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  • Precarity

    Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edited by Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Clifford van Ommen, Natasha Matamua, Shiloh Groot ...
    A critical examination of precarity and inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand.Precarity explores the uncertain, insecure, and unequal lives of marginalized communities in New Zealand, including the poor, elderly, disabled, homeless, and refugees. It moves beyond labor to examine cultural expression and safety struggles, placing lived experiences in plain sight. This book is for social work ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Homelessness

    Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

    by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger, Cynthia Bird, Christina Birdsall-Jones, Marleny M. Bonnycastle, Deidre Brown, Rebecca Cherner, Patricia Franks, Susan Farrell0, Joshua Freistadt1, Charmaine Green2, Kelly Greenop3, Shiloh Groot4, Darrin Hodgetts5, Selena Kern6, Pita Richard Wiremu King7, Fran Klodawsky8, Gabrielle Lindstrom9, Paul Memmott0, Daphne Nash1, Julia Parrel2, Sarah Prout3, Mohi Rua4, Rebecca Schiff5, Rebecca Schiff6, Annette Siddle7, Maureen Simpkins8, Barbara A. Smith9, Wilfreda E. Thurston0, Alina Turner1, David Turner2, Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff3, Tiniwai Chas Te Whetu4, Rob Willetts5 ...
    Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures—including ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Clearing the Plains

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    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

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  • Deer Hunting with Jesus

    Dispatches from America's Class War

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

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  • Strumpet City

    Bestselling Irish novel with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole

    by James Plunkett ...
    Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong With The World

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    G.K. CHESTERTON (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, biographer, and art critic. Today he is best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Karel Capek, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Claudel, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Sigrid Undset, Ronald Knox, Kingsley Amis ... Read more

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  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

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  • Beyond Blood

    Rethinking Indigenous Identity

    by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater ...
    The current Status criteria of theIndian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on ... Read more

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  • The Working Poor

    Invisible in America

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    Marie Clements’s acclaimed play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the invisible, malignant evils everywhere poisoning our relationship to the earth and to each other.Burning Vision unmasks ... Read more

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  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    by Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Read more

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