{"title":"M.I.A.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSummer 2023 we discovered that almost 500 books had never made it onto our new site. Whoops!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a wide variety of books here. From academic titles, to old gems you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere, to usual LeftWingBooks fare from our friends at PM Press, Between the Lines, Fernwood, AK Press, and many other radical publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"workers-can-win-a-guide-to-organising-at-work","title":"Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Covid, climate and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace activist Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential to rebuild working-class power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premise is simple: organising builds confidence, capacity and collective power - and with power we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential, practical guide for rank-and-file workers and union activists. Drawing on more than 20 years of organising experience, Allinson combines practical techniques with an analysis of the theory and politics of organising and unions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book offers insight into tried and tested methods for effective organising. It deals with tactics and strategies, and addresses some of the roots of conflict, common problems with unions and the resistance of management to worker organising. As a 101 guide to workplace organising with politically radical horizons, Workers Can Win is destined to become an essential tool for workplace struggles in the years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/supadu-imgix\/plutopress-uk\/pdfs\/look-inside\/LI-9780745347813.pdf\"\u003ePreview the book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIan Allinson has been a workplace activist since 1991, working for a private sector employer which didn’t recognise a union for most workers, and where he led a number of strikes including the first national strike in the IT industry. He served ten years on the national Executive Committees of Amicus and Unite, and was a candidate for Unite General Secretary in 2017. He is currently industrial action coordinator on the executive committee of Manchester TUC, where he was previously President. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrations: Colin Revolting’s cartoons have been published by \u003cem\u003eNew Musical Express\u003c\/em\u003e and the Ramblers Association. Colin has twice been dismissed for organising at work – once in a large public institution and later in a small charity. He is still trying to organise at work, hence the pseudonym.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Just at the time when workers are mobilising to tackle the economic and climate crises we all face, this invaluable handbook comes along to provide an essential guide to winning.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e John McDonnell MP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Drawing on years of experience, Unite activist Ian Allinson has written an organising handbook that will be invaluable for rank and file organisers and trade union professionals alike. He offers timely, concrete analysis and advice that will be an aid to activists across the trade union movement.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Kim Moody, author and founder of\u003cem\u003e 'Labor Notes'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In the age of climate breakdown, militant worker organising is as urgent as ever. Workers and environmentalists share a common enemy in the capitalist class and Allinson gives us all a powerful guide of how to effectively organise for social change from our workplaces.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and author of\u003cem\u003e 'Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘A must read for every trade union activist.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Lyn-Marie O’Hara, Glasgow equal pay striker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Workplaces are key sites of struggle against the hostile environment for migrants, and so to tackle these injustices against migrants we need strong unions. ‘Workers Can Win’ is a readable, practical guide for organising at work and building the power we need to fight back against oppression.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Ida Jarsve, co-founder, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘A vital resource for anyone serious about taking part in trade union work at any level, and also extremely useful for anyone working for positive change in their community.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brendan Montague, editor of\u003cem\u003e ‘The Ecologist’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Workers have needed a practical, positive, accessible guide to organising in Britain for a long time and Ian, using his vast experience in the area has created just that. It will be a valuable resource for union representatives and organisers wanting to grow their branch and union!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'This book is just brilliant. It is not only packed full of invaluable advice and practical tips for anybody organising in the workplace, but it is also hopeful. Crucially, it offers an accessible political analysis of why it is so important for working class people to build power in the workplace and beyond, demystifying the process as it goes.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Laura Pidcock, National Secretary of The People's Assembly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Why organise at work?\u003cbr\u003e3. Starting out\u003cbr\u003e4. Servicing, advocacy, mobilising and organising\u003cbr\u003e5. Choosing and communicating about issues\u003cbr\u003e6. How to organise\u003cbr\u003e7. Using your rights\u003cbr\u003e8. Planning action\u003cbr\u003e9. Industrial and direct action\u003cbr\u003e10. Management mischief\u003cbr\u003e11. Dealing with your union\u003cbr\u003e12. 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The book’s clear, direct language and compassionate, no-nonsense approach helps dispel the confusion and bigotry that often overshadows public perception of transgender issues. . . .Buy this book and share it with our whole family.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBust\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A breath of fresh air. This book provides, with equal measures of scholarship and humanity, thoughtful pushback against the most common misconceptions, misunderstandings, and just plain lies about trans people and the people who love them. 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A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to capitalism. It proposes and defends concrete answers to how all society's economic decisions can be made without resort to unaccountable and inhumane markets (capitalism) or central planning authorities (communism). It explains the viability of early socialism's vision of an economy in which the workers come together to decide among themselves what to produce and consume. At the same time, Hahnel proposes new features to this economic model including proposing how \"reproductive labor\" might be socially organized, how to plan investment and long-term development to maximize popular participation and efficiency, and finally, how a participatory economy might engage in international trade and investment without violating its fundamental principles in a world where economic development among nations has been historically unfair and unequal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e“A key contribution to the on-going debate on democratic and participatory socialism. A must-read!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThomas Piketty, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCapital in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Tired of having your life determined by a handful of gazillionaires, but afraid there is no alternative except an economic dictatorship? In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Participatory Economy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Robin Hahnel shows in concrete detail—and without economic jargon—how ordinary people can run an economy to meet their own needs through worker and consumer councils and federations. Of course many economists question that this is even possible but Hahnel provides powerful answers to rebut their denials. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Participatory Economy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides a provocative ‘thought experiment’ demonstrating that there is indeed an alternative to both neoliberal capitalism and economic despotism.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJeremy Brecher, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrike!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'What comes next then?' This is likely one of the most common questions opponents of capitalism are asked when we critique the brutal and exploitative features of our economy. Hahnel has been developing a wide-ranging response to that very question for decades and in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Participatory Economy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe expertly advocates for an alternative to capitalism that rejects both the competitive and dehumanizing features of markets and the authoritarian, bureaucratic forms that are part and parcel of central planning. A recommended read for any student of political economy and necessary for organizers who want to understand one of the most popularized alternatives to capitalism outlined to date.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDeric Shannon, co-editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Accumulation of Freedom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of the World as We Know It \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I found Robin Hahnel’s work on participatory economics as a young activist. I was mad at the world and committed to changing it, but ultimately hopeless about our chances of winning and confused about what winning might look like. Participatory economics gave me an opportunity to think about that future, to really imagine it, and to fight for it more effectively. This book is a brilliant distillation of those concepts, and a must-have resource for people looking to reshape this world into one in which we can truly thrive.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eYotam Marom, facilitator and former leader in\u003cem\u003e Occupy Wall Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Today’s labor movement is in crisis. Many unions have not only abandoned the struggle to challenge the rule of capital, but also the responsibility to imagine the features of a new world. To break free of this impasse, we need to advance a socialist vision that puts humanity on the road to a classless society. In A Participatory Economy, Robin Hahnel advances a vision in which the means of social production and reproduction are held in common, human needs are met, our ecosystem is protected for present and future generations, and economic activity is planned and coordinated democratically by councils of workers and our communities. If you’re curious what a better world beyond capitalism might look like, read this book!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePádraig Connolly, Virginia Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators and \u003cem\u003eCounterPower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRobin Hahnel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a life-long radical activist and economist whose work emphasizes environmental sustainability and is best known for his work on alternatives to capitalism. 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Hahnel is a contributor to participatoryeconomy.org.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141335588957,"sku":"9781849354844","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/51BQPJJsLmL.jpg?v=1692887854"},{"product_id":"a-revolutionary-for-our-time-the-walter-rodney-story","title":"A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWalter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists’ today. Rodney lived through the failed –though immensely hopeful -socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, in Tanzania and elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book critically considers Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history, his relationship to dependency theory and the contemporary significance of his work in the context of movements and politics today. The first full-length study of Rodney’s life, this book is an essential introduction to Rodney's work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Zeilig is not stretching when he calls Rodney, 'A revolutionary for our time.'\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zeilig has done a remarkable job in researching and organizing the text into one detailed book that provides the greatest insight into the life and work of Walter Rodney from primary sources...Zeilig writes: ‘What we see in the Archive — and what I have tried to capture in this book – is Rodney’s exhaustive historical work and scholarship.’ He has been very successful in doing just that. This book is a very interesting and informative read.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eReview of African Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a welcome addition to the composition on the life and death of Walter Rodney and deals with the cover up of his assassination in the most authentic way since the C of I report of 2016.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Donald Rodney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activists. Leo is an editor of the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Review of African Political Economy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—the radical African-studies journal founded by activists and scholars in 1974—and a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Seeing, listening to or reading Walter Rodney, before and after his unfortunate death, something always puzzled and stayed with me – The How of Walter Rodney. How did this relatively young brother from a small Caribbean nation gain such a vast world view? How was he able to grasp the conditions of the Pan African world so firmly and translate those conditions through his socialist worldview? How was Rodney able to move so fluidly through communities in the Caribbean, the US, the UK, Africa and literally the whole of the Pan African world? How was he accepted and loved as kin in all of those communities? And how did he become the number one target of a Guyanese government desperately plotting to end his life? And of late, my big one, how does Walter Rodney still endure timelessly in the immediate consciousness of so many Pan-African activists and thinkers today?  Without fail Leo Zeilig’s enduring \u003cem\u003eA Revolutionary for Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e answered these and so many other “how's” beyond my considerations.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Paul Coates, Black Classic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through exacting research, exacting presentation, and careful analysis, Leo Zeilig offers a remarkable contribution to radical thought and practice worthy of Walter Rodney's legacy.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Olufemi Taiwo, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and author of \u003cem\u003eReconsidering Reparations\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/elite-capture-how-the-powerful-took-over-identity-politics-and-everything-else\" title=\"Elite Capture\"\u003eElite Capture\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Leo Zeilig takes readers through the choices that Walter Rodney made. Choices both small and large, but all taking Rodney to the heights of scholarship, organization, family, comradeship. Zeilig offers a compelling narrative and an incisive analysis of Rodney’s ferocious commitments to revolutionary change. This is a fascinating and vital study of Rodney’s life.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Diane C. Fujino, professor and author,\u003cem\u003e Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"The Black Lives Matter movement’s embrace of radical and pan-Africanist ideas has introduced Walter Rodney to a new generation of activists. A Revolutionary for Our Time is an urgently-needed contribution, one that situates the importance of Rodney’s Marxism, his life and work, in working-class and anti-racist struggle. It is a must-read account of a revolutionary who understood that nothing short of socialism could bring liberation.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Lee Wengraf, author, \u003cem\u003eExtracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This is a splendid narrative of Walter Rodney’s legendary life and work across three continents. Leo Zeilig’s singular achievement is to have brilliantly located Rodney, the Black Power Marxist, at the intersection of the politics of radical nationalism and visionary socialism that suffused the pan-African world in the 60s and 70s. An unforgettable read.'’ \u003cstrong\u003e—Issa Shivji, Emeritus Professor, University of Dar es Salaam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"A Revolutionary for Our Time is both timely and necessary. Through Walter Rodney's ideas and actions, it engages the weighty issues of the current moment. More than a biography of a remarkable individual, we get the optics of a family committed to radical, worldwide transformation and the crosscurrent of people who embraced them as well as the local-global networks of power they dared to challenge.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair, Colgate University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e}“The book connects Rodney's thinking to his lived experiences across the world and the decades in which he lived. 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This incisive book puts forward the case for anarchism as a pragmatic philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally written in 1969 and updated for the twenty-first century, \u003cem\u003eAbout Anarchism \u003c\/em\u003eis an uncluttered, precise, and urgently necessary expression of practical anarchism. Crafted in deliberately simple prose and without constant reference to other writers or past events, it can be understood without difficulty and without any prior knowledge of political ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs one of the finest short introductions to the basic concepts, theories, and applications of anarchism, About Anarchism has been translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Russian. 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A short preface and several appendices add background on Liberia's complex U.S.-linked history, and a glossary illuminates Liberia's colorful Kreyol patois.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141335851101,"sku":"9781629636443","price":25.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/81dOXHqfYdL.jpg?v=1694108834"},{"product_id":"academia-inc-how-corporatization-is-transforming-canadian-universities","title":"Academia, Inc: How Corporatization is Transforming Canadian Universities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book to address the negative consequences of corporatization of higher education.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCanadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcademia, Inc.\u003c\/em\u003e examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions — the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both universities and society as a whole. Brownlee suggests several strategies for resisting this process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"collapsing-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Corporate Takeover of the University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eCorporate Power and Higher Education\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eUniversity Teaching and the Casualization of Academic Labour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Rise of the Student-Consumer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eManaging Universities Like a Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eLaying a Base for Private Profit: Corporate Corruption of Academic Research\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eResisting Corporatization: Universities and Social Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141335883869,"sku":"9781552667354","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71cn4oAS6dL.jpg?v=1694108838"},{"product_id":"accounting-for-genocide-canadas-bureaucratic-assault-on-aboriginal-people","title":"Accounting for Genocide: Canada's Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccounting for Genocide\u003c\/em\u003e is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada’s Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccounting for Genocide\u003c\/em\u003e's authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations with bureaucratic mechanisms–soft technologies–to deprive Native peoples of their land and natural resources and to control the minutiae of their daily economic and social lives. Particularly shocking is the evidence that federal and provincial governments are today still prepared to use legislative and fiscal devices in order to facilitate the continuing exploitation and damage of Indigenous people’s lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"collapsing-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDEAN NEU became a faculty member in the Haskayne School of Business in 1989. Prior to joining the faculty, he completed a PhD in Accounting and Organizational Theory at Queen’s University. Dean has been a visiting professor at the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto and Universidad de Autonoma del Estado de Morelos in Mexico. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an accounting scholar and activist, Dean is committed to unveiling the presence of accounting where we might not otherwise expect to find it, he has in numerous articles and public appearances revealed how accounting plays a mediative role between governments and population segments. His research and writing demonstrate how accounting, working hand in hand with bureaucracies, shapes and constructs societal governance. In this work, the disguise of accounting as a boring benign appendage to business and government is stripped away to reveal how accounting numbers play a crucial role in shaping public policy and the perceptions the public has of those policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDean has published more than fifty research articles in the leading academic and practitioner journals in the field. His awards include: the 1997 Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta in recognition of academic and activist contributions, the 1997 Research Award for outstanding research achievements in the previous year, the 2000 recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Leadership, and the 2000 recipient of the MBA society’s award for teaching excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRICHARD THERRIEN is a poet, researcher, cultural worker, editor, filmmaker, ghost-writer and landscape labourer. His poems and articles appear regularly in a number of journals and he has written reviews for\u003cem\u003e The Calgary Herald\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWindspeaker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141335916637,"sku":"9781552661031","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91tYD4U104L.jpg?v=1694108843"},{"product_id":"activism-in-jordan","title":"Activism in Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Jordan, between censorship, repression and election rigging, political activism is limited – despite the democratic opening glimpsed in 1989. In this important new book, Pénélope Larzillière charts the path of longstanding activists in Jordan and shows how opposition movements there have shifted from the underground to a heavily controlled public sphere. Activists discuss their motivation and commitment and the consequences their activism has had throughout their lives. Not only do these accounts highlight the general conditions for political activism in a repressive regime, they also unpack the meaning individuals attach to their political journey and chosen ideology, whether communist, nationalist, Islamist or otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141335949405,"sku":"9781783605743","price":37.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71VGlB-vI9L.jpg?v=1694108847"},{"product_id":"activists-and-the-surveillance-state-learning-from-repression","title":"Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe use of secret police, security agencies and informers to spy on, disrupt and undermine opposition to the dominant political and economic order has a long history. This book reflects on the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organizations and movements that are labelled as 'threats to national security'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActivists and scholars from the UK, South Africa, Canada, the US, Australia and Aotearoa\/New Zealand expose disturbing stories of political policing to question what lies beneath state surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProblematizing the social amnesia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies, Activists and the Surveillance State shows that ultimately, movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An important intervention that moves us beyond assessments of the scale and scope of surveillance and securitisation to reflect on lessons learned from multiple global resistance movements. The contributions in this book prompt us to consider possibilities for more hopeful futures.\" Nisha Kapoor, author of \u003cem\u003eDeport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Activists in social movements and others challenging the prevailing socio-economic and political structures will find in this book invaluable lessons and an effective antidote to the harassment, infiltration and ‘dirty tricks’ of agencies that uphold the interests of the corporate and political elite.\" Salim Vally, University of Johannesburg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Activists and the Surveillance State\u003c\/em\u003e is a wide-ranging exploration of collective organizing in response to state and corporate surveillance. The book’s rich discussion of what movements have learned–and failed to learn–about how surveillance works makes it a crucial reference for scholars and activists alike.\" Arun Kundnani, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Muslims Are Coming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"By asking us to consider different histories of knowledge production and resistance, this book provides a nuanced and timely intervention in our ongoing reflections on confrontations with state security, and how they can be used for advancing radical political alternatives.\" Dr Lina Dencik, Cardiff University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This important collection draws critical attention to the harms of state surveillance and police power, and how this power has been challenged and resisted by ordinary citizens. It is a must-read for activists, community organisers, and scholars alike.\" Waqas Tufail, Leeds Beckett University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-primary-col\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-panels\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"contents\" class=\"book-panel\"\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"toc\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003ePart I\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e1\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLessons learnt, lessons lost: Pedagogies of repression, thoughtcrime, and the sharp edge of state power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAziz Choudhry\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e2\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe surveillance state: A composition in four movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadha D’Souza\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e3\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eActivist learning and state dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Duncan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003ePart II\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e4\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eComing of age under surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American youth and post-9\/11 activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunaina Maira\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eASIO and the Australia–Timor-Leste solidarity movement, 1974–79\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob Boughton\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe plantation-to-plant-to-prison pipeline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Austin interviewed by Aziz Choudry\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e7\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eForgetting national security in ‘Canada’: Towards pedagogies of resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Kinsman\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e8\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePrevent as far-right Trojan horse: The creeping radicalisation of the UK national security complex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNafeez Ahmed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e9\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePolitical policing in the UK: A personal perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Apple\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e10\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSpies wide shut: Responses and resistance to the national security state in Aotearoa New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValerie Morse\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003ePart III\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e11\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eUndercover research: Academics, activists and others investigate political 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Beginning with a rich and detailed analysis of the pernicious hold advertising has on our lives, the book then moves on to offer practical solutions and guidance on how to subvert the ads. Using a combination of ethnographic research and theoretical analysis, \u003cem\u003eAdvertising Shits in Your Head\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the claims made by subvertising practitioners and shows how they impact their practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAdvertising Shits in Your Head\u003c\/em\u003e provides a history of the practice (going back to the early ’70s), alarming research and theory on the effects of the industry, advice about how to take part (including legal information) as well as several stunning case studies. This is essential reading for all who want to fight back against the ‘most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history.’” Jamie Kelsey-Fry, \u003cem\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAdvertising Shits in Your Head \u003c\/em\u003econcisely describes, through unique firsthand accounts, the range of concerns addressed by today’s subvertising community. From a right to the city argument, to the belief that advertising is the biggest obstacle to avoiding catastrophic climate change, the book envisions a movement looking far beyond culture jamming and corporate identity sabotage.” Jordan Seiler, Public Ad Campaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAdvertising Shits in Your Head\u003c\/em\u003e gives form and context to culture-jamming practices in the twenty-first century. Providing important theoretical and historical context that unites the twin strands of activism—creativity and resistance—it shows how creative minds are getting together in the age of digital networks to hack space and place, and challenge the presence of capitalist values within our public, private, and cultural spaces. Advertisers most definitely shit in your head: this book is here to stop them.” Bill Posters, Brandalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Advertising is a gigantic machine for creating human misery. It’s a sustained psychological assault on the population and it is hard to overstate the brutal and permanent damage it does to us as individuals, to society, and to the planet itself. 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Such questions are not of importance for Africans or people who are interested in African politics alone: they concern questions that face activists everywhere. Therefore this history and analysis deserves much wider circulation. Readers who may have knowledge of one part of Africa will gain from the detailed analysis of countries that they are less familiar with.\" —Charlie Kimber, \u003ci\u003eSocialist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336080477,"sku":"9781608461202","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71WdOwwJhRL.jpg?v=1694108865"},{"product_id":"after-life-imprisonment-reentry-in-the-era-of-mass-incarceration","title":"After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e After Life Imprisonment\u003c\/em\u003e, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of “lifers” upon release. Through interviews with over sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were re-incarcerated. The interviews reveal prisoners’ reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships upon release. Liem explores the increase in handing out of life sentences, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment, ultimately unpacking public policy and discourse surrounding long-term incarceration. A profound criminological examination, \u003cem\u003eAfter Life Imprisonment\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the untold, lived experiences of prisoners before and after their life sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__panel tabs__panel--authors r-tabs-panel r-tabs-state-active\" id=\"tab-3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarieke Liem\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Researcher and chair of the Violence Research Initiative at Leiden University and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert J. Sampson\u003c\/b\u003e is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. He is the author of several books, including Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Considering the enormity of the sanction, it is remarkable how little we know about the lives of those who survive life imprisonment. With the powerful narratives in this ground-breaking book, Marieke Liem brings their perspectives into new light and asks \u0026amp; when is enough, enough? in terms of the punitive state.\" Shadd Maruna, co-author of\u003ccite\u003e Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Of interest to both criminological researchers and policymakers, After Life Imprisonment deserves careful reading.A fascinating work of original and creative research.\" from the Foreword by Robert Sampson, author of\u003ccite\u003e Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect \u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336113245,"sku":"9781479882823","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91YRLiWjeHL.jpg?v=1694108869"},{"product_id":"against-architecture","title":"Against Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2008, (as \u003cem\u003eContro l’architettura\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eAgainst Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into French and Greek, with editions forthcoming in Polish and Portuguese. The book is a passionate and erudite charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world, the “archistars.” According to Franco La Cecla, architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars use the cityscape to build their brand, putting their stamp on the built environment with no regard for the public good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a diatribe against the trade for which he trained, Franco La Cecla issues a call to rethink urban space, to take our cities back from what he calls Casino Capitalism, which has left a string of failed urban projects, from the Sagrera of Barcelona to the expansion of Columbia University in New York City. He finds hope and some surprising answers in the 2006 uprisings in the Parisian suburbs and in wandering the streets of San Francisco. La Cecla recounts his peregrinations, whether as a consultant to urban planners or as an incorrigible flaneur, all the while giving insights into how we might find a way to resist the tyranny of the planners and find the spirit of place. As he comments throughout on the works of past and present masters of urban and landscape writing, including Robert Byron, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/rebecca-solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/a\u003e, Franco La Cecla has given us a book that will take an important place in our public discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To tell the truth, Franco La Cecla is not wrong. There is too much building, sometimes only to put a signature, a stamp on a spot, without any worry about the people who are going to live there. In other situations it is easy to be used by the institutions that support speculation. It is the reason why I refused many projects, because, I am lucky—and I can choose.” Renzo Piano in \u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“La Cecla's book is a delight, in the way that he dismantles the glory of the 'archistar' in their proud myopic grandeur that totally ignores people and their rights to a better urban life.\" Sebastian Courtois, \u003cem\u003eLa Reforme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Palermo in 1950, Franco La Cecla is a renowned anthropologist and architect. He has taught anthropology in many European and Italian cities such as Palermo, Venice, Verona, Paris, and Barcelona. In 2005 he founded the Architecture Social Impact Assessment, ASIA, an agency that evaluates the social impact of architectural and city planning projects. In addition he has created several documentaries, one of which, \u003cem\u003eIn Altro Mare\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eIn Another Sea\u003c\/em\u003e) won the Best Coastal Culture Film award at the 2010 San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. Franco La Cecla is currently in production with RAI television on a series based on \u003cem\u003eAgainst Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMairin O'Mahony (Translator) was born in London where she worked as an editor for 13 years before moving to San Francisco. Her experience includes a wide variety of copywriting on subjects ranging from agriculture to finance to travel. She is a passionate Italophile, dividing her time between San Francisco and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336146013,"sku":"9781604864069","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/419qLq_ovfS.jpg?v=1694108873"},{"product_id":"against-urbanism","title":"Against Urbanism","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/against-architecture\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically overlooked in city planning and housing development, and anachronistic, sterile, and formalistic architecture almost invariably prevails. Meanwhile, our cities grow out of internal impulses, not only in slums and favelas but through the pressing needs for public spaces which have sprung forth in great events and movements such as Istanbul’s Gezi Park and Occupy Wall Street. Never more than today has democracy played itself out in public spaces, sidewalks, and streets. Urban planners and developers, however, are still prisoners of an obsolete vision of passivity which betrays actual city needs and demands. A new urban science is required which can, first of all, guarantee a civil, dignified life for all—urban development which ensures the right to a humane mode of daily living, which has been and still is completely ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Accustomed as we are to thinking that changes take place online or on a global scale, we sense that they are not made of human bodies in urban spaces and that the mere presence in the square of people claiming their right to the city is a political fact, explosive in nature.” Franco La Cecla (from \u003cem\u003eAgainst Urbanism\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“La Cecla’s tract against urbanism is a eulogy for the city.” Renzo Piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Palermo in 1950, \u003cstrong\u003eFranco La Cecla\u003c\/strong\u003e is a renowned anthropologist and architect. He has taught anthropology in many European and Italian cities such as Palermo, Venice, Verona, Paris, and Barcelona. He has worked as a consultant for the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and for Barcelona Regional. In 2005 he founded the Architecture Social Impact Assessment, ASIA, an agency that evaluates the social impact of architectural and city planning projects. In addition he has created several documentaries, one of which, \u003cem\u003eIn Altro Mare\u003c\/em\u003e (In Another Sea) won the Best Coastal Culture Film award at the 2010 San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. His book \u003cem\u003eAgainst Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e is an international bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMairin O’Mahony\u003c\/strong\u003e (translator) was born in London where she worked as an editor for thirteen years before moving to San Francisco. Her experience includes a wide variety of copywriting on subjects ranging from agriculture to finance to travel. 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The dynamics of these processes are both international — in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants — and internal to countries that have undergone, or are undergoing, a process of agrarian change and social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVeltmeyer and Wise examine what they call the \"migration-development nexus\" from both a political economy and a sociological perspective, highlighting current trends, the global scale and the human dimension of the labour migration process, with particular reference to the increasing south-north flows of migrants who are forced to abandon their communities and ways of life by the globalizing forces of capitalist development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile it may appear that these migrants are free to choose to abandon their communities, and in many cases their families, in the search for greater economic opportunities and a better way of life, the authors show with devastating logic that the decisions made by so many migrants are rooted in the workings of the world capitalist system, which converts them into a pool of surplus labour to be pulled into and out of the system as required by capitalists in their endless search for private profit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\"\u003c\/cite\u003eThe authors skilfully and effectively destroy six common myths about the migration and development nexus that I found most revealing and enlightening. Instead they propose an alternative understanding of this nexus drawing on critical development theory. This text is an admirable addition to this multilingual book series that challenges the dominant neoliberal paradigm and its policies.\"\u003cem\u003e \u003ccite data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCristóbal Kay, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is an exciting book dealing with one of the most important issues of the day, namely why people migrate and what impact it has on sending and receiving societies. Delgado Wise and Veltmeyer have done a great job to clarify and explain the issues involved.\" \u003ccite data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRonaldo Munck,Head of Civic Engagement, President’s Office,  Dublin City University\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This small book provides us with a big idea of how to critically examine the migration-development nexus from the perspective of political economy. It addresses with analytical acuity the three challenging research fields in one go, i.e., migration studies, development studies and agrarian studies.\" \u003ccite data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJingzhong Ye, Professor of Development Studies and Dean, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Henry Veltmeyer\u003c\/strong\u003e lived and worked for six years in south America before coming to Canada to pursue a doctoral program in Political Science and subsequently (in 1976) beginning his academic career in the Sociology Department at St. Mary’s University. He has participated in the university’s Atlantic Canada Studies program and founded the program in International development in 1985. He also served for eight years as Coordinator of this program in addition to eight years as chair of the Sociology Department. Currently he has an academic appointment in the PhD program of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico and annually engages in an extended program of research and public lectures across Latin America. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of International Development Studies and serves on the editorial board of Studies in Political Economy and a number of international journals in his major field of research-the political economy of international development. Dr. Veltmeyer conducts research, writes and teaches about diverse issues related to the political economy and sociology of development, with a particular focus on issues of Latin American development, globalization processes, government policies, alternative models and approaches and social movements. Since 2000 he has authored\/co-authored and edited 13 books and 25 scholarly refereed articles that have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador. Several of these books, written in English or Spanish, have received awards and have been translated into other languages - among them Portuguese, Italian, Tugalese and German. In addition to these scholarly books, several of which have achieved international recog-nition and\/or special awards and distinctions, 25 of Dr. Veltmeyer’s scholarly articles since 2000 have been published in some of the most prestigious academic journals in his field or by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Places of publication include Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, Argentina, Mexico, the Netherlands and Switzerland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaúl Delgado Wise\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor and Director of Development Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. He is also President and founder of the International Network on Migration and Development, co-Director of the Critical Development Studies Network, Editor of the journal Migración y Desarrollo, UNESCO Chair on Migration, Development and Human Rights. 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It's an unforgettable reconstruction of a national tragedy.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, Best of 2017, Nonfiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"After nine months of intensive research for a book on the case of the forty-three, Gibler decided that 'what needs to be shared, urgently, are both the words and the storytelling of the people who lived through the attacks.' . . . The testimonies in I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us offer stunning evidence again and again that members of the army, as well as local and state police, helped carry out the attack.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\" . . . valuable oral history . . .\"—\u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Mexico, John Gibler's book has been recognized as a journalistic masterpiece, an instant classic, and the most powerful indictment available of the devastating state crime committed against the forty-three disappeared Ayotizinapa students in Iguala. This meticulous, choral recreation of the events of that night is brilliantly vivid and alive, it will terrify and inspire you and shatter your heart.\" —Francisco Goldman, writer for\u003cem\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Mexico attacked five busloads of students and a soccer team, killing six people and abducting forty-three students—now known as the Iguala 43—who have not been seen since. In a coordinated cover-up of the government's role in the massacre and forced disappearance, Mexican authorities tampered with evidence, tortured detainees, and thwarted international investigations. Within days of the atrocities, John Gibler traveled to the region and began reporting from the scene. Here he weaves the stories of survivors, eyewitnesses, and the parents of the disappeared into a tour de force of journalism, a heartbreaking account of events that reads with the momentum of a novel. A vital counter-narrative to state violence and impunity, the stories also offer a testament of hope from people who continue to demand accountability and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Gibler is the author of\u003cem\u003e Mexico Unconquered\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTo Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War.\u003c\/em\u003e His work on Ayotzinapa has been praised in\u003cem\u003e The New Yorker,\u003c\/em\u003e published in\u003cem\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe California Sunday Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and featured on NPR's \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAriel Dorfman (Foreword) is a Chilean-American author whose plays (among them, \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/em\u003e), have been performed in over one hundred countries and his numerous books (novels, stories, poems, essays) have been translated into more than sixty languages. Accompanied by his wife Angelica, Ariel divides his time between Chile and the United States, where he is professor emeritus of literature at Duke University. A regular contributor to the most important newspapers worldwide, he will soon publish a new novel, \u003cem\u003eDarwin's Ghosts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336834141,"sku":"9780872867482","price":26.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/61it5pEaeCL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1694108944"},{"product_id":"anarchist-pedagogies-collective-actions-theories-and-critical-reflections-on-education","title":"Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eEducation is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within the public arena—believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educational practices from multiple fronts. Of course, if anarchists agree that there are no blueprints for education, the question remains, in what dynamic and creative ways can we construct nonhierarchical, anti-authoritarian, mutual, and voluntary educational spaces?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors to this edited volume engage readers in important and challenging issues in the area of anarchism and education. From Francisco Ferrer’s modern schools in Spain and the Work People’s College in the United States, to contemporary actions in developing “free skools” in the U.K. and Canada, to direct-action education such as learning to work as a “street medic” in the protests against neoliberalism, the contributors illustrate the importance of developing complex connections between educational theories and collective actions. Anarchists, activists, and critical educators should take these educational experiences seriously as they offer invaluable examples for potential teaching and learning environments outside of authoritarian and capitalist structures. Major themes in the volume include: learning from historical anarchist experiments in education, ways that contemporary anarchists create dynamic and situated learning spaces, and finally, critically reflecting on theoretical frameworks and educational practices. Contributors include: David Gabbard, Jeff Shantz, Isabelle Fremeaux \u0026amp; John Jordan, Abraham P. DeLeon, Elsa Noterman, Andre Pusey, Matthew Weinstein, Alex Khasnabish, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pedagogy is a central concern in anarchist writing and the free skool has played a central part in movement activism. By bringing together an important group of writers with specialist knowledge and experience, Robert Haworth's volume makes an invaluable contribution to the discussion of these topics. His exciting collection provides a guide to historical experiences and current experiments and also reflects on anarchist theory, extending our understanding and appreciation of pedagogy in anarchist practice.” Dr. \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-kinna\" title=\"Ruth Kinna\"\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/a\u003e, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism: A Beginners Guide\u003c\/em\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Utopianism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With \u003cem\u003eAnarchist Pedagogies\u003c\/em\u003e, Rob Haworth helps us to move towards a dynamic and lived praxis of socialist libertarianism, bringing together some of the most articulate voices on the educational left to thoroughly explore the theoretical, historical, political, and pedagogical elements of anarchism today. The imperatives of mutual aid, solidarity, and working-class activism are as important and relevant as they ever were. This volume is a must-read for all students of education, teachers, and those dedicated to the struggle for social justice. Bravo!” Dr. Marc Pruyn, Monash University, Melbourne, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTeaching Peter McLaren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This original contribution to revolutionary praxis in education could not come at a more urgent moment. It deserves to be read and its recommendations unleashed in the battlefields of capital.” Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I worry sometimes that too many contemporary anarchists in North America celebrate anti-intellectualism by resisting both the study of new ideas and the histories of previous actions. It’s very heartening, then, for me to see these things being explored in Anarchist Pedagogies by a gathering of young, smart thinkers interested in pondering the complex relationships between liberty and learning. Deschooling, unschooling, informal learning, and radical critical pedagogy are all part of the mix here. Haworth has done well in bringing these voices together; you may not always agree with them, but you will be excited enough to engage with what they have to say.” Don LaCoss, \u003cem\u003eFifth Estate  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Haworth (editor) is an assistant professor in the Department of Professional and Secondary Education at West Chester University. He teaches courses focusing on the social foundations of education, anarchism and critical pedagogies. He has published and presented internationally on anarchism, youth culture, informal learning spaces, and critical social studies education. He cofounded worker-owned and -operated Regeneration TV as well as other academic research collectives. Currently he is working on a coedited book on critical perspectives and informal learning, as well as writing a single-authored book entitled \u003cem\u003eHorizontal Imaginaries: Education, Spontaneity, and Desire.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllan Antliff (Afterword), Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria, is author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde \u003c\/em\u003e(2001), \u003cem\u003eAnarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall \u003c\/em\u003e(2007) and editor of \u003cem\u003eOnly A Beginning\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) a documentary anthology of anarchist writings and activism in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336899677,"sku":"9781604864847","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/large_526_Anarchistpedagogiesfront150.jpg?v=1694108949"},{"product_id":"antifascism-sports-sobriety-forging-a-militant-working-class-culture","title":"Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-class Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Austromarxist era of the 1920s was a unique chapter in socialist history. Trying to carve out a road between reformism and Bolshevism, the Austromarxists embarked on an ambitious journey towards a socialist oasis in the midst of capitalism. Their showpiece, the legendary “Red Vienna,” has worked as a model for socialist urban planning ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the Austromarxist experiment was the conviction that a socialist revolution had to entail a cultural one. Numerous workers’ institutions and organizations were founded, from education centers to theaters to hiking associations. With the Fascist threat increasing, the physical aspects of the cultural revolution became ever more central as they were considered mandatory for effective defense. At no other time in socialist history did armed struggle, sports, and sobriety become as intertwined in a proletarian attempt to protect socialist achievements as they did in Austria in the early 1930s. Despite the final defeat of the workers’ militias in the Austrian Civil War of 1934 and subsequent Fascist rule, the Austromarxist struggle holds important lessons for socialist theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntifascism, Sports, Sobriety\u003c\/em\u003e contains an introductory essay by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e and selected writings by Julius Deutsch, leader of the workers’ militias, president of the Socialist Workers’ Sport International, and a prominent spokesperson for the Austrian workers’ temperance movement. Deutsch represented the physical defense of the working class against its enemies like few others. His texts in this book are being made available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An almost completely forgotten episode in labor history.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A foretaste of the socialist utopia of the future in the present.” Helmut Gruber, author of \u003cem\u003eRed Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919–1934\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The insurrection of February 1934 . . . left behind the glorious memory of resistance to fascism by arms and not merely by speeches.” E.J. 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Among his publications with PM Press are \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) and \u003cem\u003eAll Power to the Councils! 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G. Kelley, Arianna Lissoni, Achille Mbembe, Marissa Moorman, Jon Soske, T.J. Tallie, Salim Vally.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"A South African who is not white does not need more than one day's stay in Palestine to be thrown back to pre-1994 and realize that apartheid is very much alive under Israel as a colonial power. While governments continue to certify Israel's blatant disregard for Palestinian life and international law, activism by ordinary citizens around the world in solidarity with the Palestinians is intensifying. Global, mass protests against Israel's military attacks and the growth of support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign are promising steps in the right direction. The essays in \u003ci\u003eApartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully remind those of us who brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa that we must join with our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their fight to bring down the apartheid regime in Israel.”\u003cb\u003e Ahmed Kathrada, Veteran Anti-Aparthied activist and former Robben Island political prisoner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering more thoughtful questions than easy answers, this collection of essays aims to redefine our approach to the Israeli system of militarized racial discrimination and its relationship to South African apartheid. One of the recurring and most valuable issues probed by the collection is what the South African experience might tell us not only about the present situation in Palestine, but also about various possible paths towards a just peace.\" \u003cb\u003e–Saree Makdisi, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The shadow of the anti-apartheid movement hangs over the BDS movement. 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And since all they are willing to offer is a fight to the finish, since what they are willing to do is to go all the way—carnage, destruction, incremental extermination—the time has come for global isolation.\"\u003cb\u003e Achille Mbembe, from the foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A South African who is not white does not need more than one day's stay in Palestine to be thrown back to pre-1994 and realize that apartheid is very much alive under Israel as a colonial power. While governments continue to certify Israel's blatant disregard for Palestinian life and international law, activism by ordinary citizens around the world in solidarity with the Palestinians is intensifying. Global, mass protests against Israel's military attacks and the growth of support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign are promising steps in the right direction. The essays in \u003cem\u003eApartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully remind those of us who brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa that we must join with our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their fight to bring down the apartheid regime in Israel.”\u003cstrong\u003e Ahmed Kathrada, Veteran Anti-Aparthied activist and former Robben Island political prisoner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering more thoughtful questions than easy answers, this collection of essays aims to redefine our approach to the Israeli system of militarized racial discrimination and its relationship to South African apartheid. 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And since all they are willing to offer is a fight to the finish, since what they are willing to do is to go all the way—carnage, destruction, incremental extermination—the time has come for global isolation.\"\u003cstrong\u003e Achille Mbembe, from the foreword\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141336997981,"sku":"9781608465187","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/61DlkIi76lL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1694108958"},{"product_id":"art-space-ecology-two-views-twenty-interviews","title":"Art, Space, Ecology: Two Views, Twenty Interviews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci id=\"ext-gen1310\"\u003eArt Space Ecology: Two Views--Twenty Interviews \u003c\/i\u003eembraces the international context of today’s art making and, through the medium of interviews, encourages readers to engage directly with nature-focused creators and their artistic processes. The twenty artists, though diverse in backgrounds and methods, all produce works that are either embedded in the environment or that document our ever-changing landscapes. In these interviews, Grande explores the motivations that inspire artists to use the natural world as their canvas and how their works explore the intersections of art, space, and the environment, raising questions about our relationship with the landscapes themselves. An engaging introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith, English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster, sets the stage for these artists to share about the artistic processes of their works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"No significant movement in art remains independent of social and historical forces. Nor can it remain independent of surrounding related artistic impulses, which may not be pursuing the same ends. These are things that emerge clearly from John K. Grande’s fascinating series of interviews with artists working in this field. Ecological art and Land Art have a much longer history than most experts on contemporary culture are willing to suppose.... Other parallels can be found in the historical record of non-European cultures, especially in China and Japan, where landscape occupies the central position in art that Europe, since the Greeks, has accorded to the human figure.\"\u003cem\u003e Art \u0026amp; Museum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whatever the medium under consideration, whether sculpture, organic interventions, performance art, body art, or technically complex installations, the discussions he choreographs in his new books explore and reveal the often mysterious motivations behind the maker’s making and unearths their intentions in a gentle yet dramatic manner. This book demonstrates clearly that in the end, or even more so, in the beginning, the natural world is our original and implicit canvas.\u003cbr\u003e     By examining the powerful intersections between art, technology and biology itself, he manages to reveal the deep questions that drive each artist forward. Perhaps the biggest question, and the most commonly recurring one: what is the most appropriate relationship we have or should have to the landscape? Not as something we live on, but as a place we should live with.\" CRITICSATLARGE.CA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a field guide for artists working with nature, or addressing issues of the natural world in performance, video, painting, sculpture, installation or body art. The natural world becomes a canvas for exploring the intersections of art, space, and the environment. Questions about our relationship with land are raised by the dynamic interactivity and dialogues between John K. Grande and the artists: object and environment, artist and audience, society and nature.\" \u003cem\u003eArte.Es\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine, Spain \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb id=\"ext-gen17868\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Edward Lucie-Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by John K. 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La intención de la obra es detenerse en aquellas artistas que, a pesar de no haber estado conscientemente unidas y articulado un grupo con el propósito de destacar la experiencia femenina, manifiestan a través de su obra una conciencia y valorización de esta, hasta llegar a la generación de una teoría y una práctica artísticas decididamente feministas en las últimas décadas del siglo XX.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nerea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141337096285,"sku":"9788496431232","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/81i5qwHF3IL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1694108972"},{"product_id":"at-the-broken-places-a-mother-and-trans-son-pick-up-the-pieces","title":"At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity. As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans son’s decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald activated his “authentic self.” Both battled to assert their rights. A powerful memoir and resource, \u003cem\u003eAt the Broken Places\u003c\/em\u003e offers a road map for families in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141337129053,"sku":"9780807088357","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91y6Q4MPdbL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1694108976"},{"product_id":"automation-and-the-future-of-work","title":"Automation and the Future of Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists, and social critics have united in arguing that we are on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much discussed “rise of the robots” really explain the long-term decline in the demand for labor?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Automation and the Future of Work\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers the deep weaknesses of twenty-first-century capitalism and the reasons why the engine of economic growth keeps stalling. Equally important, Benanav goes on to salvage from automation discourse its utopian content: the positive vision of a world without work. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity if technological innovation alone can’t deliver it? 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Steele urges the government to engage in respectful partnerships with Aboriginal communities in order to achieve positive change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerry Steele has worked with regional economic expansion in Ottawa, Alberta and Newfoundland, with Indian Affairs in Alberta and Ottawa, and as an advisor and negotiator on Aboriginal affairs at national, regional and provincial levels. He has worked with the Mushuau Innu in Labrador on behalf of Health Canada for more than fifteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"collapsing-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eForeword: Ms Katie Rich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe People of the Barrens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Three Pillars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eDiscovering a People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eGovernment Errors, Innu Deterioration\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eLosing Control, Governments’ Responsibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eGetting Attention\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eMushuau Innu Vision\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eReaching Out\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eHealing the Children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eChief Katie Rich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eOttawa’s Mixed Agenda - Conflict of Interest?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Innu in Control\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eTime Heals What Reason Cannot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eInnu Wisdom Ignored\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Fading Dream\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eOttawa’s Dilemma\/Failure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Growing Track Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eLet the Innu Lead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eGoing Forward, Overcoming Conceit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141337358429,"sku":"9781552664056","price":8.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781552664056_600_914_90_s.jpg?v=1694462526"},{"product_id":"becoming-unbecoming","title":"Becoming Unbecoming","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to \"lower her gaze\" in order to deflect attention from boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter she is \"slut-shamed\" at school for having birth control pills, Una herself is the subject of violent acts for which she comes to blame herself. 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The book is a no-holds-barred indictment of sexual violence against women and the shame and blame of its victims that also celebrates the empowerment of those able to gain control over their selves and their bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\"Una's cry is heartfelt and often remarkable in its description and documentation.\" \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant, revealing and brave in a way that just may help other women.\" \u003cem\u003eMental Floss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Among the most powerful books published on misogyny, sexual assault and survival in recent years . .. 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But Una survived, and her book is a roar on behalf of women all over the world.\" Oprah. com (\"Best Memoir of 2016\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An incredibly powerful new graphic novel . .. the illustrations are beautiful and the words are a powerful demand listen to women's voices.\" \u003cem\u003eELLE UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Una's personal experience is less the center of this story than the springboard for an extended examination of what she calls 'the four horsemen of gender violence — shame, isolation, disbelief, ridicule.\" \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In Una's simple, spare text and artwork, we get a story about learning how to take ownership over your memories, however painful they might be, and how to gain power by putting brutality into a larger social context and calmly calling your fellow travelers to arms.\" Vulture. com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A feminist call to arms . .. 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