swift, Canadian Dimension

19922022 Canada in the World Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination Tyler A. Shipley An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this introductory textbook charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis.

9781773631141 | 452pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World history; politics; colonialism; ingdigenous rights; Canada

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous peoples represent the first example of foreign policy, and demonstrate how these relations became a foundational and existential element of the new state. Colonialism — the project to establish settler capitalism in North America and the ideological assumption that Europeans were more advanced and thus deserved to conquer the Indigenous people — says Shipley, lives at the very heart of Canada.

Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, “peacekeeping” missions in the Congo and Somalia, and Cold War interventions in Vietnam and Indonesia, to Canadian participation in the War on Terror, Canada in the World finds that this colonial heart has dictated Canada’s actions in the world since the beginning.

Contents

Highlighting the continuities across more than 150 years of history, Shipley demonstrates that Canadian policy and behaviour in the world is deep-rooted, and argues that changing this requires rethinking the fundamental nature of Canada itself.

Introduction: “History Will Be Re-Written” • Conquest and Colonialism: Canada’s First Foreign Policy • Forged in the Fires of War? • Peacekeeping the Cold War • The New Canadian Imperialism • Conclusion - “Canada Is Back” • Index

Tyler A. Shipley is a professor of society, culture and commerce in the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. He holds a PhD in political science from York University.

“Shipley meticulously traces the racial capitalist line that runs through Canadian history, insisting that we understand that Canada moves in the world as a state that is dedicated first and foremost to the interests of white capital.”

— Sherene H. Razack, author of Dying From Improvement “The book fundamentally disrupts the notion that Canada is a benevolent, helpful, middle power, and sets the record straight on the colonial and imperial aspects of the Canadian state.”

— David P. Thomas, author of Bombardier Abroad “Shipley’s outstanding scholarship is matched by the accessibility of his writing; this book will reach across audiences of all varieties, as it deserves.”

— Veldon Coburn, assistant professor, University of Ottawa

19922022 Frontline Farmers How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future Annette Aurélie Desmarais, ed.

Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada’s food systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm?

9781773631738 | 182pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World NFU; food systems; activism

Contents

Recounting the Past, Counting on the Future: Stories of the NFU (Nettie Wiebe) • NFU Takes on a Corporate Giant (Carla Fehr) • Stopping Monsanto: Coalition Building Against rbgh and gm Wheat (Carla Fehr and Emily Eaton) • Protecting Seeds (Terran Giacomini) • Organizing the Market: The Canadian Wheat Board (André Magnan) • Farming Ecologically: The NFU in Ontario (Bryan Dale) • Saving the Prison Farms: Cows, Community and Civil Disobedience (Asha Nelson and Meghan Entz) • Owning the Island: The Question of Land in Prince Edward Island (Naomi Beingessner) • Embracing Agrarian Feminism: “The Farm Is Mary’s and Mine” (Carla Roppel) • Inspiring Re-Generation: NFU Youth (Terran Giacomini) • Globalization Solidarity: La Vía Campesina and Food Sovereignty (Asha Nelson and Annette Aurélie Desmarais) • Building Relationships: IndigenousSettler Solidarity and the NFU (Lauren Kepkiewicz and Terran Giacomini) • References • Index

Frontline Farmers introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek to control our food system by imposing genetically modified organisms into our food, to protecting seeds, maintaining orderly marketing, saving the prison farms, keeping the land in the hands of family farmers, farming ecologically and building food sovereignty, the NFU has been front and centre of farm and food activism.

This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have never been higher.

Annette Aurélie Desmarais is the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants. Prior to obtaining her doctorate in geography, Annette was a small-scale grain farmer in Saskatchewan. She then also worked with the National Farmers Union in the Global Agriculture Project and provided technical support to La Vía Campesina for over a decade.

“The book offers a front-seat look at some of the key organizing efforts undertaken by one of the founding members of the global food sovereignty movement: The NFU.… Frontline Farmers is an important contribution to the conversation on contemporary food movements and offers numerous insights into the on-the-ground and evolving struggle for food sovereignty in Canada and beyond.”

— Agriculture and Human Values 37, 931–932 (2020)

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19922022

Making Sense of Society Power and Possibility Alex Khasnabish A fresh and radical approach to introducing social thought to undergraduate social science students, Making Sense of Society reflects the excitement and verve of a field in transition.

9781773630960 | 272pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World social theory; critical social science; research practice; social movements; climate justice; social reproduction; intersectionality; social justice

Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common disciplinary silos in favour of an integrated approach to understanding and practising critical social research. Situated in the North American context, the text draws on cross-cultural examples to give readers a clear sense of the diversity in human social relations. It is organized thematically in a way that introduces readers to the core areas of social research and social organization and takes an unapologetically radical approach in identifying the relations of oppression and exploitation that give rise to what most corporate textbooks euphemistically identify as “social problems.” Focusing on key dynamics and processes at the heart of so many contemporary issues and public conversations, this text highlights the ways in which critical social research can contribute to exploring, understanding and forging alternatives to an increasingly bankrupt, violent, unstable and unjust status quo.

Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, on unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory. He is a professor in sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice and social movements.

Contents

Becoming Human (co-authored with Anthony Davis) • Doing Social Research • Making Society • Who Are “We”?: Identity and Intersections • Living Together: Family, Kinship and Social Bonds • Making Meaning, Making Sense: Communication and Belief • Making a Living: Economies and Ecologies • Power and Order: Inequality, Injustice and Paths Beyond • References • Index

“This is a significant book, aiming to achieve an interdisciplinary examination of society. I would have assumed this to be overly ambitious, if not impossible. Reading the manuscript has convinced me otherwise. The author has produced an impressive contribution to social science textbook writing, one quite beyond anything else I have seen.”

— Michael Clow, professor, St. Thomas University

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19922022

Kaandossiwin How We Come to Know: Indigenous re-Search Methodologies 2nd edition Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe) Kaandossiwin renders Indigenous re-search methodologies visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression in academia.

9781773635170 | 304pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World decolonial; decolonizing; academic; social work; theory; worldview; healing

Contents

Part One: Preparation for the Search • An Introduction to Preparing for Re-Search • Indigenous Re-Search: Past, Present and Future • Colonial Research Trauma: My Own Search • The Search Trail and Pathway • Part Two: Wholistic Re-Search Methodologies • Wholistic Worldviews and Methodologies • The Roots: Paradigms, Worldviews and Principles • The Flower Centre: Self as Central • The Leaves: The Methodological Journey • The Stem: Backbone and Supports • The Petals: Diverse Methodologies • The Enviro-Academic Context: Fences and Gatekeepers • Indigenist Re-Search Projects and Methodologies: The Last Ten Years • Leaving Good Footprints and Winding Down • References • Index

Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe re-searcher Kathleen Absolon describes how Indigenous re-searchers re-theorize and re-create methodologies. Indigenous knowledge resurgence is being informed by taking a second look at how re-search is grounded. Absolon consciously adds an emphasis on the re with a hyphen as a process of recovery of Kaandossiwin and Indigenous re-search. Understanding Indigenous methodologies as guided by Indigenous paradigms, worldviews, principles, processes and contexts, Absolon argues that they are wholistic, relational, inter-relational and interdependent with Indigenous philosophies, beliefs and ways of life. In exploring the ways Indigenous re-searchers use Indigenous methodologies within mainstream academia, Kaandossiwin renders these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression. This second edition features the author’s reflections on her decade of re-search and teaching experience since the last edition, celebrating the most common student questions, concerns and revelations.

Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe) is Anishinaabe kwe from Flying Post First Nation Treaty 9. Her relationships to the land, ancestors, Nation, community and family deeply inform her re-search. She is a full professor in the Indigenous Field of Study, Faculty of Social Work and the director of the Centre for Indigegogy at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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19922022

White Benevolence Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean & Verna St. Denis, eds.

A book about the devastating consequences of white supremacy being normalized in the helping professions in Canada.

9781773635224 | 256pp | 6 x 9 Rights available:World anti-racism; settler colonialism; inequality; human services; nursing; whiteness

Contents

Introduction • Living Our Family Through Settler Colonialism • What’s Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? • How Indigenous-Specific Racism Is Coached into Health Systems • “Within This Architecture of Oppression, We Are a Vibrant Community” • Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Womanhood • The School/ Prison Nexus in the Canadian Prairies • Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence • The Articulations of Settler Colonialism in the Colten Boushie Case • A Conversation on the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities • Considering Dominance through Racial Constructs and Land Relationships • Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing • Whiteness of Medicine • Cannibal Culture, Kinship and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School System • White Entitlement in Antiracism and Anticolonialism • Permission to Escape • Queering the Mainstream • Conclusion • References • Index

When working with Indigenous Peoples, the helping professions — education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous Peoples need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous Peoples. White supremacy shows up in the everyday behaviours, language and assumptions of white professionals who reproduce myths of Indigenous inferiority and deficit, making it clear that institutional racism encompasses not only high-level policies and laws but also the collective enactment by people within these institutions. In this uncompromising and essential collection, the authors argue that white settler social workers, educators, health-care practitioners and criminal justice workers have a responsibility to understand the colonial history of their professions and their complicity in ongoing violence, be it over-policing, school push-out, child apprehension or denial of health care. The answer isn’t cultural awareness training. What’s needed is radical anti-racism, solidarity and a relinquishing of the power of white supremacy.

Amanda Gebhard is a white settler scholar and assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina. Amanda’s research investigates racism and educational exclusions, the school/prison nexus and anti-racist pedagogy and practice.

Sheelah McLean (PhD) is a white settler from Treaty 6 Territory. Sheelah has focused on research, scholarship and actions that address inequality, particularly on how white dominance is created and maintained within a white settler society.

Verna St. Denis is a professor of education and special advisor to the president on antiracism/anti-oppression at the University of Saskatchewan. She is both Cree and Metis and a member of the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation. Her scholarship is in antiracist and Indigenous education, and she has published extensively on these topics.

“Interrogating the relation between the “helping professions” and the production of white racial power, this much-needed work exposes the everyday violence that permeates Canada’s social institutions. This book is an essential and timely read for educators and activists, and for social workers and policy makers.”

— Sunera Thobani, professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

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19922022

Heroin An Illustrated History Susan Boyd The only book-length Canadian history of the harm done from criminalizing heroin users and “addicts,” the most horrendous being overdose epidemics caused by poisoned drugs.

9781773635163 | 256pp | 8 x 10 Rights available: World overdose epidemic; drug activism; heroin assisted treatment; war on drugs Read a short excerpt on our webiste

Contents

Heroin, Addiction and Harm Reduction • Drugs, Colonialism and Criminalization: Pre-1900s • The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900s • Heroin Criminalization: The 1920s and 30s • Curing the Heroin User with Jail: The 1940s and 50s • Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s • Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s • Harm Reduction Comes to Canada: The 1980s and 1990s • Struggling for Heroin-Assisted Treatment: The 2000s • A Poisoned Heroin Supply: The 2010s and 2020s • Our Drug Policy Is Killing People: Decriminalizing and Legalization of Heroin Use • Appendix • References • Index

Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries.

Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and to the decades of resistance to harm-reduction policies.

Heroin, discovered in 1898, was heralded as an important medicine and successfully marketed as a pain reliever and cough suppressant. Until the early 1950s, heroin was prescribed for therapeutic use in Canada. Yet, illegal heroin use became the focus of drug prohibition advocates and law enforcement, who painted it as highly addictive and destructive. With little evidence of the harm of heroin, drug prohibition is actually tied up with colonization and systemic racism, as well as class and gender injustice. Flawed ideas about heroin and people who use the drug have shaped drug law and policy for decades. This book is informed by documentary evidence and the experiences of people who use/used heroin, drug user unions and harm-reduction advocates. These sources highlight the structural violence of drug policy that uses prohibition and criminalization as the main response to drug use.

Susan C. Boyd is a scholar/activist and distinguished professor at the University of Victoria. She has authored several articles and books on drug issues, including Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada. She is a long-time activist who collaborates with groups that advocate for the end of drug prohibition and for the establishment of diverse services.

“In Heroin: An Illustrated History, Susan Boyd traces a compelling and damning portrait of the longstanding harms of drug criminalization in Canada. The work highlights the necessity of following drug-user led movements ... to create a society geared toward collective health and wellbeing rather than punishment.”

— Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives “Susan carefully articulates the history of drug user activism with a great understanding of racial and gender disparities that plague our community. The Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs fully endorses Heroin and believes it’s a must-read.”

— Natasha Touesnard and Frank Crichlow, executive director and president of the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs (CAPUD)

19922022

FORWARD RIGHTS Unravelling Research

The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences Teresa Macías, ed.

Afterword by Sharene H. Razack Collected essays by racialized, mad and social justice scholars on the ethical, political and methodological implications of their research.

9781773635231 | 256pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World research practices; ethics; politics; marginality

Contents

Introduction (Teresa Macías) • Latina Knowledge Production and the Ethics of Ambiguity (Vannina Sztainbok and Lorena M. Gajardo) • Dwelling in the Ethical Quicksand of Archival Research: Violence and Representation in the Telling of Terror Stories (Teresa Macías) • Accountability in Ethnographic Research: Researching the Making of White/Northern Subjects Through Anti-Black Racism While Brown (Leila Angod) • Racialized Discourses: Writing Against an Essentialized Story About Racism as a Practice of Ethics (Harjeet Kaur Badwall) • Mad Epistemologies and Maddening the Ethics of Knowledge Production (Brenda A. LeFrançois and Jijian Voronka) • Less Dangerous Collaborations? Governance through CommunityBased Participatory Research (Julia Elizabeth Janes) • Deep Memory, Mnemonic Resistance and the Failure to Witness in Research with Street Sex Workers (Caitlin Janzen and Susan Strega) • Digital Racism: The Re-Shaping of Consent, Privacy, Knowledge and Notions of the Public (Anne O’Connell) • Afterword: Researchers of Good Will (Sherene H. Razack) • References • Index

Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated with established research practices. Written by an impressive range of scholars whose work is shaped by their commitment to social justice, the chapters grapple with different methodologies, geographical locations and communities and cover a wide range of inquiry, including ethnography in Africa, archival research in South America and research with marginalized, racialized, poor, mad, homeless and Indigenous communities in Canada. Each chapter is written from the perspective of researchers who, due to their race, class, sexual/gender identity, ability and geographical location, labour at the margins of their disciplines. By using their own research projects as sites, contributors probe the ethicality of long- established and cutting-edge methodological frameworks to theorize the indivisible relationship between methodology, ethics and politics, elucidating key challenges and dilemmas confronting marginalized researchers and research subjects alike.

Teresa Macías is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, York University.

Her scholarly interests include transnational human rights regimes, poststructuralism, decolonial thought, social work education, truth and reconciliation commissions, state compensation policies, nation-building, torture, issues of representation, critical pedagogy, neoliberalism in social work, research methodology and research ethics.

“This book makes a serious advance in state-of-the-art research; namely in its commitments to undertake a decolonial, intersectional analysis of the politics and ethics of research.”

— Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, associate professor, University of Victoria “Without a doubt, this volume constitutes a major contribution to the research literature. Its primarily Canadian content, from the perspective of academics who are marginalized, is unique, and the pan-cultural reach of the literature is definitely unique.”

— Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, assistant professor, School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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19922022

Capitalism and Dispossession Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, eds.

This book highlights the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession at home and abroad.

9781773634784 | 272pp | 6 x 9 Rights available: World imperialism; colonialism

Contents

Capitalism, Dispossession and the Canadian State • Part One: Dispossession at Home • The Gender Violence of Canadian Extraction • Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada’s “Consent by Default” Industry • A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in • The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight Against Alton Gas • Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous Waterways • Part Two: Dispossession Abroad • Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government • Economic Diplomacy, Mining and Racism at the Escobal Mine in Guatemala • Challenging the Story of Extractivism in Indonesia • Canadian Mining in Burkina Faso • Canadian Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean • Conclusion • References • Index

This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at home and abroad. Rather than presented as instances of exceptional greed or malice, the cases are described as expected and inherent consequences of contemporary capitalism and/or settler colonialism. A core purpose of the book is to combine and synthesize analyses of dispossession within and outside of Canada. While the literature tends to treat the two as distinct and unrelated phenomena, these processes are often connected, as the normalization of settler colonialism at home can lead to indifference and acceptance of dispossession caused by Canadian companies abroad. This book brings local and global cases together in order to present a rigorous analysis of the role of Canadian corporate activity in processes of dispossession. The book includes a diversity of theoretical approaches related to the overarching theme of capitalism and dispossession; however, they share a critical analysis of capitalism and its implications on marginalized peoples at home and abroad.

Included are political economy approaches that draw on the work of theorists such as David Harvey, important interventions from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, feminist approaches using the work of scholars such as Silvia Federici and the concept environmental racism, which draws on both critical race theory and environmental justice literature.

David P. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Mount Allison University, on unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. His teaching and research interests focus on the role of Canadian actors abroad and on international political economy.

Veldon Coburn is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies. Veldon is Anishinaabe, a member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn. Veldon’s primary research focus is on Indigenous politics and policy in Canada with particular emphasis on political and economic theory.

“Timely, relevant and well conceived, with excellent case studies and authors. I like it a lot.”

— Henry Veltmeyer, professor, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, and professor emeritus, Saint Mary’s University.

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