Fernwood Publishing: 80 books
Unsettled Expectations
Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
What do local conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic case studies about land rights conflicts in Canada and the U.S. to argue that critical analysis of...
Debriefing Elsipogtog
The Anatomy of a Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and sought legal...
by Jim Silver
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada’s neoliberal...
The Servant State
Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations, the rich and powerful around the world have redoubled their attack...
by Carlo Fanelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“[A] political economist with a gift– due to his not having forgotten his working class background– for bringing complex economic problems down to their real world implications for working people.” - Jeff Noonan
Megacity Malaise documents how municipal governance, labour-management...
Migrant Workers and the City
Generation Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Fascinating…a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado Wise
Today China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from...
Nta’tugwaqanminen
Our Story: Evolution of the Gespege’wa’gi Mi’gmaq
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Nta’tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi’gmaq of the Gespe’gewa’gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole occupants of it prior to European settlement and occupied it on a continuous basis. This book...
An Act of Genocide
Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting...
The Winona LaDuke Chronicles
Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Chronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Chronicles is a book literally risen from the ashes—beginning in 2008 after her home burned to the ground—and...
Generation Rising
The Time of the Québec Student Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps érable — the Maple Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec’s governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government...
No Choice
The 30-Year Fight for Abortion on Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed a law legalizing abortion in Canada. But making abortion legal did not guarantee women access to these services. In many communities around the country, women have had to travel great distances and at great personal expense to exercise their legal right...
Settler
Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter?
Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in...
The Ocean Ranger
Remaking the Promise of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
On February 15, 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland taking the entire crew of eighty-four men — including the author’s brother — down with it. It was the worst sea disaster in Canada since the Second World War, but the memory of this event gradually faded into a...
The Vigilant Eye
Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronological approach of traditional institutional history with the critical approaches of social history, legal history and criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of nineteenth-century British North American policing...