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  • Slow Disturbance

    Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

    by Rafico Ruiz ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • After Ice

    Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet

    Edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, Rob Shields ...
    As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice?This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Saturation

    An Elemental Politics

    Edited by Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz ...
    Series series Elements
    Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Knowledge Production

    Navigating Humanity within a Western World

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

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  • Trapped in the Gap

    Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

    by Emma Kowal ...
    In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cultural Geography

    by Mike Crang ...
    First Published in 1998. The so-called 'cultural tum' in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture, taking cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place. Cultural Geography introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Uses of Heritage

    by Laurajane Smith ...
    Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

    Edited by Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen, Steve Larkin ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world.The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical ... Read more

    Was $66.99 USD Now $59.99 USD

  • Observing the Outports

    Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

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

    $35.29 USD

  • Whitening Race

    Essays in social and cultural criticism

    Edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson ...
    Whitening Race comes to fruition at a time in world history and global politics when questions about race require critical investigation and engagement. Since the 1990s international scholars have developed a powerful cultural critique by making whiteness an analytical object of research. Whiteness has become the invisible norm against which other races are judged in the construction of identity, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Fishing in Contested Waters

    Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj

    by Sarah King ...
    After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD