Fernwood Publishing: 80 books
Bibliodiversity
A Manifesto for Independent Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In a globalized world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, sameness and following the formula of the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing. It means books that take off slowly but have long lives, books that change social norms, are...
Just Jen
Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.
Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley’s life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Powley’s writing...
Community Organizing
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From the Introduction:
History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind...
Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists
The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened...
Viola Desmond’s Canada
A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks,...
by Dennis Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health...
Indigenous Nationhood
Empowering Grassroots Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics, First Nations politics and social issues such as murdered and missing...
We Can Do Better
Ideas for Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes...
Academia Inc.
How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Canadian 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...
by Heather Whiteside
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s, but they are now so common that they have become the standard...
From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation
We Owe It to Our Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that corporations are given carte blanche to turn natural resources into profit, is an alternative possible?
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by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining...
Policing Black Lives
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned...
by Laureen Snider
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and...