Fernwood Publishing: 80 books
by Chris Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Established under late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Misión Barrio Adentro (MBA) — Venezuela’s adaptation of the Cuban social medical model — utilizes a free, universal health care system to serve and educate rural, poor and marginalized populations and to broaden the very praxis and ideology...
Belongings
The Fight for Land and Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Land used to produce food is at the core of disputes, violent conflicts and despair across the world. As farmers increasingly can no longer afford to grow food and as one in ten Canadians faces food insecurity each year, it is clear that our culture-specific land systems lie at the heart of the current...
Bearing Witness
Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
At approximately 8:45 a.m. on 6 December 1917, the Belgian Relief vessel IMO struck the munitions-laden freighter Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour. The Mont-Blanc exploded in a devastating 2.9 kiloton blast, which killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000. More than 6,000 people were made homeless, and an...
Racialized Policing
Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been “racial profiling” by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting individuals and groups on the basis of “race.” Racialized Policing argues that the debate has been limited by its individualized...
Media Mediocrity–Waging War Against Science
How the Television Makes Us Stoopid!
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
We have all, at some point, seen science in action on television. Whether it was a show about disasters or weather, nature or the universe, a science commentator, even a crime show depicting forensic evidence — we have all gleaned tidbits of scientific information while being entertained by our...
The Medicine of Peace
Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence. Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent...
Policing Indigenous Movements
Dissent and the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about...
Noble Illusions
Young Canada Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. And yet, on the eve of the hundredth anniversary, countries around the world are preparing to...
More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom
Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom is about Indigenous resistance and resurgence across lands and waters claimed by Canada. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors describe and analyze struggles against contemporary colonialism by the Canadian state and, more broadly, against the global colonial-capitalist...
by Peter Steven
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Canada enjoys a long-held reputation for producing high-quality media, from National Film Board documentaries to the CBC to children’s programming. But in recent years, funding cuts, commercial media concentration and a sour political environment have been steadily eroding this reputation. In About...
Flying Fish in the Great White North
The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians...
Working for the Common Good
Canadian Women Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments.
Throughout their political careers, Agnes Macphail, Thérèse Casgrain, Grace MacInnis, Pauline...
More Harm Than Good
Drug Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm...
Legalizing Theft
A Short Guide to Tax Havens
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains the increasingly popular...